Two families, two group chats.
One gallery of the whole night.
One QR code on the tables. Everyone at the party adds their photos and clips to the same private gallery, in original quality, with no app and no accounts — including the friend who filmed the proposal and is not at the party at all.
$29 once for the event · No subscription · Private by default
Built for the first party of the wedding
An engagement party is not a small wedding. Nobody was hired to photograph it, the two families have never met, and the footage everyone most wants belongs to someone who is not in the room.
One code, both sides of the family
Engagement party photos normally end up in two group chats that never meet, one per family. Everyone photographs the table they are sitting at, and nobody sees the other half of the room. One code puts every phone into the same gallery, whichever side it was standing on.
The proposal footage, from someone who was not at the party
The best files usually belong to whoever was hiding with a phone when it happened, and they are not always in the country. Send them the same link: the upload page works from anywhere and asks for no account. Clips already in a camera roll upload like photos, and a message recorded in the browser runs to 30 seconds of video or 60 seconds of voice.
Original quality, because these photos have jobs later
Tonight's pictures become the save-the-date, the photo at the top of the wedding website, the how-they-met board at the reception. Nothing is compressed on the way in the way a group chat compresses it, and every original comes back at full resolution.
Private, while some people still have not been told
A grandparent who should hear it by phone, a workplace that should not hear it at all, relatives waiting on a call. The gallery is reachable only with the link or the code, is never listed by search engines, and can take a passcode — so the night has somewhere to live that is not a public feed.
The list you write tonight is the wedding list
Paste your guest list straight from the spreadsheet — up to 2,000 rows at a time — give each person their own invitation link, and export the whole thing later as a CSV with names, emails, phone numbers and replies. The invitation list is the hardest part of a wedding to have to assemble twice.
A registry that prevents the duplicate
If people are bringing something tonight, the registry shows what has already been claimed. A reservation is held by name rather than by an account, so a grandmother ordering through a nephew is never blocked by an identity check, and can still release it if she changes her mind.
What actually goes wrong on the night
Nobody is being paid to take pictures
There is rarely a photographer at an engagement party. Guest phones are the entire record of it, and left alone that record stays scattered across forty camera rolls the couple can never reach. A shared gallery is the difference between the night existing afterwards and not.
The proposal and the party are two different sets of files
One happened weeks earlier in front of one person with a phone. The other happened in a room full of them. They belong in the same place and they arrive at completely different times, which is why uploads stay open until the end date you set rather than closing when the party does.
Half the room has never met the other half
The gallery is usually the first time each family sees the evening from the other side. If your spreadsheet already has a side, group or tags column, it comes across with the paste, so the guest list still knows who belongs to whom when you come back to it months later.
It happens before anything is organised
There is no wedding website yet, no planner, no invitation list and no shared folder. Whatever you set up for this party is the first infrastructure the wedding has, and it is still there 12 months later — which is roughly the run-up you are about to have.
How it works
Create the party
Your two names, the date, a cover photo. Set the end date a few weeks past the party itself, so the late uploads and the proposal video still have somewhere to go.
Put the code where people already stand
Table cards, a sign by the drinks, one by the door. Then paste the link into both family group chats, because a good half of your guests will upload from the sofa the next morning rather than at the party.
Everyone adds, from both sides
Photos and clips appear in the gallery within seconds. If you are running a slideshow on a TV, only what you have approved reaches the screen, and you can remove anything at any time.
Download it and use it
Take the whole archive down in one file at original quality and keep the gallery link for the family. It stays hosted for 12 months, so the save-the-date and the reception slideshow can both be built out of it later.
Tonight's guest list is next year's invitation list
The engagement party is the first time anybody writes down who is actually being invited to any of this. Paste that list in from your spreadsheet, send each guest their own invitation link with your own questions on it, and let the replies gather the emails and phone numbers the wedding will need — then export all of it as a CSV when the time comes. The guest list and the list of people who uploaded photos stay separate on purpose, because plus-ones, parents' friends and the people who never touch their phone are rarely the same set. How the guest list and check-in work.
Questions couples ask
Do guests need an app or an account?
No. The QR code or the link opens a plain web page in the phone's browser. A guest picks photos and taps upload — no download, no sign-up, no password. That matters at a party, where anyone asked to install something simply will not.
We have not told everyone yet. Can the gallery stay private?
Yes. It is reachable only by people who have the link or the code, it is never listed by search engines, and you can add a passcode on top. You can approve photos before they appear on a slideshow, and remove any photo at any point. Nothing is posted anywhere on your behalf.
Can someone add the proposal video if they were not at the party?
Yes, and that is the common case. The link works from anywhere, so the friend who filmed it — or the photographer booked for twenty minutes in a park — can add the files without an account. Video already on a phone uploads like a photo; a video recorded on the spot in the browser stops at 30 seconds, and a voice message at 60.
Will the photos still be there when we plan the wedding?
An Event Pass keeps the gallery for 12 months, and you can download the complete archive in original quality at any time within that. Download it once the uploads have stopped arriving, so a copy lives with you and not only with us.
How many photos and videos can our guests upload?
An Event Pass covers unlimited guest uploads across the whole event, bounded by storage rather than by a photo count. Fair use: 25 GB of media per event. An engagement party does not come close to that.
Can we collect the guest list and RSVPs here too?
Yes, and an engagement party is the right moment to start one. Paste the list in from a spreadsheet — up to 2,000 rows at a time — send each guest their own invitation link with your own questions attached, and export the whole list as a CSV including every reply. The guest list is deliberately kept separate from the list of people who uploaded photos, because at most parties those are two different sets of people. It is part of a paid pass, like the rest of the host toolkit.
My parents are hosting. Can they run it and then hand it to us?
Whoever creates the party runs it from their own login: there are no collaborator or co-host accounts, so a second person cannot be given their own way in. What is shareable is everything that matters afterwards — the gallery link goes to anyone, and the full-resolution archive downloads to whoever has the account open. It is worth deciding before the night which of you creates it.
Should we use this for the engagement party or save it for the wedding?
Both, as two separate one-time purchases. Nothing renews and there is no subscription to cancel. Running it at the engagement party is the cheapest possible rehearsal: by the wedding, both families already know what the code on the table is for, and you already know how your guests behave with it.
What does engagement party photo sharing cost?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event. It covers the shared gallery, guest photos and videos, voice messages and the written guestbook, the live slideshow, automatic screening, the host toolkit, and the full original-quality download.
Set it up before the party, not after it
It takes a few minutes, costs $29 once, and nothing renews. Try the guest upload with your own phone first — that part is free and needs no card.