DH and I were married 5 years in December and still don't have a wedding album. My mom wants to gift us one but I don't even know where start. So can you all answer some questions so I have a better idea of how to get this done... 1) do you have a wedding album? 2) who made it (photographer or outside company) 3) what is in it? Just bride + groom? Bridal party? Family? Snippets of the entire wedding, cake cutting/garter throwing etc??
Our photographer put ours together with prints (this was before making coffee table books was all the rage). I would say that the album does a really good job of telling the story of the day. The photos progressed the way the day did. There is a combination of posed photos are well as candids. The photographers followed us throughout getting ready, pre-wedding photos, ceremony, and then the reception.
We made a big one on shutterfly. It has a few of just us (I guess you could do engagement pics if you wanted), then each getting ready, the guys, the girls, the ceremony, the all together pics and then reception pics. Like pp said, they follow the day.
1. yes 2. the photog 3 a little bit of everything - me getting ready, family pics, ceremony, first dances, some great candids, etc.
We have an old school traditional album - we were married almost 12 years ago, so it was all film. The album was part of the package as were 2 parent albums.
Yes, the photographer did ours. I guess ours is a bit out of the norm, though; we didn't have the photographer for either the "before" parts, or for the reception. We had him there for the ceremony, and then for an hour or so afterwards, which is when we took the majority of our photos. So the album is from those parts of the day, and honestly, is probably 95% just us, with a few family pics in there, and some with our MOH/Best man.
I mean, we got a lot of pictures of the before and after parts, they just were't taken by the photog and therefore don't appear in the album.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Feb 10, 2016 8:16:14 GMT -5
We have 2...our photographer made a coffee table book for us (tells the story of the day, so pictures from all through the day), and then i also got lots of prints that I put together in an album...also all through the day, but many more pics than the coffee table one.
Thanks everyone! I am going to contact local photographers and see if I give them the photos they can have one made for me. My mom really wants to make us the big, huge coffee table one. I would totally do it on shutterfly but I get so overwhelmed doing the kids birthday books on shutterfly I think I'll lose my mind. Haha.
The photographer put ours together. It has a bit of everything. Getting ready, bridal party, ceremony, reception, dance, candids.
Same here. I regretted not springing for the sturdier cardboard pages, but my glossy pages look pretty, they're just delicate. My book is hard bound with wrap around photos on the front and back.
It came with our photo package. I think it's called magazine style or something? It's leather bound with thick cardboard pages and our names and date embossed on the front
We had the option to choose photos or have the photographer design it. I chose to do it myself but in hindsight I wish I had let him do it. We have photos of just us, wedding party, the toast, cake cutting, dances, etc
We have almost never looked at ours b/c it's a very sore subject. We had a big issue with our photographer and thought she did a very poor job. Our album was not at all what we had anticipated or ordered but I couldn't find any back-up documentation and we were just done with it by the time we finally got it, well after the date. It's like a little Shutterfly book type thing. And she was quite expensive, too. Worst vendor by far of our entire wedding.
What I would want, would be a coffee-table style book with thicker pages (so it's good quality and will hold up) including both the major posed shots (wedding party, family shots, etc) and also a "story of the day" series.
Post by thecheshirekat on Feb 10, 2016 14:00:27 GMT -5
I designed my entire wedding album and printed it through a now-defunct site called Inkubook, which is similar to a MyPublisher type of site. They used to do a lot of BOGO deals, so the prices were great, and then the first set they printed for me had some slight damage to the corners from shipping and they printed me two more, so we had extra copies for both of our parents and my grandma. Because I am a crazy person, I painstakingly did the entire layout of each page in Photoshop, and it seriously took me a whole year to finally finish it. It's gorgeous and I don't regret doing it, but man, I did finally understand why photographers charge $1000+ for albums after that, haha.
Post by cabbagecabbage on Feb 10, 2016 15:09:37 GMT -5
1. Yes. 2. I made it on blurb(.)com in an afternoon. 3. It has a bit of everything but it's all our professional photos. Details, portraits, ceremony, dancing, candids. It's roughly chronological.