How to Avoid the Wedding Album Woes

Planning the wedding of your dreams, and want to make sure you have the perfect wedding album to capture all those wonderful moments and emotions from your wedding day? That’s no small task, and while you may be up to the challenge, you definitely want to avoid the wedding album woes. Find out how to ease the post-wedding stress on yourselves AND still get the perfect wedding album you’ve been dreaming of.

Ok, so admit it. You’ve given at least some thought to putting together your own wedding album. Theoretically, it is possible; theoretically it will be a fun and relaxing experience. But, things don’t always happen the way we’ve planned. Maybe you know someone who planned on putting together her own wedding album…. and is still working on it, even after several years! Before you finalize your decision to create your own wedding album, why not listen to those who’ve been there? Who? Well, I’m going to tell you my own wedding album experience in a minute, but you can also hear from some other not-so-recently wedded brides in an article by Jessica Heasley, a writer for Columbia News Service. Heasley discusses the post-wedding experience for several do-it-yourself wedding album brides in her article, “After the ‘I do,’ Brides Say ‘I Don’t’ to Finishing Those Elaborate Wedding Albums.”

My own wedding experience, actually, is what led me to including custom album design with every wedding I photograph. While my husband and I had a great experience with our wedding photographer before and during the wedding, where it fell short for us was afterwards. We had experienced great service throughout the entire planning process, but when it came down to our wedding album, we felt like we were left to fend for ourselves.

Initially, we thought, “ok, no big deal, we can do this!” And so we sat down for several late nights of picking and choosing which images were (or weren’t) worthy to be included in our wedding album. At the end of the week we figured we had a good variety of images for our photographer to put into the album. Somewhere along the line there was a miscommunication — not only did we need to select the images that we would want displayed in our album, but we had to sit down and think about the order, the size, and the arrangement of the images in our album. It all became overwhelming, especially when you realize that the wedding is over… and you really just want to be done with the remaining wedding tasks! At that point, my husband and I really just wanted to be done with the whole ordeal, but unfortunately we had more wedding album planning to do before we could tackle our thank-you notes.

With our post-wedding experience in mind, Betsy’s Photography offers wedding packages that include both wedding photography coverage and custom-designed wedding albums. There is nothing better than having the photographic artist who created your wedding images also design your wedding album. Besides having the luxury of someone else do all the work for you (which you definitely deserve), your album will seem more complete, and possess that extra creative “oomph” too! Of course, at this point, I could tell you all about my artistic training and knowledge of photography, art, and design, but I figure you know that by know, so I’ll spare you all the details! What it really boils down to is this: your wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime celebration. And you’ve already decided you want a professional wedding photographer to capture your wedding memories, so why not go one small step further and entrust your wedding album design to a professional photographic artist?

A little concerned about whether your album will truly reflect the emotions and memories of your wedding day, if you’re not the one designing it? Don’t be! When you trust Betsy’s Photography you will have plenty of time to discuss your tastes, your style, and even your likes and dislikes. By taking the time to talk with you beforehand, I’ll be able to do an even better job of capturing your memories — and you will be confident that your wedding album will be everything you’ve always dreamed.

Just in case you’re not completely convinced — the wedding albums we design come with a guarantee! You’ll have thirty days after receiving your album to make sure you love it. If you’re unhappy, we will sit down, discuss your album, and make a one-time change to your album so that it really can be the perfect album for you. Have we had any takers on this guarantee? No… All our clients have absolutely loved their wedding albums!

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