Every photo from your engagement party, in one private album.

Why the party photos never reach you

At your engagement party, you two are the ones in the photos, not the ones taking them. Your friends catch the toast, the ring going round the table and both sets of parents meeting each other’s friends, each on their own phone. A few photos arrive in a group chat, smaller than they were taken. Most never arrive at all.

One album for the party, set up before it starts, puts every guest’s photos and videos in the same place, in full quality.

Make the album before the party

• In Lumo, open the Family tab, tap your family name at the top, then New event. Choose “Something else”, call it “Our engagement party” and tap Create event.
• Turn on “Only admins can let people in” if you’d like to let in each guest yourselves.
• Copy the album’s link into the invitation, so guests can join before they arrive.
• Mention the album once, in the toast. That’s enough.

Both families, one album

An engagement party is often the first time both families and both sets of friends are in one room. When guests join, Lumo asks them “How do you know the couple?”, and their answer is shown to everyone in the album, so a college friend and a future aunt can tell who is who.

Guests open the link or point their phone camera at the code, sign in with Apple, Google or email, and add photos in the Lumo app or in their browser at app.lumomagic.com. One code works for up to 500 people. Only people in the album can see the photos; nothing goes on a public page.

From the party to the wedding

The engagement album stays, with every photo in full quality and every video whole, up to 3 GB each. When the wedding comes, make a wedding album with its own QR code. It sits next to this one, and guests who come to both can be in both.

Telling both families before the party? See how to share your engagement with both families.