Things we are working on right now

So here’s what’s actually on my desk right now.

Four things. Some small, one that’s been keeping me up.

Languages — shipped

This one had been bothering me for a while.

If a grandmother flies in from Mexico City, or a family comes over from France, the whole album was in English. The buttons, the guestbook prompts, the upload screen — all English. You scan the QR code at the venue and it opens in a language that isn’t yours.

I kept thinking about that. Someone who traveled ten hours to watch their family get married, trying to leave a message in a language they’re not comfortable in.

We shipped this in April. The album now supports ten languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Thai. It detects what language your phone is set to and switches automatically. No settings menu, no flag to tap. It just reads your phone and adjusts.

A grandmother anywhere in the world opens the same link and sees it in her language. That’s how it should work.

Fonts

Smaller one, but I get asked about it more than you’d think.

Right now the font on your wedding album is fixed. I’m going to add a font picker in the dashboard — a handful of options that all look good at weddings, takes thirty seconds to change. It’s a small thing but it makes the album feel much more like yours and less like a template.

QR code colors

Same idea, different version.

The QR code right now is black and white. It works, it scans, but it looks like what it is — a generated QR code. You should be able to match it to your wedding colors, or at least make it feel like something you’d actually want to print on a table card rather than something you’d peel off a parking meter.

The big one

This is what I’ve been thinking about the longest.

Your web address — your-names.wedding-memory.com — is live from the day you sign up. Not from the wedding day. Couples add their engagement photos, the story of how they met, pictures from before everything happened. Family and friends already have the link. They’re already visiting, months before the wedding.

The QR code is really just for the day itself — it’s how guests at the venue who don’t already have the link find it. One day, essentially.

But in the months before, guests still need somewhere to RSVP, find the venue, check the schedule, figure out where to stay. Most couples build that separately. A Zola page, a Google Form, a website a cousin put together. It gets shared, bookmarked, visited — and then the wedding happens and it becomes irrelevant. Abandoned. The link guests associate with your wedding is that temporary page, not the one that holds everything after.

The link they already know — the personal one, the one with your names — could hold all of that instead. RSVP, schedule, travel info, everything before the day. The same place on the day. The same place after.

One link. The whole time.

That’s what we’re building. It’s the thing I’m most excited about and the thing taking the longest to get right. I’ll write more about it when it’s closer.

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