Why I Built the Wedding Vault


I have been to a lot of weddings. I have stood in the back, I have stood in the front, I have helped break a chair down at the end of the night. And every single time, I leave thinking the same thing: the most beautiful part of that day was not the part the photographer was hired to shoot.

It was the bridesmaid crying in the bathroom because she finally understood what her best friend was leaving behind. It was the groom’s grandfather telling a story to a stranger at the bar that none of us had ever heard. It was the kitchen staff dancing while they plated dinner. It was the groom’s dad practicing his speech in the parking lot because he did not trust himself to do it sober.

One photographer cannot capture all of that. They are one person, holding one camera, in one room. But your guests are everywhere. They are already filming on their phones — little vertical clips that get posted to a story, watched once, and lost forever.

The Wedding Vault is the simplest possible way — a QR code on the table, a link, a big record button — to redirect all of those phones into one place. Yours. Sealed until you decide to open it.

Activate the swarm. Lock it for the day that matters. Open it together.

— Simaan


How it works

Your photographer can only be in one place.
Your guests are everywhere.

Buy a vault for $10. Add recording slots ($1 video, $0.25 audio, $0.25 photo). Share the link or QR code with your guests. They record straight from their phones. You pick the day it unlocks — could be tomorrow morning, could be your 10th anniversary.

What you get back

Every moment your photographer was never going to reach.

Turn 150 guests into 150 second-shooters

Your photographer can only be in one place. Your guests are everywhere — the back hallways, the bridal suite, the 2 a.m. afterparty. A QR code on each table turns every phone into a camera that drops straight into your vault.

Open it tomorrow, or in ten years — your call

Set the vault to unlock the morning after your wedding so you can scroll through everything with coffee in bed. Or seal it for your 10th anniversary as a real time capsule. Your timeline.

Catch the toasts that never happened on the mic

The best speeches happen at the bar after dinner. Aunts. Cousins. The college roommate who couldn’t get the courage to grab a mic. Give them a record button on their phone and they will say it.

Full-resolution photos, not 480p story screenshots

Guests upload photos at full resolution straight from their camera roll. No more screenshotting Instagram stories at 9 a.m. the next day.

Capture the relatives who travel furthest

Grandparents who flew in from another country. Friends who haven’t seen each other in a decade. The version of them on that night, in that room, only exists once.

Locked even to you

Once sealed, nobody can preview the contents — not your guests, not you, not us. Real anticipation. Real surprise.

Ready to seal it?

$10 to open the vault. Add as many slots as you need. Slots never expire.

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