The Guest - Photo Sharing

We had a great experience with the Veri app. Our 3-day event captured our rehearsal dinner, wedding and day-after brunch. We had a small wedding - only about 50 people, and not everyone used the app. Still, we ended up with over 500 photos! The pics are a great way to remember the event, and to see what your guests were experiencing (since you can’t possibly be everywhere at once during your wedding)! It’s also nice to see these pics so quickly after the wedding, since we won’t get our professional photos for weeks! The other guests who used the app loved having access to everyone else’s photos. I loved how the app puts all of the photos in chronological order. The only downsides of using this app were 1) some of the older guests needed help to download it, but this is probably to be expected for people unfamiliar with new technology, and 2) sometimes people forgot to turn off auto-sharing and accidentally shared photos too early (ie the bride getting ready). One guest was hesitant to download the app before the wedding because she didn’t want her photos to be auto-shared, even though I assured her that auto-sharing could be turned off. She decided to download the app after the event was over, and manually upload the photos that she wanted to share; this worked well for her and we still got to see her pics, so this is a nice option too. Overall we were very happy with this app and think it’s definitely worth the money!

My daughter used this for her wedding and ended up with well over 1000 photos to choose from. It really only takes a couple of minutes for someone to set up on their phone and then as long as they choose the auto load option they don’t have to do anything else. Since you can set everything up beforehand I personally felt it was much easier than the usual upload and hashtag mess on social media you have to do at weddings. However, we were able to easily show some of the older less tech savvy family members how to install the app and upload their photos the next day at brunch. They loved being able to view all their photos among the ones taken by other guests. My daughter especially loved that the photos were shown in a timeline format so she was able to see what her groom and others were doing while she was in the bridal suite and it makes it a very nice way to see how the entire day progressed from the preparations to the ceremony, reception and then the after party. She was so happy with the app that she used it again during her honeymoon. She had used a honeymoon fund so friends and family were able to easily see photos of the couple enjoying excursions that had been purchased as wedding gifts. I will definitely be using this app for other events, parties, family vacations, etc!

I love this app. I also love the fact that it is now free. I have use the guest for my two bridal showers and it has been great. I received over 300 photos from both events. I started with inviting a small close group of friends first, the. Once I was able to show others how it worked and shares more people became comfortable with downloading it. I love that I can be free to move about and talk to guest but still get great pictures from every moment of the event. I plan on using this app for my the rest of my upcoming events including my big wedding day. I plan to display a big sign for everyone to see as they arrive with instructions on how to download the app and how to turn on and off auto share. I have had great pictures with just a small group so far and I can not wait to She the outcome of a large group of participants. I would definitely recommend for any event that you want to capture all the moments.

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Auto-Share should NOT be automatically on. It should be automatically off and you choose to put it on! Here is why...In the past 3 days 2 people very close to me experienced a nightmare using this app. The first situation is when a very personal video was uploaded to the wedding website for all to watch. Without the users consent. Being new to the app they didn’t know that autosharing was on right when it was downloaded/opened. The second nightmare was on 6/30 before she joined the group (but was already invited and had the app previously) autoshare grabbed all her pictures dating to middle of June! (Two weeks prior to when it was supposed to start and the sharing started 6/30 @ 4:15pm- I set it up myself after the event on 6/30) so why would it pull her pictures from 6/14 without her consent? I have since deleted the app and have warned everyone using it that it will embarrass you if you have any embarrassing or just personal photos of yourself on your phone. All because autoshare chooses to upload your photos, yes, without your consent! TAKE OFF AUTOSHARING- LET USERS CONSENT TO IT SO THEY DONT END UP EMBARRASSED.

Great concept for getting photos during our wedding! One big feature request that I need to give the full 5-stars is up-voting photos! Naturally some photos are awesome and others are a blurry mess. The only way to filter note is by contributor. This would be huge to keep everyone from needing to go through every photo to choose the keepers. Good ones would naturally float to the top! Another feature idea addresses adding contributors: in the case where someone has not downloaded the app for the event, but afterward download it to view photos - pseudo-force access to post photos before they can view the entire library. You can use the time stamps from the photo library to decide which should be posted (“pseudo”, because obviously they would be able to cherry-pick those which should not be uploaded) this works to minimize the moochers and increase contributor count.