A week in Costa Rica.
One gallery for both families.
This page is for the couple flying in from the US or Canada with a Tico family on one side, or a planner in Guanacaste on the phone, and sixty guests who took a week off to be there. The photos start at the welcome party in Tamarindo, peak at the ceremony at sunset, and keep going through the rain, the beach recovery day and the zipline in La Fortuna. Then they scatter across two WhatsApp groups in two languages and the abuela in Cartago sees none of them. One QR code on the tables collects all of it, and nobody installs a thing.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at Costa Rica destination weddings
Why Costa Rica destination weddings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
One code, Spanish for one side and English for the other
The upload page follows the language of the guest's phone, so the Tico grandmother and the cousin from Toronto scan the same card on the same table and each sees the page in their own language. Guest pages are in English, Spanish, French, and Russian, and everything lands in one private gallery at full resolution.
Family in New Jersey and in San José watching live
Not everyone who loves the couple can get to Nosara. A private live stream is included with the Event Pass: up to 90 minutes and 100 viewers on one link, with sound, so the parents who stayed in New Jersey and the tíos in San José watch the vows at the same moment as the guests on the sand.
The whole week under one code
A destination wedding is five events, not one. Add the welcome party, the ceremony, the beach day and the zipline to the schedule as sub-events and every guest uses the same code all week, adding to one gallery. The couple comes home with the week, not just the ceremony.
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.
Guest pages in 4 languages
The upload page speaks English, Spanish, French, and Russian, chosen from the guest's phone settings, so a mixed-language crowd is never guessing what a button does.
Several days, one gallery
Multi-day celebrations get sub-events under one code: the rehearsal, the ceremony and the brunch each have their own time and RSVP, every photo lands in one shared gallery, and one link covers the lot.
Stream it to the people who couldn't come
A private live stream is included with the Event Pass: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with sound. Keeping the recording afterwards is an optional add-on.
You approve before anyone sees
Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue until you approve it. It is optional, it works from your phone, and anything you never approve is never seen by anyone else.
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 wedding as one event and add the welcome party, the ceremony and the recovery day as sub-events, so one code and one gallery cover the whole week.
Print the QR code on the welcome bag card and the table cards, with one line in Spanish and one in English. Ask the planner to put it on the bar too.
Guests scan and upload as the week happens. Whatever does not send from the beach club sends from the hotel Wi-Fi that night, from the same page.
Send both families the gallery link on the flight home, then download the full-resolution archive before the 365 days of hosting end.
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. In this public demo, photos appear at once and videos wait for a person to approve them; at your own event, you decide.
- 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 Costa Rica destination weddings
Plan for the signal, not against it. Beach clubs in Guanacaste and the hillside venues above Manuel Antonio often have a bar or two of data at best, and a crowd of guests on the same tower makes it worse at exactly the moment the couple kisses. The upload page keeps working all week, so the photos a guest could not send at the ceremony go up from the hotel Wi-Fi at midnight or from the pool the next morning, through the same code. Put a line on the table card that says so, in both languages, and the guests who saw a spinning wheel on the beach will try again instead of giving up. The live stream is the one part that needs a real connection at the venue, so ask the planner for the Wi-Fi password at the ceremony site and test it from the exact spot the phone or camera will stand.
Write the table card for both families. A card that says only Scan to share your photos gets the Toronto cousins uploading and leaves the Tico grandparents guessing, and one only in Spanish does the reverse. Two short lines, one in each language, cost nothing to print and double the uploads. The guest page itself follows the phone, so once a guest scans, the buttons are already in their language. The same is true for the guestbook: the tío who gives a five-minute toast in Spanish will happily record a short voice message from his phone, and the bride's college roommate will type hers in English, and both sit next to each other in the gallery.
Give the family at home the start time in their own clock. Costa Rica does not change its clocks, so New Jersey and Toronto are one or two hours ahead depending on the season and Los Angeles is one or two hours behind. Send the stream link with the ceremony time written out for each city, and ask one relative in each house to open it a few minutes early on a TV browser so the grandparents are not fumbling with a phone when the music starts. If the green-season rain moves the ceremony indoors at three, the link does not change; only the room does.
Common questions about Costa Rica destination weddings
Half our guests are Ticos and half are flying in from Toronto. Will the upload page make sense to everyone?
Yes. The guest page follows the language set on the guest's phone, so a grandmother from Cartago sees it in Spanish and a cousin from Toronto sees it in English, from the same QR code on the same table. Guest pages exist in English, Spanish, French, and Russian. The marketing pages you are reading are in English, and Spanish versions live at /es if the Tico side of the family wants to read about it before the wedding. Nothing else changes: same gallery, same link, same code.
The signal at our beach venue is unreliable. Will guest uploads fail?
Some will not send from the beach, and that is fine. Uploads go straight from the phone to storage, so a photo either lands or it does not, and the guest page keeps working for the whole week and after the event too. Photos that would not send at the ceremony go up from the hotel Wi-Fi that evening, through the same code. Most guests take the photo in the moment and upload in the taxi, at the pool or at the airport. The only feature that needs a real connection at the venue itself is the live stream.
My parents cannot fly. Can they watch the ceremony from New Jersey?
Yes. A private live stream is included with every Event Pass: up to 90 minutes and 100 viewers on one link, with sound, and no account needed on their side. They open it on a phone or a TV browser and see the ceremony as it happens, and the same link takes them to the finished gallery afterwards. The recording is kept so the family in San José who were at work can watch that night. The venue needs a connection that can carry video, so test it from the ceremony spot the day before.
What does it cost for a week of events, and can we pay in colones?
One Event Pass is $39, paid once for the whole wedding, and it covers the welcome party, the ceremony and the recovery day as sub-events under the same code. There is no charge per guest or per day and no subscription. Prices are set in US dollars, which most Costa Rican vendors already quote in; where Stripe offers it, checkout can present the total in colones with the exact amount shown before you pay. Free Preview lets you try the code, the gallery and a short stream before you buy anything.
Our planner in Guanacaste is running the week. Can she manage the gallery for us?
Yes, and that is often the best arrangement. Either the couple creates the event and shares the host login with the planner, or the planner creates it and hands the login over after the wedding. Whoever holds it can approve uploads if host review is on, remove a photo, close uploads and download the archive. If you would rather not think about it during the week, name yourselves as the recipient and the finished gallery is emailed to you on a private link on the date you choose, with no account needed.
Every photo from Costa Rica destination weddings, in one place
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