One code on the table, and nothing to install
An engagement party is a small room and a short evening. The moment everyone came for is over in about four seconds, and it is caught — badly, brilliantly, from three angles at once — by whoever happened to be holding a phone.
Momenly gives the party one code. Print it on a table card, put it on the invitation, or hold up a phone with it on screen. A guest points a camera at it, the upload page opens in their browser, and that is the whole setup: nothing to download, no account to create, no password anyone has to remember. They can add their name so you know who sent what, or leave it blank.
Photos and video both, at the resolution the phone recorded, straight into your event.
The couple decides what the party sees
Two people are getting engaged and forty are photographing it. The question is not whether the pictures exist. It is who sees them, and when.
You answer that once, when you create the event, and the answer holds for every upload afterwards. Keep everything to yourselves, and guests contribute without ever seeing the gallery. Hold each upload until you release it, so nothing reaches the party before one of you has looked at it. Or let invited guests see uploads as they finish, for a room where everybody already knows everybody.
Comments and reactions are a separate decision, and both start switched off. If you want the evening to stay quiet, you never have to turn them on.
Sharing the ones you chose
Sharing is a link you create, not a page anyone can find. Someone without the link sees nothing, and the gallery is not listed by a search engine.
What sits behind that link is what you approved, not the whole pile of uploads. Downloading is allowed or refused for the event as a whole, and where you allow it, guest downloads can carry a watermark — so a photograph that leaves the gallery still says where it came from.
In practice: group what you want to send into an album and share that, and leave the rest of the uploads in the event where only you can see them.
Fifteen days, and the photographer’s half
An engagement gallery is open for fifteen days — long enough for the cousin who forgets until the following weekend, short enough that it does not quietly become a permanent archive of other people’s photographs. On day fifteen access ends for you and for your guests. Administrators can still reach the content until day thirty for recovery, security and support. On day thirty it is permanently deleted, and after that nobody can bring it back, ourselves included.
The dates are on the event from the moment you create it, so the ending is never a surprise.
If you have hired a photographer, their work does not have to arrive somewhere else. A photographer working on Momenly has a workspace and a client portal, and the finished set is delivered there behind a link. If they do not use Momenly, nothing changes: the guest gallery stands on its own.
