The wedding photo sharing app for New York weddings
PicUnionApp is a wedding photo sharing app for New York weddings — the rooftop ceremony in Manhattan, the loft reception in Brooklyn, the after-party at a bar two blocks away. One QR code covers the whole weekend, 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
A New York wedding is a weekend, not a day
Weddings here rarely happen in one room. There is the welcome drink at a hotel bar, the rehearsal dinner at a restaurant in the West Village, the ceremony on a rooftop or in a converted warehouse, the reception, the after-party, and the Sunday bagel brunch. Guests fly in from all over the country, and each event has a slightly different crowd with a different set of phones.
What the couple ends up with is scattered: a group text for the out-of-town friends, a few AirDrops in the cab, and a professional gallery that covers the ceremony and the reception and nothing else. The photos from the smaller, looser parts of the weekend — the ones nobody hired a photographer for — are the first to disappear.
What you get
Built for how weddings in new york actually run
One gallery, every venue
Rehearsal dinner in Manhattan, ceremony in Brooklyn, after-party in the Lower East Side — one link and one QR code covers all of it.
A folder per event
Welcome drinks, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception, brunch. Guests upload into the right folder so the album reads in order.
On the wedding website and the table
Put the link on your wedding website and the QR on the welcome sign and table cards. Guests scan it at whichever event they are at.
For guests who could not fly in
Grandparents and friends who could not make the trip see the whole weekend the same evening, at full quality.
Handed to your editor
Export the whole weekend as a zip at original resolution — 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 when you send the invites
Add the link to your wedding website. Engagement party and bridal shower photos land in the same place as the wedding.
Add a folder per event
Welcome drinks, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception, after-party, brunch — so nobody has to guess where to upload.
Print the QR for every venue
One code on the welcome sign and one on each table. Ask the venue for the guest wifi and print it next to the code.
Download everything after brunch
One zip with the whole weekend at original resolution, ready for your photographer, your editor, or a hard drive.
Rooftops, lofts and basements: New York venues
New York venues are beautiful and, for phones, often hostile. Historic buildings with thick stone walls, basement speakeasies, and industrial lofts in Brooklyn can all have weak cell signal. A guest who tries to upload and sees a spinner gives up and forgets. The fix is simple: ask the venue for the guest wifi and print the network name and password under the QR code.
It also helps that most guest photos do not arrive during the wedding at all. They come the next morning, when people are on the train home or waiting at JFK and going through their camera rolls. Text the link once after brunch and those photos land in the gallery instead of staying on the phones.
- Print the venue wifi next to the code for low-signal rooms
- Guests can upload later from home, the train or the airport
- Works on every phone, with nothing to install
- One gallery for venues in different boroughs
For New York wedding planners and photographers
If you plan or shoot weddings in New York, a guest gallery is a low-effort addition to what you already deliver. It costs nothing to set up per wedding, it gives the couple something visible on the day, and the live slideshow at the reception is the kind of detail clients mention in reviews.
For photographers, it is also coverage you were never going to get: the getting-ready suite you were not in, the after-party after your hours ended, and the rehearsal dinner the couple did not book you for. Many planners set the gallery up for the couple and hand over the 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 New York couples start with a City Hall ceremony and celebrate with a bigger party later. The City Clerk's office explains how to get a marriage license and book a ceremony. NYC Office of the City Clerk
Weddings in New York: 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 in the five boroughs, the Hudson Valley, the Hamptons or anywhere else your guests have a signal or wifi.
Yes. One link and one QR code serve every event. Create a folder for the welcome drinks, rehearsal dinner, 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 home — the gallery stays open after the wedding, and most photos arrive the next day anyway.
Yes. Create a gallery for the day, send the link to your witness and the friends who come along, and add the dinner or party afterwards 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?
Start your New York wedding gallery
One QR code for the whole weekend, from the rehearsal dinner to the Sunday brunch.
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