Every answer about Candid Photos, written down once

A celebration happens on thirty phones at once. Candid Photos gives your event a single address — printed on table cards as a QR code — so guests send those photographs, videos and guestbook notes into one collection you own. Nobody installs an app and nobody creates an account.

• You name the collection — occasion, date, the names guests recognise, a venue line and a background picture.
• It starts on Preview — every new collection is assigned the free plan; move to Gather, Celebrate or Keepsake whenever you want more.
• You put the code out — four printable stands on an A4 sheet, or the link in the invitation and the WhatsApp group.
• Photos arrive as they are taken — into your dashboard, into the gallery your guests browse, and onto the room screen if you project the slideshow.
• You keep it — download individual files, everything you select, or the whole collection as one ZIP.

Guests never see your dashboard, and the collection is not a social profile: no feed, no ads, no public search. What leaves your collection is what you download and the link you hand out.

Press New event in the sidebar. The wizard runs in four steps — Event details, Background, Review & confirm, Get your QR code — and you can leave it at any point: the collection is assigned the free Preview plan as soon as it is created, nothing is charged, and no guest can reach it until you open it.

1. 1Event details. Pick the kind of occasion, then give the collection a name — this is the line guests see at the top of their page. Choose the date (a date that has already passed is refused), the names on the invitation, and the venue if you want it printed on the stands.
2. 2Background. The picture behind your event name on the guest page. Choose from the gallery or upload your own; anything you pick here is staged and only uploaded when you create the collection.
3. 3Review & confirm. Read it back. This is where you write the guest address — lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens — and decide when a guest uploads: add it to the gallery straight away, or let you approve each one first.
4. 4Get your QR code. The collection now has an address and a code. Copy the guest link into the invitation, print the stands, or go to your collection.

The address you set on step three is what the QR code carries. Change it while the collection is still a draft; once stands are printed, a new address means new printing.

A draft shows your guests a short line — this collection is not open yet — and nothing more. It already holds the free Preview plan, so when you are ready press Open your collection on the event page and the same link opens.

Open a collection and the sidebar is that collection: six workspaces, in the order you meet them.

Overview

The state of the collection: what has arrived, what is waiting on you, and the next date that matters.

Photos & Videos

Every file guests sent, plus the ones you add yourself. Approve, hide, delete, download.

Guestbook

Written notes, filmed messages and voice notes, with the host view of each.

Slideshow

The room screen: look, timings, video rules, opening card.

QR Code & Sharing

The guest link, the QR image, the printable stands and the slideshow address.

Settings

The collection's facts, what guests are allowed to do, the package, and deletion.

Step outside a collection and the same sidebar offers the account screens: Overview, My Events, Profile, Email preferences, Orders and receipts, and this help page. New event starts another collection.

An account is name, email address and password. Signing up by email sends a six-digit code — paste it on the next screen. Continue with Google works where it is switched on; if the button says it is not available, use your email and password instead.

• Password — at least 8 characters, with a number or symbol and both lower and upper case. The checklist under the box tells you what is still missing.
• Forgotten it — Email me a reset link on the sign-in screen. The link is single use and expires; ask for a fresh one rather than reusing it.
• Too many attempts — wait a minute and try again; the sign-in screen counts them.
• Your name and email — Profile holds both. The name is what our emails greet you with and what sits on your collections; the email is where receipts, expiry notices and upload summaries go.

Changing the email on your profile does not confirm it on its own. A confirmation goes to the new address; open it, or the old address keeps receiving everything.

The QR Code & Sharing tab keeps all four sharing things in one place: the guest link, the QR image, the printable sheet, and the slideshow address.

• The guest link — one address for the whole celebration. Copy it into the invitation or the group chat. It never changes, even after the collection is archived.
• The QR image — Download the PNG gives a 1200-pixel square. It is generated from your guest address, so use it in a designed card or a stationery suite.
• Table stands — Print the stands puts four on one A4 sheet with cut hairlines. Print at 100% scale: letting the printer fit to page shrinks the code and makes it harder to read in dim light.
• Slideshow address — a private URL, listed on the same tab. Keep it to yourself and whoever runs the screen.

Test the printed code with your own phone camera before you pay a printer. It is the one part of a collection that cannot be fixed after the evening.

There is no separate watermark problem to solve: Mark the QR on hosted images in Settings puts a small corner mark on photographs served through the gallery, and turning it off takes it off.

Every collection is assigned Preview, the free tier, the moment it is created — so opening it is one press, no payment, no card. The package screen lists all four with their ceilings written out; pick a paid one there and it replaces Preview before you open, or upgrades the collection after. A paid package does something slower and more traceable.

1. 1Choose the package and reserve it. You get an invoice reference — a short code that identifies your order.
2. 2Make the transfer, and put the reference in the payment note. Nothing is charged by card at any point.
3. 3Reply to your invoice confirmation email with the proof of payment if that is easier.
4. 4The order shows Awaiting payment until it is confirmed. On confirmation the collection opens on its own, receipts and links arrive by email, and your guest address starts taking uploads.

Order states

Awaiting payment · Confirmed · Not paid · Released

Where to watch them

Orders and receipts, in the Account group of the sidebar

Upgrading mid-event

Choose a bigger package on the same screen. The link, the stands and every file already uploaded are untouched — no guest has to send anything again.

Extras

More photos or videos, a longer time online, the video guestbook or the slideshow as one-off additions to a package that does not include them

A reserved invoice holds your collection open as a draft. If the transfer never lands, write to us with the reference and we will release it — we would rather answer one email than delete a wedding.

Settings opens read-only. Press Edit, change what you want, then Save changes — everything goes together, and the guest page shows it immediately.

Photo uploads

Guests can send photographs. Off means the link accepts nothing but photographs — useful when the gallery is already full.

Video uploads

Guests can send videos up to your package's per-file ceiling. Videos eat storage fastest, so this is the first switch to drop when you are near a limit.

Guestbook

Guests can leave a written message. Filmed and voice notes depend on the package.

Public gallery

Guests can browse what everyone else has sent. Off means the link only accepts uploads — nobody sees anyone else's photographs.

Show guest names

Photo tiles name the contributor in the gallery.

Allow downloads

Guests can save full-size originals from the gallery.

Under Your choices: when a guest uploads either adds to the gallery straight away or lets you approve each one first; Email me when photos arrive sends one note per burst of uploads rather than one per file; Email me about guestbook messages covers messages you have approved; Mark the QR on hosted images puts the corner mark on gallery photographs.

The collection section holds the facts from the wizard — name, hosts, date, venue, guest address and the welcome message guests read at the top. The address reads Fixed — a printed QR code carries this address once stands exist.

Delete this collection is at the bottom and means it: the collection, every photo and video, every guestbook message, and the files in storage. It asks you to type the name back; mistype it and nothing is deleted. On a paid package, deleting frees the slot for another collection.

Photos & Videos is where everything guests sent lands. Across the top: All, Photos, Videos, My uploads and Pending review — the last only holds work when you chose let me approve each one first.

• Approve — the file joins the gallery and, on Celebrate and Keepsake, the room screen. Until you do, no guest sees it anywhere.
• Reject — it stays out of the gallery. The guest is not told; if they ask, tell them the collection is screened.
• Hide — keeps the photograph in your archive and removes it from public view. Reversible.
• Delete — the file leaves storage and stops counting against your quota. Not reversible.
• Select — tick the circles to work on a group: hide or delete several at once, or download the selection.

Open any tile for the large view, the guest's name, the caption if they wrote one, and the actions. The arrows move through the collection and Escape closes it.

My uploads is your own material. The upload page inside the collection puts your photographs through the same queue guests use, so a dropped connection does not lose them.

The slideshow is a screen of its own: an address ending in a token, issued when the collection activates, so nobody can guess it from the guest link. Open it on the laptop, mini PC or TV browser feeding the projector, and put it in full screen (F11 on Windows, Control-Command-F on a Mac).

What it shows

Approved photographs and clips nobody has taken off the wall, oldest first, with no controls on screen and no guest names unless you allow them

Looks

Six, chosen on the Looks tab: Cinematic is the screening — edge to edge, in film grain, with a slow push-in as each photograph holds, Editorial is the magazine spread — a matted, hairline-framed plate on a pale page, Golden hour grades one photograph warm amber on a blurred copy of itself, Afterparty cools one down and holds it in a thin light frame on near-black, Memory wall is the gallery hang — the collection at once with a warm-lit tile travelling along it, and Polaroid prints is the guest table — taped, captioned prints scattered on pale linen, one straightened front and centre

Previewing one

Each look has a Preview button. It plays your own approved photographs on the same drawing the projector uses, at the pace currently in your draft, and stops at the end of them rather than running on

What a look does not change

A look only arranges the photographs. The change between them, how long each one holds and whether names appear stay yours to set on the Settings tab

Change

Crossfade fades one photograph into the next, Zoom (Ken Burns) settles in from a slight enlargement, Slide pushes the new one in from the right

Each photograph

2 to 30 seconds

How long the change takes

200 to 2000 milliseconds

Order

The order guests sent them, or shuffled once when the screen starts

New uploads

Join without a refresh, or only when the screen is reopened

Opening card

Your own title card, held for 3 to 20 seconds, with the occasion named first

Names on screen

The occasion, the guest who sent each photograph, and a line under the names

Videos

Play clips between the photographs, with or without sound, and a cap of 0 to 600 seconds per clip (0 plays each clip to the end)

Whoever is at the laptop

If presenter keys are allowed: F for full screen, the left and right arrows to move through the collection, space to pause, M to mute or unmute a clip

The room screen is included in Celebrate and Keepsake and is a one-off addition on Preview and Gather — the Slideshow tab quotes it and the screen starts once the payment is recorded, so a free collection can still play photographs on the wall.

If the screen shows nothing, it is almost always one of three things: the address is missing its token, moderation is holding the photographs in Pending review, or the collection is not active yet. The address on the QR Code & Sharing tab is the one to copy.

The Guestbook tab holds every message guests left: written notes, filmed wishes and voice notes. Search by name or words, sort by newest, oldest or most liked, and open any entry to read or play it in full.

• Delete removes one entry; the guest's photographs are not touched.
• Approval follows the same switch as photographs — with let me approve each one first, a message waits in the pending filter until you clear it, and the email note only arrives for messages you approved.
• Signed off — guests close their note with a sign-off they choose, such as With love, or Warmest wishes,. It is stored with the message.

Written notes are on Gather and up. Filmed and voice messages need the video guestbook: included in Celebrate and Keepsake, a one-off addition on Gather, and absent on Preview. Recorded messages are capped at 90 seconds of video and 2 minutes of audio.

Three ways out, and all of them come from Photos & Videos:

• One file — open it and press Download. Original quality, the filename the guest's camera wrote.
• A selection — tick the tiles, then use the bulk bar.
• Everything — the whole collection as one ZIP, photographs, videos and the guestbook text alongside them.

Gather downloads are the full files as guests sent them; Celebrate and Keepsake keep the originals at their true resolution, which is what you want before anything gets printed. A file that cannot be read from storage is written into the ZIP as a one-line note rather than silently skipped, so you know to ask about it.

Download before the deletion date, not after. Once the retention period ends the files are gone on the following day, and the ZIP cannot be rebuilt.

When a collection closes, an email arrives with the count of what came in and the download link for the archive.

Mail follows the collection rather than the calendar. Nothing arrives per photograph — upload notes are batched.

Account

Your account is ready · confirm your address · your sign-in code · reset your password

If you write in

the receipt for a ticket, which carries the reference to quote · the thank-you for feedback, which says plainly that notes are read rather than answered

Setup

<your event> has a link for guest photos, sent when the collection is created

Money

Payment received: <package> for <event> · <event> is now on <new package>

Opening

<event> is open for guest uploads, with the guest link and the two dates that matter

During

<name> sent 12 photographs to <event> · <name> left a guestbook message for you · <event> has 2 GB of storage left

Closing

<event> stops taking uploads on <date> · <event> is closed. Files delete on <date> · <event> is complete: 214 photographs from 38 people · Your download for <event> is ready

To your guests

Your link for <event> · Thank you for the photos from <event> · The photos from <event> are ready · <name> sent 9 memories — the reminder a guest asked for

Email preferences in the sidebar holds the two switches worth having: new photos and videos and guestbook messages, per collection. Payment mail, receipts, expiry notices and deletion warnings are never silenced — a switch that could hide the day your files disappear would be worse than the noise.

Nothing arrives from an address that has not been confirmed. If a host mail is missing, check Profile first and then the spam folder, and tell us the event name so we can look at the send log.

A collection moves through states, and each one changes what your guests see:

Draft

Created, no package chosen. Guests see this collection is not open yet.

Awaiting payment

An invoice is reserved. The link still does not accept files.

Open

Guests upload; the gallery, guestbook and screen are live.

Complete

The celebration has passed. The gallery reads normally; nothing new is expected.

On hold

Suspended from our side. Guests are told the collection is on hold; it clears once the reason is settled.

Expired

The retention period ran out. Uploads refused, deletion scheduled.

Archived

About a month past expiry the collection leaves your dashboard.

The clock starts when the collection opens, not on the day of the event. Preview keeps files for 7 days; Gather for 6 months; Celebrate for 12; Keepsake for 24. Extend the time online on the package screen — extra months start when the included period ends, not on the day you buy them.

• About a week before the end you get stops taking uploads on <date>, which also names the date the gallery stays readable until and the date files are deleted.
• Files are deleted the day after uploads close. It cannot be undone afterwards — not by you, not by us.
• The closing email carries the download link; a ZIP built after the deletion date will be empty.

Download your collection before the deletion date. That is the whole argument for the notice arriving a week early.

Three ceilings can be reached, and each stops the link in a different way. Two of them come from the package you chose and go up the moment you move to a bigger one. The third does not: a photograph may be up to 15 MB and a video up to 100 MB on every package, because that one is a rule about the file a phone hands over, not something you can buy more of.

Upload count

Each package counts photographs and videos separately, with a combined backstop: 20 uploads on Preview, 230 on Gather, 850 on Celebrate, 2,300 on Keepsake.

Contributors

Preview takes photographs from 10 different guests. Every paid package takes them from as many as turn up.

Storage

500 MB on Preview, 5 GB on Gather, 20 GB on Celebrate, 50 GB on Keepsake. Video takes the most room, so video is usually what stops first.

Per file

15 MB for a photograph and 100 MB for a video, on every package. A phone's normal photo is well inside that; a RAW still or a full film is not.

A full collection says so where a guest would otherwise have pressed Upload: This collection has filled up, so new uploads are closed. You hear about it before they do — the subject line is your collection's name followed by has used all its 5 GB of storage, and the mail before that one says how much room is left. Both carry a link to add more.

Preview is a test tier and behaves like one: on a room full of people the twentieth photograph lands, the link goes quiet, and the guests still holding their pictures have nowhere to put them while the gallery keeps showing everyone else that it is open. Choose a paid package before the invitations go out if more than ten people will send something.

Point your phone camera at the QR card, or tap the link the host sent. Your normal browser opens — Safari, Chrome, whatever you use — and you land on the collection: the host's names, the occasion, the date, and three or four choices.

Upload photos and videos

The reason the code exists

Event gallery

Browse what other guests sent, if the host opened it

Add guestbook message

Write a note, film a wish, or record your voice

Remind me later

An email when the gallery has something in it

Nothing about your photograph is posted anywhere public, and the host cannot see your camera roll — only the files you choose.

The upload sheet asks for two lines: your name and your email address. That is the whole registration. Your name is shown to the hosts beside your photographs, and if the host switched on show guest names it appears under your tiles in the gallery too.

Give them once. On the same phone for the next twelve hours the sheet says You're sending as with your name beside it instead of asking again. Not you? Change brings the fields back — for a borrowed phone, a partner who sent the ceremony and now wants to send the cake, or a name you spelled wrong.

Uploads wait rather than fail: the queue holds your chosen files and starts moving them the moment the two lines are filled in.

Two buttons: Choose files opens your photo library and takes as many selections as you like at once; Take photo opens the camera for a new shot. Pick one, and the upload starts immediately — a queue shows each file moving and counts them, with Add more beside it if you remember a second set.

• Photographs — JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and HEIF from an iPhone, GIF, AVIF. Up to 15 MB.
• Videos — MP4, M4V, MOV, WebM. Up to 100 MB, and only where the host allows video.
• Caption and name — a short line is shown to the hosts beside the file; a group name keeps several uploads together.
• When it lands — the sheet says memories received. Anything held back for approval shows the host first.

Venues are bad at signal, so the queue is built for it. Files are held in the browser and retried with backoff; you can close the sheet, browse the gallery, or move to another page and the uploads keep going. If the connection drops entirely, they resume when your phone finds signal again, and anything that gave up shows Retry failed rather than vanishing.

Nothing is compressed on the way in. The file that reaches the host is the file your camera wrote, at full resolution, with the date it was taken still in it.

The page tells you which case you are in. None of them mean your photographs are lost.

This collection is not open yet

The host is still setting things up. The same link will take you straight to the upload page once it is live.

Uploads have closed

The collection no longer takes new files. The gallery link beside it still shows everything that came in.

This collection is on hold

The host or us paused it. Ask the host — a payment or a content query is usually the reason, and it clears quickly.

This collection has filled up

The package has reached its allowance. The host can raise it; try again after they do.

Uploads are paused by the hosts

A switch, not a limit. Turn off video if you are only sending photographs, or tell the host.

We cannot find that collection

The link or code is not one that exists. Check for a mistyped address; a printed code that is torn or photographed at a low angle will also misread.

• A file is refused as too big — the ceiling belongs to the host's package. Re-send it as a smaller export, or let them know which file would not fit.
• iPhone camera will not open — Settings › Safari › Camera, set to Ask or Allow. Or take the shot in the camera app and use Choose files instead.
• HEIC photographs — accepted as they come from an iPhone; nothing to convert.
• A stuck queue on overloaded venue Wi-Fi — turn Wi-Fi off and send over your mobile connection. The queue resumes on its own.

The gallery shows approved photographs newest first, filterable to Photos, Videos and My uploads — the last is your own set, so you can check a shot landed. Open a tile for the large view; the left and right arrows walk through the collection, and Escape closes it. Select gathers several files for one download when the host allows it.

Where Allow downloads is on, any photograph opens at full size. That is the copy to keep, not a screenshot of it.

The guestbook takes a written note — up to 2,000 characters, closed with a sign-off you pick, such as With love, or Cheers! Where the host's package includes them, you can record a video message of up to 90 seconds or a voice note of up to two minutes. If the browser will not open your camera, the sheet says so and offers a file choice instead of failing.

Remind me later leaves your address with the collection: an email when it has something worth opening. One reminder per address per collection, and it goes quiet if the collection closes before then.

Prices are in US dollars and cover one event from the day it opens. Every paid package is one-time: choosing Gather for a wedding does not start a bill that follows you into next year.

Extra uploads

100 photographs $5 · 250 photographs $10 · 50 videos $9 · 100 videos $15

Keep it online longer

6 more months $9 · 12 more months $15. Starts when the included period ends, not on the day you buy it.

Video guestbook

$9 one-off on Gather; included in Celebrate and Keepsake

Live slideshow

$9 one-off on Preview and Gather; included in Celebrate and Keepsake

The fastest fix when a collection is nearly full is usually to move up a package rather than buy uploads: the price difference is small, and everything else goes up with it — counts, storage, per-file ceilings and the time online.

Reserving a package gives you two ways to settle it. Pay by card hands you to the payment provider's own page; the charge is confirmed there, the collection opens when the receipt checks out, and no card detail ever sits on a Candid Photos screen. Pay by transfer raises an invoice with a short reference code instead: you pay it and put that code in the payment note, or reply to the invoice email with proof of payment. Either way the order flips to paid on its own, and the receipt arrives by email — with a one-page PDF attached, the same letter on paper: the collection's name, the reference, what was paid, how, and when. That file is the one to forward to an accountant or print for a folder.

Where the money went

Card charges are settled by the payment provider and receipted by us. The bank details for a transfer are on your invoice, named there rather than pasted into a page that could go stale.

Upgrading later

Moving a live collection to a bigger package charges only the difference, and the receipt shows both numbers: the package price and what this collection had already paid. The guest link, the printed code and the closing date do not change.

Watch the order

Orders and receipts in the sidebar shows every package and extra reserved for a collection, whether the payment has landed, and a pay button for anything still waiting.

Paid but still a draft

First check the same screen — a card charge confirms in seconds, so a paid order that has not opened the collection is worth reporting. A transfer takes longer and is matched by its reference: report it under Payment and invoices, or email if you cannot sign in. Anything unpaid or unmatched within a working day is worth telling us about.

Changed your mind

Before the collection opens, tell us and the invoice is released. After photographs are in it, the work is already done — which is why the free Preview tier exists for the test run.

That did not save. Try again.

Settings save refusing. Check the connection, press Save changes once more; if a background was uploading, the picture moves through the same queue guests use and can be retried on its own.

Nothing is arriving

Work outward: is the collection Open rather than a draft, does photo uploads allow files, and is there room left under the package ceiling? Each has its own sentence on the guest page, which is the fastest way to find out which one you are hitting.

Guests cannot find it

Read them the address from QR Code & Sharing. A code printed from an earlier draft points at the old address.

The code will not scan

Print at 100% and at least 3 cm across; a fit to page shrink is the usual cause, as is a code printed on a dark background or photographed through laminate glare.

You want the event name or date changed

Settings › The collection › Edit. Only the guest address is fixed once stands are printed.

Wrong collection deleted

Say so immediately with the event name — a ticket or an email, whichever is nearer to hand. Files are removed on deletion, and the hour you noticed is the only chance worth having.

Camera will not open (iPhone)

Settings › Safari › Camera › Ask or Allow. Or shoot in the camera app and use Choose files.

Camera will not open (Android)

Tap the padlock or site settings in the browser address bar and allow the camera for this site.

A file is refused as too big

It is over the host's per-file ceiling. Send a smaller export, or ask the host to move up a package.

The spinner never finishes

Leave the page open for a minute — the queue retries on its own. Then turn off venue Wi-Fi and use mobile data.

Several uploads say Retry failed

Press it once. The queue resumes each file rather than starting over.

Two people, one phone

Not you? Change above the name fields, so each guest's photographs are credited correctly.

• Blank screen — the address needs its token; copy it from the Slideshow tab rather than typing the event slug.
• The screen says it is not switched on — the room screen is part of Celebrate and Keepsake and a one-off on anything below that. The Slideshow tab quotes the add-on, and the screen starts once the payment is recorded.
• The screen says the collection is not live — a draft has nothing to project. Publish the collection first; the looks and the numbers you saved stay put.
• Nothing new appears — Live real-time stream is off, or the photographs are waiting in Pending review.
• Videos silent — check Enable audio for video clips, then whether the laptop itself is muted. A browser will not start sound on its own: click or tap the screen once after opening it.
• Clips run too long — set Maximum video clip duration; at 0 a clip plays to its end, which is not what you want with a room waiting.
• A TV browser that will not go full screen — most TV browsers have no full-screen mode. Run the screen from a laptop or a stick plugged into the projector instead.
• Photographs shown out of order — Shuffle photograph order was left on. Switch it off and the screen follows the order guests sent.
• The look on the wall is not the one you picked — it has to be saved. A tile says Selected, not saved until you press Save, and On the screen now after.

1. 1Is the address on Profile the one you expected, and confirmed? Everything goes there.
2. 2Is the collection's switch off? Email preferences holds new photos and videos and guestbook messages. Payment, receipt and expiry mail is never silenced.
3. 3Search your inbox and spam for the event name — subjects carry it, such as <event> is open for guest uploads.
4. 4Still missing? Write to support with the event name, the address and roughly when you expected it. Every message we send is logged, so we can tell you whether it went out, bounced or was never queued.

No download, no password, no sign-up page. The camera reads the QR code, the browser opens, they give a name once and send. A guest who has never heard of Candid Photos uploads in under thirty seconds.

Files are stored as they arrive, with their original resolution and the date they were taken still in the metadata. Nothing is resized to make the gallery load faster; the gallery shows previews and the download gives you the real file.

A collection is not indexed and not searchable, and the address contains enough randomness that it is not stumbled on. Inside it you decide whether guests browse each other's photographs, whether names appear on tiles, and whether they can download. What happens to the data is written out in the privacy notice.

Every collection carries its own package, its own address and its own clock, so a wedding in June and a birthday in September are billed and archived separately. New event starts one; deleting a collection on a paid package frees that slot.

Uploads do not close at midnight — they close when your included period ends, which is 7 days on Preview and 6 to 24 months on a paid package. The activation email names the date, so you can tell the relative who is slow with a camera that there is no rush.

Turn photo uploads and video uploads off and the link refuses new files while the gallery keeps reading normally — that is the switch to use when you have what you need. A collection past its retention date cannot be reopened, because the files are already deleted; one that is still within it can be extended.

Candid Photos is built and operated by My Joyfullday. It has its own accounts, its own packages and its own support address, and an account here is not an account there — a wedding site and a photo collection are two separate things you set up. Collections are priced once per event rather than through a subscription.

Roughly one in three guests sends something, so 120 is normally 40 to 60 contributors and 300 to 700 files — 400 to 500 photographs and 20 to 60 videos. Celebrate covers that with room left over and includes the slideshow, which is the feature that makes a wedding collection worth having. Keepsake is the answer when you want the archive kept for two years rather than twelve months.

Preview is genuinely useful for a dinner or a small birthday: print a stand, watch the queue, check the gallery on the venue's projector. It is a poor idea for the main event, because 20 photographs from 10 people runs out mid-evening and the guests still holding their cameras see a closed link while the gallery keeps pretending to be open.

• Second people to run a collection — one account owns it. Share the guest link and the slideshow address instead; separate log-ins are not there.
• Albums inside one collection — everything lands in one gallery, filtered by photographs, videos and your own uploads.
• Password on the guest link — the address itself is the secret. Do not post it publicly.
• Printing through us — the stands are yours to print; we supply the sheet and the PNG.
• Cropping or editing in the product — approve, hide, delete, download. Edits happen after the ZIP.

If one of those is the reason you hesitated, say so — Help and support in the sidebar has a feedback tab for exactly this. A missing feature that people actually ask for gets built; a guessed one does not.