After your wedding, you receive your wedding photos and videos from your photography team. You want to be able to show them to your children and grandchildren one day, so you have to handle them carefully and store them properly. Most couples are also incredibly mobile, shifting cities or countries depending on their careers, making finding reliable storage for your wedding photos and videos even more important.
After shooting hundreds of weddings, at 1Plus1 Studio we have noticed that most couples store their photos on just one storage option: a Hard Disk Drive(HDD). This is risky as HDDs are prone to failure.
Also do not rely on your photographer to store your photos and videos for you. At 1Plus1 Studio we periodically delete photos and videos we have delivered to clients keeping in line with best security and privacy practices.
The smart strategy to follow is this: Backup and then diversify your Backups.
Below are 3 ways to store your wedding photos and video and we suggest you do all 3.
1. Store Them on aN SSD (Solid State Drive)
The first way you can store your wedding photos and videos is by storing them on a Solid State Drive. An SSD is a type of storage that uses flash memory to store data. Flash memory is more durable than traditional hard drives, so it is less likely that your photos and videos will be corrupted or lost if you store them on a SSD hard drive. There are many different brands of SSD hard drives, SanDisk and Samsung are reliable ones.
A common mistake is to store the photos and videos on a hard disk drive (HDD), typically that of your desktop. These have a much higher failure rate than a Solid State Drive due to moving parts involved.
2. Store Them on the Cloud
Our favorite way to store your photos is to store them on the cloud.
There are many different cloud storage options available, such as iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Photos. Cloud storage is a great option because it offers redundancy, which means that your photos and videos will be safe even if one storage option fails.
We recommend Google Photos as the storage solution for both photos and videos. The benefits of Google Photos include its accessibility across Android, iOS and multiple browsers, superb AI based organization and searching capabilities, and great sharing features.
The app's cross-platform support means that photos can be easily accessed and shared across devices.
Its AI-based organization capabilities mean that photos can be automatically grouped into albums and collections based on their content, making it easy to find a particular photo. Google Photos also provides powerful search capabilities that allow users to search for photos by keyword, location, or even content type.
So you can search for images by faces, if they have sunsets in them or photos of a person eating food. Google photos can also search inside videos for special moments!
Google Photos provides excellent sharing features. Photos can be easily shared with friends and family, both through the app and via email, text message, and social media. Shared albums can also be created, allowing multiple people to add photos to the same album.
3. Print the Photos into Albums and Wall Prints
The third way you can store your wedding photos is by printing the photos. Printing your photos will allow you to create physical copies that you can hold onto for years to come. You can frame your favorite photos and hang them up in your home, or put them in a photo album so you can look at them whenever you want. Printing your photos is also a great way to share them with family members who don't have access to the internet or are not comfortable with technology like your grandparents.
Infact we wrote an entire aricle about wedding albums: 7 Reasons Why You Should Invest In A Wedding Album