Festery for weddings

Wedding entertainment your guests join from their own phone.

One shared photo wall instead of 140 camera rolls. A quiz about the couple between courses. Song requests that don't crowd the DJ. Nothing for anyone to download on the busiest day of your life.

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The photos your guests take are the ones nobody else was standing close enough to get.
The wedding problem nobody plans for

Your photographer leaves at eleven.
The evening keeps going.

Weddings have a structural gap that everybody notices afterwards and almost nobody plans for in advance. Your photographer captures the day beautifully and professionally — the ceremony, the portraits, the cutting of the cake — and then, at some agreed hour, packs up and goes home. Meanwhile a hundred and forty guests have spent the entire day taking photographs on devices that are genuinely very good, from angles a photographer could never occupy: the back of the ceremony, the table of cousins losing composure during the speeches, whatever happened at half past midnight.

Those photos exist. You will see perhaps fifteen of them. The rest sit in individual camera rolls, are mentioned once at a dinner party eight months later, and quietly disappear. Couples try to solve it with a hashtag that half the guest list forgets, a shared album link that expires, or a request in the order of service that competes for attention with the readings.

The second gap is the dance floor and the dinner. Somewhere between the last speech and the first dance there is a stretch of the evening where the formal programme has ended and the party hasn't started. Two families who have never met are sitting at adjacent tables making the same three observations about how lovely the ceremony was. This is the moment a wedding either lifts or plateaus — and it's the moment that has the least planned for it.

01

Photos scatter and vanish

Every guest is a photographer. Without one place to put them, you inherit a fraction of what was actually taken, months later, in fragments.

02

Two guest lists, one room

Their family, your family, university friends, colleagues. Most weddings seat strangers together and hope conversation happens on its own.

03

The dead hour before dancing

Dinner ends, the band sets up, and the room drifts. This is where a wedding's energy is either kept or quietly lost.

How Festery fits a wedding

Four experiences.
Four moments in your day.

You don't need all of them. Most couples start with the photo wall and add one more depending on how the evening is shaped.

MemWall

memwall.app

For the whole day, from arrival to last dance

The single most useful thing you can add to a wedding, and the one couples say they would keep if they could only keep one. Guests contribute photos through a QR code from the moment they arrive; the wall fills through the day and you download everything afterwards.

  • QR codes on table cards, the order of service and the bar
  • A live wall on a screen or projector during dinner — guests genuinely watch it
  • The ceremony from the back row, the speeches from the cousins' table, and whatever happened at 1am
  • Download the whole event when you're back from honeymoon

12Quiz

12quiz.app

For the dinner, between courses

A short quiz about the couple, run while everyone is already seated and between courses. It gives a table of strangers a shared task, and it beats a fourth speech by a distance nobody will admit to out loud.

  • "How well do you know the couple?" — where they met, first holiday, who said it first
  • Play as tables against tables and the room organises itself
  • A live leaderboard on the big screen supplies the drama
  • Twelve questions is roughly one speech long, which is the point

JukeFloor

jukefloor.com

For the dance floor, after the first dance

Every wedding DJ spends the night being asked for songs by people standing too close to the decks. JukeFloor turns that into a visible queue the DJ still controls — so the room gets a say, and the DJ keeps the mix.

  • Guests request and vote from the table instead of the booth
  • The DJ sees what the room actually wants, in advance
  • Solves the classic four-generation playlist problem without a spreadsheet
  • Voting keeps it from becoming one loud guest's playlist

WhoGame

whogame.app

For the drinks reception, when nobody knows anybody

The drinks reception is the coldest part of a wedding: two guest lists, one room, no seating plan yet to hide behind. WhoGame makes the guests themselves the subject of the game, so strangers arrive at dinner already talking.

  • "Who's most likely to…" questions about the actual room
  • Works while people are standing, drinking and holding a canapé
  • Gets your side and their side interacting before the seating plan forces it
  • No facilitator, no team-building energy, no groaning
Run of show

Where it goes in the day.

A realistic timeline for a wedding running roughly 2pm to 1am. Adjust to your own schedule — the principle is that each experience owns a different part of the day.

From the first guest

Turn the photo wall on before anyone arrives

Put the QR code at the entrance and on the order of service. Guests photograph the venue, each other and the arrivals long before the ceremony starts, and that material is usually better than anyone expects.

MemWall
Drinks reception

Break the ice while people are still standing

This is the hour where your family and their family circle each other politely. A quick guessing game about the room gives people a reason to speak to someone they weren't already speaking to.

WhoGame · MemWall
Between courses

Run the quiz while everyone is seated

Twelve questions about the couple, tables playing against tables, leaderboard on the screen. It fills the natural gap between main and dessert without adding to the speeches.

12Quiz
Speeches and cake

Let the wall do its own work

Nobody needs prompting to photograph the speeches. Guests contribute as they go, and the live wall on the screen becomes something people watch during the changeover to the evening.

MemWall
First dance onwards

Hand the playlist to the room

Once the dancing starts, requests begin. Opening the queue means the DJ can read the room from the bar rather than from the third person that hour asking for the same song.

JukeFloor · MemWall
The morning after

Download everything

The full set of guest photos, in one place, while it's still the first thing anyone wants to talk about. This is the part couples underestimate until they have it.

MemWall
Why couples choose it

The honest selling points.

It gives you the wedding you didn't see

You will spend your own wedding being moved between locations by people with schedules. Enormous amounts of it happen without you: the table that could not stop laughing during the second reading, your uncle teaching someone's toddler to dance, the twenty minutes on the terrace at dusk. A shared wall is the only practical way to get that back, because the people who saw it are the ones holding the cameras.

It costs your guests nothing to take part

Anything that requires an installation is a request, and on a wedding day you have already made a lot of those — travel, outfits, gifts, a day off work. A QR code that opens a page is not a request. It is a suggestion that takes four seconds to accept, which is why participation rates look nothing like an event app's.

It solves the seating plan problem socially

You have spent weeks on the seating plan trying to engineer conversation between people who have no reason to have any. A shared quiz or a guessing game does in ten minutes what the seating plan is attempting structurally — it gives two strangers a topic that isn't "and how do you know the couple?"

It keeps the DJ on your side

Wedding DJs are not resistant to requests; they are resistant to being interrupted mid-transition by someone who has been at the bar. Structuring requests is a favour to them, and a good DJ will use the queue as intelligence about the room rather than a list of obligations.

It doesn't need a host

Nothing here requires a compère, a facilitator, or a member of your wedding party to run it while missing the dinner. You announce it once, and it operates for the rest of the day without anyone owning it.

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Planning notes

Five things worth deciding early.

  • Where the QR codes go. Table cards work best because people are seated and idle. The order of service, the bar, a framed sign at the entrance and the back of the menu are all worth doubling up on — the cost of an extra print is nothing compared to the cost of guests not finding it.
  • Who announces it, and when. One sentence from whoever holds the microphone during the welcome, and one more before dinner. That is the entire marketing plan and it is more effective than every printed instruction combined.
  • Whether there's a screen. A live photo wall on a projector or a large screen changes the dynamic considerably — guests contribute to see their own photo appear. Ask your venue what's already in the room before hiring anything.
  • Who you'll ask to seed it. Give the QR code to four or five guests the day before — bridesmaids, groomsmen, a sibling. A wall with thirty photos on it recruits people; a wall with none does not.
  • What your venue's signal is like. A rural barn with one bar of reception is a real constraint worth checking rather than discovering. Ask about guest Wi-Fi and put the network name on the same card as the QR code.
Wedding questions

What couples ask us.

How do wedding guests share their photos without an app?

You put a QR code where guests already look — table cards, the order of service, the bar, a frame by the entrance. A guest points their camera at it, taps once and lands on your wedding's photo wall in the browser. They select photos from their camera roll and they appear. No app store, no account, no explaining anything twice.

Will we actually get all the photos afterwards?

That is the main reason couples use MemWall. Everything guests contribute goes into one place you can download after the wedding, so the photos live somewhere other than 140 individual camera rolls that slowly get deleted. It is the complement to your photographer, not a replacement — your photographer captures the day as it was staged; the wall captures it as it was lived.

When should we launch it during the day?

Earlier than most couples expect. Guests are most receptive during the drinks reception, when they have a glass in one hand, nothing to do and no seat to sit in. If you wait until the speeches, you have missed the ceremony arrivals and the confetti. Turning it on when the doors open costs nothing and captures the whole day.

Won't song requests take control away from our DJ?

The requests exist whether or not you invite them — they just arrive as people leaning over the booth mid-mix. JukeFloor moves that traffic into a queue the DJ can see, weigh and use or ignore. Most DJs find it easier: they get a read on the room without the interruptions, and guests stop asking because they can see their request is already in.

Is a wedding quiz not a bit much for a formal reception?

It depends entirely on placement. A twelve-question quiz about the couple, run between the main course and dessert while people are already seated, is roughly the length of one speech and considerably more popular than the fourth one. At a black-tie reception you might skip it. At a long relaxed dinner it is often the moment two tables of strangers start talking.

We have guests in their eighties. Will they be excluded?

Scanning a code and tapping a big button is about as simple as a phone gets, and the experiences are designed so that no step requires prior knowledge. That said, plan for it socially rather than technically: seat one younger guest per table, and the demonstration happens naturally. That single move does more than any amount of interface design.

Can we use more than one experience at the same wedding?

Yes, and the day usually splits itself neatly. MemWall runs from the moment the doors open to the last dance. The quiz occupies the dinner. Music voting starts when the dancing does. They serve different hours, so they don't compete for the same attention.

Getting married

Let's plan your wedding day.

Tell us the shape of your day and we'll tell you which experiences earn their place — and which ones don't.

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