The wedding photo sharing app for California weddings
PicUnionApp is a wedding photo sharing app for California weddings — the vineyard ceremony in Napa, the beach reception in Santa Barbara, the desert weekend in Palm Springs. One QR code covers the whole celebration, and every guest's photos land in a single private gallery you can download in full quality.
Free to start · No app for guests · Set up in about two minutes
California weddings happen outdoors, and spread out
A California wedding is rarely confined to one ballroom. It is a welcome party at a brewery in San Diego, a ceremony under the oaks at a Sonoma vineyard, a reception on a bluff over the Pacific, and a Sunday hike before everyone flies home. Guests drive in from Los Angeles and the Bay Area and fly in from out of state, and the best light of the day — that long golden hour the whole state is known for — happens when no photographer is looking at the dance floor.
What the couple is left with is scattered. A few AirDrops in the parking lot, a group text that crushes every photo to a thumbnail, and a professional gallery that lands six weeks later covering the ceremony and first dance and none of the rest. The vineyard at sunset, the kids running through the sprinklers, the late-night taco truck — those live on two hundred phones and mostly never surface.
What you get
Built for how weddings in california actually run
One gallery, every stop
Welcome party in San Diego, ceremony in Napa, reception on the coast — one link and one QR code covers the whole weekend.
A folder per event
Welcome party, ceremony, reception, next-day brunch. Guests upload into the right folder so the album reads in order.
Catches the golden hour
California's famous sunset light happens off-camera. Guest phones catch the bluff, the vineyard row and the dance floor the photographer missed.
On the sign and the table
Put the QR on the welcome sign, the escort cards and the photo-booth backdrop. Guests scan with the native camera — no app, no account.
Full-resolution export
Download the whole weekend as a zip at original quality — raw material for the wedding film and the album.
Private to your guests
Link or QR access with an optional passcode. Nothing public, nothing indexed, and you can remove any photo.
How it works
Four steps, start to finish
Create the gallery with your save-the-dates
Add the link to your wedding website so engagement-party and shower photos land in the same place.
Add a folder per event
Welcome party, ceremony, reception, brunch — so nobody has to guess where to upload.
Print the QR for every venue
One code on the welcome sign and one per table. Ask the venue for guest wifi and print it beside the code for the rooms with no signal.
Download everything after brunch
One zip with the whole weekend at original resolution, ready for your photographer or a hard drive.
Vineyards, ranches and the coast: California venues
California's most beautiful venues are often its most remote. A Sonoma or Paso Robles vineyard, a ranch in the hills above Malibu, a redwood grove in Big Sur — cell signal at these places ranges from one bar to none. A guest who taps upload, sees a spinner and gives up is a lost photo. Ask the venue for the guest wifi and print the network and password under the QR code, and the problem disappears.
Most guest photos do not arrive during the reception anyway. They show up the next morning, when people are driving back down the 101 or waiting at SFO and LAX and scrolling their camera rolls. Text the gallery link once after brunch and those photos land in one place instead of staying on the phones.
- Print the venue wifi beside the code for low-signal vineyards and ranches
- Guests upload later from the hotel, the car or the airport
- Works on every phone, with nothing to install
- One gallery across the coast, the valley and the desert
For California wedding planners and photographers
If you plan or shoot weddings across California, a guest gallery is an easy add to what you already deliver. It costs nothing per wedding to set up, it gives the couple something they can watch on the day, and the live slideshow at the reception is the kind of detail that ends up in a five-star review.
For photographers it is coverage you were never contracted for: the getting-ready villa, the welcome party the night before, the after-party once your hours ran out. Many planners set the gallery up for the couple and hand over the printable QR code with the day-of timeline.
- Set up per wedding in about two minutes
- Live slideshow as a visible deliverable on the day
- Guest coverage of events outside the shoot contract
- Full-resolution export to fold into the wedding film
Many California couples get their marriage license from the county clerk where they are marrying. The California Department of Public Health explains the statewide rules and points to each county office. California Department of Public Health
Weddings in California: common questions
The things hosts ask before they set one up.
Yes. It runs in any phone's web browser, so it works at any venue — a Napa vineyard, a Big Sur cliff, a Palm Springs resort or a San Diego beach — wherever your guests have a signal or wifi.
Yes. One link and one QR code serve every event. Create a folder for the welcome party, ceremony, reception and brunch, and guests upload into the right one.
Ask the venue for its guest wifi and print it under the QR code. Guests can also upload later from the hotel or the drive home — the gallery stays open, and most photos arrive the next day anyway.
Yes. Create a gallery for the courthouse day, send the link to the friends who come along, and add the bigger celebration as a second folder.
Yes. Planners and photographers often create the gallery for the couple and hand over the printable QR code along with the day-of timeline.
Yes. You can create a gallery and start collecting guest photos on the free plan without entering card details.
Sharing photos at a different kind of event?
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One QR code for the whole weekend, from the vineyard ceremony to the Sunday brunch.
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