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18 June 2026

Wedding Photos at a DIY Wedding: The Bit Nobody Plans Properly

A practical guide to photographing a DIY wedding when you're doing most of it yourself. Covers the photographer question, guest photos, disposable cameras, and how to actually end up with the album you want.

30 April 2026

The Best Places to Put a Wedding Photo QR Code (Yes, Including the Toilets)

A practical guide to placing QR codes at your wedding or event so guests actually scan them. Covers the obvious spots, the cheeky ones, and how to share the link before and after the day.

14 April 2026

What alby Is, and Why Your Group Chat Isn't Cutting It

You've been here before. Close friend’s wedding. All your besties were there. 700 photos taken across fifteen phones. By Wednesday, eleven of those photos…

1 April 2026

The wedding photos we'll never see (and why we built alby)

We got married a decade ago, before wedding photo sharing technology existed. Here's why those missing memories, and a photographer who had to leave early, drove us to build Alby.