How to share wedding photos with your guests

Send one link, not a folder

Shared folders and big email attachments put the work on your guests: downloading, unzipping, scrolling through file names. An online album opens in any phone’s browser, looks like an album rather than a file list, and can be updated without sending anything new.

Share in two waves

Guests want photos while the day is still fresh, but professional photos often take weeks. Share an album with the best phone photos within a day or two, then add the photographer’s highlights to the same album when they arrive. Because the link stays the same, everyone who saved it sees the update.

Put a QR code on the tables

A small card on each table with a QR code and the line “Scan to see the photos” means guests can find the album later without searching their messages. Print the cards before the wedding; the code keeps working as you add photos.

Choose the privacy setting deliberately

Wedding photos include children, family and guests who didn’t choose to be online.

• Unlisted: anyone with the link can view; the album stays out of search engines. Right for most weddings.
• Password-protected: guests need the password as well as the link. Good if the link might be forwarded widely.
• Private: only you can view it. Useful while you are still choosing photos.

Let guests say something back

A guestbook under the photos collects the messages people would otherwise send in a group chat, in one place you can keep. With ImageAlbums you approve messages before they appear.

ImageAlbums puts all of this in one free album: a romantic wedding template, a printable QR table card in the album’s own colours, a guestbook, a live slideshow for the reception screen, and a “Download all” button so family can keep every photo.