Live Room Slideshow
A real-time presentation display that streams guest photos and video messages directly to your venue's projector, TV, or digital screen as they are captured throughout the celebration.
What is the live slideshow?
At most receptions, the projector or TV screens stay dark or display a static pre-made photo reel from childhood that plays on repeat all night.
The Candid Photos live slideshow turns the screen into an interactive, real-time visual centerpiece. As guests take candid photos at their dining tables, capture funny moments on the dance floor, or record video toasts, their submissions appear automatically on the big screen within seconds.
This creates an infectious social dynamic in the room: guests love seeing their friends and family on the big screen, which inspires more people to look around, snap photos, and contribute their perspective to the collection.
How it works at your venue
1. Connect any device to your display
Take any laptop, tablet, or mini-PC and connect it to your venue's projector or TV screen using an HDMI cable, AirPlay, or Chromecast. You can even use the built-in browser on modern smart TVs.
2. Open your private slideshow link
In your host dashboard, copy the unique room screen address (it includes a private security token). Paste it into the browser on the connected device. Press full-screen (F11 or command-shift-F).
3. It runs hands-free all evening
The slideshow manages itself. It automatically polls for new photos in the background, smoothly transitions between images, loops through earlier photos when no new uploads arrive, and handles videos gracefully. Nobody needs to stand by the laptop to manage it.
Twelve presentation templates
Every template plays the same photographs at the same pace; what changes is how they are laid out and how one photograph becomes the next. Switch between the twelve with one click in your dashboard, and preview each one on your own pictures before you decide:
Cinematic Film
A wide 2.39:1 frame with soft bars above and below, on a warm chalk ground. The photograph drifts slowly and dissolves into the next. Best when the room is quiet enough to watch one picture at a time.
Editorial Magazine
A magazine spread on paper: one plate cut to its print, the caption and page number set beside it in serif. Reads as something printed rather than something projected.
Polaroid Memories
Instant prints scattered on a linen tablecloth. The one being shown is picked up, straightened and held, then laid back down; whoever sent it is written under it.
Immersive Gallery
One framed work on a daylit wall under a ceiling light, with a small plaque beneath it. The most formal of the set, and the one that looks best on a large screen in a bright room.
Dynamic Mosaic
A living wall: the current photograph large, four recent ones tiled beside it, all of them changing as the set moves on. Keeps a busy room feeling full.
Minimalist Motion
Near-white, one large plate, a thin index line showing where you are in the set, and a masked wipe between photographs. Nothing else on screen.
Story Chapters
A parchment stage with a ribbon across the top; prints cross from one chapter to the next. Useful when the day has clear acts you want the screen to follow.
Celebration in Motion
Two prints at a time on blush pink, rearranging into a new composition at every step. The liveliest of the twelve and the one that suits a party.
Spiral Vortex
Prints laid along one slow curl that runs past the camera in lilac light, each one softening with distance. Motion is the point here, so it is worth a screen people can watch properly.
Storybook Album
A gilded album on a table; a leaf turns across the spine at every step, so the set reads as pages rather than slides.
3D Curved Carousel
Photographs on the inside of a wide cylinder that curves away to the left and right. Each step rotates the ribbon one card, so the next print swings round toward you.
Photos in Depth
Prints hung in white mounts travelling through a lit room on one long curve: the next comes around from the right, squares up at the centre, then carries off to the left while the others soften with distance.
Host playback controls
Pacing & timing
Choose how long each photo stays on screen (from 2 to 30 seconds). You can also cap video clip lengths so one long video doesn't hold up the screen.
Shuffle or chronological
Play photos in the exact order guests submit them, or shuffle them using a stable randomized order that keeps the presentation feeling fresh throughout the night.
Moderation safety
Want to review photos before they hit the big screen? Turn on moderation mode. Photos only appear on the projector after you tap “Approve” in your phone dashboard. You can also hide any photo from the screen instantly.
Sound controls
Videos play muted by default so guest clips don't disrupt speeches or the DJ. If someone wants to hear a video toast, a simple tap on the screen enables audio playback.