Wedding Album

I know photography can seem like a BIG expense when you first start planning your wedding, BUT an investment in a good photographer and the right photographer is money well spent.

I am all for choosing a photographer who lets you have the images on a disc so you can print away to your heart’s content and have a copy of all the images, but a good album is so important. Why?? Well I shall tell you

• An album is what you will look at time and time again, you will get the album out and show relatives and friends. You will get it out on anniversaries and look through the pages, you will show your children and in years to come you will show your grand children. Looking at the images via disc on your computer or i-pad just isn’t the same.

• Discs won’t last forever, they get lost, scratched, broken and with technology moving as fast as it is who is to say how long we will be able to use them for?

• You may decide to make up your own wedding album with the disc. I have seen lots of these books and to be honest none have ever looked that great. Photo books are a fab idea for holidays, or birthdays but for a wedding album, honestly leave it to the professionals.

• You hired a professional to take the photos so why not hire a professional to print the photos? Your photographer will be able to print out the images into a book at a high quality that will do the original photo justice.

Now I know there a many of you out there on a budget and you may feel a wedding album is just one more thing to add to the ever-growing wedding budget. Albums can start at as little as $350 and go up to as much as you want to spend, depending on the size, make and how many pages you choose. The average spend is more like $550 – $700.

The beauty of the album is it’s something you can order once the wedding is over, so not something you have to pay for straight away. You can choose the album 6 months after the wedding. Why not consider using some of you wedding present money to put towards the album?