Shared album

A shared wedding album, through the eyes of the people you love

Hundreds of photos are taken at the party, and almost none of them reach you. Ring’s shared album brings them together in a folder in your own Google Drive: guests scan the QR code on the table and upload right there.

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The most honest photos of your wedding end up on other people’s phones

Your photographer captures what was planned: the entrance, the vows, the cake, the family portraits. But a wedding also happens where they aren’t looking. At your college friends’ table, on the dance floor when grandma decided to dance, in the hug from someone who traveled for hours to be there.

Those photos exist. Every guest leaves with dozens of them on their phone. The trouble is that they almost never reach the couple. They get forgotten in the camera roll, show up in a story for a day, or trickle in through messaging apps, compressed, blurry and scattered across group chats.

Asking afterwards doesn’t work well either. A week after the wedding nobody remembers to look for them, and you don’t want to chase people one by one. When the ask comes at the right moment, during the party and with an easy way to send, the photos arrive.

How the shared wedding album works

A folder in your own Google Drive, open to anyone with the link, and a QR code card for the tables. It takes about five minutes to set up.

1
Create the album in the app
Connect your Google account and Ring creates a “Guest photos” folder in your Drive, ready to take photos from anyone with the link.
2
Print the table card
Ring draws a card with your names and the album’s QR code. Save it to your phone, print it and leave it on the tables, at the bar or by the entrance.
3
Guests upload on the spot
Pointing a camera at the code opens the folder in the browser, where guests upload the photos they took, without installing Ring or signing up for it.
4
Remind, then lock the album
The next day the app helps you remind your guests with a message ready to send. Once the photos are in, lock the album: everyone can still look, nobody can add or delete anything.

Made for the photos to arrive, and to stay yours

At the quality they were taken
Photos go from your guest’s phone straight to Drive, without the compression of messaging apps. Good enough to print and frame.
In your Google Drive, not ours
The photos live in a folder you own. Ring keeps no photos: only the folder’s link, and it can only see the folder it created.
Lock it without losing anything
Locked, the album is view-only: guests can open the photos but can’t add, change or delete anything. You can unlock it whenever you like.
A thank-you that comes with the photos
After the wedding, if you choose, your RSVP page and Save the Date thank your guests and link to the locked album.

Shared album: frequently asked questions

How do we collect our guests’ wedding photos in one place?

Create a shared album in Ring. It makes a folder in your own Google Drive, open to anyone with its link, and a table card with its QR code. Guests scan the code at the party and upload their photos from the browser, at full quality, with no app to install. The photos stay in your Drive.

Do guests need to download an app?

No. The QR code opens the folder in the phone’s browser. Guests who have the Google Drive app can upload through it, but they don’t have to, and nobody needs to install Ring.

Do guests need a Google account to upload?

To upload, Google asks guests to be signed in to a Google account, which most already are through Gmail or an Android phone. To just look at the photos, no account is needed.

Where are the photos stored?

In a folder in the Google Drive of whoever created the album. Ring stores no photos and can’t see the rest of your Drive. If you disconnect the album in the app, the folder and the photos stay where they are.

Does a shared album replace a photographer?

No, and it isn’t meant to. Your photographer takes the photos you planned. The album gathers what only your guests saw: behind the scenes, the tables, the dance floor, the candid moments.

When should we create the album?

A few weeks before the wedding, so there’s time to print the cards. Ring puts that task in your plan at the right moment, and the day after the party it reminds you to ask your guests for their photos.

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