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A wedding guest book with voices in it, not just handwriting

Open the book from your parents’ wedding and you will find forty lines of “congratulations” in ink nobody can read. On Eventphoto.io, guests tap the same code they use for photos and either write something properly or film thirty seconds of themselves saying it — which is the version you will still be watching in ten years.

Create your wedding event →I’m a guest

Photo uploads are free on every event. The guest book — written messages and video greetings — is part of the paid plan, as is video upload.

No pen, no line, no waiting

Forty guests can write a message at the same moment from their own seats, including the ones who never got past the gift table all evening.

A face and a voice

Your uncle’s laugh mid-sentence, your friend who gets three words in before she has to stop — a page of handwriting cannot carry any of that.

Saved the second it is sent

Each message is stored as it arrives, so there is no book to leave behind at the venue and no pages to run out of at eleven thirty.

In short

The digital guest book is part of the paid plan ($19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once per event, no subscription) and sits beside the photos in the same gallery guests open from one QR code, with no app and no account. Guests write a message or film a short greeting with the phone camera and upload it. Filmed greetings come down with the photos in your ZIP; written entries don’t, so copy them out before the event is deleted (12 months on the paid plan).

What it costs

  • Free: 20 photos per guest, kept 14 days from when you create the event

What actually goes wrong with the book on the table

It asks a lot of a guest: stand up mid-course, walk to a table by the door, compose something meaningful on the first attempt with somebody waiting behind you, and write it legibly with a pen that has been in forty hands. Most people see the line and decide to come back later. Later is when the dancing starts.

So the book fills with the same four words from the guests who happened to pass it early, and the friend who flew in for the weekend — the one whose message you actually wanted — never signs it at all. Then somebody has to remember to take it home.

Doing it from the phone removes every one of those obstacles. A guest leans back in their chair between the main course and dessert, takes as long as they want over what to say, and sends it without moving. The ones who would rather not write at all can just talk to the camera for twenty seconds instead.

The messages end up in the same gallery as the photographs, so there is nothing to reconcile afterwards: the picture of your friend at the table and the greeting she recorded five minutes later are in the same place, under the same name.

What happens on the wedding day

1

Turn the guest book on

Create the event and choose the paid plan — the guest book comes with it, alongside video uploads, the sign designer and the longer storage window.

2

A guest taps “Sign the guest book”

Inside the gallery they pick writing or recording. Recording opens the phone camera; writing opens a text box. Their name goes on it once, and it is sent.

3

You read them when the room is quiet

The messages and video greetings are waiting in the gallery, next to the photos from the same people — usually best opened the morning after, with coffee.

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Digital wedding guest book — frequently asked questions

What is a digital wedding guest book?

The same thing the book on the table was for — what people want to say to you — collected from their phones instead of one shared pen. A guest opens your event with the QR code, taps “Sign the guest book,” and either writes a note or films a short greeting with the phone camera. It is saved into the gallery beside the photos.

What do guests see when they tap “Sign the guest book”?

Two choices: write a message, or record a video. Writing is a text box. Recording opens the phone’s own camera, so nothing is installed. They give their name once, which is how you know whose greeting is whose, and it is saved the moment they send it.

Is the digital guest book included on the free plan?

No — it is one of the paid features. A free event collects photos (up to 20 per guest) but has no guest book. The paid plan is $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once for the event and adds the guest book along with video uploads, 12 months of storage, the printable QR sign designer and photo search.

Can guests read what other people wrote?

Yes. The messages sit in the same private gallery as the photos, so guests scroll through what has been left so far — which is half the reason more of them leave something. Nothing is public and nothing is searchable; only people with your code ever see it.

Do the guest book messages come down in the download?

The filmed ones do. Video greetings are files, so they end up in the ZIP alongside the photos and the other videos. The written messages do not — they live in the gallery rather than as files, so copy them out before the event is deleted. A paid event gives you 12 months to do that; once it is gone, so is anything written in it.

How long should a video greeting be?

Short. Twenty or thirty seconds of somebody saying a sentence they mean is worth more than two minutes of them trying to be funny at a microphone. Guests tend to work this out themselves once the camera is in their own hand instead of in front of a room.

When in the evening do we ask for messages?

After the speeches and before the dancing takes over. The room is already sentimental, everyone is still at their seats, and the messages people leave in that half hour are the ones worth keeping. Ask again at the very end and you get the honest, slightly tearful ones.

Do we still need a physical book as a backup?

Not for safekeeping: each message is stored the instant it is sent, so nothing is lost to a spilled drink or a book that stays at the venue. Some couples still put out a book because they like the handwriting — the two do not clash, and one code covers photos and messages either way.

Give your guests something better than a pen

Create the event free to see how it works, then upgrade for $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once — the guest book, video uploads and 12 months to keep coming back to it all.

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