It wasn't long ago that Dean and I were
planning our own wedding and it was very important to me to make our families
love stories part of our day. We were both lucky to have parents and
grandparents whose love for each other showed us how to love ourselves, and to
celebrate this on our wedding day was a way to honor them and give thanks. This
first started as a project to have their wedding pictures displayed at our
reception, however it quickly turned into a fun way to reminisce and learn
about their stories and their own wedding days.
You imagine your parents as just that,
parents... they were never young, they were never so passionate and in love
that that couldn't think of anything greater than marrying the love of their
lives. But these pictures tell a different story, they share the image of two
people madly in love, worrying about what colors to choose, where to hold the
reception, what flowers to hold. You quickly realize how precious each wedding
picture has become to the story of their lives, capturing every detail of the
decisions they made for one of the most important days of their lives.
Seeing them in this way for the first time, I
noticed Grandma looked gorgeous; she was itty bitty and didn’t have gray hair!
Grandpa looked so tall and handsome; they made a beautiful couple. I
enjoyed looking at my parent’s wedding album and hearing their love story, and
even what they were thinking when they chose peach and brown as their colors.
As they each showed us their pictures and flipped through their wedding album
pages, they shared their stories and what they were feeling during those
moments. This was a special time in their lives and the reminiscing over their
pictures before our wedding is a memory that stands out to me as a favorite in
our wedding planning.
Weddings
are such a celebration and amazing time in our lives. There is much love and
excitement that weddings will bring. Pictures become priceless memories.
Couples often ask themselves if they really need a wedding album. Wedding blogs
that try to help a couple “plan” their wedding often suggest saving money by
just having the photographer provide them with a disk of images. Is this really
better for you, the client?
Why not just get the disk?
An image disk is important and each couple is
provided one with all of your digital pictures. Along with the disk, you
receive the copyrights to reproduce the images as you wish. Considering this,
why can’t the couple just make their own album?
Wedding blogs often provide a source for
online companies that will show how easy it is to make your own album at a
fraction of the cost by placing images into some of their pre-designed
templates… if and when, of course, the couple gets around to doing it. Couples
always have the best intentions to make their own albums, but life gets busy.
There is the honeymoon and the thank you cards, and the settling in . . . then
work, home, maybe even having kids. Everyday life happens and those good
intentions can easily end up as a half started attempt to create an album of
your own. So what is the benefit to getting a professionally designed wedding
album?
It’s about preserving your investment
Your wedding images are intended to be
presented in print form, and are processed in a way to optimize their beauty
when viewed as professionally made prints. Quality handmade wedding albums
incorporate professional image printing into the album making process. The
professional album is made to last as long, if not longer, than the memories so
that it can be passed down generations.
This is why you hire a professional
photographer who has access to high quality, archival prints and albums.
It means every bit of your album from the pages, the prints, the glue used to
bind the prints to the pages, the UV coating on top of the images, the fabric
and thread used to bind the book, the base of the cover and the leather or
fabric covering are going to look the same 50 years in the future as they do
now. Yes, you can print an album through a company on your own, but will
they preserve the memories of your wedding beyond your lifetime?
It’s about your timeless love story
When the wedding day is over, and the cake has
been eaten, your wedding dress goes into storage and the flowers wilt . . .
those items have served their purpose. So what do you have left to remember
your wedding day? You have your marriage,
your rings, many memories, and the pictures. It is your choice on how you
choose to display and honor those pictures. Your photos will live on, bringing joy to you and future
generations as you relive the magic of your day. Bearing these things in mind,
I believe it is essential that these timeless images, these amazing pieces of
art that are so personal to you, be displayed in the best way possible: A
custom-designed wedding book. Wedding albums truly become wedding books that tell the story
and beginning of their new life together. An album will tell the story of your
wedding like a box of loose prints or a disk of images never could. A
professionally produced, high-quality wedding album showcases the emotions and
memories of your wedding day in a uniquely designed narrative fashion.
We focus on designing an album that captures
and tells the story of all of the details, emotions and people who shared your
day with you! We want our brides and grooms to cherish their albums as a family
heirloom that they can share with generations to come. It is timeless and will
always provide you with a beautiful way to share your special day . . . which
is the main reason that you wanted your wedding photographed by a professional
to begin with.
XXOO, Kristin
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