How to collect guest photos after the wedding

The wedding is over, but the best photos are still on guests' phones. Create a gallery, send one link to the group chat and get every photo in full resolution.

By Jan Szotkowski · October 23, 2026 · 3 min read

A week after the wedding you have the portraits from your photographer, but the toast from the table by the window and the dancing after midnight are still on your guests' phones. Only a few of those photos ever made it to the wedding group chat. Here's how to collect them into one gallery, even though the wedding is already over.

In short

Create a gallery with today's date and put the wedding day in its name, so guests know which event it's for.
Send one link to the wedding group chat. Guests pick photos from their phone's gallery and upload them in the browser, so there's nothing to install.
After a wedding with a hundred guests, go with Premium, because on the free plan everyone together can upload only 50 photos, and they get two days to do it.

Create a gallery with today's date

A gallery accepts photos from the day you set, and that day can't be in the past. So pick today, and put the wedding in the gallery's name, for example "Anna & Peter's wedding, Sept 12". Guests will see right away where their photos belong. Setting it up takes about a minute.

Send one link to the group chat

You don't need the QR code this time, because your guests aren't sitting at the tables anymore. Copy the link from the event detail and send it to the wedding group chat with one sentence:

Guests choose from their phone's gallery, so they can upload photos they took a week ago too. For anyone who isn't in the group, like Grandma, send the link separately, or ask your parents to forward it to her.

How much time guests have

On the free plan, guests upload on the day you create the gallery and all through the next day. Together they can upload 50 photos, and the photos carry a Udalist watermark.

With Premium, guests have 7 days, they can upload unlimited photos and videos, and you can extend uploads by 7, 14 or 30 days. That helps after a wedding, because nobody's in a hurry and lots of guests only go through their photos on the weekend. The price is on the pricing page.

Tip: After three days, send a short reminder to the group chat. Anyone who missed the link the first time will upload their photos then.

Download your photos in full resolution

Once guests have uploaded what they wanted to, you download all the photos in full resolution as one ZIP. On Premium the gallery stays open for 90 days, so download them before then and send them to your parents too.

Is there another wedding coming up in the family? Put the QR code right on the tables there, because guests start uploading during the evening. The Udalist for weddings page shows how.