The wedding photo sharing app for NYC weddings
PicUnionApp is a wedding photo sharing app for NYC weddings — the loft reception in SoHo, the warehouse party in Brooklyn, the rooftop toast over the skyline. One QR code pulls every guest's phone into a single private gallery you can download in full quality, no app and no sign-up for anyone scanning it.
Free to start · No app for guests · Set up in about two minutes
A city wedding packs a lot into one night
NYC weddings move fast and tight. Cocktails on a Tribeca rooftop, dinner in a Chelsea loft, dancing in a Bushwick warehouse, and a nightcap at a bar down the block — often all in one night, with guests hopping the subway or a short cab between them. The crowd is dense, everyone has a phone out, and the couple is far too busy to collect a single picture.
The leftovers are predictable. A group chat that compresses everything and scrolls away by Monday. A shared album half the guests never open. A photographer whose contract ends before the warehouse really gets going. The shots that define a New York wedding — the freight elevator, the fire escape, the slice at 2am — sit on dozens of phones and quietly disappear.
What you get
Built for how weddings in nyc actually run
One code, scanned on the spot
Print it on the welcome sign, the menu and the photo-booth backdrop. Guests scan with the native camera — no app, no account, no link to text around.
Every room, one gallery
Rooftop cocktails, loft dinner, warehouse dance floor, the bar after — one link covers every stop of the night.
Live slideshow on the loft wall
Cast the gallery to the venue screen and guest photos land within seconds. In a packed loft it becomes the thing everyone watches between songs.
The shots the photographer missed
The freight elevator, the fire escape, the late-night slice — guest phones catch the candid New York moments nobody was hired to shoot.
Full-resolution export
Download the whole night as a zip at original quality — 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 invites
Drop the link on your wedding website so engagement and shower photos collect in the same place.
Add a folder per room
Cocktails, dinner, dance floor, after-party — so guests upload into the right one as the night moves.
Print the QR for the venue
One on the welcome sign and one per table. Ask the loft or warehouse for guest wifi and print it beside the code.
Download it the next day
One zip with the whole night at original resolution, ready for your photographer or a hard drive.
Lofts, warehouses and rooftops: NYC venues
The venues that make a New York wedding are exactly the ones phones struggle in. A cast-iron SoHo loft, a brick Brooklyn warehouse, a basement speakeasy, a rooftop boxed in by taller towers — any of them can sit at one bar of signal. A guest who taps upload, watches it spin and pockets the phone is a photo gone. Ask the venue for the guest wifi and print the network name and password right under the QR code.
And most of the night's photos do not arrive during the party. They come the next morning, on the subway home or at the airport, when people finally scroll back through the camera roll. Text the gallery link once the day after and those shots land in one place instead of staying scattered.
- Print the venue wifi beside the code for low-signal lofts and basements
- Guests upload later from home, the subway or the airport
- Works on every phone, with nothing to install
- One gallery across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens
For NYC wedding planners and photographers
If you plan or shoot weddings in the city, a guest gallery is a small add that clients notice. It costs nothing per wedding to spin up, it gives the couple something live to watch on the night, and the slideshow on a loft wall is the kind of touch that lands in a review.
For photographers it is coverage your contract never included: the getting-ready room, the after-party once your hours were up, the late slice run nobody booked. Plenty of planners create the gallery for the couple and hand over the printable QR with the timeline.
- Set up per wedding in about two minutes
- Live slideshow as a visible deliverable on the night
- Guest coverage of the parts outside the shoot contract
- Full-resolution export to fold into the wedding film
Many NYC couples pair a City Clerk ceremony with a bigger loft or warehouse party later. The NYC Office of the City Clerk explains how to get a marriage license and book the ceremony. NYC Office of the City Clerk
Weddings in NYC: common questions
The things hosts ask before they set one up.
Yes. It runs in any phone's web browser, so it works in any venue across the five boroughs — a SoHo loft, a Brooklyn warehouse, a rooftop bar — wherever your guests have a signal or wifi.
Yes. One link and one QR code serve every room. Create a folder for cocktails, dinner, the dance floor and the after-party, 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 City Clerk ceremony, send the link to your witnesses and friends, and add the loft or warehouse party as a second folder.
Yes. Planners and photographers often create the gallery for the couple and hand over the printable QR code 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 NYC wedding gallery
One QR code from the rooftop cocktails to the warehouse after-party.
Create Your Gallery