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The photo album · 5 min read

Set up the photo album

The photo album collects everyone’s pictures of the day in one place, without apps or accounts. It’s managed in the Gallery workspace, which has two tabs: Photos, where the pictures live, and Settings, where you decide how the album behaves. For how guests share photos on the day, see wedding photo sharing.

Album settings

1

Decide whether guests can upload.

The first toggle controls guest uploads. Leave it off and the gallery is yours alone; turn it on and anyone viewing your page can add photos.

2

Choose your moderation level.

Require moderation means, as the setting puts it, You approve each guest photo before it appears in the gallery. A sub-toggle, Also moderate organiser uploads, extends the same queue to photos added by you and your co-organisers.

3

Set a per-guest limit, if you want one.

An optional limit caps how many photos each guest can add, which keeps one enthusiastic uncle from filling the album. Organisers are never limited.

4

Set the album window.

When guests can upload sets the date and time the album opens. As the help text says: Set when the album opens. It stays open for the duration included in your plan. Most couples open it on the morning of the wedding.

The Gallery settings tab, with toggles for guest uploads and moderation, a per-guest photo limit, gallery lock and the album window
The Settings tab in the Gallery workspace.
When the window closes, photos and guest data are permanently deleted. This is by design — guests trust the album because it doesn’t linger — but it means you must download anything you want to keep before the window ends.

Moderating photos

With moderation on, the Photos tab gains filter tabs: All, Pending and Approved. New guest photos wait in Pending until you approve or reject them individually, and an Approve all pending button clears the queue in one go when everything looks fine. Rejected photos never appear on your page.

Getting guests into the album

The QR code that opens your page is downloadable from the studio, and a table card with that code is the reliable way to collect photos on the day. Guests point a phone camera at it, your page opens, and the upload button is right there. No app, no sign-up, no chasing people for pictures afterwards. See Go live and share your link for where to download it.

The gallery section on your page

How the album appears to guests is controlled on the page itself. Select the gallery section in the Content workspace and its inspector lets you choose how many photos show in the preview (4, 6, 8 or 12) and whether the upload button is visible. The photos themselves, and all the settings above, stay in the Gallery workspace.

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