🎓 Class Reunion Feature
Your old yearbook, as a living slideshow
Upload the senior pages. Class Reunly matches each portrait to the right classmate on your roster, then plays a then-and-now slideshow - on the classmate list and on the big screen. No PowerPoint, no cropping hundreds of photos by hand.
The slideshow, built from your roster
"Then" comes from the yearbook import. "Now" comes from the photo each classmate adds at RSVP.
The slideshow is the moment everyone remembers
Ask anyone what they remember from their last reunion and it's not the rented ballroom or the buffet. It's the slideshow - the senior portraits on the screen, the gasps and laughing as a familiar 18-year-old face dissolves into who that person is today. It's the one thing a reunion can do that a regular party can't: hold up the "then" against the "now."
And it's usually a nightmare to make. One committee member spends a weekend scanning the yearbook, cropping each senior photo, tracking down current pictures in a group text, and dragging all of it into a PowerPoint - which is out of date the moment another classmate RSVPs the week of the event.
Class Reunly turns that weekend into an upload. Your roster is the slideshow. Import the pages once, and the show assembles itself - and keeps itself current - as classmates sign up.
Scan the pages once. Get the whole show.
Import the pages, not each photo
Drop in scans or phone shots of the senior pages. Class Reunly reads names and faces and places each portrait on your roster - you confirm matches instead of cropping hundreds of photos by hand.
A slideshow on your classmate list
Matched photos play as a slideshow right on the roster - an ambient loop that runs all night on a screen by the registration table, or up on the big screen during the program.
Then-and-now, assembled for you
The senior 'then' comes from the yearbook import; the 'now' comes from the profile photos classmates add at RSVP. The pairing builds itself as people sign up - no manual matching.
Classmate drop-off for missing pages
Missing someone's page? There's a yearbook drop-off right on the Classmates screen, so classmates can send their own page instead of the committee chasing it over email.
Handles bulk, messy scans
Old flatbed scans, big batches, phone photos - the import takes large drops at once without stalling, so you send a stack of pages, not one perfect crop at a time.
One upload, several reunion moments
The same yearbook photos power the slideshow, the roster, and Memory Match. Scan the pages once and get the nostalgia loop and the party game out of it.
How it works
Import the senior pages
Scan or photograph the yearbook's senior section and drop the pages in - bulk batches and messy old-scanner images are fine. Class Reunly reads the names and faces.
Confirm the matches
Each senior photo lands next to the matching classmate on your roster. You approve or fix a match rather than crop and place hundreds of photos by hand. Missing a page? Classmates can drop their own from the Classmates screen.
Play it - roster or big screen
The then-and-now slideshow runs on the classmate list as an all-night loop, or on the big screen during the program. It stays current as new RSVPs and photos come in.
The killer feature
It updates itself until the doors open
A hand-built slideshow is frozen the day you export it. Three classmates RSVP the week of the reunion and they're simply not in it - or someone re-opens the file, re-crops, re-exports, and re-tests it on the projector at 11pm the night before. Class Reunly's slideshow reads your live roster, so the person who confirms on Thursday is on the screen Saturday with zero extra work. The "then" is already imported; the "now" is the photo they added when they RSVP'd. One source of truth, right up to showtime.
Start with my roster →Yearbook Slideshow FAQ
How do I make a yearbook slideshow for a class reunion?
Scan or photograph the senior pages from your old yearbook, drop them into Class Reunly's yearbook import, and let it place each senior photo next to the right classmate on your roster. Once photos are matched, a slideshow plays through them - on the classmate list and on a big screen at the event. No video-editing software, no building a PowerPoint by hand: the roster you already keep becomes the slideshow.
Can classmates be matched to their old yearbook photo automatically?
Yes. When you import yearbook pages, Class Reunly reads the names and faces and lines each senior photo up with the matching classmate on your roster, so you're confirming matches rather than cropping hundreds of photos by hand. You can fix any it gets wrong, and classmates can also send in their own yearbook page if the committee is missing it - there's a drop-off right on the Classmates screen so pages don't have to be hunted down over email.
What is a then-and-now slideshow?
A then-and-now slideshow pairs each classmate's senior yearbook photo with a current photo, so the room watches everyone go from 18 to now. It's the single most-loved moment at most reunions - the gasps and laughter when a familiar senior portrait dissolves into who that person is today. In Class Reunly the 'then' comes from the imported yearbook photos and the 'now' comes from the profile photos classmates add when they RSVP, so it assembles itself as people sign up.
Do I need to build a PowerPoint for the reunion slideshow?
No - that's the old way, and it's a weekend of work that's out of date the moment another classmate RSVPs. Class Reunly generates the slideshow from your live roster, so it always reflects who's actually coming and includes the latest photos. You can play it as an ambient loop on the classmate list all night or put it up on the big screen during the program. When a straggler confirms the week of the event, they're in the slideshow with no extra work.
What if the yearbook scans come from an old scanner or phone?
That's expected - most committees are working from a decades-old yearbook and whatever scanner or phone camera someone has. The import handles bulk drops and messy scans, including large batches from an old flatbed, so you can send a stack of pages at once instead of one perfect crop at a time. You confirm the matches; Class Reunly does the tedious cropping and placing.
Can the yearbook photos be used for reunion games too?
Yes. Once your yearbook photos live on the roster, they power more than the slideshow - Class Reunly's Memory Match game uses senior photos, and a 'guess who' moment is easy to run from the same set. The yearbook import is the one upload that feeds the slideshow, the roster, and the party games, so you scan the pages once and get several reunion moments out of it.
Give them the moment they came for
Upload the yearbook, and the then-and-now slideshow builds itself from your roster.