Wedding Albums

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2021 COMPLETE WEDDINGS AND EVENTS

WEDDING ALBUMS

holding onto memories

The entrance of the bride, the vows at the altar, your first married kiss, first dance, cake-cutting, joyful smiles and a champagne toast: your photographer will capture these and other memorable images on your wedding day. Your wedding album will hold these cherished family keepsakes, preserving and showing the memories of that special day.

So make sure it is as special as the photographs it preserves. You should make the decision on what style of wedding album you want when you first make arrangements to retain a photographer. Most wedding photographers include the cost of both your and your parent’s wedding albums in their overall package and samples should be on hand for your review. There are a variety of pre-made album styles to accommodate every budget. You can also customize a wedding album from a manufacturer or engage the services of a bookbinder to create a handmade wedding album.

Wedding album manufacturers offer thousands of choices of covers, spine sizes, and mounting configurations that will enable you and your photographer to construct a unique wedding album.

If you want to preserve your wedding pictures, they can be put in a library-bound album and permanently sealed for better archival quality.

Alternatively, you can choose one that will allow you to move the pictures around. Cover choices come in everything from engraved antique leather and timeless

medieval tapestries to the wavy iridescence of silk moiré, as well as other durable man-made materials.

By having your wedding album painstakingly produced by a bookbinder using hand-made papers and hand-stitched covers and spines, your choices increase according to your imagination. The art of custom bookbindery uses the age-old techniques of hand stitching, hand turning and embossing using such materials as strong, hard-wearing calfskin or hand-tooled silk to produce beautiful and enduring wedding albums. A skilled bookbinder can create an original design destined to become a highly prized family possession.

Whether your wedding album is manufactured or handmade, acid-free pages and tissues rather than conventional matting are a must. Some matting production processes use acid in their paper, and such matting will degrade over time and chemically damage photographs. Acid-free pages and tissues can guarantee the durability of your memories. Some time after your nuptials your photographer will send you the proofs or enlarged contact sheets of your wedding photos. Although these copies may not be perfectly printed or color-corrected, they will be clear enough for you to begin to choose the photos you want to include in your wedding album.

Remember, you’re telling a story in pictures. Keep your album interesting with multi-size picture presentation, matching a large picture on one page with a facing page of smaller photos.

You could try pairing tight shots with wide perspectives, or mixing and matching black and whites with color photographs. Some couples choose to have two wedding albums, one for more formal portraits and one for candid shots.

Once you have assembled the pictures in a meaningful order, store them elegantly and request album boxes from your manufacturer or a custom box from your bookmaker.