You searched for a QR code for wedding photos.
What people mean is a code printed on the table cards, or on a sign by the bar. Guests scan. They usually land in a browser upload page. No app. No account. Often a live gallery, or a wall, while dinner is still going.
The scan is the easy part. The pictures are the part that has to last.
A browser upload, with no name on the frame
From the couple's side, the code looks finished. Print it. Put it on the table. Guests open the camera roll, or shoot in the page, and the photos land in a shared album. Often that album is already open in the room.
There is no account, so there is often nobody to send the set to on Sunday. There are no initials on the frame. The aunt who took the vows is a file in a folder. You notice when you want to thank her and you cannot tell which phone it came from.
Some guests never scan. They meant to. The picture stays on the phone they brought. Monday is the chase. Did you upload the one of the cake? A few say they will send it another way. The night is split between a gallery, a message, and a camera roll that never joined.
Easy to join, and open during dinner
A page with no download removes the two minutes at the table. That is a real convenience. It is also why the gallery can fill up while the speeches are still going. Guests look. Sometimes you look. The room is watching the album, not the room.
You asked for photos of the wedding. You got a live folder, and a tidy-up afterwards.
A sealed guest camera, instead of the upload page
Polajoy still uses a QR code for wedding photos. It lives on the table card, next to the event code. It does not open a browser upload.
Guests download the free app once, on iPhone or Android, and sign in with the event code from the card. The QR can open that join, or point them at the App Store for the download. A quick email sign-in, no password. Then they have an account, so after the wedding the whole set can be sent. Two minutes once. Then it is just a camera.
Each guest shoots on a 30-shot roll. Ordinary guests hard-stop at 0. No second roll. A gifted or nominated photographer, the friend with the good eye, can start another free 30-shot roll. Ordinary guests do not.
After each shot, ten seconds to Accept or Void. Timeout or a screenshot voids it. A void does not spend a frame. After Accept they still see the photo on the sign screen. A short handwritten note is optional, up to 34 characters. Initials always go on the frame. It seals until the reveal you chose. Not even you see it first. Not a live album.
The reveal can be the end of the night, the next morning, a week later, or a time after the event ends. When it arrives, the shop is there if you want paper. You choose what to order. Nothing auto-ships. Free downloads carry a small wordmark. £2.99 takes it off. Prints never have it.
Setup is free. Pay only for the physical products you choose after the reveal. Retroprints, a 12×12" layflat photo book, a wall frame with 16 or 25 apertures, thank-you cards.
If the search was the join on the table card, there is a note on a wedding QR code for guest photos. If the search was a wedding photo app with no download, there is a note on why we still ask for one. If the search was a wedding photo sharing app, there is a note on a wedding photo sharing app that is not a live upload dump. If you are weighing a bag of disposable cameras against that live scan album, there is a note on disposable cameras vs a wedding QR code.
If the job is the upload ask, there is a note on how to have wedding guests upload photos. If you want the method, how a couple actually gathers the pictures, there is a note on how to collect wedding photos from guests. If the plan was a Facebook album, there is a note on Facebook wedding photos. If the plan was a Google Drive folder, there is a note on a Google Drive wedding photos alternative.
The complete guide walks through looks, table cards, and the reveal. These notes are written by Richard Lovatt, with Kitty. The rest live with the other articles.
A QR code for wedding photos is not the photographer of the day. Keep them. The guest camera does not replace the hired photographer. Names we have written up live on the directory, including London, Bristol, Scarborough, and Christchurch. If a planner is already writing the day, Doune is on the directory too.
We host a handful of weddings. Cash, or store credit and free products. Apply on the host page. We read every one.