The guest photo album for weddings
Put a QR code on the tables. Your guests scan it and upload their photos and videos from their own phone: no app, no account. Everything lands in one private gallery, exactly as the phone saved it.
The day after the wedding, photos arrive from everywhere. They don’t all arrive in the same shape, and you only find out when you try to print one.
Group chat or text thread
Smaller, recompressed files
Messaging apps shrink each photo so it sends fast, and videos get squeezed too. Even a “high quality” option usually stops short of the original.
A shared Google Photos album
Often needs a Google account
Adding photos usually means signing in with a Google account, which many guests skip, especially on iPhone. Uploads can also be reduced, depending on each guest’s settings.
AirDrop
Only nearby iPhones
Perfect between two friends on the night. Impossible for a whole guest list, and nothing reaches the people who already went home.
A QR code album
The original file
Each photo arrives exactly as the phone saved it, with the date it was taken. Videos too, up to 5 minutes each.
A recent phone photo is around 12 to 24 megapixels: enough for a sharp 12 × 18 inch print. Shrunk for a messaging app, it still looks fine on a screen, but not on a wall. Film 36 stores the file as it is, without shrinking or converting it. Only the gallery thumbnails are smaller, so the page loads fast.
About thirty seconds, nothing to install. This is exactly what your guests see.
The phone’s regular camera app is enough, on iPhone and Android. Guests who aren’t at a table get the same link by text, WhatsApp or email.
No account, no password, no email address. The first name shows under their photos. You can add a 4-digit access code if you want one.
The whole camera roll is one tap away: the party, the cocktail hour, even photos from before the wedding. With the complete album there is no limit on how many.
Barns, vineyards, stone cellars: the signal drops exactly where the best photos get taken. Nothing is lost. The upload pauses, then restarts from the same spot as soon as the connection is back. The guest doesn’t have to do anything.
Every guest finds their own photos under “My photos” and can remove the ones they regret.
A code only works if people see it when their phones are already out.
The most scanned spot: guests are seated and relaxed. One small upright card per table, near the centerpiece rather than at the edge. Film 36 makes four A6 cards per page, in your album’s style.
A large sign at the entrance sets the expectation early, and the order of service gets read cover to cover while guests wait. Common guidance is at least 4 inches wide on a sign and 1.5 inches on a table card.
A ready-made message to send by text, WhatsApp or email. The next morning is when the best photos arrive, the ones guests sort through in peace.
Plug a laptop into the TV or projector. Photos scroll by as they arrive, newest first, with the QR code in a corner. Seeing their own photo on the big screen makes people add more. You choose how long each photo stays, from 3 to 30 seconds.
Free is real, but the limits differ a lot from one service to the next. Before you print anything, check three numbers.
Several popular services cap their free plan at 50 uploads (checked on September 29, 2026). A wedding with 100 guests can pass that before dessert. Film 36 stops at 100 photos and tells you: “34 of 100 photos”, and the banner turns red when it’s full.
Free plans often close after a few weeks, some sooner. The free Film 36 album stays open for 30 days after the wedding; the complete album for 12 months.
Make sure “free” doesn’t quietly mean “compressed”. Every Film 36 plan, free included, keeps the original files.
For a small wedding, the free album may be all you need. When you get close to 100 photos, or want videos, one click moves you to the complete album.
Live galleries show everything, right away. Here, you choose.
Everything lands in your space as it happens. The next morning, you have the album nobody could have made alone.
Bento, columns, rows or contact sheet. Heart the best ones and filter by guest, photos, videos or hidden.
All the photos and videos in one ZIP, or just a selection. Full-size files, ready for a printed album.
The weeks after the wedding, photos keep coming. If you like, one email a day lets you know, only when there’s something new.
With the complete album, uploads stay open for a year. We email you 7 days and again 2 days before anything is erased, so nothing is lost.
The style you pick dresses your guests’ page, the poster, the table cards and the slideshow. All five are included.
Film
Ivory
Love Letter
Gold Leaf
Black Tie
You can build this yourself with Google Photos and a free QR code generator. Here is what changes.
| You can build this yourself with Google Photos and a free QR code generator. Here is what changes. | Google Photos + a QR code generator | Group chat or texts | Film 36 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free | Free up to 100 photos, €49 unlimited |
| No app for guests | Yes, in the browser | Yes | Yes |
| No account for guests | No: a Google account | Yes | Yes, a first name is enough |
| Photo quality | Depends on each guest’s settings | Often shrunk | Original files |
| Videos | Yes | Often shrunk or refused | Yes, up to 5 minutes each |
| Open period | As long as the account exists | Not applicable | 12 months |
| Moderation | No | No | Yes: approval, hiding, reports |
| Live slideshow | No | No | Yes |
| Download everything | Yes, through Google Takeout | Photo by photo | Yes, in one ZIP |
For a small wedding where everyone already has a Google account, a shared album can be enough. Past about fifty guests, or with videos, the difference shows.
Compared on September 29, 2026 from each service’s own pages and public help articles.
Free to try, €49 for the big day. Paid once, no subscription.
€0
to try it, or for a small wedding
The same album, the same QR code, capped at 100 photos.
For the big day
€49
once, for the whole wedding
Every photo and video your guests take, kept for a year.
€59
€64 with video messages
The photos and the voices of your guests, with one QR code.
You can create your album, try it as a guest, and pay later. One-time payment, VAT included. Want to hear their voices too? The audio guest book.
No. The QR code opens a page in the phone’s browser. No app, no account, no email address: a first name is enough.
Yes. The camera app on any recent phone reads QR codes, and the page works in Safari, Chrome, Samsung Internet and Firefox.
For collecting photos, yes. A hashtag depends on guests posting publicly, from the right account, with the right tag. A QR code sends the original file straight to one private gallery, whether or not anyone posts anything.
With the complete album there is no limit on the number, up to 50 GB in total, which is several thousand photos. Each file can be up to 1 GB and each video up to 5 minutes. The free album holds 100 photos and no videos.
No. Each photo and video is stored as the phone saved it. Only the gallery thumbnails are smaller, so they load fast. Downloading gives you the original.
Yes. Uploads stay open for 12 months with the complete album (30 days on the free one), through the same QR code or link, so guests who forgot can still send theirs.
With the complete album, for 12 months after the wedding. We email you 7 days and 2 days before they are erased, so you can download everything. You can delete photos, remove guests, or delete your whole account whenever you like.
In the European Union, in Ireland, with our hosting provider Supabase. They are used for your album only: no ads, no resale, no AI training.
Yes, it works. The trade-offs are the Google account guests often need to add photos, settings that can shrink uploads, and no slideshow or moderation. If those don’t matter for your wedding, it’s a fine free option.
A QR code on a sign or table cards is what gets scanned. Film 36 gives you an A4 poster and table cards as PDFs, in your album’s style, ready to print at home or at a print shop.
Create your album in two minutes, print the poster, and try it as a guest before you pay.
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