FAQS Wedding Albums Australia

In an era dominated by digital content, why is it important to experience your wedding photos in a physical album or photo book?

Receiving your photos is the final chapter to wrapping up months of planning and finally celebrating your big day. Next comes printing an album. Experiencing your wedding day memories in a tactile format such as an album is a meaningful way to hold milestone moments close to your heart and a timeless keepsake you can enjoy for many years.

What you should know about our coffee table photo albums?

Our coffee table worthy albums are a modern keepsake you can physically hold in your hands. To experience printed photos in a tactile way is wonderful and nostalgic. The Coffee Table Book has been designing wedding albums for couples since 2006. Over the years we have acquired knowledge in print design, a thing or two about telling a love story and curated a collection of the best wedding albums Australia has to offer. Explore our Wedding Albums and all the beautiful cover options, endless customisations and be inspired by other couples albums.

Yes, wedding albums remain popular for their timeless appeal. They offer a tangible, modern way to preserve meaningful memories and display your precious photos. Photo albums offer a tactile experience that digital photos can’t. Our premium wedding photo album is an excellent choice for a lasting keepsake.

The evolution of photo books.

We were there when digital printing was introduced to the Australian market, making it possible to print short-run photo books. Prior, it was only possible to use print presses for large print runs in the thousands at a time. The Coffee Table Book business was born out of new technology and the ability to print photo books in short-runs. We jumped onboard the photo book train in 2006 and have enjoyed watching the advancements in digital printing grow to what we offer today. One-of-a-kind photo books are a brilliant way to preserve important events and memories; including weddings, elopements, engagements, and updating the family photo album.

What you should know about our wedding photo books?

Our premium magazine-style wedding photo books are a great budget-friendly alternative to the classic wedding album. Proving popular with couples since we first launched them in 2013. The editorial format allows us to have fun with the design by introducing written content. Through creative page layouts and being playful with fonts, we scatter your vows, speeches and any written content supplied around your wedding photos. This format means you get to tell a more intimate and colourful version of your love story.

The benefits of wedding photo books.

Photo books are more timeless than digital photos. Computers and harddrives can crash, lose your phone, hacked and locked out of your social media account. You don’t need a computer, phone and a password to access photos in a printed album or book. Simply pick up your photo book and enjoy. Technology will inevitably change and digital media as we know it might become outdated — but your photo book will always have a place. We love flicking through our own photo books as a family, each turn of the page has us stopping at a photo and reminds us of the person, a place or story. Photo books are great conversation starters.

What’s different about The Coffee Table Book albums and photo books?

What distinguishes us is thoughtful expert photo curation and professional wedding album design. The benefits of working with a wedding album designer are many. Working with us you have a dedicated team of talented Australian designers, professional printmakers and artesian bookbinders to deliver meticulously crafted Australian-made photo albums and premium photo books for you and your family to enjoy for many years. A tailored personal experience—making The Coffee Table Book the standout choice to create your memorable wedding day keepsake. Read reviews from happy couples.

How is the Wedding Magazine different to the Wedding Album?

The first main difference is the magazine has a softcover, a heavy-weight paper stock for the cover featuring beautiful photos on the cover. Whereas the albums having a much thicker sturdy cover, in either a leather or fabric material or a photo-wrap option.

The second main difference is the thickness of the internal pages. The magazines are printed on lightweight paper stock, whereas the albums are a heavy-weight paper stock that can’t bend or be folded.

Due to the different materials and manufacturing process used to produce the wedding magazine, they cost less to produce. Therefore the magazine is a budget-friendly alternative wedding album — and why we can offer them at a more affordable price than the wedding photo albums.

The albums are designed to display 100-250 of the best images from the wedding day. Whereas the magazine can hold hundreds of photos as well as include words – from sentimental song lyrics to stories about the couple, and their personal vows.

One thing the Wedding Magazine and Wedding Albums have in common, they both are designed to be left on your coffee table to enjoy your best ever day memories regularly.

Why print our wedding photos?

Throughout history, printed photos have served as a way to view our ancestors and reveal details about our past. The photos can help you better understand the people who have shaped who you are today. Your photos will become an important part of the legacy you leave behind. While it may be hard to picture your future children and grandchildren flipping through photos of your wedding day, these images become more precious and priceless as time goes by. With each turn of the page, you will be transported back to the happy memories of your wedding day.

What’s a cost-effective alternative to a wedding album?

Photo books are a cost-effective alternative to wedding albums.

Our magazine-style photo books allow for a more personalised and detailed account of your wedding day story through combining photographs and written words.

Custom designed by our skilled designers using modern editorial layouts, stylish fonts and fashion-inspired magazine covers for a cool coffee table book.

How many photos typically fit in a photo album?

The wedding album includes the first 15 spreads (30 pages) and can fit around 50 to 120 photos. This allows for a carefully curated selection of key moments as a representation of the day. Additional pages can be added up to 45 spreads (90 pages) to include more photos and more meaningful moments.

The wedding magazine comes in 3 sizes — 100 page, 200 page and 300 page editions. The magazines have thinner pages and are designed to hold a lot more photos than an album, literally hundreds of photos to include all the key moments and more.

Which is better — a wedding album or photo book?

Picking the right product to display your photos is a great first step.

We offer two products — the luxurious Fine Art Photo Albums and a cost effective Wedding Photo Book.

Each has endless cover customisation options to make which ever product you choose uniquely yours.

Refer to our Compare our Products guide to help choose the right product for displaying your photos.

What is the average cost of a wedding album?

Prices vary based on factors like size, materials, and customisation options.

High-end luxury albums with premium features start from $850 into the thousands of dollars.

We believe printing your photos in a wedding album is worth it! We might be slightly bias (haha). Seriously, we do believe wedding photo albums are absolutely worth the investment. They are a reminder of what is beautiful about your love story.

A wedding album will become even more priceless over the years because an album features not only your wedding day memories but photos of your loved ones.

Your wedding album is most likely your very first family photo album and first heirloom.

We dive more into why couples should invest in an album in our article on How Much Does A Wedding Album Cost?

What wedding album cover options are there?

We just about cover every aesthetic with our wedding album covers. Our Fine Art Albums have the most cover choices from leathers to fabrics including neutral, pastels and bold colours. From minimalist modern to creative cover designs creating unique personalised photo albums.

Neutral Minimalist Aesthetics

For those that love a minimalist monochrome aesthetic our Luxe Album Series is inspired by the Tom Ford coffee table books and will sit nicely on your coffee table next to your favourite art, fashion, architectural and photography books.

Hey colour lovers!

Our Luxe Colour Albums plays on colour and design especially for those couples that aren’t afraid to use a pop of colour. Our collection of colourful wedding albums and unique photo books come in hardcover and softcover formats. Choose from a variety of playful cover designs, including fashionable colours and modern typography for a unique and unforgettable photo album.

Do you include a photo curation and album design service?

Yes, we love helping time-poor couples create their wedding album.

Once we have received your order and images, we start the process by curating your photo gallery down to the best 200-300 images to use in the design. That’s a huge time-saver for you!

We draw on our experience and skills in graphic design, photography, photo editing and storytelling to create beautifully designed albums.

We have been designing high quality wedding albums and photo books for close to 20 years and have received kind words from many happy couples to backup it up.