You may hear the words “wedding album” and the image that comes to mind is the one your parents received after their wedding. The pages are faded yellow with printed images held onto them by those little corner sticker things. (Really, what are those called?) Maybe you have memories of flipping through that and chuckling at the fashion, or admiring how in love your parents looked, or reminiscing about a family member no longer with you. Wedding albums have come a long way in terms of design and quality, but the feelings and memories are the same. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Then, oh, what a story your album will tell!
We believe firmly in the value of a printed image. There is something so life giving about holding an album or printed image in your hands. Turning the pages, allowing your fingers to walk you down memory lane. Revisiting the best moments from the best day and remembering the day when your love was sealed with rings and a kiss. As your family grows and the years pass, there is a magic to being able to pull your album off the shelf and leaf through it together with your children and grandchildren. Seeing them discover a different side of you, watching them laugh at the dated fashion, and tearing up as they ooo and ahhh at your dress and how amazing you both looked.
Ashley and Rachel each have their own little ritual for their wedding albums. Ashley’s rule is that if she does anything where she puts her hands on her album, be it cleaning or moving things or whatever, she picks it up and looks through it. She stops in her tracks and relives the magic of her wedding day. Rachel is a little more linear. Every year on her anniversary, she breaks out the album and she and her husband look through it together. Since the addition of their children, they’ve started showing it to them as well.
You might be thinking, great! I want an album, and I have all the digital files so I’ll just make an album with an online company. We’ll stop you there. Helllllllll, naaaawwwwww.
Our wedding albums are in a league all their own. Handcrafted in Italy with incredible attention to detail and commitment to preserving these memories for all time, our albums are custom designed to tell the story of your wedding day beautifully and lastingly. You have the final say on the images that make the cut. The paper used to print your images is specially designed to print images with clarity, true tones, and is archival quality. This means that every time you open your album, it’s as stunning as the day it first arrived. Fading pages are a thing of the past. The images are laid out in a beautiful design and printed onto the page directly. No more corner sticker things!
The exterior is just as beautiful. There is a wide range of gorgeous leathers, linens, and fabrics to choose from. You can customize your album colors to you. If your wedding featured navy blue and gold, you can create an album that mirrors those colors in the binding and liner. Some include a treasure chest for storing this most prized possession. They are more traditional style books and more modern style ones. They’re weighty. Weighty with importance. They’re beautiful and they endure.
Because we feel so strongly about you having the ability to print your photos and hold them in your hands, all of our collections include a credit to be applied to your album. These credits put you well on your way to having the album that you truly want and will be a perfect summation of your incredible wedding day. It’s the beginning of your own little family’s story, one that we hope is added to with years of life lived together and love grown and shared.
We recognize that your wedding is also a chapter in the lives of your parents, so we have parent albums available as well! These make amazing gifts to the people who raised you and helped you realize your dreams. What better way to thank them?
Albums rock! So now what?
We love designing albums and want you to enjoy the process too! It starts with an invitation to come to our studio within just a few short weeks for the reveal of your wedding pictures and the beginnings of your album design! We can’t wait to have you over to relax with coffee or cocktails and relive all the magic of your wedding day together. This custom experience is one we savor with each couple. They’re never the same.
Once you’ve had a chance to look through your photos, we’ll show you an album pre-design that we’ve taken the liberty to put together that we feel represents your wedding day beautifully. Working together, we’ll tweak that until the design is perfectly customized to you and the moments you want to preserve in print. We are able to make these changes in the moment and show them to you. Once the inside is exactly perfect, we’ll walk you through the album styles and all the customizations. We intentionally do this in a way that frees you from the potential overwhelm and headache of album design. When the interior layout and exterior design are all set, we can get your album ordered for you! Most couples have their memories in their hands about three months after their wedding date!
What moments do you want in your wedding album? We’d love to capture them and include them in your beautifully unique wedding album for you to treasure for years to come!
