Wedding photos thatdon't expire.
Most wedding photo galleries come with a deadline. Your marriage is meant to last a lifetime. The photos of its first day should not be on a shorter contract.
Retention policies on this page were verified from that company's own published pages, except where a cell or sentence says otherwise.
Nobody reads a retention policy while planning a wedding. The countdown is usually discovered afterward, in an email about a gallery that is about to close.
It is an understandable oversight. In the months before the day, you are comparing upload counts and QR signs, not asking what happens to the photos in year two. The services know this, and the deadline rarely appears in the headline; it lives in the help center, in phrases like "no longer accessible". That is a real phrase from a real policy, quoted in the table below.
To be fair to the hosted services: storage costs money, and a one-time fee cannot fund hosting forever. The clock is not a scam; it is the honest consequence of their architecture. But it is a consequence you are allowed to opt out of entirely, and most couples are never told that. If you are still deciding how to gather photos in the first place, start with our guide to collecting wedding photos from guests.
These are the published policies of the major guest photo services, taken from their own pricing and help pages. Cells marked "not verified" are details we could not confirm from the company's public pages.
| Service | Free plan clock | Paid plan clock | After the deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kululu | Active 24 hours, saved 7 days | Saved 3 months ($39 (list $79) Plus) or 1 year ($99 (list $199) Pro) | Photos "are no longer accessible" |
| GuestPix | 50 photos, 30-day upload window; retention not published | Hosted 12 to 24 months from the event date | Paid Extend plan; fee unpublished |
| GuestCam | No free tier on their pricing page | Storage 12 months ($49) or 14 months ($97) | Not verified |
| Wedibox | 50 uploads; storage duration unstated | 1-year storage ($49) or 2-year gallery ($79) | Not verified |
| POV | Free up to 10 guests | No published storage-retention commitment | Not verified |
| WedUploader | Your own Google Drive; albums never expire | Same; add-ons change features, not retention | There is no deadline |
| Glint | Your own Google Drive from the first upload | Same; Glint stores nothing on any plan | There is no deadline |
Verified from each company's published pages, except where a cell or sentence says otherwise. The August 29, 2026 pass covered two services: Kululu's prices were re-verified against its own pricing page and corrected, and GuestPix was checked and its free tier confirmed, with no other service re-checked on that date. The Kululu figures here are what it charges under the 50 percent promotion that was running at every check we have made, with its list price beside each. Policies change; the full comparison of all seven services lives in our 2026 guide to wedding photo sharing apps.
Look again at the table and notice what actually divides it. It is not price, polish, or generosity. It is a single architectural decision: whose storage holds the photos.
When a service stores your photos on its own servers, every one of its business realities becomes your problem. Its hosting bills, its pricing changes, its policies, its longevity: all of it stands between you and your wedding. The deadline is not a flaw in these products; it is the load-bearing wall. They can soften it with longer windows and extension plans, but they cannot remove it, because storing your photos forever, for a fee collected once, is not a business.
The alternative is structural, not promotional: the photos never enter the service's storage at all. Guest uploads pass straight through into storage the couple already owns, and the service keeps nothing. Then there is no clock, because there is nothing for a clock to count down to. Glint works this way, delivering every upload into the couple's own Google Drive, and in fairness, so does WedUploader, whose free albums never expire for exactly the same reason. This is not a feature one company invented; it is simply the honest way to build a photo collector, and any service could choose it.
Whatever you choose, including something not on this page, ask these five questions first. A good service answers all of them in writing, on its public pages, before taking your money.
Where do the files physically live?
On your storage, or on theirs? This single answer predicts everything else. If the answer is their servers, every other promise comes with an implicit clock attached.
What is the exact date my photos are deleted?
Not roughly. A date. If the service cannot name one, or publishes no retention commitment at all, you are trusting your wedding to a policy you have never seen.
What does extending cost, and is the price published?
An unpublished extension fee is an open-ended bill with your memories as collateral. You will be quoted the price at the exact moment you are least able to refuse it.
Can I download everything, in original quality, today?
Some free tiers offer no bulk download at all, and some plans never promise original quality. If the only copy that exists is compressed, that compression is permanent.
If this company shut down tomorrow, what would I lose?
The honest test of any photo service. If the answer is everything, the photos were never really yours. If the answer is nothing, you have found the right architecture.
Glint's answer to the expiry question is that we refuse to hold your photos in the first place. From the very first guest upload, every photo and video lands in your own Google Drive, at original quality. Glint keeps none of your media, connects to your Drive with one of the most limited permissions Google offers, and stores only the small details needed to run your upload page. So there is nothing to expire, nothing to extend, and no deadline to remember.
The fifth question above deserves a straight answer too: if Glint disappeared tomorrow, every photo would still be exactly where it belongs, in your Drive, on your account, in original quality. You would lose an upload page. You would not lose a single memory. The free plan collects up to 50 uploads over 30 days, and a one-time Event Pass unlocks unlimited uploads; on either plan, delivery to your Drive works the same way.
How long do wedding photo sharing apps keep photos?
It varies more than most couples expect, from days to a couple of years. Verified from each service's own pages: Kululu saves free galleries for 7 days, Plus galleries for 3 months, and Pro galleries for 1 year. GuestPix hosts paid galleries for 12 to 24 months from the event date depending on the package, then requires a paid Extend plan; its free plan takes 50 photos with a 30-day upload window, and it does not publish how long a free gallery is kept. GuestCam publishes 12-month and 14-month storage windows. Wedibox paid plans give 1 year of storage or a 2-year gallery. POV publishes no storage-retention commitment. WedUploader and Glint deliver photos into your own Google Drive, so there is no deadline at all.
What happens when a wedding photo gallery expires?
Each service words it differently, and the wording is worth reading. Kululu says that after the saved period photos are no longer accessible. GuestPix says keeping a paid gallery past its hosting window requires their Extend plan, whose fee is not published, and publishes no retention figure for free galleries that we could find. GuestCam publishes clear storage windows, but we could not confirm from its public pages what happens after they end. The practical translation: whatever the wording, the deadline is real, and the safe assumption is that anything you have not downloaded by then is gone.
Can we extend a gallery before it expires?
Sometimes, at a price that is not always knowable in advance. GuestPix offers a paid Extend plan after its 12 to 24 months of paid hosting, but does not publish the fee. Kululu's plans have fixed saved periods, and after they end its pages say photos are no longer accessible. The deeper problem is structural: an extension resets the clock, it does not remove it. When the new window runs out you are making the same decision again, this time about photos you already paid to collect.
How do we make sure our wedding photos never expire?
Choose architecture, not promises. A service can only delete what it stores, so pick one where the photos land in storage you own from the start. WedUploader and Glint both work this way: guest uploads go directly into your own Google Drive, and the service itself keeps nothing. Glint delivers at original quality; WedUploader's own pages attribute original quality to their paid bundle, so ask them what the free tier does. After the wedding your photos are simply files in your Drive, subject to nobody's hosting calendar. Failing that, set a reminder to download everything from a hosted gallery well before its deadline.
Does Glint ever delete our photos?
No, because Glint never has them. Every photo and video a guest uploads is delivered straight into your own Google Drive, at original quality, from the very first upload. Glint stores none of your media, so there is nothing on our side to expire, extend, or delete. Even the limits on our free plan apply to the collection window, not to your photos: anything already delivered to your Drive is yours, forever, on your own account.
Is Glint free?
Glint has a free plan that collects up to 50 uploads over 30 days, and a one-time Event Pass for unlimited uploads. The 30 days is how long the free upload page collects, not how long your photos last: everything delivered to your Drive stays there, on your own account, with no deadline.
