Free wedding QR code generator

What to link a wedding QR code to

Point it at the one page guests need most. Four common picks. Your wedding website (The Knot, Zola, Joy, Squarespace, or your own domain) works as the hub, since it usually holds the schedule, directions, dress code, and the RSVP and registry links in one place. An RSVP form on its own when you just want a headcount fast. Your gift registry, though most couples link the wedding-site registry page rather than one store, so guests see every registry at once. A shared photo album (a Google Photos or Apple shared album link, or an upload page) so guests drop their candids in one spot after the day. One caveat if you link a PDF like a printed schedule: the code opens that PDF's online URL, not a file on the guest's phone, so keep the PDF hosted for as long as the code is in use.

Where to put the code on stationery and signage

Save-the-dates and invitations are the obvious spots, usually on the back or a corner with a line like 'Scan for details and to RSVP.' It also earns a place on ceremony and reception signage (a welcome sign, a seating chart, a bar menu), on table cards so each table can open the photo album or a song-request page, on the order of service, and on a card tucked into the hotel welcome bag. Always print the plain URL next to the code too. Some guests will type it instead, some older phone cameras will not cooperate, and a written address is the fallback that never fails.

Static vs dynamic: why couples reuse one code

The code this tool makes is static, meaning your link is baked into the black-and-white pattern. It scans forever with no account and no fees, which is ideal for something you print once. The limit is that a static code cannot be changed after it is printed, and it reports nothing. That bites at a wedding, because the useful destination shifts: before the day you want guests on the wedding site to RSVP, and after the day you want them at the shared photo album. With static codes you would print two, or reprint. A dynamic QR points at a short link you control, so one printed code can open the site first and the album later, and it counts how many guests scanned. Whooshly builds dynamic codes in the app.

Print tips that keep a wedding QR scannable

Keep the code dark on a light background. A pale code on a dark or patterned invitation is the most common reason a scan fails, so test before you order a stack. Leave the quiet zone (the blank margin around the pattern) clear and do not crop into it; this tool bakes in a four-module margin. Size the code to the scan distance, roughly a tenth of it: about 2 cm on an invitation held at arm's length, larger on a welcome sign read from across the room. Download the SVG for the printer so edges stay crisp at any size, and a PNG for a digital proof or your website. Print one at final size and scan it with both an iPhone and an Android in normal lighting before the full run.