There is a ton of value in having a beautiful, physical collection of your wedding photos. You went all in with the wedding decor, wedding attire, makeup and hair, everything is perfect, and in the end it is only preserved digitally? Wedding books, just like family albums will stand the test of time, and last generation after generation. There is a lot of choice when it comes to a wedding book. Materials, colors, papers and personalisation. It can be a bit much, but we are here to help you out.
It stands the test of time
One of the reasons why you should get a wedding book is reliability. Photos can be kept on a USB drive, but it might be kept in a drawer and easily forgotten about. Wedding books will stand the test of time, just like all printed books. Technology changes rapidly, and photos could get lost.
Whether its USB or HDD, or even online, data can be erased or corrupted, especially if you are not tech-savvy. These days laptops don’t even have proper ports, so with having a external drive, you might have to buy adapters just to be able to look at your own wedding photos.
Wedding books are made from high quality paper with high quality binding and materials, and offer warranty for years.
Something to treasure
Another great reason for getting a wedding book is that a wedding book is another chapter in your life story. It’s a story of that amazing day you got to spend with your loved ones, where everyone was happy and carefree. There are so many amazing moments we can include in a wedding book!
Bridesmaids and parents seeing you in a dress; arriving in that amazing old school classical car that you rented specially for this occasion; THE first look; tears from your parents as you and your significant other exchange vows; cocktail hour where everyone is carefree; decor; the perfect wedding cake…
When you visit your parents, do you go around their old albums and see you family from the way back? How things have been back then? Do your parents remember the stories from the pictures taken? A specific moment that led to it being captured? Those are the beautiful memories we need to preserve.
Wedding book as a perfect gift
Wedding books can be a great gift for parents and maid of honor as well as best man. You wedding book will probably be a larger one, but you can opt for the mini’s, with different covers and colors to suit each person!
Designing a wedding book yourself
You can design a book yourself, of course, but it takes time picking which photos you want, and we deliver a lot of them! And then you have to position them, laying it all out so it looks the best it can… We have experience doing this, and during the process of editing photos we are already thinking “oh yes, these two will form a great spread!” or “I love the emotions in this moment, so I am making this spread in black & white!”.
Making the book yourself also means you need to find the printing office and software. It is easy to start and say “I’ll come back to it later”. You may end up not doing it at all. With designing your own album, the process will likely be time-consuming, difficult and give you poor results to boot.
How do we design your wedding book?
A wedding book is all about your wedding day, and it needs to tell you about the wedding day in the most beautiful way possible.
We start with the editing. During our photo editing process, we go trough all the photos, and see what goes together. For example, we know that in the book we’ll include vows and rings on a separate spread, and something as special as that will definitely be in black and white! So with that in mind, when we design the book, we include those photos on one spread, so they all fit together in the most beautiful way.
After we designed the whole wedding book, we give it to our colleagues for check up! Two sets of eyes are better than one! When they are satisfied with the photos and design, and every spread perfectly flows into the next one, this is where you come in! We send it to your emails, and you can open your wedding book in your preferable internet browser. You include comments like, I want this picture to replace this other picture. When you are done, you send it to us and we make your changes. We will send it to you once more so you are completely satisfied with your wedding book. And after that, we send it to print! We all wait a little bit for the printing office to do their best work, and after we send your book to you!
Wedding book, family book, vacation book…
The book doesn’t have to only be about the wedding. The point is to preserve your favourite memories. Like christening of your child, birthday party, engagement photo session, a trip to your favourite destination…
Personalisation of your wedding book
There is a lot of choices here! Different materials, a lot of beautiful colors, different types of paper, engraving, foil, canvas photo, or just a simple cover? If you can’t choose, we will give our suggestion based on your wedding, decor and overall feel. There are different wedding book materials to suit everyone’s taste. There is a variety of beautiful beige tones, pastel colors, and if you like bold colors, we have those too!
Personalising the cover of your wedding book can be a challenge. We can include a small photo from your photo session, or a big one that goes over the whole book page! Your emblem in gold foil is always such an elegant choice. Or if you are into minimalism, and don’t want to divert attention from your beautiful color and material, you can opt out of personalisation!
Most couples never get around to print their images. Life goes quickly and after some years you realize you don’t have a physical reminder of your wedding day. Memories are great, but preserving them is even more important!
Making your book through your photographer, is ensuring that your beautiful wedding photos will be printed on paper with premier quality and color match. Don’t print your images at a place that will not match the professional photos you paid for.
The StoryArt or The LayFlat
Our wedding books are hand-crafted with finest materials. The StoryArt has a classical book feel while The LayFlat is modern book with flat design and thick pages. Both of our wedding books come in Panorama or Cube style! Head over to our special web page where you can see all the differences and dimensions!
