Should Guests See Each Other's Photos? A Host's Guide to Privacy

Once you're collecting photos from dozens of guests, you have to decide who gets to see what — and it's a real decision, not just a default to leave on autopilot.

Keep it private until the reveal

Keeping every guest's photos visible only to the host, until you're ready to reveal them, works well for weddings where the couple wants the whole album to feel like a gift they open together later, rather than a group chat that fills up in real time during the ceremony.

Or open it up while the night is still going

Opening the album so every guest can browse everyone else's photos works better for a party or a reunion, where the fun is in the scroll — people love seeing themselves through someone else's lens while the night is still going.

A middle ground: time-delayed sharing

Some hosts keep photos private during the event itself, then flip on shared viewing after a set time — the end of the night, or the next morning once everyone's had a chance to sleep on it. That way the reveal still feels like a moment, without anyone having to manually export and re-share two hundred photos by hand.

What we built

In PREMO, this is a single setting on your film: guests see only their own moments by default, or you can turn on "everyone can see all photos" for the shared-scroll experience — and you can change it at any point before or during the event.