Wedding photo QR code sign maker

A wedding photo QR code sign is a small card on each table with a QR code, the couple's names, and one line telling guests what happens when they scan it. The code opens a page where guests upload the photos and videos they took. The wording matters as much as the code: a QR code with no explanation next to it mostly gets ignored.

1. 01Get the link guests will upload through. With Drive File Request that is an upload link whose files land in a folder in your own Google Drive; any other link works here too.
2. 02Paste it into the sign maker above. The QR code is drawn in your browser from that link, so it works with whatever service the link belongs to.
3. 03Pick the wording, add your names, and choose four table cards per page or one large sign.
4. 04Scan the preview with two different phones before printing. It takes a minute and it is the only real test.
5. 05Print on matte card, cut along the guides, and put one on every table.

Two lines are enough: what you want, and how to do it. Guests decide whether to scan in about a second, so the line under the code should answer the two questions they actually have: is this going to make me install something, and where do my photos go? Some wording that works:

• "Share your photos with us. Point your phone camera at the code. No app, no sign-up."
• "Help us capture the day. We can't be everywhere at once, so send us what you saw."
• "Snap. Scan. Share. Upload your pictures straight to us."
• "Our day, through your eyes. Took a photo you love? Scan here and send it our way."
• "Phones away for the vows, please. For everything after, scan here and share what you take."
• "Be our photographer tonight. Every photo and video you upload goes straight into our album."

Say "no app" if it is true; it is the single most common reason guests walk past a code. If you ask for videos as well as photos, say so, because many guests assume a photo upload means photos only.

Phones read a code comfortably from about ten times its width. A guest at a table holds the phone 30 to 40 cm from the card, so the code needs to be roughly 3 to 4 cm across; a welcome sign read from across the room needs much more.

The four-per-page layout prints a code of about 4 cm on each card; the one-per-page layout prints one of about 7.5 cm. Black on white scans best. Matte card is better than glossy, which throws the flash and the venue lights back at the camera.

• On every guest table, where people sit still long enough to scan.
• By the guest book or the bar, where people queue.
• On the welcome sign, so the idea is planted before the ceremony.
• On the back of the order of service or the menu.
• In the thank-you message afterwards, as the link, for the guests who meant to and didn't.

It is the same code everywhere. You do not need one per table, and a single link keeps every photo in one place.

That depends entirely on the link inside the code. A shared Google Photos album needs every guest to be signed in to a Google account. A wedding photo app keeps the originals in its own gallery for as long as the plan lasts. A Drive File Request upload link puts every original, at full resolution, into a folder in your own Google Drive: guests need no app and no account, and nobody can browse or delete what others sent. It is a $9 Event pass for 7 days, with no subscription; see pricing.

If you are still choosing a service, wedding photo sharing apps compared lays out the price, upload window, and where the originals end up for each one. The same printed code works just as well for a birthday, a reunion, or a trip: collecting photos from a group covers those.