Two réveillons.
One gallery for the whole fêtes.
The réveillon is the meal that starts late and ends after midnight, and there are two of them a week apart. On the twenty-fourth the family sits down to huîtres, foie gras and the chapon before the bûche, in Provence to the gros souper and the treize desserts, and in Québec to the tourtière after la messe de minuit. On the thirty-first the friends come instead, the cotillons come out and everyone kisses under the gui as the champagne opens. You are cooking or hosting both, which means you see the courses go out and very little else. The photos are split between the cousins' phones from Noël and the friends' phones from the Saint-Sylvestre, and nobody ends the fêtes with either night complete. One QR code covers both.
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The moments guests actually photograph at réveillons
Why réveillons work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Noël and the Saint-Sylvestre, kept apart under one code
Make the two réveillons sub-events of one gallery. The family photos from the twenty-fourth stay in their own section and the friends' photos from the thirty-first in theirs, but the whole of the fêtes sits behind one code that can go on the table once and stay there all week.
Grandparents in the Vaucluse, children in Montréal
French-speaking families are spread between France, Belgium, Switzerland and Québec, and a réveillon at one table is a video call at another. Live Broadcast puts the meal on a private link with sound so the relatives on the other side of the Atlantic hear the bûche being cut and the countdown to minuit at your hour, not theirs.
Every course, photographed by someone who was sitting down
A réveillon is measured in courses and the host is standing for most of them. Guests upload the platter of huîtres, the chapon carved, the bûche brought in with the lights off, all from their seats, so the person who cooked has a record of the meal they served rather than only of the kitchen.
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, up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
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.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
A private live broadcast is included with the Event Pass: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with sound, and keep the recording afterwards.
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.
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 one event for the fêtes with two sub-events, Réveillon de Noël and Saint-Sylvestre, and send the link to the family and the friends separately, since the guest lists rarely overlap.
Print the code on the menu card at each place setting; a réveillon has a menu at the table more often than any other dinner of the year, and it is the one thing every guest reads.
Guests upload between courses. Start Live Broadcast on a stand before the bûche on Noël and before the countdown on the thirty-first, and put the slideshow on the TV after midnight.
On the first of January, download the originals and send the whole gallery round with the vœux, so both nights arrive together.
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. Photos pass a quick AI check first; videos wait for a person.
- 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 réveillons
Print the code on the menu, not on a separate card. Most réveillon tables already have a handwritten or printed menu at each place, and guests read it between courses because there is time to; a small code at the bottom gets scanned in the same idle minute. Mention it once when the huîtres arrive, and the table will upload course by course through the evening without further prompting. The one thing to plan is the bûche: the lights go down when it comes in, so ask a guest at the far end of the table in advance to film it from their seat rather than hoping somebody thinks of it.
Treat the two réveillons as different rooms with different rules. On the twenty-fourth the guests are family, the children are up past their bedtime waiting for Père Noël, and the photos that matter are the generations at one table and the shoes under the sapin. On the thirty-first the guests are friends, the cotillons come out and the photos that matter are the countdown and the kiss under the gui. Keep them as two sub-events so the grandparents receive the Noël section without the Saint-Sylvestre, and the friends receive theirs without the family's. Both galleries still live behind the same code, so nothing has to be printed twice.
In Québec, the réveillon begins when the family comes back from la messe de minuit, so the good photos start well after midnight: the tourtière and the ragoût coming out, the parenté arriving in coats, the bûche and the sucre à la crème at two in the morning. If part of the family is in France, they are asleep by then, so leave Live Broadcast for the morning of the Jour de l'An and the bénédiction paternelle, when the family kneels and the father gives the blessing, which is the moment relatives abroad most want to see live. Upload the night's photos as they happen and the relatives wake up to the whole réveillon.
Common questions about réveillons
We host both the twenty-fourth and the thirty-first. Is that one event or two?
One event with two sub-events, if the same household hosts both. The code is printed once and works for both nights, the family's photos from Noël and the friends' photos from the Saint-Sylvestre stay in separate sections, and the price is a single Event Pass for the whole of the fêtes. If a different house hosts the Saint-Sylvestre, that host creates their own event with their own code. Either way, nobody ends the week with half of one night and none of the other.
Can the family in Québec watch our réveillon in France, or the other way round?
Yes. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass, streams up to 90 minutes with sound on a private link to as many as 100 viewers, and opens in any phone browser. The difficulty is the time difference: midnight in Paris is late afternoon in Montréal, so pick the moment you most want them to see, usually the bûche or the countdown, and send them the link with the hour translated. The gallery link fills in the rest of the night for them to see when they wake.
The meal runs from nine until two in the morning. Will guests really keep uploading?
They will if the code stays visible, because a réveillon has long gaps between courses when everyone is sitting with a phone. The menu card at each place keeps the code in front of them all night, and the slideshow on the TV after midnight shows the earlier courses back, which prompts the guests who forgot. Uploads through the night have no time window, so the photos from two in the morning arrive the same as the ones from the apéritif. The stream is the only part with a duration.
Are the photos of our children and our home private?
Yes. The gallery is only reachable with the code or the link you share, is never listed publicly and is blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. If you want to approve photos before the family sees them, host review holds each upload for you first, which some hosts use for the Saint-Sylvestre when the friends' photos get louder after midnight. You can close the gallery to uploads after the Jour de l'An and keep the archive private after the 365 days of hosting.
What does it cost for the two nights?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event, and the two réveillons live under it as sub-events at no extra cost. It includes unlimited uploads, host review, the slideshow for the television, full-resolution downloads of every original and 365 days of hosting, with Live Broadcast included for the family across the Atlantic. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel; next December you create a fresh event for the new fêtes.
Every photo from réveillons, in one place
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