A QR code is the right tool for a room. For everyone else (the group chat, the family who left early, the people who couldn't come), the link itself is easier.
- Dashboard
- Your event
- Invite
Copy and send it
Tap Invite to open the code card, then Copy link. Paste it anywhere: a text, a group chat, an email, the wedding website, the back of the program. It opens the same event page a scan does, and it works before, during, and long after the event. The same card offers your phone's own share sheet, and an Everything button into the full kit with the QR designer and a custom link.
Guests can pass it on too. The Invite button on the event page gives them the code and the link, and the Share action in the photo viewer sends the event link, never a single photo.
How it looks when you send it
Messaging apps and email clients show a preview card: the event name with a line inviting people to add their photos. An album behind a password shows its name but nothing else; behind any other gate, or at Only me, it shows a generic card. Nothing in the preview reveals any photo.
Who can open it
Anyone with the link, subject to your album's door: Public opens directly; Private meets its gate first (a password, waiting for you to let them in, or your invite list); Only me shows a closed album. Search engines are asked not to index event pages, and the address is a long random string, so nobody can find your album by searching or guessing. See who can see your event.
A friendlier address
The permanent link is long. On any plan you can add a custom link like partyreel.com/e/maya-and-sam that opens the same event and is much easier to say out loud or type under a QR code on a screen. See set a custom event link.
The link is the album, later
After the event, the link you sent is the album people come back to. You don't need to send a second "here are the photos" link; see share the album after the event.