Instantly Get All the Photos Taken by Your Friends at Your Wedding With This App
Sure, event photographers are great, but what about all those photos your wedding or party guests take with their smartphones? Keeping track of all those gorgeous images can be a huge challenge after the event, but it doesn’t have to. If you ask your guests to download this app first, you get all of their photos right away, and everyone can still take pictures using the regular camera app on their iPhone or Android device.
It’s called Veri . For $ 97, you are given a unique event code that you give to all your guests, inviting them to download the app. Once they get it installed on their phones and complete the super-fast registration process, you’re good to go. All you have to do is set a start and end time (from an hour to a week) for your photo.
When it’s time for the main event, all of your guests will receive a text message on their phone, reminding them that all photos and videos they shoot from now will be sent automatically. Then, when they take pictures on their phone the same way as always, Veri will take them and add them to the collective album.
While it is admittedly dangerous to share photos automatically, there are a few precautions to take to make sure you don’t accidentally receive multiple photos from your guests that are best kept private. Firstly, this is a prior notification, so if your cousin forgot that she downloaded the app a few weeks ago, she won’t be caught off guard when all the selfies she takes at the front desk appear on her grandma’s phone.
Sharing can be turned on and off at any time, so you can pause it when you want to take a private photo, and in case guests share an unwanted photo, it can be deleted from the group album by the person who accidentally shared it (hopefully before everyone else at the party will see it). Super-private guests can also select individual photos to share after the event ends.
If you are celebrating a holiday in a remote area where there is no cellular or Wi-Fi connection, the app will download everything as soon as the phones reconnect to the Internet. Then all the photos and videos are added to the app, where everyone can see them, as well as to the web photo gallery. If you are somewhere with a front desk, you can even set up a display somewhere that will display all the photos you take in real time.
For someone who’s been to a dozen weddings with a hashtag or a complicated case on Facebook / Flickr / the random album of another site where everyone had to upload photos, this is incredibly easier to do. Everyone can remember to download the app before the wedding (or while they wait for the ceremony to start), and since the only technical part is downloading and registering, your guests will have ample time to get technical support from their wife / son / neighbor before the event.
It’s kind of idiot proof – and much easier than trying to convince everyone to take pictures with the disposable camera you left on the table, or chasing them months later for that epic group photo. Although they are focused on weddings, I can help, but I think it would be great for a group vacation as well.