One wedding QR code, printed once, scanned all night

The phone camera shows a banner, the guest taps it, and your event page opens in the browser: your names at the top, an upload button, and the photos other guests have already added. They pick photos from their camera roll, type a name the first time, and the upload starts. Nothing to download, no account, no waiting.

No, and they have not for years. Every current iPhone and Android reads a QR code from the normal camera app. The older guests at table two have probably done it to read a menu. It works the same way, and what opens is a web page, not an app store.

Give it roughly a hand-width on a table card and more on a welcome sign that people read from a few feet away, and keep a clear margin of plain background around it. Print one and try scanning it from where guests will actually be standing before you print forty.

One is enough. The same code works for every guest, all evening, and there is no limit on how many people use it — printing the same code on forty table cards simply gives guests forty chances to scan it. On Eventphoto.io the QR code and the short event code open the same event.

No, the same code works all day. In the UK and Ireland the evening guests arrive after the wedding breakfast and the speeches, for the band and the cake; in Ireland that is the afters. They scan the same code on the tables or by the bar and upload into the same gallery, and because everyone with the code sees it, they also get to see the photos from the ceremony and the speeches they missed. One code from the ceremony to the last dance; print it once more for the bar, where the evening arrivals stand.

Print the short event code under the QR code as a backup. A guest who cannot scan opens the site, types those few characters, and gets to the same page. Useful for the one phone at the wedding whose camera will not read the code.

Yes. The code opens your event’s private gallery, and everyone with the code sees the same photos, which is what keeps people adding more during dinner. Nothing is public or searchable, and only you can manage the event and download everything, from your host page.

Yes. Creating the event and downloading the QR code image to print costs nothing, and the free plan collects up to 20 photos per guest for 14 days with no card — counted from the day you create the event, not from the wedding day, so create a free one in the wedding week. If the code is going into programs at the printer months ahead, create the event on the paid plan instead. The paid plan is $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once per event and adds video, 12 months of storage, the printable sign designer and the digital guest book.

On the paid plan, yes. The same square gets you the toast someone filmed from table five or a ten-second message from the dance floor, up to 200 MB a file, and it appears in the gallery next to the photos. There is no second code and no separate app for video.