HAVING The Coffee Table Book DESIGN YOUR WEDDING ALBUM, feels like you've got your own PERSONAL designer at your finger tips. Your album will have a polished professional look without it taking up countless hours of your time.
FAQS
- What is the purpose of a Wedding Album?
- What is the Photo Album Design Service?
- What is our Photo Curation Service?
- Wedding Album Design backed by 20 Years Experience
- A Professional Wedding Album That Lasts
- How much does Professional Album Design cost?
- I’m not sure what Album Cover would look best with my photos?
- Can I make changes to my Photo Album Design before it goes to print?
- How many revisions are included?
- Can I add or remove photos once the Design Process has started?
- Is it possible to make changes or design the album myself?
- How long does the Design Process take?
- 4 Tips for Making a Memorable Wedding Album
What is the purpose of a Wedding Album?
You’ve taken months to plan your special day down to every last detail, resulting in an overwhelming quantity of gorgeous photos to show for it.
An album is a time-capsule to celebrate the day the two of you commit your lives to each other. Saying I-do is a pretty big deal, and we believe by creating a wedding album you are investing in your family.
A keepsake that holds all the important moments and beautiful details together in one convenient album.
What is the Photo Album Design Service?
Time-poor, lack the patience or skills to design your own wedding album? Our photo album design service is perfect for you. You’ll save hours by having an experienced designer create the album, exactly as you envisioned your day unfolding.
We understand putting an album together can be an intimidating task:
- The difficult decision of choosing the best photos out of hundreds.
- A keepsake you are going to have forever! Forever is a mighty long time.
- The pressure to want to do your wedding day memories justice.
- And then there is the expense of an album.
We’re not saying don’t enjoy your digital photos, just that printed photographs laid out in a gorgeous album on beautiful paper is a different way to experience your treasured memories. Our fine art photo albums will have you falling back in love with your wedding day.
What is our Photo Curation Service?
Where do you even begin sorting through hundreds of photos. Putting together a wedding album can feel daunting, but that’s where The Coffee Table Book’s wedding photo curation service comes in. Our designers have close to 20 years experience creating photo albums for wedding photos.
Wedding Album Design backed by 20 Years Experience
Couples have been trusting The Coffee Table Book to create their wedding album since 2006. We believe in printing photos where each photo can be enjoyed.
Hopefully we can share the journey with you in creating your first photo album and treasured family heirloom.
A Professional Wedding Album That Lasts
Making a wedding album to hold all your treasured memories that will stand the test of time is an important decision.
Determining how many photos you want to include? How to achieve a wedding album design that will be timeless? What will the album cover look like? All questions we can help answer and deliver.
Our wedding album design service includes photo curation and designing beautiful page layouts using your wedding photography. You still get to review the design and make changes to ensure all your favourite wedding photos are included. We will collaborate with you to ensure you are 100% happy before going to print.
How much does Professional Album Design cost?
All our photo albums include complimentary album design because we believe every couple deserves to have a professionally designed album. We also believe its beneficial to step away from designing the album yourself to enjoy the finished album without the frustrations that may arise from the time consuming task of selecting your favourite images or figuring out how to use design software. We will happily receive your complete set of images and curate them down to a more manageable quantity. Then allow our design team to put together a first draft of your album. All designs include ample revisions, to ensure you’re perfectly happy with the design before the album is sent to print.
The cost of the album depends on how many pages are included in the album, you’ll find all the costs in our price guide.
I’m not sure what Album Cover would look best with my photos?
No problem, we’re happy to help guide you. Give us an indication of the style or aesthetic you like, or let our design team surprise you with some options on what that they think would work well with your wedding photos. We’ll work with you until we find something you really love.
Can I make changes to my Photo Album Design before it goes to print?
Absolutely Yes! During the review process you have ample opportunity to request changes. Once you’re completely happy with the design, we require any final payments owing and then the album design is sent off to be printed.
How many revisions are included?
While most customers are happy with the design after 2-3 rounds, your wedding album is an investment and its important to us that you are 100% happy. We’ll continue to make changes for reasonable requests until you are happy.
Can I add or remove photos once the Design Process has started?
Yes. While we include an initial photo curation as part of the service, our 20 years experience means we have built up a good understanding of what images are important to couples, and usually helps minimise unnecessary back and forth with changes, but we will happy add or remove photos from the design during the review process.
Is it possible to make changes or design the album myself?
We are a design studio so no we don’t allow clients to make changes or design the album. Our past couples love having an experienced photo album designer’s help. If you prefer having more control over the process, a DIY solution that offers templates is probably better suited to your needs.
How long does the Design Process take?
Our designer will have your first draft to you within 10-15 business days. After this, it depends on how fast you can send us your feedback, change requests are generally made within 5 business days. Once your album design is approved, manufacture takes 3-4 weeks plus delivery.
4 Tips for Making a Memorable Wedding Album
1. Choosing the Most Important Images and Your Favourite Wedding Photos
Deciding what images to put in your wedding album might seem daunting when your photographer has provided you with hundreds of photos to choose from. How many photos should go into your wedding album? It’s your wedding album at the end of the day so you put in as many as you desire.
Remember we do offer a photo curation service and can help select the photos for the first design draft. Then during the review process you can make sure all your favourites are included.
However, if you would like to select your favourites, go through each section of your photo gallery and add your favourites to a separate folder. Follow your instincts as usually its the best indicator for picking the images that stand out and mean the most to you.
When we are curating the photo gallery, we always like to include detail photos too, as they help add interest to the page while adding reminders of the personal touches you included on your day. Naturally key moments are selected as well as a good selection of your loved ones.
2. Storytelling
Wedding albums are typically laid out in a chronological order. The opening spread could be a hero image of the couple or a location landscape to set the scene for the day.
Your wedding album should tell an authentic story of the day as it unfolds. Starting with a few pages of the bride and groom getting ready. Making sure to include details as well as candids of the bride with her bridesmaids as they get ready for the day, and the same goes for the groom and his groomsmen.
If the bride and groom chose to have a first look then this would follow the getting ready images but before the ceremony. Also depending if the couple choose to have their wedding party portraits before the ceremony they would also appear here.
Then the ceremony, followed by congratulations, a group photo, family portraits and cocktail hour. The couple often then leave with the wedding party for their photoshoot. A mixture of romantic portraits of the couple and fun wedding party images.
The reception pages generally start with details of the reception room and wedding party entrance. Depending on whether the couple are having a traditional or non-traditional reception, the order of events might differ or some things might be even skipped, but a general outline of reception events include speeches, cake cutting, first dance and the party and d-floor action.
Each section of the day will generally have 3-5 spreads each with around 2-8 photos per spread that cover the same subject and relate to each other and in the same setting or lighting.
3. Minimalist Album Design & Page Layouts
When creating the wedding album design, we like a minimalist approach allowing the photos to breathe on the page and tell the story. We like full page images for impact and especially hero images running across the double-page spread for show-stopping memories. Series of photos are a create way of telling a story too.
Our design style avoids cluttered busy pages. We don’t use design embellishments, busy layouts or overlapping images as those features quickly date your album. Our approach is to create a timeless wedding album that you can look through now or in 20 years time and enjoy the memories as if it were yesterday.
4. Make A Statement With An Impressive Personalised Album Cover
A stylish cover will make a great first impression before leading in to your wedding day memories. Whether it’s a leather, linen or photo-wrap cover, you want something you love and reflects your personal style or the wedding day theme.
There are endless customisation options available to personalise your album. From neutral colours to bold colours, to creative cover designs and a number of embossing colours.
Ready to get started designing your wedding album? Explore the album features including formats, sizes and cover options. Get started today!