Where First Communion photos normally end up
A First Communion is two events with one guest list: a Mass where photographs are rationed, and a party where nobody puts the phone down. The altar steps after the ceremony are the most photographed thirty seconds of the year in any parish, taken by every parent of every child at once. Then there is the party at home, in the garden, in a hotel or the function room of a pub: the cake, the cards, the money counted on the sofa, the bouncy castle, the grandparents who traveled. And then every one of those photos goes to the phone that took it and to two family group chats that never cross.
Asking afterward works on about three people. The rest fully intend to send them, the thread moves on, and by the following weekend the parents have their own blurry photos of the altar and a strong suspicion that an aunt has the good ones. A code on the party table changes that while everyone is still there: scan, tap, pick the photos, type a name once. Because everyone with the code sees the same gallery, guests scroll through what has landed and add the ones nobody else got.
One day, several names. In Ireland it is the First Holy Communion, in late spring, and the communion party is the biggest family party most families throw between a christening and a wedding; in the US it is First Communion season, April and May, with lunch at home or at a restaurant; in the Catholic schools and parishes of Canada, the UK and Australia it runs the same way on a smaller scale. Confirmation follows some years later with the same families, a sponsor instead of the godparents and a meal instead of a party, and gets its own event when its day comes.
Afterwards the parents open the private link, take out the two photos that should not travel further, and download the whole day in one archive at full resolution. That is the version that gets printed, framed, and sent to the grandparents who could not come.