Wedding QR codes

If you have a wedding website, it is usually the best single link: it holds everything else, and you can update times or hotel details without reprinting anything. For the map, the Google Maps QR code generator walks through getting a link that opens straight to the venue.

For a simple RSVP form, see QR codes for Google Forms — in particular the part about settings that force guests to sign in, which will lose you replies from relatives who never do.

A table card with a code that opens a shared album is the most useful wedding QR code of all: guests take hundreds of photos you would otherwise never see. The common photo services all offer some form of shared album that others can add to:

• Google Photos. Create a shared album, allow others to add photos, and copy its share link.
• iCloud Shared Albums. Turning on the public website option gives a link anyone can view; adding photos is easiest for guests with Apple devices.
• Dedicated wedding photo apps and cloud folders. Work the same way: whatever gives you a public https link can go in a code.

Whichever you use, open the link on a phone that is not signed in to your account and check that a guest can actually add a photo, not just look. Settings that allow viewing but not contributing are the usual reason a photo code collects nothing.

Keep the album and its link alive for weeks after the wedding. Guests upload late, and a code on a table card kept as a souvenir will be scanned again months later.

Invitations are held in the hand, so the code can be small — about 2–2.5 cm square for a short URL. A longer link, or textured or handmade paper that lets ink spread, needs more. QR code size for printing explains how module size sets the minimum.

• Back of the card or an insert. The front is for the names and the date; a code there reads like a parcel label.
• Small, with a caption. “Scan to RSVP” or “Our wedding website” tells guests what they get.
• Print the address too. Some guests — often older relatives — will not scan anything. A short web address underneath lets them type it.
• Welcome sign and table cards. Codes read from further away need to be larger: roughly a tenth of the distance, so 10 cm for a sign read from a metre.
• Give the printer the SVG. It stays sharp at any size; letterpress and foil printers will need vector artwork anyway.

Matching the stationery

This site produces black-on-white codes by default, and the custom QR code generator lets you choose colours to match the stationery, refusing pairs with too little contrast. If your designer recolours the SVG instead, keep the code dark on a light background with strong contrast: deep navy or forest green on ivory can work, while gold foil, blush on cream, or a light code on a dark card often will not. QR code colors covers what is safe.

Always scan a printed proof — on the real paper, with the real ink or foil, using a couple of different phones — before approving the run. A code that looked fine on screen can fail once foil reflects light or a soft paper blurs the edges.

Codes from this site are static: the address is stored in the pattern itself, with no redirect service in between, so the code never expires and has no subscription to lapse. The flip side is that it cannot be changed after printing, so the destination has to be right — and has to stay up.

• Check that your wedding website plan will not lapse before the photos are collected. Some free website plans end or change address.
• Do not delete the RSVP form after the deadline; close it to new responses so late scanners see a message rather than an error.
• If plans may change, link to the wedding website rather than to a specific page or document, and update the website instead.

The link you type into this site’s generator is not sent to any server — the code is made in your browser — which is reasonable for an address that may lead to your private album.

Make the code for your invitations and download it as vector:Generate a QR code