How to run a wedding roll

A wedding is the perfect roll: a long day, a lot of people, and a hundred small moments the official photographer will never be standing next to. Here's how to set one up so it runs itself.

Open the roll the morning of

Name it something the room will recognise, like “Ana & Marc, Sep 14.” Set it to seal at the end of the night and open in time for breakfast. That gives you one clean album the morning after, instead of a trickle of spoilers during the reception.

Put the code where hands already are

A QR on every table tent does more work than any announcement. Guests scan it between courses, a camera opens in the browser, and they're shooting in twelve seconds. No app, no account, no “what's the wifi” detour.

Give the right number of frames

For a big wedding, upgrade to unlimited so nobody runs dry mid-toast. For a smaller ceremony, the free tier's twenty-four frames each keeps things intentional. Either way, the cap is doing quiet work: it keeps phones down and faces up.

The best frame of the night is almost always taken by someone who wasn't hired to take it.

Let face match do the sorting

Tell guests they can scan their face once to get their own shots delivered automatically. Grandparents especially love waking up to an album of exactly the photos they're in, with nobody to ask.

The morning after

When the roll opens, everyone who shot in it keeps access and can download at full resolution. No watermark, no expiring link. You get the whole day back, from sixty-two points of view.