Wedding QR Code for Photos: One Scan, Everyone's Pictures
Want one QR code that collects everyone's wedding photos? Here's how to make one in Linkly: create a shared album, paste its link in, and print the QR code on your table cards. Guests scan and add their photos straight to the album, and after the day you point the same QR code at the photographer's gallery.
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The full spoken transcript, split by chapter.
- 0:00The photos problem
- Everyone at your wedding takes photos. Almost nobody sends them to you. A QR code on the table cards fixes that, and it costs nothing. Say three hundred photos get taken across the day. You'll be sent about eleven, because sending them is a faff and everyone's got a train to catch. So make a shared album first. Google Photos, iCloud, Dropbox, they all hand you a link that lets people add to it. Then paste that link into Linkly.
- 0:24Album link in, QR code out
- Album links are long and unmemorable, which is exactly the problem a short link solves. Give it an ending you could say across a room, a name you'll recognise later, and save. The QR code is drawn as soon as the link exists, so download the PNG and drop it into the table card artwork. That's the whole setup, and you've done it weeks before the day.
- 0:45What guests see
- Guests scan the QR code, and they're straight into the album. No app for most of them. Worth knowing: iCloud links ask for an Apple account before anyone can upload. Google Photos doesn't.
- 0:56Swap to the gallery afterwards
- And here's the part that makes it worth doing properly. After the day, you change where that QR code goes. The same cards now point at the photographer's gallery, and any guest who kept one still lands in the right place.
- 1:09When people scanned
- You also get to see when people scanned the QR code, which is oddly lovely to look at afterwards. A spike during the speeches, another one at about eleven at night. It's free to start, and the free plan covers a wedding comfortably. Everything you need is just below this video.
