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A QR code for wedding photos

A wedding photo QR code collects what guests saw from their seats. Where to put it, when to mention it, and what the photographer still does.

Portrait of Émile, co-founder of Komos

Émile Leroux

4 min read

An empty reception room in the morning, a long linen table and chairs, soft light through tall windows.

A QR code for wedding photos does not replace the photographer. It collects the other half of the day: getting ready as a witness saw it, the back table, the dance floor once everyone is up, the parking lot at goodbye.

Those pictures already exist on phones. Without one place to drop them, they stay scattered.

QR code photo sharing for a wedding is the same idea under a longer search: one link, guest uploads, a gallery you can open again.

What guests actually photograph

Couples often hire someone for portraits, the ceremony, and the speeches. Guests photograph what is in front of them.

  1. Their table, the neighbours, the kids who will not sit still.
  2. A detail the photographer has already left: the bouquet set down, a pair of shoes, the cake before it is cut.
  3. Short videos, often clearer than a still for a toast or a dance.

The QR gives them a shared page. No account to create, no app to install. They scan, they pick from the camera roll, they send.

When to mention it

During the vows, phones in the air get in the way. A better moment is later, when people are seated or at the bar and phones are already out.

One sentence is enough, from the person on the mic or from you if the meal is smaller: "The QR on the table is for adding your photos to our gallery. Nothing to install."

Repeat that same sentence, not three versions. A card on every table beats a single poster in a hallway.

Before the day

  1. Create the event early enough to print without rushing.
  2. Test a photo and a short video on iPhone and on Android.
  3. Download the QR. The A4 PDF sign is available once the event is unlocked.
  4. Prepare the next day's message with the same link. Komos also emails you the next day so you remember.

Unlocking is 85 CAD, once. The free trial (15 media, one guest who uploads) is for checking the path, not for holding the whole wedding.

If you want a screen in the room, the live wall shows uploads as they arrive. It is optional. A gallery you open the next day is enough for a lot of couples.

What not to do

  1. Use a messaging group as the only place photos go. Files get compressed there, and they get lost.
  2. Change the link after the menus or the cards are printed.
  3. Ask guests to "send everything tonight". Some of the best photos leave the next day.
  4. Blur the photographer's job and the guest uploads into one vague instruction. Say it plainly: the photographer covers the ceremony, the QR is for your own shots.

You can close uploads a few days later. The gallery can stay open to view. The ZIP of the originals, once the event is paid, gives you the files for an album, without going back to each guest.

In summary

A wedding photo QR is the guests' single link. Put it on the tables, say one sentence at the meal, keep the same address for the next day. The photographer does their work. The phones fill in the rest.

Read next

  1. A wedding sign for the photo QR: the sentence, the size, the table cards.
  2. Scanning the photo QR during a wedding: at the meal, not during the vows.
  3. How to skip the WhatsApp group for wedding photos: conversation on one side, files on the other.
  4. A pro photographer and guest photos: who covers what.

Unlocking the event is on pricing.