QR code wedding sign wording

• "Scan to share your photographs with us."
• "Help us capture every moment. Scan to add your photos."
• "Your photographs are part of our story. Please scan and share."
• "We cannot be everywhere tonight. Scan and show us what we missed."
• "Every photograph you take is a gift. Scan to give it."
• "Scan the code and add your photographs to our album."
• "One code, one album, everyone's photographs."
• "Please share the evening as you saw it."
• "The best photographs tonight will be taken by you."
• "Scan here, and we will see it all tomorrow."

• "You take the photos, we'll take the dancing."
• "Got a good one? Scan here before you forget."
• "Our photographer has two eyes. You have a hundred."
• "Help us see what we missed while we were busy getting married."
• "Blurry ones welcome. Especially the blurry ones."
• "Proof that you were here. Scan."
• "The dance floor needs witnesses. Scan."
• "No filter required. No app either."
• "Send us the one you almost deleted."
• "If you are reading this, you are close enough to scan it."

• "Scan. Add a photo."
• "Share your photos here."
• "Photos this way."
• "Point your camera here."
• "Our album. Add yours."
• "Scan to upload."

A table card is read while someone is seated, waiting between courses, with a glass in one hand. It gets read more carefully than the sign at the door and it has less room, so keep it to one line and let the code do the rest.

• "Your photographs belong here too."
• "Between courses: send us one."
• "This table has seen things. Scan."
• "Scan. No app, no account."
• "Add a photo while you wait."
• "You saw things we did not. Scan."

Half the wording advice online is about being clever. In practice most signs fail for duller reasons, and these are the four we see most often.

• "Scan me" on its own. It says nothing about what happens next, and a guest who does not know what a code does will not find out by scanning it.
• A hashtag and a QR code on the same sign. Two instructions is one too many, and most guests will do neither.
• More than about fifteen words. A sign at a wedding is read while walking past it, not studied.
• The wording only, with no address in plain text underneath. Some cameras will not focus, and some guests would simply rather type.

One sign near the entrance or the guest book table catches guests as they arrive, when they are most likely to read it properly. A second, smaller version by the bar works well later in the evening, when people are standing around rather than seated. Table cards repeat the same code at eye level during the meal, when a guest is far more likely to notice a small card than remember a sign they saw an hour earlier.

An entrance sign at A4 or larger scans comfortably from a few steps away, which matters since guests rarely walk right up to it. A table card can be much smaller, close to a postcard, since it is read from a seated distance of an arm's length rather than across a room. Whatever the size, leave a clear border of plain background around the code itself; a code crowded by other text or a busy photograph scans less reliably.

Always include the short address in plain text underneath the code, for the guest whose camera will not focus on it, or who simply prefers typing a web address to scanning. One line of instruction above the code is usually enough; a longer explanation gets skipped rather than read. If a photo wall service is generating the sign for you, it will typically lay out the code, the address and a line of wording together, matched to the same look as the rest of your printed materials.