In short: connect your photos, let Confetti group faces automatically, then spend an afternoon naming each cluster once. Every photo of that person, including ones added later, gets tagged from that point on.
What does "an afternoon" actually get you?
Tagging a few thousand wedding photos by hand, one photo at a time, is a weekend long project nobody finishes. Tagging by naming clusters, groups of photos Confetti has already matched to the same face, is a different kind of task: instead of thousands of individual decisions, you're making a few dozen, one per person. That's the difference between a lost weekend and an afternoon.
What do I need before I start?
Your photos connected to Confetti from a Google Drive folder (see how to connect a Google Drive folder), and a finished face scan, which runs automatically once you connect. You'll also want a rough idea of who's in the wedding party and family, since you'll be naming clusters as you go.
How do I tag everyone in an afternoon instead of a weekend?
1. Let the scan finish. Confetti groups faces that look like the same person into clusters as soon as your photos are connected. This runs in the background, no action needed from you. 2. Open the People view and start naming. Go cluster by cluster: "that's Maria," "that's the groom's dad." Naming a cluster once tags every photo already in it. 3. Work the biggest clusters first. The wedding party, parents, and grandparents usually have the most photos and the biggest clusters. Naming those first tags the largest share of the gallery fastest. 4. Fix the occasional mismatch. Group shots, side profiles, and someone turned away from the camera can trip up any face-grouping pass. Split a cluster that merged two people, or merge two clusters that are really one person, as you spot them. 5. Let new photos catch up automatically. Any photos added to the folder later go through the same matching process and land under the right person's tag without you redoing the work.
What does face tagging not do?
It doesn't take a separate copy of your photos to do this work. It computes a numeric description of each face, an embedding, and stores that alongside the tags and names you assign, not a photo of the face itself. It's opt-in: you can decline face tagging and still use the rest of Confetti. And it doesn't touch your Google Drive, your photos stay exactly where they were while all of this happens.
What if the wedding has 200 guests?
That's exactly the case face tagging is built for. The bigger the guest list and the photo count, the more time it saves compared to tagging one photo at a time, since you're still only naming each person once, no matter how many photos they appear in.
What do I get once everyone's tagged?
A gallery you can filter and search by person: everyone with the couple, just the bridal party, every photo of one grandmother. That tagged gallery also feeds album building, whether you group photos yourself with the Standard builder or let the Intelligent builder use it to arrange a story-structured album.
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Tagging is included once you scan your event, face scanning is priced per photo on a sliding scale. See pricing for current rates and a live calculator, or preview automatic face grouping free on your first 10 photos.