For destination weddings
A destination wedding site guests can use from another country.
Destination guests decide months out, book flights, then show up tired and camera-shy. They need one link for the invite, travel notes, and RSVP — and a camera they can open from a table tent, not a leftover App Store install.
A destination wedding is two products pretending to be one: a travel product and a party. The travel product starts when you send a date and a city. The party starts when people are in the same humidity as you. Most wedding software is built for the second half and then bolted onto an email chain for the first. That is why people lose RSVPs in WhatsApp, why hotel blocks get screenshotted into family group chats, and why guest photos never leave twelve camera rolls.
WedPOV is not a travel agent. It will not book rooms, compare airlines, or generate a 14-stop itinerary. What it will do is give you one public page — names, date, venue, dress code, and RSVP — that you can send the day you lock the villa. Guests do not create accounts. You are the only person who signs in. That matters when half the list is on a different continent and will not install another wedding app for a weekend they already spent $1,800 to attend.
Photo collection is the part destination couples usually leave until they are home, exhausted, and staring at a Google Drive named ‘Italy???’. Upload-QR hubs ask guests to pick files from Recents. That dump includes the airport, the rental car, and last month’s birthday. A live guest camera is a different job: the guest opens /e/{slug} from a printed QR, shoots what is in front of them, and the frames land in one gallery you reveal when you are ready — often after you have slept in your own bed.
Treat the free website as the document you pin in every planning thread. Treat Pro ($49) as the unlock for in-product RSVP plus a real camera (25 shots per guest, 12 months of gallery hosting). Treat Platinum ($79) as the same idea with 50 shots, 24 months, and one partner slot if two of you are running the dashboard from different time zones. Free live camera (10 guests, 5 shots) is a trial of the capture model, not a promise that an unpaid destination wedding of 80 people will fit.
You are hosting in a city most of the list does not live in. Headcount is expensive. Photos will be taken on mixed phones, often on hotel Wi-Fi that dies at the reception.
What usually breaks
These are the failure modes for this kind of night — not generic SaaS bullets.
RSVP is a travel decision
A ‘maybe’ is a hotel deposit. If you collect yes/no in a spreadsheet and meals in a different form, plus-ones will appear as surprise seats. Put attendance, meals, and plus-ones on the same public page so the list you export is the list the resort will invoice.
Guests will not download an app abroad
Roaming, storage warnings, and language settings kill guest-app photo dumps. A camera page that opens in the mobile browser is the path that still works when someone is on hotel Wi-Fi with 4% battery. If the venue internet is famous for dying, put a travel-router or hotspot next to the QR — that is physics, not a software bug.
The gallery has to wait until you are home
You should not curate uploads from a lobby. Host-controlled reveal means Friday night’s candids are not public during Saturday portraits. Pro hosts the gallery 12 months; Platinum 24. Guests still never make an account to view /g/{slug}.
PDFs get lost in email
A 12-page welcome packet is useful. It is also the file nobody can find at the airport. Put the facts that change (time, dress, RSVP) on the live site. Link the PDF from the page if you still want the long version.
How WedPOV maps to this
01
Publish the site before flights go on sale
Couple names, date, venue, and a welcome live at /{slug}. Draft means guests cannot open site, camera, or gallery yet — stay in draft until the URL is the one you want to print on save-the-dates.
02
Collect replies before anyone flies
RSVP sits on the same page. No guest passwords. Watch the dashboard as people book. Export when catering minimums lock. In-product RSVP collection is part of Pro at $49, together with the live camera — the invitation page itself can stay free.
03
Print one camera QR for the room
On the day, /e/{slug} is a live disposable-style camera. Finite shots keep the roll from becoming 400 plates. Reuse the same printable at welcome drinks and dinner. Do not invent a second wedding in the dashboard unless you truly want a second gallery.
04
Reveal after you are home
Open the gallery when you can look at it. Send /g/{slug} in the thank-you text. That is the whole close.
What to actually write on the website
Copy only you can write. The product gives you fields; these are the sentences this wedding usually needs.
How to get there
Airport code, typical taxi time, and whether you are running a shuttle. One paragraph. Link maps. Do not paste a novel — people skim on a phone in a boarding line.
Where to sleep
Name the hotel block and the cutoff date. If there is no block, say so. WedPOV will not inventory rooms; your sentence is the inventory.
What to wear
Destination dress codes fail when ‘cocktail’ means something else in humidity. Write the temperature range and shoe warning (grass, cobblestones, sand).
Who to RSVP for
State whether plus-ones are offered. The form can collect a plus-one; your copy is the policy.
Checklist
- Lock a slug you are willing to print on paper and never change.
- Put travel facts on the website, not only in a PDF.
- Send the public link in the first planning email, then pin it.
- Decide Pro vs Platinum before you promise ‘unlimited photos’ in a speech — we do not sell unlimited.
- Print camera QRs at home; do not count on a villa printer.
- Test the camera URL on your own phone on airplane-mode Wi-Fi once.
- Tell one person (planner or sibling) where the printable file lives.
- Plan the gallery reveal for after you land, not during cocktail hour.
When to do what
6–12 months out
Create the wedding, stay in draft until names and date are stable, then publish the site so people can start RSVP and travel.
8 weeks out
Chase missing RSVPs from the dashboard. Confirm meal counts. Do not open the camera to the public yet unless you want rehearsal-dinner noise in the roll.
Week of
Pack printed QRs in the carry-on, not checked luggage. Screenshot the camera URL as backup.
After you fly home
Reveal the gallery. Pro: 12 months hosting. Platinum: 24.
On the day
Welcome drinks
Put the camera QR next to the bar card. Jet-lagged guests will shoot the first toast before they remember Recents.
Ceremony
WedPOV does not do seating charts. If the resort assigned tables, that lives in their packet. Keep phones down during vows if that is your rule — the camera will still be there at dinner.
Reception Wi-Fi
Ask the coordinator for the network name in writing. A hotspot in a clutch beats arguing with a router during speeches.
The flight home
You already have the photos. You do not need to collect 40 phones at the airport.
Compared with the usual workarounds
Not a feature matrix against every competitor — those live on /compare. This is what this wedding usually tries first.
WhatsApp RSVP + Google Drive photos
Works until someone is not in the chat. Drive folders rot. No shot cap, so you inherit 2,000 near-duplicates.
Upload-QR wedding apps
Fine if you wanted camera-roll dumps and extras like seating or audio guestbooks. Wrong if you wanted live POV capture. See /compare.
Event-only disposable cameras (POV.camera and similar)
Capture-only. You still need a wedding page and RSVP somewhere else. WedPOV keeps those on one host login. See /vs/pov-camera.
WedPOV is not a vendor marketplace, shuttle scheduler, or hotel-block manager. If you need a 12-stop weekend schedule with bus times, keep that in a doc and link it from your page. We will not pretend we run that.
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FAQ
Can destination guests RSVP without making an account?
Yes. They open your public wedding link and submit. Hosts are the only people who sign in.
Does the guest camera work on hotel Wi-Fi?
It is a mobile web camera, not an install. Weak venue Wi-Fi still hurts any live upload. Print the QR and have a backup hotspot if the villa internet is known to fail.
What does this cost for a destination wedding?
The invitation website is free. Free live camera is 10 guests and 5 shots each. Pro is $49 (RSVP in-product, 25 shots per guest, 12 months gallery). Platinum is $79 (50 shots, 24 months, one partner slot).
Should I make a separate WedPOV wedding for the welcome party?
Usually no. One slug, one camera, one gallery keeps Monday from becoming a merge job. Split only if you want isolated rolls.
Can I write the site in two languages?
You can put bilingual copy in your page fields. We do not ship a full hreflang localization product. Write the sentences you need; do not expect automatic translation.
What if some guests never scan the QR?
That is normal. The hired photographer still owns posed work. The guest camera is extra POV, not a replacement for coverage you paid for.
Publish the destination page before flights go on sale.
One link for RSVP now. QR camera when everyone is in the same room.