A name, a meal, a full house.
One private place for the photos.
The parents, usually with the grandparents doing most of the cooking, host the aqiqah in the baby's first weeks: the name is given, the baby's head is shaved, and the meat from the sacrifice is shared with the guests and with families in need. The house is full of relatives, and many of them are careful about where their photo ends up. A QR code on the dining table sends every photo to one private gallery the parents approve, and the relatives who could not travel watch the naming on a private link.
The moments guests actually photograph at aqiqah celebrations
Why aqiqah celebrations work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Nothing is seen until you approve it
In many families some guests do not want to appear in photos that travel, and the women's gathering in particular may stay off camera entirely. Host review holds every upload in a queue until the parents approve it, so the gallery contains what the family is comfortable with and a well-meaning cousin never decides that for you.
A gallery for the family, not a feed
The gallery lives only at the link the parents share. It is never listed, never indexed, and blocked from search engines and AI crawlers, so a photo of the baby or of an aunt in hijab at a private gathering stays with the people it was meant for, and relatives open it from a message without making an account.
The naming, live for family overseas
Grandparents in Lahore, Cairo or Dhaka rarely get a visa in time for a newborn's first weeks. Live Pass streams the du'a and the naming on a private link with audio to as many as 100 viewers, so they hear the name given rather than seeing it typed in the family chat an hour later.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
You approve before anyone sees
Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue until you approve it. AI screening flags anything questionable so you are not scrolling through hundreds of photos at midnight.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
Live Pass is a standalone $39 one-time add-on: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with audio. Family abroad watch on any phone, no app required.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page — a blessing, a toast, a story — saved next to the photos in the same gallery.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event as soon as the date is set, keep it private, and turn on host review before anyone scans.
Put a small printed QR code on the dining table and one near where guests leave their shoes, and share the link in the family group with the invitation.
Guests scan and upload during the meal, and grandparents record a du'a or a short message for the baby as audio.
Approve the photos that evening, then send the gallery link to relatives abroad and download the full archive to keep.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from aqiqah celebrations
Say the rule about photos before the guests arrive, and let host review enforce it. Many aqiqah gatherings are separated, with the women's side off camera, and some elders will pose for the family album but not for anything that could be forwarded. A line in the invitation such as "Photos go to our private gallery and are approved by us before anyone sees them" reassures the relatives who would otherwise hide from every phone. Then approve the uploads that night, leave out anything a guest would not want shared, and the gallery is something the whole family can open without worry.
Ask the eldest relative to record the du'a. The prayers said over the baby at the aqiqah are usually spoken once, by a grandfather or an uncle, and never written down. A voice message from the upload page takes a moment and sits in the gallery alongside the photos, and a child hearing their grandfather's voice make du'a for them at three weeks old is worth more than any picture from the day. Set the guestbook question to something like "What do you pray for this child?" for the relatives who would rather write than speak.
Send the link to family abroad the same day, before the photos are forwarded through three chat groups and arrive compressed. One gallery link, opened on a phone without an account, gives the grandparents every approved photo at full resolution, with the audio messages included. The gallery stays open for 365 days on an Event Pass, which is long enough for the relatives who visit in the following weeks to add their own photos, and the parents can download the whole archive at any point to keep. One link in the family group, sent once, saves the mother from fielding requests for photos for a month.
Common questions about aqiqah celebrations
Some of our guests do not want to be photographed. How do we handle that?
Turn on host review and tell guests you have. Every photo then waits in the parents' queue until it is approved, so nothing goes in front of other guests by accident, and a relative who does not want to appear can trust that you will leave those photos out. Put the code where people photograph the baby, on the dining table, rather than in the rooms where people would rather not be photographed. The gallery itself is private and only reachable through the link you share. Many families find that once guests know the photos are reviewed and private, they relax about the phones.
Can family overseas watch the naming?
Yes. Live Pass is a $39 one-time add-on that streams up to 90 minutes on a private link to as many as 100 viewers, with audio, and they watch on any phone without installing anything. Point a phone at the moment the name is given and the du'a, then stop the stream before the meal if you prefer to keep that off camera. The link is private and only the people you send it to can open it. After the event, the same relatives receive the photo gallery link to browse and download.
Is the gallery private enough for photos of family members in hijab?
The gallery is reachable only through the link or code you share. It is not listed anywhere, search engines and named AI crawlers are blocked from guest pages, and anyone opening the link sees only the photos you have approved. You can also close the gallery to new uploads once the event is over and remove any photo at any time. Relatives who receive the link do not need an account, so there is no sign-up trail either. It is a private family album at a web address, not a public page.
We are holding the aqiqah weeks after the birth. Does that matter?
Not at all. The seventh day is the tradition, but many families hold the aqiqah when the mother has recovered and the relatives can travel, which may be weeks or months later, and some combine it with the meal for the extended family. Create the event whenever the date is set. The gallery stays open for 365 days on an Event Pass, so if you hold a small gathering first and a larger one later, one event can hold both, or you can create a second event for the larger meal.
What does it cost for an aqiqah at home?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for one event, and the price does not change with the number of guests. It includes unlimited uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, host review, voice and written messages, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription, and a small gathering at home costs the same as a hall booked for the whole extended family. Live Pass for relatives abroad is a separate $39 one-time add-on if you want to stream the naming.
Every photo from aqiqah celebrations, in one place
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