Collect guest photos from every event of a South Asian wedding
A South Asian wedding is not one day. The mehndi, sangeet, haldi, baraat, ceremony and reception can run across a long weekend, often at different venues, with different guests at each. Your photographer cannot be at the haldi and the bar at the same time. Your guests already are.
The problem with WhatsApp groups
The usual answer is a family WhatsApp group, and the usual result is hundreds of compressed photos scattered across chats, with no way to find the sangeet photos again a month later.
What works better is one album with a section for each event, filled by the guests themselves, in full quality.
One QR code, an album for each event
Set up one shared album for the whole wedding and create a sub-album for each event. Guests scan the same QR code all weekend and choose which event their photos are from as they upload. You print one design and use it everywhere.
- Mehndi and haldi: candid, close-up, mostly phone photos. Often the events with the fewest professional shots.
- Sangeet: performances are where guest videos matter most.
- Baraat: outdoors and moving, so put the code on a sign at the starting point, not only on tables.
- Ceremony and reception: the code on every table, plus a mention from the emcee.
Practical tips for a multi-day wedding
- Print the QR code on the welcome card or itinerary that out-of-town guests receive, so they have it for every event.
- Ask a cousin to own it: one person reminding people at each event does more than any sign.
- Older relatives may not scan QR codes. Share the same link in the family WhatsApp group so they can tap it instead.
- Plan for video. Sangeet performances and the baraat produce large files; make sure the album has room for them.
Doing this with Eventgram
Eventgram gives each event up to 20 albums under one QR code, and guests pick the album as they upload. For a full wedding weekend the Signature pass ($79, one-time) holds 50 GB, about 12,500 photos, and keeps them for three years. There is no charge per guest, and a free event lets you test it at the mehndi first.