Parade, céilí, the long table.
One gallery for the whole day.
You are the one hosting St. Patrick's Day this year: the Irish club booking the hall after the parade, the county association with a float to fill, the dance school sending a line of children down Fifth Avenue or Main Street, or the family that has done corned beef and soda bread on 17 March for three generations. The day moves fast. Morning Mass for some, the march, the pipe band, a session in the pub, the céilí in the evening, and every bit of it lands on a different phone. One QR code brings it all back to one gallery you can send to the cousins in Mayo.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at St. Patrick's Day parties
Why St. Patrick's Day parties work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
The parade, seen from every spot on the route
The marchers never see the parade. They see the back of the banner in front of them. Families on the curb, friends at the reviewing stand and the parent running alongside the dance school all have the shots the club actually wants, and one code on the program or the float lets every one of them add theirs to the same gallery before the band has packed up.
The céilí and the session, kept as they sounded
Half of an Irish night is music. Guests can upload short videos of the set dances, the fiddler who joined the session uninvited, and the whole room attempting the Siege of Ennis. They sit next to the photos in one gallery, so a club that hosts the same night every year builds a record that sounds like the night, not just a stack of stills.
Something to send home
Diaspora families keep St. Patrick's Day partly for the relatives back in Ireland, who often find the American version both funny and touching. A private gallery link travels well: an aunt in Cork or a cousin in Belfast opens it in a phone browser, sees the grandchildren in their dance costumes, and downloads whatever she wants without signing up for 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event a few weeks out and print the QR code on the parade-day program, the club newsletter and a sign for the hall door.
Hand a card with the code to the dance teachers, the band leader and whoever is carrying the banner, so the people in the parade know where to send photos.
Guests upload from the curb, the pub and the céilí. Put the slideshow on the hall screen so the room sees the parade again over dinner.
Download the originals for the club archive and send the gallery link to members, families and relatives back home.
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. In this public demo, photos appear at once and videos wait for a person to approve them; at your own event, you decide.
- 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 St. Patrick's Day parties
Think about where your people actually are on the day. If the club marches, the photos come from the families on the sidewalk, not from the marchers, so the code needs to be in the hands of the spectators: on the back of the program, on a sign held at the assembly point, and in the email that tells families where to stand. If you host a party afterwards, put a second card on each table and one at the bar. A short line on every card, such as ‘Add your parade photos here’, does more than a long explanation. People will happily share once they know there is one place to put it all.
Keep it respectful and it will be the gallery people want to keep. St. Patrick's Day is a feast day and, for many families, a day of real pride in where they came from. Ask the dance school before posting close-ups of children in competition dresses, and use the guestbook to ask something with a bit of heart, such as ‘Who in your family brought you to your first parade?’ The answers, typed between sets at the céilí, are the part of the gallery older members return to. And if you are writing signs, it is Paddy's Day. Your Irish members will notice.
If the club party has a photo booth on a laptop, open the booth link from your event dashboard in Chrome or Microsoft Edge on that laptop and point it at the folder the booth software saves into. Every booth photo then lands in the gallery and on the slideshow within moments, credited ‘Photo booth’, alongside what guests upload. It does not work with iPad booths, so check what your booth company brings. Keep the booth link on the booth laptop, since anyone with it can add photos, and if the hall Wi-Fi drops the photos simply wait and send when it returns.
Common questions about St. Patrick's Day parties
Can our Irish club use one gallery for the parade and the party that night?
Yes. One event covers the whole day, from the assembly point in the morning to the last set at the céilí, and everything guests upload lands in the same private gallery. If your club also runs a separate Mass, breakfast or family day the weekend before, you can add those as sub-events under the same code so members have one link for the season instead of a new one for every gathering.
Do our older members need to download anything?
No. They point the phone's camera at the printed code and the upload page opens in the browser. There is no app, no account and no password, and choosing photos from the camera roll is one button. For members who prefer not to upload at all, the finished gallery link works the same way: tap it, scroll, and download any photo you like. Many clubs find the older members end up adding the old parade photos they have been carrying in their phones for years.
Who can see the photos of the children from the dance school?
Only people you give the link or code to. The gallery is private by default, never listed anywhere, and guest pages are blocked from search engines. If your dance school or your parents' committee is careful about images of children, turn on host review so each upload waits in your queue until you approve it. You can also close the gallery to new uploads whenever you like while members keep browsing.
Is corned beef and cabbage really Irish?
It is Irish-American, and proudly so. In Ireland the traditional pairing was bacon and cabbage, and Irish immigrants in New York swapped in corned beef they bought from neighbourhood butchers. Soda bread, on the other hand, is a staple on both sides of the Atlantic. Whatever your family serves, it belongs in the gallery, and the guestbook is a good place to ask who brought the recipe and from which county.
What does it cost for our St. Patrick's Day event?
You can start with the Free Preview: QR uploads, the live slideshow and a guestbook preview, with the first 60 uploads visible, watermarked previews, and a gallery that locks 7 days after the event. An Event Pass is $39, paid once with no subscription, and gives you unlimited uploads up to 25 GB, full-resolution originals, removal of the Picsui credit, and 365 days of hosting. There is no charge per member or per guest.
Every photo from St. Patrick's Day parties, in one place
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