How to deliver wedding photos to clients
The reliable way to deliver wedding photos to clients is a private online gallery: you upload the edited set, send the couple a single link, and they view, favourite and download full-resolution images from any device — with no account to create and no gallery that quietly expires. Email attachments, WeTransfer links and USB sticks all fail on at least one of speed, longevity, or the client’s ability to actually get their files. A dedicated client-gallery delivery platform solves all three.
The five steps
- Cull and export for the web. Export your final edits to sRGB before you upload — that’s the colour space phones and browsers assume, so exporting to it yourself avoids muddy blacks and shifted skin tones on the couple’s screen. Deliver JPEG or HEIC at full resolution for downloads plus a web-sized derivative for fast viewing.
- Upload without babysitting. Upload the full set to your gallery. On a large wedding (800–2,000 frames) this is where most tools fail — a dropped connection restarts the whole batch. Use resumable uploads so flaky venue Wi-Fi picks up where it left off instead of starting the batch again from zero.
- Brand the gallery. Set the cover image, event name and your studio name. The couple should see your studio — your name, your type, your cover — not the software. A branded gallery also travels well: every guest who opens it sees your work.
- Organise into sections. Split the set into Getting ready, Ceremony, Portraits and Reception so the couple can navigate 800 photos without scrolling endlessly. AI auto-chaptering can do the first pass for you — sorting the shoot into wedding phases automatically — which you then tweak, so the couple opens a gallery that’s already in order without a login.
- Share the link. Send one private link (optionally PIN-gated). The couple opens it in a tap, favourites their picks, and downloads in full resolution as many times as they like. No bandwidth throttling, no per-photo metering.
What to avoid
- WeTransfer / Dropbox / Google Drive: fine for a one-off transfer, wrong for delivery. Links expire, folders are unbranded, and clients hit “storage full” or download-quota walls. They also can’t favourite a selection.
- Client accounts: every login you force on a couple is friction and a support ticket. A capability-token link means they never sign up or hand over details.
- Galleries that auto-delete: the failure that ends reputations. If your host purges a delivered gallery over a storage policy, you’re the one explaining it to the couple. Choose a platform where a delivered gallery is never auto-removed.
How long should the gallery stay live?
For weddings, plan for the couple to come back years later — anniversaries, albums, reprints. A gallery you’ve delivered should stay available and intact indefinitely, not vanish on a 12-month timer. That permanence is the whole point of delivering online instead of handing over a USB stick that gets lost in a drawer.
CuratePics keeps every delivered wedding gallery live — once you’ve shared it, no automated job removes it. See how it works →