Wedding hashtag generator
Put in your first names and, if you want, your last names and the year. You get a list of hashtags grouped by idea, each one ready to copy for your signs, your invitations and your place cards.
Every suggestion has a check link next to it. Open it and you see what people are already posting under that hashtag, so you can pick one that is still yours.
Nothing leaves your browser. The suggestions are built on your device, there is no account to make, and we do not save the names you type.
Hashtag maker
Your list shows up here. First names are enough to start.
How to pick yours
Fill in the names
First names are enough to get a list. Adding last names and the year opens up the family-name ideas and the dated ones.
Check before you commit
Open the check link on the hashtags you like. If a hashtag already has hundreds of posts behind it, your guests' photos will sit among strangers' photos. Pick one that is quiet or empty.
Put it where guests will see it
Print it on a sign at the entrance, on the bar, on the tables and on your place cards. Say it out loud once during the toasts. A hashtag nobody reads gets used by nobody.
Save the photos while they are up
Posts get archived and accounts go private over the years. Download what you find in the first weeks instead of counting on the hashtag page still being there later.
What a hashtag will and will not bring you
A hashtag is a good idea and it does one job well: it gives guests a shared place to post, and it lets you browse what they shared. It is worth knowing where it stops, because couples usually find out after the wedding.
Private accounts stay private
When a guest with a private account posts your hashtag, the post does not show up on the hashtag page. You only see it if you already follow that guest.
It only gathers what gets posted
Plenty of guests take photos all night and post one of them, or none. The rest stay in a camera roll, and a hashtag has no way to reach them.
What you find is a compressed copy
Instagram re-encodes photos and videos on upload. Saving a post gives you that smaller copy, not the file your guest's phone recorded.
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes. Generate as many lists as you want, with no account and no email.
- How do I know if a hashtag is taken?
- Use the check link next to each suggestion. It opens that hashtag on Instagram, where you can see how many posts already use it. Nobody owns a hashtag, so what you are looking for is one that is quiet enough to be yours.
- Why are the capital letters there?
- Instagram ignores them, and people read them. EmmaAndDaniel is easy to read at a glance, emmaanddaniel is not. Guests can type it either way and it still works.
- How long should it be?
- Short enough to type from memory. Suggestions here stop at 30 characters, and the shorter ones get misspelled less often on the night.
- Can I use it on more than one app?
- Yes. The same hashtag works on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and X. Check it on each one you care about, since a hashtag can be quiet on one and busy on another.
- What do you do with the names I type?
- Nothing. The list is built in your browser and the names are never sent to us.
- What picks up the photos the hashtag misses?
- That is what WedKeeps does. Guests scan a QR code, upload straight from the phone browser with no app and no account, and the files arrive in original quality in one album you keep, whether or not the guest ever posts anything. See how WedKeeps works