Twelve tables, three generations.
One gallery for all of them.
The parents book the banquet hall, the grandparents book the menu, and the baby makes a first public appearance at one month or a hundred days, dressed for the occasion and passed from table to table. Red-dyed eggs and pickled ginger go out, hongbao come in, and every relative from the great-aunts to the teenage cousins is taking photos on a different phone. A QR code on each table, printed alongside the menu, brings all of them into one private gallery the family can actually find.
The moments guests actually photograph at red egg and ginger parties
Why red egg and ginger parties work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Every table's angle on the same baby
At a banquet the baby is carried to each table in turn, so the photo the grandparents have is from table one and the photo the cousins have is from table nine. With unlimited uploads on a single event, all twelve tables land in one gallery and the parents finally see the round from every seat.
The banquet hall screen fills itself
Most banquet restaurants have a screen that plays a loop of the baby's first weeks. Open the live slideshow on it instead and the photos guests are taking at that moment appear between the courses, which gets the second and third tables uploading once they see the first one's on the wall.
A private gallery for a family, not a feed
The elders want the photos, the parents want the baby off public sites, and both are right. The gallery is reachable only through the link the family shares, never listed anywhere, and relatives in Hong Kong or Guangzhou open it from a message without an account, in full resolution, whenever they wake up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event when the banquet is booked and give it the baby's name, the one being announced that day.
Print the QR code on a small card for each table, next to the red eggs, and ask the restaurant to put one at the reception desk where hongbao are collected.
Guests scan and upload between courses. Put the live slideshow on the hall's screen so each table sees the others' photos arrive.
Send the gallery link to the family group that night, and download the full archive for the grandparents to keep.
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 red egg and ginger parties
Ask the emcee, or whichever uncle is holding the microphone, to point at the table cards right after the baby's name is announced. That is the one moment every table is paying attention and every phone is already out. A card on the table alone gets photos from the tables with teenagers on them; a single mention from the front gets photos from the elders too, because a grandchild at each table will show them how once they have been told to. The card only needs the code and one line in the languages your family reads.
Plan for the baby to be photographed twelve times in twelve outfits of lighting. The baby is carried around the room during the meal and each table takes its own picture, so tell the parents carrying the baby to pause a beat longer at each table than feels natural. Video uploads count too: a clip of the great-grandmother holding the baby with the whole table shouting good wishes is worth more than the posed one. Full-resolution originals mean the grandparents can print whichever one they like later, and the parents can pick the best of twelve rather than settling for the one from their own table.
Send the link to relatives overseas the same night, before the family group chat fills with fifty compressed copies. A gallery link is one message, in full resolution, with the videos included, and it works from a phone in Guangzhou at breakfast the next day without any account. It stays live for 365 days on an Event Pass, and the parents can download the whole archive once and keep it with the hongbao ledger. If the family is spread across three countries, send the link to one relative in each and let them pass it on; the gallery does not care how many people open it.
Common questions about red egg and ginger parties
Is this for the full month celebration or the hundred days?
Either. Some families hold the red egg and ginger party at one month, following the man yue tradition, and others wait until a hundred days when the baby is sturdier and the mother has finished her confinement. Many do a small family meal at one month and the large banquet at a hundred days. Create one event for whichever gathering you are hosting; if you are doing both, create each separately so the small meal stays with the close family and the banquet gallery goes to everyone.
My grandparents do not use apps. Will they be able to upload?
There is no app. Scanning the code with the phone's camera opens a page in the browser with a button to choose photos, and that is all there is to it. In practice a grandchild at the table scans it once and shows them, and after that the elders upload as easily as anyone. The guest page is available in English, Español, Français, so it does not speak Cantonese or Mandarin yet; the card on the table can carry a line in the language your family reads next to the code, and the flow itself is a scan and a tap.
Can we play the photos on the restaurant's screen during the banquet?
Yes. Open the slideshow link on any laptop or phone connected to the hall's screen and new uploads appear as they arrive, with a phone remote so someone at the head table can control it. Most banquet restaurants already have a screen and an HDMI cable; ask when you book. Guests who see their table's photo on the wall tend to upload more, and the elders enjoy watching the baby appear from every seat in the room. It runs in the background between courses without anyone managing it.
Who can see the baby's photos afterward?
Only the people with the link or code. The gallery is private by default, never appears in search results, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. Relatives abroad open it from a message without creating an account. If you want to check photos before other guests see them, turn on host review and each upload waits for your approval. The gallery stays open for 365 days, and the family can download the full archive at original quality at any point before then.
What does it cost for a banquet with a hundred and fifty guests?
The same as for fifteen. An Event Pass is $29 one time for one event, with unlimited uploads under a 25 GB fair-use bound, the live slideshow, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no per-guest charge and no subscription, so the size of the banquet does not change the price, and neither does the number of relatives who open the link afterward. If you also want to stream the naming to family overseas, Live Pass is a separate $39 one-time add-on.
Every photo from red egg and ginger parties, in one place
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