Just the two of you.
Everyone else still gets to see.
You are the hosts and the honorees at once. There is no planner, no seating chart and often no guest list beyond a witness or two and whoever is holding the phone. The people who would have filled the front row are at home waiting for a call. Picsui gives them a private link to watch it as it happens, and a gallery to open the moment you are back in signal.
The moments guests actually photograph at elopements
Why elopements work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
A front row for the people who stayed home
An elopement is a small choice that leaves a lot of people out, and most of them understand. Live Pass lets them in anyway: a private link, audio included, that your parents open on a phone at the kitchen table while you say the words. Up to 100 people can watch, which is more than most elopements would ever seat.
Blessings from the people who were not there
The upload link works from anywhere, not only at the venue. Send it to family the week before and they can record a voice message or a short video for you to play on the day, or leave one afterward once they have seen the photos. The gallery becomes the round of toasts you skipped, at everyone's own pace.
Private until you decide to announce
Some couples elope quietly and tell people later. The gallery is unlisted, never indexed, and reachable only by the link you send, so you can share it with two people on the day and two hundred a month later. Nothing goes public unless you post it yourself, and you can close it whenever you want.
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.
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.
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.
Video messages, recorded on the spot
A 30-second video toast recorded in the browser, no editing, no re-uploading. The guest who would never write in a book will happily talk to a phone.
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.
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 the week before with the date and time of the ceremony, so the private link is ready to send along with the news.
Send the link, not the code. Nobody is scanning anything at an elopement; email or message it to the family and friends you want watching.
Start Live Pass a few minutes before the vows. Your witness or photographer holds the phone, and everyone at home watches with sound.
Upload your own photos when you are back in signal, then send the same gallery link out with the announcement.
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 elopements
Decide in advance who holds the phone for the broadcast, and make sure it is not one of you. A witness, the officiant's partner or your photographer's assistant can do it, and a small tripod propped on a rock works if there is nobody. Test the signal at the spot the day before if you can, because the places people choose to elope are usually chosen for being far from everything, including cell towers. If the ceremony site has no coverage, record the vows as a video on the phone instead and upload it from the car, then broadcast the toast from dinner where there is wifi. Family would rather watch a clear recording an hour late than a frozen stream on time.
Send the gallery link with the announcement, not after it. The most common elopement regret is not the small ceremony, it is the drip of explanations that follows when parents find out from someone else. One message with the news, the date, a few photos and the link answers every question at once and gives people something to do with the feeling. Ask them to leave a voice or written message in the guestbook rather than reply one by one. You will want to read those in ten years far more than a thread of congratulations you have long since lost, and the older relatives who never write anything down will happily talk to a phone for a minute.
If you are throwing a reception or a backyard party later, keep it inside the same event rather than starting a fresh one. Add the party as a sub-event, print the QR code for that night, and the photos from the courthouse, the dinner for two and the celebration with everyone sit under a single link. Guests at the party can scroll the elopement photos while they upload their own, which is exactly the conversation you want them having, and the people who watched the broadcast get to see everyone who was actually there. One address for the whole story is easier to send in a thank-you note than three.
Common questions about elopements
How can our families watch the elopement if they are not there?
Add Live Pass to the event and you get a private link to send to whoever you choose. It streams from a phone held by your witness or photographer, with audio, for up to 90 minutes to as many as 100 viewers. Family open the link in a browser on any phone, tablet or laptop; there is nothing to install and no account to make. Send the link the day before with the ceremony time converted to their time zone, and message them when you are about to start. If the spot has no signal, record the vows on the phone instead and upload the clip as soon as you can.
We do not want anyone to know yet. Is the gallery private?
Yes. The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you send, it is not listed anywhere on the site, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. Nobody can find it by searching your names. You decide who gets the link and when, so the same gallery can go to two people on the day and the rest of the family when you make the announcement. If you would rather nothing appears until you have looked at it, turn on host review and every upload waits for your approval first.
Can family who were not there add messages or photos of their own?
They can. The upload page is a normal web link, so it works from a kitchen table in another state as well as from the venue. Anyone with the link can record a voice message up to 60 seconds or a video message up to 30 seconds, write in the guestbook, or upload photos, for example a picture of themselves toasting you from home while the broadcast played. Everything lands in the same gallery as your own photos, so the record of the day includes the people who could not be in it.
How much does this cost for a wedding with five guests?
The same as for a wedding with two hundred. An Event Pass is $29 one time, and it includes unlimited uploads, full-resolution downloads, host review and 365 days of hosting for the gallery. Live Pass is a separate add-on at $39 one-time if you want family to watch live. There is no subscription and nothing charged per guest, so a very small wedding pays exactly what a large one does and gets the same thing.
Do we still need a photographer if we are using this?
Picsui does not replace a photographer; it collects what everyone else's phones see and puts the people at home in the room. Many couples hire a photographer for an hour or two, and a good one will happily upload their edited photos into your gallery so they sit beside the witness's snapshots and the family's messages in one place. If you are skipping a photographer entirely, ask your witness to take a lot of photos and one long video of the vows, and upload them the same evening while the day is still fresh.
Every photo from elopements, in one place
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