How do you share wedding photos with guests after the wedding?
If the guests’ photos were collected through a QR code, they are already shared: everyone who holds the event’s QR code, its six-character code or its link sees every upload in the same gallery, the ones from the night and the ones that arrive later, for as long as the event exists, 14 days from creation on the free plan, 12 months from the upgrade on the paid plan ($19.99 (£15.99 in the UK), once). Sharing back is sending the same link again, with the PIN, the morning after. Two things are separate from it: your photographer’s gallery, which you forward when it comes, and the ZIP of everything, which is the host’s download and is yours to pass on or not.
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.
Do guests see each other’s photos?
Yes, and that is why they upload. The event page is one shared gallery: every photo and video any guest has added, newest first, each with the name its uploader typed, open to everyone who has the code and the PIN. A guest’s own photo pops into the grid the moment it has finished uploading. Photos other guests add while someone is looking at the grid do not shove it around: the page checks for new ones on its own a few times a minute, and while the grid is on screen they wait behind a button at the top that says how many new photos and videos have arrived; a tap brings them in. Any photo opens at full size with a tap. Nothing is held for approval; a photo is in the gallery the moment it lands.
On the paid plan the same page carries the videos and the guest book, written messages and short filmed greetings, shown to everyone the same way. What a guest cannot see is anything outside the event: there is no account, no feed of other weddings and no public directory, only this gallery, which is what the wedding photo gallery page shows screen by screen.
What do I send after the wedding, and when?
The link, not the QR code, and three times. The morning after, in the group chat, while the night is still the only thing anyone wants to talk about: “Thank you for yesterday. The photos everyone took are here: [link], PIN as on the sign. Add yours from your phone, it takes a minute, and look at everyone else’s.” A link in a chat is tapped; a photo of a QR code in a chat is not. A week later, once the late uploads are in: “The gallery’s filling up, go look.” And a last one before the window closes, which on the free plan is near: “The gallery closes on [date]; we’ve downloaded everything, so nothing is lost, but add anything you still have.”
The free plan’s 14 days run from the day the event was created, so for a free event the second message is also the last. On the paid plan the window is 12 months from the upgrade: a couple who upgraded in the wedding week can send the link again on their first anniversary and it still opens. The send is the same message either way; what the plan changes is how often you get to make it. How the asking goes before and during the day is on how to collect wedding photos from guests.
Can I share our photographer’s photos the same way?
Not through the same door, and that is fine. The professional gallery is a separate thing with its own link, delivered weeks later, edited and in order; the guest gallery does not replace it and does not hold it. When it comes, forward that link in the same chat, as a second message: “And the professional photos are here: [link].” Guests then have two addresses, the one for what they shot and the one for what the professional shot, and they know which is which.
If you want a few of the professional pictures next to the guests’ ones, nothing stops you uploading them to the event yourself: an upload is an upload, and the host uses the same page as everyone else. Keep it to a handful; the point of the guest gallery is the other angle on the day, and a full professional set belongs in the gallery it was delivered in.
What if the event expires?
Then the link stops being a gallery. A guest who taps it after the end date sees a short page saying the event may have expired, and an upload is refused. The day after the end date the event, every file in it and the ZIP are deleted from storage, on both plans, and that cannot be undone. The host gets a reminder email two days before and another the day before, so the order of operations is: download everything with Download all, keep the ZIP, then let the event go.
If guests are still finding photos as a free event nears its end, upgrade it instead: $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once, and the end date moves to 12 months from the day you pay, with every photo already uploaded kept and the same code on the signs. A paid event is not upgraded a second time, so its end date is the one your host page shows; download before it.
Can guests download the photos?
No. Guests look, including at full size, and that is where it stops. The Download all button is on the page for everyone, but tapped from a phone that is not the host’s it opens “Are you the host?” and asks for a one-time code sent to the email the event was created with; without that code there is no ZIP and no save-to-phone. The download belongs to the host because the files belong to the event, and the event is the host’s.
What the host gets is one ZIP of every photo and video at the size they were uploaded, built in the background and sent as a link by email, usually within minutes, on the free plan as well as the paid one. Whether guests then get that ZIP, a shared folder, or only the gallery link is the host’s choice; for most weddings the gallery link is the better gift, because it is lighter and the photos are already there. For a guest who wants one particular picture, the honest answer is to ask the host for it.
What about guests who were not there?
Send them the link and the PIN, and they are in: the grandmother who could not travel, the friend on the other side of the world, the colleague who left before the speeches. They see the same gallery, with the same names on the photos, and they can upload to it too, which is how the photos from the morning-after brunch and the rehearsal dinner find their way in. A link preview in a messaging app shows the event’s name and one line of text, never a photo, so the chat itself gives nothing away.
The same fact cuts the other way: whoever you hand the link and the PIN to sees everything, and so does anyone they forward it to. The gallery is as private as the code and the PIN, which is the right level for a wedding and the reason to send it to people rather than post it. Who can see what, and what you can delete, is on whether guests can post your wedding photos on social media.
Sharing questions, answered
How do I share the wedding photos with guests after the wedding?
Send the same event link again. Everyone who opened the event through the QR code, the event code or the link already sees every photo and video in the shared gallery, the uploads from the day and the ones that arrive afterward, for 14 days from creation on the free plan or 12 months from the upgrade on the paid plan. A message the morning after with the link and the PIN is the whole job.
Do guests need an app or an account to see the photos?
No. The gallery is a web page in the phone’s browser; a guest types the PIN once per phone (it is remembered for a week) and a first name the first time the page opens, so their photos carry it, and nothing else. Nobody installs anything, and nobody makes an account.
Can I share the gallery with people who were not at the wedding?
Yes: send them the link and the PIN. Anyone who holds both sees everything in the gallery and can upload to it, exactly like a guest who was there, so send it to the grandparents who could not travel and think twice before posting it anywhere public. The gallery is private to the people you give it to, not to the room.
How do guests get a copy of the photos?
Through the host. Guests look, at full size, but the Download all button only opens “Are you the host?” and asks for a one-time code emailed to the host address; without it there is no ZIP and no save-to-phone. The host downloads everything and passes on the ZIP, a shared folder or just the gallery link.
Can I send the photos to guests as a ZIP?
You can send on the one you get. Download all builds one ZIP of every photo and video at the size they were uploaded, a photo up to 10 MB and a video up to 200 MB on the paid plan, and emails you a link to it, usually within minutes, on the free plan too. It can be large; a shared-folder link works, and so does simply sending the gallery link, which is lighter and already open.
Will guests still see a photo I delete?
No. A photo the host deletes, from its tile, from the full-size view or several at once, leaves the gallery for everyone and leaves storage, and the next ZIP is built without it. A guest can delete their own uploads the same way; nobody can delete anyone else’s.