We never tire of a gorgeous chuppah photo here at STG. There’s something about seeing a couple standing together under the canopy, surrounded by the people who love them, that gets us every time. And while your photographer is capturing the two of you exchanging vows, your guests are seeing it all from their own seats.
Those guest photos can be such a lovely way to capture angles – and moments – you might otherwise miss in all the action on your big day. But with pictures scattered across everyone’s phones, getting hold of them afterwards can be tricky. And much as your friends and family mean to send them over, we all know how easily that gets shifted to the bottom of the to-do list once everyone is back to their normal routines.
Enter WeddingSnap, which collects your guests’ photos, videos, and voice messages in one private gallery. It’s all done through a QR code, and there’s nothing for your guests to download. We’re particularly taken with the voice message feature, because it doesn’t get much more special than being able to hear your grandma wishing you mazal tov long after the wedding.
All those guest photos, without the chasing
If you’ve ever spent weeks asking friends to send you their pictures after a party, you’ll appreciate this one.
With WeddingSnap, you create a QR code for wedding photos and pop it on your tables or wedding signage. Guests scan it with their phone camera, tap the link, and upload their photos and videos directly through their browser. They don’t need an account or a password, so sharing couldn’t be easier.
When your guest list includes everyone from teenage cousins to grandparents, that’s a big plus.
Everything arrives in its original quality, without compression, too. So when someone captures a photo you absolutely love, you’ll have the proper file to download and keep.
An audio guest book, unbound
One of the coolest features of WeddingSnap is that, in addition to uploading photos and video, guests can record voice messages for the two of you.
You could invite guests to share a favorite memory of you as a couple, offer their best marriage advice, or simply leave their wedding wishes for the two of you.
Messages can be up to five minutes long, guests can pause or re-record before submitting, and you can play their messages back in the gallery alongside the photos.
Audio guest books have become so popular over the past several years, and it’s easy to see why: as lovely as it is to have written messages from your guests, hearing them share their love and wishes for you in their own voices is just on another level.
But an audio guest book normally means renting a vintage phone, placing it in one corner of one room, and hoping your guests take the time to stop by and leave a message during all the rush of the festivities. WeddingSnap’s record button lives on a link accessible by your guests at any time – including after the celebrations are over – and from wherever they are in the world, which means even loved ones who couldn’t make it to the wedding in person can participate.
For the people who couldn’t make the trip
One of the things we love the most about WeddingSnap is how seamlessly it includes all of the important people in your life – including the ones who live continents away and just aren’t able to make the trip happen.
This is such a common occurrence at Jewish weddings in particular, where so many couples have friends and family spread out all over the world. And often times, the people who can’t travel in are the ones we most want to hear from: after all, there’s nothing more precious than being able to cherish a special blessing from an elderly grandparent as part of your wedding memories.
So how great is it that WeddingSnap lets you share the same link with anyone you want, wherever they are in the world, so that the wedding wishes you receive aren’t bound by geography?
From Friday night dinner to farewell brunch
If your celebrations run over a whole weekend, as is the case at so many Jewish weddings, there’s plenty worth capturing beyond the wedding day itself. Think of family catching up at your Friday night dinner, your friends getting ready together, and everyone comparing stories over brunch the morning after.
The same WeddingSnap code works throughout your festivities, so you can use it at every event and collect footage from across the celebrations in one gallery. It’s available from setup until a year after your wedding, giving guests time to go back through their camera rolls and share the pictures they forgot to upload in the moment. You can download the originals during that time and keep them afterwards.
WeddingSnap complements your professional photography beautifully; it doesn’t replace it. Your photographer can’t be at every table at once, and you may opt not to book professional photography for all of the pre- and post-wedding events. Guest uploads give you another view of the celebration, from a friend’s place in the hora to the late-night gathering after the band and photographer have packed up.
Let your guests’ photos join the party
Another great WeddingSnap feature is the option to display a live slideshow on a screen at your venue, so you and your guests can enjoy photos of the celebrations as they’re captured – there’s only about a twenty-second lead time from when a photo or video is uploaded to when it will be added to your slideshow.
This makes such a fun addition to your reception – and it’s especially wonderful being able to see what’s happening in all the corners of the room while you’re busy celebrating.
Simple to set up
Another thing we love about WeddingSnap is how simple it is to get set up. One code covers the whole wedding weekend, for one price. There’s a one-time payment of $39.99, with no subscription and no per-guest fee. Voice messages and the live slideshow are included, along with unlimited photo and video uploads from unlimited guests within the included 50 GB of storage.
You also get a choice of twelve table-card designs and twelve 8.5” × 11” sign designs to use to share your WeddingSnap code, with a free template maker so you can print them yourself. If you’d prefer to have the printing taken care of, you can add that in at checkout starting from $74.99.
It’s so often the small, unexpected moments that turn out to make some of the most beautiful wedding memories – and with a WeddingSnap QR code, you’ll be able to write so many more of them into the sotry of your Jewish wedding.
Set yours up at weddingsnap.io – one code, one gallery, and every voice from your day.
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