If your seating plan, your supplier notes, and your shared drives already live in Google Drive, there is no good reason for the event photos to land anywhere else, then need importing back in by hand.
Stop being the sorting office
Without a direct route, the Drive user becomes a manual pipeline: download from chats, save email attachments, rename, and re-upload into the right folder. Connecting Drive removes the entire round trip.
What lands where it should
- Wedding photos beside the seating plan.
- PTA uploads in the committee's shared drive.
- Team event photos next to the project they belong to.
Drive's own controls apply
Because the folder is genuinely in your Drive, its sharing links, access permissions, and shared-drive rules work exactly as they do for everything else you keep there.
And on the guest side
Guests still need no Google account of their own to upload to your event.
Common questions
Can I collect event photos directly into Google Drive?
Yes. Sign in with Google and the event folder is created in your Drive, so guest uploads land beside your other files, ready to share with a link or drop into a shared drive.
Do guests need a Google account to upload to my Drive?
No. Only the organiser connects Google Drive; guests upload from the browser with no Google account of their own.
Do Google Drive sharing settings apply to the event folder?
Yes. Because the folder is genuinely in your Drive, its sharing links, permissions, and shared-drive rules work exactly as they do for everything else there.