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 each 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 Plus) or 1 year ($99 Pro) | Photos "are no longer accessible" |
| GuestPix | 50 photos, no video, 30-day upload window; gallery expires 37 days after the event, deleted at 90 days | Hosted 12 to 24 months, depending on the package | Paid Extend plan, $29 to $89 by package for 12 months more (the Signature Bundle's fee is not published) |
| GuestCam | No free tier on their pricing page | Storage 12 months ($49) or 14 months ($97) | Not verified |
| Wedibox | 50 photo uploads, no video; its own pages disagree on how long the free gallery is stored | 1-year storage ($49) or 2-year gallery ($79) | Not verified |
| POV | Free up to 10 guests | No expiry published: POV says "Photos don’t expire from your gallery!" | No deadline published; photos stay hosted by POV, not in storage you own |
| WedUploader | No free tier on its pricing page (its blog still describes free collection, cap not stated); what it collects lands in your own Google Drive and never expires | Your own Google Drive; albums never expire ($49 premium package) | There is no deadline |
| Glint | Up to 50 photo and video uploads over 30 days; your own Google Drive from the first upload, where the files never expire | Your own Google Drive; the files never expire ($29 Event Pass, unlimited uploads for 12 months); Glint stores none of the guests' photos or videos on any plan | There is no deadline |
Verified from each company's published pages, except where a cell or sentence says otherwise. The prices and plan figures on this page that come from our shared competitor data were re-read on October 13, 2026. The Kululu figures here are the one-time prices its pricing page charged at that check, excluding taxes; it no longer shows the 50 percent promotion or the crossed-out list prices that earlier checks recorded. 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. For most of these products the deadline is not a flaw; it is the load-bearing wall. They soften it with longer windows and extension plans rather than remove it, because storing your photos forever, for a fee collected once, is not a business they have chosen to run. POV goes further and says "Photos don’t expire from your gallery!", but that is a promise about POV's own servers: the photos stay in its storage, under its policies, rather than in storage you own.
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 no copy. Then the files never expire, because there is no stored copy 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 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 guests' photos or videos, 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 the files never expire: there is no storage plan to extend and no download deadline to remember.
The fifth question above deserves a straight answer too: if Glint disappeared tomorrow, every photo and video 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 photo or video. The free plan collects up to 50 photo and video uploads over 30 days, and a one-time $29 Event Pass, flat at any guest count, unlocks every Glint feature, the shared gallery and live slideshow included, and unlimited uploads for 12 months from the day you create the event; 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 on the services that publish a deadline, and no deadline at all where the photos land in storage you own. 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 depending on the package, then sells Extend plans at $29 to $89 for 12 months more (the Signature Bundle's extension price is not published); its free plan takes 50 photos and no video, with a 30-day upload window, and the free gallery expires 37 days after the event and is deleted at 90 days. GuestCam publishes 12-month and 14-month storage windows. Wedibox paid plans give 1 year of storage or a 2-year gallery. POV says "Photos don’t expire from your gallery!", though the photos stay on POV's servers rather than in storage you own. WedUploader and Glint deliver photos into your own Google Drive, where the files never expire and there is no download deadline.
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 takes a paid Extend plan, $29 to $89 by package for 12 months more (the Signature Bundle's extension price is not published), and that a free gallery expires 37 days after the event and is deleted at 90 days. 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 sells Extend plans after its 12 to 24 months of paid hosting, at $29 to $89 by package for 12 months more, though the Signature Bundle's extension price is not published. 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. With Glint there is no storage to extend: your files are already in your own Google Drive at original quality, where they never expire, and Glint charges nothing to keep them there. What Glint does extend is access, at a published price: with the one-time $29 Event Pass, a free event's 30-day window becomes 12 months from the day you created it and the shared gallery and live slideshow open up, and the event upgrades in place, keeping its link and QR code, at any point in its first 12 months, even after its 30 days have ended. When the window ends, the upload page closes, along with a Pass event's shared gallery and live slideshow, and every file stays in your Drive, on your own account.
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 no copy. 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 keeps 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 the guests' photos or videos, so the files never expire and there is no storage plan to extend, and Glint removes a file from your Drive only when you delete it yourself from your Glint dashboard. Access windows apply to the upload page, gallery and slideshow, not to your photos: everything 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 photo and video uploads over 30 days, every one at original quality, and a one-time $29 Event Pass that unlocks unlimited uploads for 12 months and every Glint feature, the shared gallery and live slideshow included, flat at any guest count; both windows count from the day you create the event. 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.
