Design QR codes for your wedding

What to put in a wedding code

RSVP

The most useful code on an invitation links to your RSVP form, whether that's on a wedding website or a form you've set up yourself. Guests reply in a minute instead of finding a stamp. Use a link code that points at an address you control, and keep the form open until your deadline. Afterwards, change the page to say RSVPs have closed and how to reach you, rather than letting it fail.

Keep a printed address or phone number for replies too. Some guests will always prefer to answer by post or by phone.

Venue and directions

A location code opens the venue in the guest's maps app. For venues with a tricky entrance or separate parking, drop the pin on the entrance guests should use, not the venue's postal address. If ceremony and reception are in different places, make two codes and label them.

An event code adds the date, time and place to a guest's calendar in one scan. It's ideal for save-the-dates. Check the time zone if guests are travelling from abroad.

Shared photo album

A code on the reception tables that opens a shared album lets guests add their photos in one place. Before printing it, check that anyone with the link can actually upload, that the link won't expire, and that you're comfortable with who can see the album: a code on a table can be scanned by anyone in the room, including venue staff and other events' guests passing through.

Reception Wi-Fi

If the venue has guest Wi-Fi, a sign saves a lot of asking. Our sister site Wi-Fi QR Code Generator makes printable Wi-Fi signs; or make a Wi-Fi code here in your wedding colors.

Match your stationery

The wedding template uses round dot modules in sage green on an ivory background, with a serif label. Change the colors to match your suite, but keep the code noticeably darker than the paper. Deep greens, navies, burgundies and charcoal all work; blush pink, gold and pale grey on white generally don't. The contrast guide has measured examples.

• Foil and letterpress. Foil reflects light unpredictably, and letterpress can spread ink and dent the paper around fine detail. Print the code itself in flat ink, or digitally on the same card, and keep it a little larger than usual.
• Textured cotton paper breaks up module edges. Allow at least 25 mm for the code, more for longer links.
• A short label like "RSVP here" or "Map & details" tells guests what the code does. Our frames sit outside the code'squiet zone, so the label doesn't interfere with scanning.

Send your stationer the SVG or vector PDF so the code stays sharp at whatever size they set.

Guest privacy

A printed code is readable by anyone who sees it, and invitations get left on fridges, desks and train seats. So:

• Don't put guests' personal details in a code: no names, addresses, phone numbers or meal choices.
• If you send personalised RSVP links, use random codes in the address (/rsvp/k7d2q), not guest names or emails.
• Never link to a spreadsheet of guests, even a "view only" one.
• Think twice before printing your home address in a location code on a public sign.

The generator itself runs in your browser, so what you encode isn't sent to us. Read our privacy page for details.

Test before you print the invitations

Invitations are expensive to reprint and hard to recall once posted. Before the full order:

1. Fill in and submit your RSVP form from the code, on a phone, to check it works end to end.
2. Get a printed proof on the real card stock, at the real size.
3. Scan the proof with as many phones as you can, including an older one. Relatives' phones are often older than yours, and they're the guests most likely to struggle.
4. Try it in dim, warm light like a living room in the evening.

The full testing guide covers more. Then print, post and enjoy the replies arriving.