Wedding Photo Album

[20dnut]

I was nominated to do a wedding for a family member. It is my wedding gift to them. I wanted to spend about $75.00 for an album and nearly fell off the chair when I saw the prices of the on-line professional albums .:o
The photos are all 4X6 and there are 350 of them. I was considering getting two smaller albums, but the wife wanted to “shop around” for something better than what I could find at our department store. Does anyone know of reasonable (not a word to be used when discussing wedding I know:rolleyes: ) on-line retailers? Thanks,

[tim]

The pro albums I use cost hundreds, the best bet is to shop around different department, art, stationary, and photography stores. 350 photos is a hell of a lot, i'd not put near that many in an album, and very few of them would be 6x4's too. I'd rather have much fewer of the best photos printed large and well than all the photos printed small. Maybe do a feature album and a companion album?

[Nidz]

Yeah if you go for cloth type albums you will pay a lot no matter where you get them from. There are cheaper alternatives around but if your going for quality that will last then you will have to fork out a bit more unless you can get it at cost price or from a place that sells in bulk. If you search the forum there are other threads about albums. I posted a link to an online place that makes them up and you can arrange the pictures the way you want them and then they are professionally bound and sent out. They are however in Australia so I don't know if they will shop to Canada or not. I guess they would. http://www.momento.com.au/

[robertwgross]

Art Leather makes lots of wedding albums. But then, you better take out a bank loan to buy some of them.

I agree with Tim. There is no way that anybody will want to page through 350 wedding shots. Weed it down to some number like 50 or 100 to put into the main large print album. You can put the rest of them into some secondary/cheaper albumn.

---Bob Gross---

[NGrinerPhoto]

my only suggestion would be to make an album with iphoto on a mac

[antaine]

or download the software (free) at mypublisher.com and design your own book wth 1,2,4 photos per A4 page (landscape). Only prob is that the print at 175dpi - I was more impressed with the cover and binding than with the actual prints - they weren't bad for family gifts where quality can be a little lower, but not for prof albums.

[vwpilot]

Try www.sharedink.com, they have italian linen covered albums that you can just upload and have them do the printing. Quality is very good, but with that many photos you will probably still be over your goal.

Other option is Kolo albums. They make nice quality stuff that can be had for reasonable prices and you can then add as many pages as you need to them to make it what you want. I have used them for portfolios and client albums and they are quite nice. http://www.kolo.com/ you can find them in most decent art stores.

[smittymike19]

Try www.sharedink.com (http://www.sharedink.com), they have italian linen covered albums that you can just upload and have them do the printing. Quality is very good, but with that many photos you will probably still be over your goal.

Other option is Kolo albums. They make nice quality stuff that can be had for reasonable prices and you can then add as many pages as you need to them to make it what you want. I have used them for portfolios and client albums and they are quite nice. http://www.kolo.com/ you can find them in most decent art stores.

in order to get the nice albums from sharedinkyou have to pay a membership fee (130.00 us) then you have to pay for the book , prolly another 125 so its way above the 75 looking price

[vwpilot]

To get leather yes, but the linen book is available to anyone.

Linen Hardcover Keepsake Book
Our most popular book! Covered in finely woven bookcloth imported from Italy and features color-matched end papers. All pages are printed double-sided in full color on acid-free 100lb premium matte paper. Truly an heirloom!

SIZE: Finished book is 9" tall and 11.75" wide.

PRICING: $39.95 for the first 20 pages (10 sheets, double-sided); $1.00 each additional page.

If he is only doing 4x6 he can do several per page, granted he would probably and should probably pair it down a bit from as many as he has, but if he put 3 per page he could do about 240 photos for around $100 (80 page book). He could probably even fit 4 per page if he wanted with some slight cropping.

Its an idea, I have seen their books and probably going to be joining their photographers program as they are very nice quality.

[Mark_48]

If you have one nearby, try taking a look in a Kohl's department store. They were carrying some fairly decent albums at reasonable prices. I've bought a few there for wedding pics and the bride and groom were more than satisfied with its quality and appearance.

[smittymike19]

To get leather yes, but the linen book is available to anyone.



If he is only doing 4x6 he can do several per page, granted he would probably and should probably pair it down a bit from as many as he has, but if he put 3 per page he could do about 240 photos for around $100 (80 page book). He could probably even fit 4 per page if he wanted with some slight cropping.

Its an idea, I have seen their books and probably going to be joining their photographers program as they are very nice quality.

from what i understand what is available to everyone and what is available to the photographers members is day and night. for hwat i know, the photographers club paper book is waaay nicer. (or so i was told).

[Master-9]

Target has great albums

[antaine]

see also

www.pixbook.co.uk/

[Harry Settle]

http://www.topflightalbums.com/

I have bought from topflight, didn't think that they were unreasonably priced.

Hey! Take up a collection from various relatives.

[20dnut]

Wow, an awsome respones with excellent resources and links.:)
I have to say that the experience as a wediding photographer was mediocre at best. The bride was great, the groom was missing,:rolleyes: so I did not get many shots of the two togeather, the only shot I liked (which I blew up to 8x10 and framed), they did not. So I am going to put the pictures I have in an album from Kohls which holds 200 Pics ($25.00), let them pick the pictures they would like in the album which I have already printed (350pics)and call it a day. If this is the life of a wedding photographer, I am not sure I have a future in it, or I have to get tougher skin.

[MJP]

ok..guys..keep comming with the best album link...need more.....

[Harry Settle]

Wow, an awsome respones with excellent resources and links.:)
I have to say that the experience as a wediding photographer was mediocre at best. The bride was great, the groom was missing,:rolleyes: so I did not get many shots of the two togeather, the only shot I liked (which I blew up to 8x10 and framed), they did not. So I am going to put the pictures I have in an album from Kohls which holds 200 Pics ($25.00), let them pick the pictures they would like in the album which I have already printed (350pics)and call it a day. If this is the life of a wedding photographer, I am not sure I have a future in it, or I have to get tougher skin.

You have to start somewhere. A great deal of the wedding photography mystery is familiarity with the occasion. I did a couple of weddings in the 70's and refused to do any more, too much stress. Now that my wife and I have been doing wedding video for a couple of years, we are getting used to the goings-on and wherefores of weddings, it doesn't seem so bad. We actually become behind the scenes advisors for most of our weddings.

When they look at the photos you took, don't have them pick the ones they want. . . have them throw out the ones they absolutely don't want. . . you will come out better that way.

[kndreyn]

http://asukabook.com/index.html need approval to get their pricelist, but there's no membership fee like sharedink has. They have layout templates you can download for their different sized albums.


ok..guys..keep comming with the best album link...need more.....

[MJP]

http://asukabook.com/index.html need approval to get their pricelist, but there's no membership fee like sharedink has. They have layout templates you can download for their different sized albums.

thanks...this is kewlll....i'll be doing a wedding shot next year for my cousin....

[islandphoto]

Costco has great, leather albums

[BLINN]

Give them a nice leather album that holds 200 prints and then the rest is a nice gift box. They may want to put them in a scrapebook or with other prints from the wedding. I don't know what else to do. It was free and by the sounds of it you are not a pro wedding photographer nor want ot be. I don't even think you have to put them in an album.

[RoxanneD]

Well, this topic was started a long time ago, but just in case someone else is in the same situation and needs help, here is my input.
First, you want to make sure that no matter what album you choose, it should be archival quality (acid-free) so that it will not ruin the photos over time. As a rule, you do not want an album that has magnetic pages, they will almost always ruin the photos.
Here are a couple of places I have found which have nice albums at reasonable prices.

http://www.weddingmountain.com/c-204-view-all-wedding-albums.aspx

http://www.crgibson.com/Default.aspx?Page=2&CategoryID=11&SubCategoryID=64&SubSubCategoryID=129

Neither of these websites requires any kind of membership.
Of course, you would not be able to fit 350 photos in their albums, but I don't think you will find any standard wedding album that does.