A year on, the family gathers.
The album grows with them.
The first anniversary is different from the funeral. There is no undertaker and no order of service; there is you, the spouse or the child who suggested it, a visit to the grave or the place where the ashes were scattered, and a table afterward with the people who are still showing up. The photos from that day matter more each year, and the ones from the funeral are on a phone somewhere. One code brings the family's photos and messages to the same place and lets you add to it every year you gather.
The moments guests actually photograph at memorial anniversaries
Why memorial anniversaries work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
A gallery that lasts to the next anniversary
An Event Pass hosts the gallery for 365 days, which reaches from one anniversary to the next. Close it to uploads after the gathering, download the archive, and reopen it when the family meets again; an ended event keeps its code, so the same printed card works every year.
A question that changes each year
The written guestbook takes a question of your own. "What did you do this year that they would have been proud of?" gets very different answers at one year and at five. The messages are kept with the photos, and read together they become the family's record of the years after.
The archive is yours, at full quality
Every photo and every recording can be downloaded singly or as one archive of the whole event, at the resolution it was uploaded, with no watermark on a paid event. Do it after each gathering. The archive on the family's own drive is the thing that lasts, whatever happens to the phones.
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.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like — phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos — with a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
A guestbook with your own question
Replace the generic prompt with one that fits the day. Written messages are collected alongside the photos and kept with the gallery.
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.
12 months of hosting
An Event Pass keeps the gallery live for 365 days, so the link on the thank-you card still works long after the event.
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 anniversary as its own event, or reopen the gallery from the funeral if it is still within its hosting period, and set this year's guestbook question.
Send the link to the family a week before with a request for any photos found since last year, and print one small card with the code for the table.
Guests upload the visit to the grave or the scattering site, the meal, and the old photos they have found, and record a message if they wish.
Afterward, download the full archive, close the gallery, and keep the card for next year.
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 memorial anniversaries
Ask for the photos that surfaced during the year, not just photos of the day. In the twelve months after a death, people find things: a print in a drawer, a photo on an old laptop, a clip on a phone that was in a jacket pocket. There is rarely an occasion to share them, so they stay where they were found. A week before the gathering, send the link to the family with one line asking for anything they came across this year. Those uploads, more than the ones from the graveside, are what the family opens the gallery to see. Put the code on one small card at the table; the day does not need signage, and everyone there already has the link.
Treat the hosting period honestly and plan around it. An Event Pass keeps the gallery live for 365 days, which is about the distance from one anniversary to the next, so a gallery started at the funeral can run right to the edge of its hosting by the first anniversary. Download the whole archive at original quality before that point, and if the funeral gallery has already ended, create the anniversary as a new event and add the photos you want carried forward yourself from the archive. An ended event can be reopened within its hosting period and keeps the same code, so for the years after that, one card on the table is all you need.
Give the day one deliberate recording. A voice message of up to 60 seconds from the youngest person at the table, or the oldest, saying what they remember this year, is short, easy to ask for, and over time becomes the most valuable thing in the gallery. Change the written guestbook question each year so the messages do not repeat, and read last year's answers aloud at the table if the family would welcome it. Some years will be lighter than others. The gallery does not need to be added to on a schedule; it needs to be there when the family wants it, private, with the previous years still in it.
Common questions about memorial anniversaries
Can we reopen the gallery from the funeral and add this year's photos to it?
If it is still within its hosting period, yes. An ended event can be reopened by the host, it keeps its original code and link, and new uploads join the same gallery under the same date. An Event Pass hosts the gallery for 365 days from the pass, so a gallery started at the funeral is close to the end of that period at the first anniversary; download the archive first, so nothing depends on timing. If the funeral gallery has already passed its hosting period, create the anniversary as a new event and upload the photos you want carried forward from the archive yourself.
How do we keep the photos permanently?
Download them. Any photo can be downloaded on its own, and the whole event can be downloaded as one archive at original quality, with no compression and no watermark on a paid event. Do this after each gathering and keep the archive on a drive the family owns; the hosting period on an Event Pass is 365 days, and the archive is what outlasts it. Voice and video messages are included in the archive as files. The gallery is a place for the family to gather and add; the archive is the thing that lasts, and it is yours from the day you download it.
Who can see it?
Only the people you send the link or code to. The gallery is private by default, is never listed anywhere, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. You can turn on host review so that every upload waits for your approval, close the gallery to new uploads once the gathering is over, and remove anything that should not be there. If the person organizing the anniversary is not the closest family member, name that person as the recipient and the finished gallery is delivered to them privately on a date you choose.
What does it cost each year?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for one event, with unlimited uploads within a 25 GB fair-use bound, voice and written messages, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription and no charge per guest. If the gallery is still within its hosting period, reopening it for the next anniversary costs nothing further; when the hosting period has ended, a new event for the next year is another $29, and the archive from the previous years is already yours.
We are scattering ashes this year. Is it appropriate to photograph it?
Many families do, quietly, and are glad afterward that someone did. The place itself, the family standing together, the view they chose, the flowers left behind: these are the photos people ask for in later years and rarely take on purpose. Agree beforehand who will take them so that everyone else can put their phones away, and let that one person upload afterward from the car or from home. With host review on, the family sees them first and decides what stays. Nothing about the gallery requires anyone to photograph anything they would rather not.
Every photo from memorial anniversaries, in one place
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