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Guest photos and the gallery

Guests can send you their photos from your invitation page, without an app. New photos wait for you, and only the ones you add to the gallery are shown to other guests.

Web, iPhone and Android · Free trial or Premium · Emailing all photos needs a paid subscription
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Let guests send photos

  1. Open Gallery in the menu on the left, then From guests.
  2. Press Let guests send photos. The app asks first, then opens photo sharing on your guest page.

You can also set Guest photos to Visible or After reply under Online invitation visibility, in Guest experience. On new events it starts closed. Photo sharing needs the guest experience on and a published invitation, so the free trial or Premium.

A QR code for the tables

In QR code, choose Photo upload: guests who scan this code go straight to the photo upload. Like your invitation's code, it never changes. Downloading QR codes needs a paid subscription; see QR code and printed invitations.

On the day of your event, the guest page shows the schedule and the photo upload first.

Choose which photos guests see

Guest photos are in Gallery under From guests, and in Guest experience under Guest photos. New photos wait under New, and nobody else sees them until you decide:

  • Add to the gallery: everyone who can see your gallery sees it straight away.
  • Hide: guests do not see it. It is not deleted, and you can add it later.
  • Delete: deleted for good, with its file.

You can also add or hide all new photos at once, and remove every hidden photo with Delete all hidden.

Download the photos

  • One at a time: open a photo and choose Download on a computer, or Share on the phone to save it.
  • All at once: the event owner presses Email me all photos under From guests. The photos arrive as ZIP files attached to emails sent to the owner's account address, in folders for the gallery, new and hidden photos. A large album comes in several emails.

What guests can and cannot do

  • Guests upload JPEG, PNG and WebP photos of up to 30 MB each from their browser. Videos cannot be uploaded.
  • They see their own photos under Your photos with their status, and can remove one until you add it to the gallery.
  • They can look at the gallery, but there is no download button for guests.
  • One phone can send up to 100 photos a day, and an event takes up to 3,000 photos a day.
  • Photos are stored without their camera details, such as the place where they were taken.

Frequently asked questions

Do my guests need an app to upload photos?

No. They upload from your invitation page in their phone's browser, without an account.

Why is a guest's photo not in the gallery?

New photos wait for you. Add them with Add to the gallery; until then only the guest who sent the photo sees it, under Your photos.

Can guests upload videos, or can we show a live slideshow?

No to both: guests can upload photos only, and there is no live slideshow. To show the photos on a screen, open the gallery on your guest page on a computer connected to it.

Can guests still add photos after the event?

Yes, while photo sharing is open. After the event your invitation becomes a page of memories with the gallery and the guest book. See Memories page after the event.

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