Eighteen roses, eighteen candles.
One gallery for all of them.
This page is for the parents planning a debut, and for the tita who has quietly taken over the program. A debut runs on a schedule: the grand entrance, the cotillion waltz with the court, the 18 roses, the 18 candles with a speech from each, the 18 treasures, the father-daughter dance, and a thank-you speech that makes everyone cry. The hired photographer follows the debutante. The two hundred relatives at the tables, and the ones on a video call from Manila and Dubai, see a different party. One QR code collects all of it.
The moments guests actually photograph at Filipino debuts
Why Filipino debuts work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Lola watches from the province
Every debut has relatives who could not get a visa, a flight or the time off. Live Pass streams up to 90 minutes with audio on a private link to 100 viewers, so the family in the Philippines, in the Gulf or in another state watches the roses and the candles as they happen, on any phone, with no app.
The nineteenth candle
Eighteen candles means eighteen speeches, and someone always has to be left off the list. Let the rest of the family record a video message up to 30 seconds from the same page, at the table or from abroad, so the cousins who were not chosen still get to say their piece and it is kept with the photos.
Approved before the group chat sees it
A debut gallery gets forwarded fast, and the debutante is eighteen. Turn on host review and a parent or the emcee approves uploads from a phone during the program, so the photo of the debutante mid-bite never reaches the relatives, and the ones of the waltz do. AI screening takes the first pass.
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.
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.
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.
Seating chart guests can look up
Build tables, assign seats, and let guests find their own place from the invite link instead of hunting for a name on an easel.
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.
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 with the debutante's name and the venue. Add the seating chart while you finish the table assignments, since a debut with two hundred guests needs one.
Send the private link to relatives abroad a week ahead with the program times in their zone. Print the QR code on the program and the table numbers, and ask the emcee to announce it after the grand entrance.
Guests upload through the program. Start the broadcast before the entrance and keep it running through the roses, the candles and the father-daughter dance, the parts the family abroad asked for.
Approve the queue that night, download the originals for the album, and send the debutante the link so she has every angle of her waltz.
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 Filipino debuts
Put the broadcast on the program, not on a wish list. A debut program is timed to the minute by the emcee, so decide in advance which segments the family abroad will see and tell them. The grand entrance, the cotillion, the 18 roses and the 18 candles together usually run well under the 90-minute limit; the dinner and the open dancing do not need to be streamed. Give the phone that is broadcasting to one person with a clear job and a spot near the dance floor, not to a guest who will be pulled into a photo. Relatives in the Philippines are watching in the early morning, so the exact start time matters to them.
The 18 candles are the emotional center of the night and the hardest part to photograph, because eighteen women each speak for a minute or two and the room goes quiet. Ask the emcee to remind guests that photos are welcome but that flashes should stay off, and let the candle speakers know that their speech is being recorded by whoever is filming from the family table. Upload that video to the gallery afterward. For the speeches that did not make the eighteen, the video message on the upload page gives every tita a place to add hers, from the table or from another country.
Guests at a debut span three generations and two or three languages. The older relatives will happily use the QR code if someone at their table shows them once, so seat one teenage cousin per table as the unofficial helper and tell them that is their job. Print the code large on the table number rather than small on the program. For the relatives watching from abroad, the same private link that shows the broadcast also shows the gallery, so after the stream ends they can keep looking through the photos as they arrive without needing a new link.
Common questions about Filipino debuts
Can family in the Philippines watch the debut live?
Yes. Live Pass is a $39 one-time add-on that streams up to 90 minutes with audio to as many as 100 viewers on a private link. Relatives open the link in a browser on any phone, with no app and no account. Send it a few days ahead with the program times converted to Philippine time, since a Saturday evening debut in the US is Sunday morning in Manila. After the stream ends the same link shows the gallery, so they can see the roses and the candles again as the photos come in.
Is the upload page in Tagalog?
Not at the moment. Guest pages are in English, Español, Français, and the host dashboard is in English. For most debuts that is fine: the guests are a mix of Tagalog and English speakers, nearly all of whom read English, and the upload page itself is a camera button, a short list of options and a send button. For lolo and lola, a cousin at the table showing them once is usually enough. If it helps, write your guestbook question in Taglish so the answers come back in whatever language the guest thinks in.
How do we handle the 18 candle speeches and the 18 roses in the gallery?
Assign one person to film each segment from the family table and upload the clips afterward, since a phone near the front gets the audio far better than one across the room. Guests at the other tables will photograph the roses from their own angle, which is exactly what you want: the debutante and her father from the front, the aunts crying from the side. Turn on the guestbook with a question like "What do you wish for her at eighteen?" so the candle speakers who ran out of time can finish their thought in writing or as a voice message.
The debutante is eighteen and the gallery will get shared. Is it private?
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. It is not listed anywhere and guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers. Anyone with the link can view it, so share it on purpose rather than in a group chat with four hundred members. Turn on host review and a parent approves each upload before it is visible, and you can remove anything later. The debutante can also ask for a photo to be taken down, and the gallery closes to new uploads whenever you decide the night is over.
How much does it cost for a debut with two hundred guests?
An Event Pass is $29 one time, and it costs the same for two hundred guests as for twenty. It includes unlimited uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, video and voice messages, the seating chart, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. Live Pass is a separate $39 one-time add-on for the relatives abroad. There is no subscription and no per-guest fee, so it is a small line on a debut budget that already has a photographer, a videographer and a caterer.
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