# Wedding guest photos into one album

> The photos your wedding guests took, in one printed 300 × 300 mm layflat photo book. Duplicates and blur dropped, the day in chapters, you approve.

Source: https://makealbum.com/photo-book/wedding-guest-photos · MakeAlbum, Lisbon, Portugal

The photographer's album is one side of the day. The other side is on thirty phones: the getting ready, the table, the dancing. MakeAlbum takes all of it, removes the blur and the repeats, orders it by time and lays out a 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover you approve before printing.

## Thirty phones, one day

Guest photos arrive in a shared album or a group chat: hundreds of frames, several of every moment, taken on different phones with different ideas about focus. Sorting them by hand means comparing near-identical shots of the same toast and guessing at the order of the evening.

The pre-filter is built for exactly that. It compares frames across phones to find near-duplicates, drops the blurred and badly exposed ones, and uses each photo's capture time to put the day back in order before you see a single spread.

## How it works

1. **Gather the files in one place** — Download the photos from wherever your guests shared them into one folder, then upload the whole folder. Mixed formats from iPhone and Android are fine: JPEG, HEIC / HEIF, PNG, WebP, AVIF, up to 50 MB each and up to 500 photos per album. Add the photographer's JPEGs too if you like.
2. **The AI removes repeats and orders the day** — Near-duplicates are detected across phones, not just within one. Blurred and badly exposed frames are set aside. The rest is clustered by capture time and content into chapters, for example the morning, the ceremony, the dinner and the dancing, and each chapter gets a draft title from your brief.
3. **Name the chapters, approve, printed** — Rename chapters with the real names and places, swap in any frame the filter set aside, choose the cover. On approval the album is printed as a 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover, 26 to 80 pages, and shipped tracked with shipping included.

## What you get

- A 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover, 26–80 interior pages, €199–€349, shipping included.
- Duplicate detection works across phones, so five guests' versions of the first dance become one frame in the book.
- A brief with the couple's names, the venue and the date grounds the chapter titles and captions.
- Up to 80 pages for a full day, priced per page.

## FAQ

### The photos come from different phones with different clocks. Does that matter?

Chapters are built from each photo's EXIF capture time, so a phone set to the wrong time can land its photos in the wrong chapter. You can move any photo between chapters in the editor before you approve.

### Can guests upload directly to the album?

Not at the moment. One account uploads the set, so collect the photos first, in a shared album, a chat group or however your guests shared them, and upload them together.

### Can I include the professional photographer's photos as well?

Yes. Upload their JPEGs alongside the guest photos, up to 50 MB per file. The curation treats them like any other frame, and you can pin the ones you want by swapping them in from the tray.