Wedding photos thatdon't expire.
Most wedding photo galleries come with a deadline. Some free galleries are deleted within three months of the wedding; most paid ones are hosted for about a year, then held behind an extension fee. Your marriage is meant to last a lifetime. The photos of its first day should not be on a shorter contract.
Every retention policy on this page was verified from that company's own published pages on July 18, 2026.
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 "permanently deleted" and "no longer accessible". Those are real phrases from real policies, 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 | Expires 37 days post-event, permanently deleted at 90 days | Hosted 12 months from the event date | Paid Extend plan; fee unpublished |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 July 18, 2026 from each company's published pages. 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.
