Two hundred cameras, one gallery
Your photographer covers the aisle. Your guests cover everything else — the nervous laughing before the doors open, the face in the third row, the dance floor at midnight. Those photographs usually stay on two hundred separate phones and are never seen again.
A code on each table is the whole setup. A guest points a camera at it, the gallery opens in their browser, and they upload. There is nothing to install and no account to make — the two steps that stop most people before they start. Photos and videos both, at full resolution, from whatever phone they already had in their hand.
Nothing appears until you say so
The worry with a shared wedding album is not storage. It is the photograph you would not have chosen, visible to everyone you invited, before you have even seen it.
So you decide before the first upload. Keep everything to yourself and review it later; approve each photo before guests can see it; or publish to invited guests as it arrives, for a crowd you already trust. The choice is per event, not per account, and you can be stricter for the ceremony than for the reception.
Sharing is a link, not a public page. Anyone without it sees nothing, and the gallery is never listed by a search engine.
Fifteen days to collect, then it closes
A wedding gallery is open for fifteen days. Guests upload, and everyone with the link sees what you have approved. Fifteen days is long enough for the friend who forgot until the following weekend, and short enough that the gallery does not quietly become a permanent archive of other people's photographs.
Before it closes, save what you want to keep. Approved photographs and video download at full resolution, one file at a time; a single archive of the whole gallery is on the downloads screen but is not switched on yet, and the button says so rather than starting a job that would never finish. On day fifteen access ends for you and for your guests. On day thirty it is deleted permanently, and nobody can recover it after that.
The dates are shown on the event from the moment you create it, so nothing about the ending is a surprise.
If you have hired a photographer
Guest photos and professional photos are two different deliveries, and they do not have to live in two different places. A photographer working on Momenly gets their own workspace and a client portal for each couple — the finished set arrives there, behind a link, without a transfer service expiring in seven days.
If your photographer does not use Momenly, nothing changes for you. The guest gallery works on its own, and the download you take at the end is yours to combine with whatever they send.
Guests can also read the upload page in twelve languages. At a wedding with family flying in, that is the difference between a relative contributing photographs and a relative asking somebody to do it for them.
