How long should the album stay available to guests?

A few weeks at minimum gives guests who do not check their messages daily time to find it. On Galawall's paid plan, the album stays online for 365 days.

What is the best way to send a large batch of photographs?

A single shareable link to the full album, rather than email attachments, handles the file size properly and lets each guest download only what they want.

Should I ask guests before posting their photographs publicly?

It is worth checking with anyone clearly identifiable in a photograph before it goes on a public page or social account, even if the wedding itself was a shared occasion.

Do I need to compress photographs before sharing them with guests?

No. Compressing them loses the quality guests actually want, particularly for anyone hoping to print a photograph. Share the originals and let guests choose what to keep.

How to share wedding photos with your guests

Guests who added photographs during the wedding usually want to see the rest of the album too, not just what they took themselves. The simplest approach is one link to the whole collection, kept available for a set period, rather than emailing files individually or waiting for a professional album that takes weeks. Below are the options, their trade-offs, and how long to leave the album open.

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Send the whole album

One link to everything, in full resolution, is the least work for you and gives guests the most choice about what they want. The trade-off is size: a whole wedding's worth of photographs and video is a large download, so it needs a proper file-sharing link rather than an email attachment, and a guest on a slow connection may need to be patient with it.

Share just the highlights

A shorter, curated selection is quicker for guests to look through and easier to post publicly if you want to. It takes real time on your side to choose them, though, and it inevitably leaves out photographs some guests would have wanted, particularly the ones they appear in themselves.

Give guests time to find themselves in it

Not every guest looks at a shared album the day it arrives. Keeping it available for a few weeks, rather than sending a one-time download link that expires quickly, means a guest who only gets round to it later still finds everything there, including the photograph a distant cousin took of them that they did not know existed.

What to avoid

Splitting the album across several emails or messages because of file size limits creates more confusion than it saves time; a guest who receives three separate links often only opens one. Compressing photographs before sending defeats the point of collecting full-resolution originals in the first place, so send the files as they are and let the sharing method handle the size.

Using Galawall's own link afterwards

If the wedding used a QR photo wall, the same guest link usually still works after the event, so guests can revisit it to see photographs added by others, without a separate email needing to go out at all. On the paid plan, the album stays available for 365 days, and downloads as one full-resolution file whenever you want your own copy.

Updated September 16, 2026

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How long should the album stay available to guests?: A few weeks at minimum gives guests who do not check their messages daily time to find it. On Galawall's paid plan, the album stays online for 365 days.
What is the best way to send a large batch of photographs?: A single shareable link to the full album, rather than email attachments, handles the file size properly and lets each guest download only what they want.
Should I ask guests before posting their photographs publicly?: It is worth checking with anyone clearly identifiable in a photograph before it goes on a public page or social account, even if the wedding itself was a shared occasion.
Do I need to compress photographs before sharing them with guests?: No. Compressing them loses the quality guests actually want, particularly for anyone hoping to print a photograph. Share the originals and let guests choose what to keep.