Laissez les bons temps rouler.
Then keep the photos.
You are the krewe, the community group, or the house on the parade route hosting the party, which means you have been building costumes since Twelfth Night and there is a king cake on the counter. Carnival is a season, not a day, and the photos scatter accordingly: the parade from the curb, the ball, the masks, the throws, the family from Trinidad or Rio who celebrate their own Carnival the same week. One QR code, shared with the whole krewe, gathers it.
The moments guests actually photograph at Mardi Gras parties
Why Mardi Gras parties work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
The whole season under one code
Carnival runs from Twelfth Night to Fat Tuesday, with a parade, a ball or a party most weekends. Sub-events keep each one grouped under the same QR code, so the krewe or the community group has one gallery for the season, and the king cake party, the parade day and the Tuesday finale are each easy to find.
Host review for a public parade day
A parade party spills onto the sidewalk, and Carnival crowds photograph each other freely. Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue, with AI screening flagging anything questionable, before the gallery shows it to the whole krewe. What goes out is what the host approved, and nothing else.
Guest pages in English, Español, Français
Carnival is celebrated by communities that speak more than one language, from Louisiana and Quebec to Martinique and the wider Caribbean diaspora. The upload page appears in English, Español, Français, chosen from each guest's phone settings, so a French-speaking cousin lands on a page that makes sense to them without the host doing anything.
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.
Several days, one gallery
Multi-day celebrations get sub-events under one code, so the rehearsal, the ceremony and the brunch stay organised but reachable from a single link.
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.
Guest pages in 3 languages
The upload page speaks English, Español, Français, chosen from the guest's phone settings, so a mixed-language crowd is never guessing what a button does.
Song requests for the DJ
Guests request tracks from the same page they upload photos to. The host or DJ sees the queue and plays what the room actually wants.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event for the season, with sub-events for the king cake party, each parade day, and Fat Tuesday.
Print the QR code in purple, green and gold for the party, and share the link with the krewe's group so it is on every phone before the first parade.
Members upload from the curb, the float and the party as each day goes. Put the slideshow on the TV during the parade party.
After Ash Wednesday, download the originals and send the gallery to the whole krewe and the family who could not come.
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 Mardi Gras parties
Share the link before parade day, not on it. The route is loud, phones are out for the throws, and nobody is stopping to scan a sign on the sidewalk. Put the link in the krewe's group chat or email the week before, with the code on the door of the house on the route for the people who arrive without it. Members who already have the page open upload from the curb between floats, and the float riders upload their side of it afterwards, which is a view almost nobody on the ground ever sees.
Whoever gets the baby in the king cake is hosting next year, and that moment deserves a photo every time. Ask the person cutting the cake to have someone ready with a phone, upload the reveal straight away, and it becomes the first photo in next year's gallery too. The masks and costumes are the other thing worth planning for: get a photo of each member in full costume before the ball, in daylight, because the photos from the ball itself are dark and the masks are off by midnight.
If your community celebrates Caribbean Carnival or Brazilian Carnaval alongside Mardi Gras, one event with sub-events covers both, and the guest page will appear in French or Spanish for relatives who read those. Keep host review on for any party that is open to the street, review the queue the morning after, and send the link on Ash Wednesday, when everyone is home, tired and wants to look back at what they cannot quite remember. A krewe that has a ball as well as a parade can keep the ball as its own sub-event, so the formal photos are easy to find without scrolling through the throws.
Common questions about Mardi Gras parties
Carnival lasts weeks. Do I need a new event for each parade?
No. Create one event for the season and add sub-events for the king cake party, each parade day, the ball and Fat Tuesday. Every sub-event shares the same QR code and link, uploads are grouped into the right day, and the krewe has one gallery at the end. An Event Pass keeps it live for 365 days, which covers the season with room to spare, and the members who upload late still land in the right place.
How do we get photos from the float and the curb into the same place?
Share the link with the whole krewe before the parade, so members on the float and members on the route both have the page open. Uploads from every phone land in one gallery, and anyone who forgot uploads afterwards from their camera roll. Scanning the code or tapping the link opens an upload page in the browser, no app and no account, so it works on the float between throws. Video uploads are included, and the view from the float is the one worth having.
Can we check photos before the whole krewe sees them?
Yes. Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue until you approve it, with AI screening flagging anything questionable. Carnival crowds are public and the later photos get looser, so this is the setting to use for any party that is open to the street. Approve the parade and costume photos as they come in so the slideshow has something to show, and go through the rest the next morning with the leftover king cake.
Our family is from Trinidad and celebrates Carnival too. Does this fit?
Yes. The event is yours to name and the traditions are yours to photograph, whether that is a krewe on St. Charles, a mas band, or a family fete with steelpan. Sub-events keep the different days grouped under one code, and the guest upload page appears in English, Español, Français depending on each phone's settings, which helps a family with relatives in Martinique or Guadeloupe. Guest list and door check-in are there if your group sells tickets.
What does the season cost?
One Event Pass at $29 covers the whole season, including every sub-event under it, with unlimited uploads, host review, song requests, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription and no per-guest fee, so the krewe pays once, not per member or per parade, and the treasurer has one line to explain. Streaming a parade party to members who moved away is a separate $39 one-time add-on with Live Pass, if the krewe wants it.
Every photo from Mardi Gras parties, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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