Graduation · Guest photos · QR code

Graduation day happens once, from about forty angles

The walk across the stage, the cap toss, the twenty minutes of family groups on the lawn while someone holds the flowers. Everyone photographs it, and the graduate ends up seeing a fraction of it. Eventphoto.io gives you one QR code: guests upload from the phone during the day, everyone with the code sees the gallery, and you download the whole thing afterwards.

Create your graduation photo page →I’m a guest

What it costs

Free: 20 photos per guest, kept 14 days from when you create the event
Paid: $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) per event for unlimited photos and videos per guest, kept up to 12 months
One-time payment. No subscription and no fee per guest.

Two crowds who never speak again

The family are in one group chat and the friends are in another, and after this week they scatter to different cities. This is the last day the two halves of the photos are in the same place.

Row 14 is not a good seat

The parent filming the diploma handshake is always too far back and slightly behind a hat. Somebody four rows down got the shot. A shared upload page is the only realistic way that photo ever reaches you.

One code from gown to garden

The same QR code covers the ceremony, the lawn and the dinner afterwards. The gallery ends up in the order the day happened, which is exactly how you want to look back at it.

Why “just send me the photos” never works after a graduation

Graduation compresses a whole year of goodbyes into about four hours. Grandparents arrive early with phones already out. Classmates photograph each other in gowns they will never wear again. Someone’s father films the entire ceremony from a fixed position and gets eleven minutes of the back of a stranger’s head. All of it is real, and almost none of it ends up in the same place.

The default plan is to ask afterwards. It fails for a specific and predictable reason: there is no moment after graduation day when everyone is free and thinking about photos. People drive home, start jobs, move into flats. The few photos that do arrive come through as compressed messages, and the ones from the friends’ side never reach the parents at all, because those two groups have no shared channel and never did.

Asking on the day works because the ask costs nothing. A code on the dessert table, one sentence before the toast, and people upload the photos they took twenty minutes ago while they are still standing around. Because everyone with the code can open the gallery, guests browse what is already there — which is when an uncle discovers that a friend got a far better shot of the stage than he did, and uploads his anyway.

Afterwards you open the private host page and download everything at once, at full resolution: the ceremony, the lawn and the party in one archive. That is the version the graduate actually keeps.

It works the same whatever it is called where you live: the graduation party and prom in the US, the grad party in Canada, the school formal or valedictory dinner in Australia, the school ball and leavers’ dinner in New Zealand, the Year 11 or leavers’ prom in the UK, the debs in Ireland, the matric dance or matric farewell in South Africa. The school’s own gallery covers the official night; your code covers the pre-drinks, the after-party and the family lunch, which is where the photos nobody else has are taken.

Setting it up around a busy day

Create the event the night before

A minute in a browser, free, no account. You get the QR code and a short event code right away — do it the night before, because the morning of a graduation is not the time.

Put the code where people stand still

The dessert table, the family chat that morning, and the party invitation too if it goes out in the same week — on a free event the clock starts at creation, not on graduation day. Then say one sentence about it before the toast; that sentence is worth more than any sign.

Download it the same weekend

Open your host page and request everything as one archive at full resolution — the download link arrives by email, usually within minutes. Do it while the week is still free, especially on a free event.

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Graduation photo sharing — questions families ask

How do I get the photos everyone took at the graduation?

Create the event in graduation week, print the QR code, and put it where people stop moving: on the dessert table, in the family group chat that morning, and on the party invitation if that is going out in the same week. The storage window starts the moment you create the event, not on the day of the ceremony, so invitations that go out a month ahead want the code from a paid event — a free one will have expired before anyone scans it. Guests scan it and upload from the phone during the day, so you are not sending “did you ever send those photos?” messages two weeks later.

Why do graduation photos scatter more than other events?

Because two crowds turn up who never speak again. The family are in one group chat; the friends are in another, on a different app, and half of them are moving to different cities within the month. Graduation is the last day those two groups are in the same place, and the photos are the only thing that ever crosses between them. Without one collection point, the graduate sees maybe a third of what was taken.

Will grandparents manage it?

This is the real test at a graduation, and yes. They point the phone camera at the code the way they would at anything else, the page opens, they tap once and pick the photos. There is nothing to install, no password and no account — the three things that normally end the attempt.

Can people upload video of the cap toss and the speeches?

On the paid plan, yes — clips up to 200 MB, which is enough for a full speech or the whole walk across the stage. Free events collect photos only, so if the valedictorian speech or the toast at dinner matters to you, upgrade before the day rather than after it.

We have a school formal, prom, school ball, debs or matric dance — is this for that?

The school usually runs that night itself, with its own photographer and its own gallery. This page is for the part you host around it: the pre-ball or pre-drinks at home before the school ball, the after-party once the formal finishes, the family lunch after the ceremony, the grad party in the backyard. Create one event for your own gathering and put the code where your guests are; the school’s gallery stays the school’s.

What does it cost?

Free to start: up to 20 photos per guest, photos only, kept for 14 days, and no limit on how many people upload. The paid plan is $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once for the event — not a subscription — and adds unlimited photos and videos per guest, 12 months of storage and photo search across the gallery. Families often put it on the same card as the cake.

How long do we have to download everything?

14 days on the free plan, 12 months on the paid one. Take the free window seriously: an expired free event is deleted along with its photos, and that cannot be reversed. Graduation week is busy, so download the gallery the same weekend or upgrade and stop thinking about it.

One graduation, and one gallery with all of it in

Free to start. Create the event tonight, put the code on the tables tomorrow, and the first photos arrive before the gowns come off.

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