One shared link. One evening. Every angle of the celebration, pulled into a single gallery — by morning.
Sarah was marrying in Lagos with 120 guests — family flying in from three continents, college friends from a decade ago, work colleagues she'd lost touch with. She knew dozens of cameras would be out that night. She also knew, from every wedding she'd been to before her own, that maybe ten photos would ever land in a group chat. The rest would stay locked on someone else's phone until they "got around to sharing" them, which they almost never did.
Two weeks before the event, Sarah registered her gallery on Xarazo and printed the QR code on the welcome card at every table setting. No app to download. No guest list to manage. Guests pointed their phone cameras at the card, the upload page opened in their browser, and every photo they took that night — from the auntie's quiet reaction during the vows to the uncle's blurry dance-floor close-up — landed in one shared gallery as they took it.
By the morning after, 247 photos from 89 different guests were already waiting in the gallery. Sarah's mum was in the living room scrolling through shots she hadn't been in. The best man sent a voice note saying he'd found four angles of the first dance he didn't even know existed. In the week after, the family group chat had 12,400 views on the gallery link — and Sarah is still getting uploads trickling in from guests who found a stray photo on their roll the following week.
I thought I'd see maybe fifty photos at most. Instead I got every angle of the day from people I'd never have thought to ask — and now I can actually show my mum what her face looked like during the vows.
Sarah Adekunle — Bride