Your Album Design Experience

Crafted to Be Effortless, Beautiful, and Unforgettable

Your wedding album is more than just a book—it’s your first family heirloom. It’s the piece you’ll reach for on anniversaries, show your future children, and treasure as the years go by. We’ve carefully crafted this process to make it simple, inspiring, and collaborative.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Fill Out Album Order Form – Start by filling out this form. It lets us know your preferences and gets the design process started.
  2. Select Your Favorite Images –  You’ll receive a link to your online gallery where you can mark your favorites. From there, we’ll begin designing your first draft based on the images and your story.
  3. Review Your Initial Design – Once your first draft is ready, we’ll send you a link to view it online. This version reflects our artistic interpretation of your day—soak it in, then leave comments directly on any images or layouts you’d like to revise.
  4. Submit Your Revisions – You’ll have two rounds of revisions:
    • Round 1: Make any major changes—image swaps, layout edits, etc.
    • Round 2: Refine and finalize—small tweaks, image substitutions, and your cover choice.
      Note: Additional revisions beyond Round 2 may incur design fees.
  5. Approve & Print – Once your final design is approved, we’ll send it to professional retouching and then to print. This is when your story becomes tangible.

If you have any questions during this process, please email [email protected].

Our Recommended Cover Style

The Cameo Cover — Simple. Timeless. Personal.

cameo cutout

We love this option for its balance of sophistication and sentiment. A centered square photo is inset into the cover material of your choice, creating a clean, elegant presentation that immediately tells your story. It’s our most popular cover for a reason—and our personal favorite.

Alternate Cover Option

Debossed Covers — Understated Elegance

debossing

Add up to two lines of custom text, debossed directly into the cover. Choose from our signature blind debossing (no color) or metallic foils in gold, rose gold, or silver for a subtle shine.

Album Design Philosophy

An immense amount of time, care and detail go into the album design. The goal of the album design process is to combine our creative vision of your wedding day with your ideas in a collaborative effort to create a beautiful heirloom.

What Is our Album Style?

When designing your album our goal is to make this special heirloom timeless and elegant with clean designs.

Things We Avoid:

  • Mixing Post Production Styles – Mixing post production styles almost always creates an eyesore.  For example, having a vintage fade next to a black and white next to a vibrant colored image is simply too distracting.  We design our albums to incorporate one post production style per spread.
  • Mixing Too Many Colors – We try our best to keep the colors consistent.  For example, if the scene is an outdoor ceremony with lots of greens and natural light, we want to make sure each image on that spread fits the scene and the colors within that scene.
  • Mixing Moments – We want each spread to tell the story of one moment (or one series of moments).  A ceremony page should be devoted to the ceremony, a bridal prep spread should be exclusively bridal prep pictures, etc.
  • Cramming Too Many Images in a Page – One of our most important points of emphasis is not cramming too many images on one spread.  It may be tempting to “get the most” out of each spread by putting in dozens of images on each spread, but in the end, this typically leads to limited design options and a strong cluttered feeling.  Imagine a home with too much furniture or a phone with too many buttons.  Sometimes less is more, and this is particularly true with album design.
  • Using Image Overlays – Overlaying images is an older, dated design feature in which the designer lowers the opacity (i.e. the transparency of an image) and overlays other images on top of that image.  We feel this style dates the album spread and also clutters it up.
  • Using Floral Graphics, “Designer” Borders, and Backgrounds Other Than Black and White – Bringing in vector graphics (floral embellishments, etc.) is something we avoid to ensure an album is timeless and image-centric.  Using borders and background colors other than black and white is most often distracting.

Album Examples:

The following examples are from a 12×12 Flush Mount album.  The center fold in the middle of each spread divides it into two pages.  Before you begin the album design process, it is important for you to understand our vision for telling your story.  Here are a few sample spreads to help illustrate our album design philosophy.

Sample Spread 1 – Details

This is the first spread in an album and it is intended to set the scene. Notice that the dress is the primary focus, with the rest of the collage supporting/supplementing it.


Sample Spread 2 & 3 – Portraits

The images chosen for these spreads all share the same background making the spread look concise, clean and elegant. A thin grey border is added to images that are brighter/lighter along the edges to prevent them from blending into the white page.

Sample Spread 4 – First Look

We chose to tell the story of this first look in 4 images,  focusing on the emotions that lead to the final grand moment.


Sample Spread 5 – Bridal Party

In the following spread, we focused solely on the Wedding Party showcasing not only the beauty of their venue but the relationships and emotions of the day.


Sample Spread 6 & 7 – Details

When designing the details and ballroom spreads, we focus on the small details that work together to become the grand ceremony or reception hall.

Questions?

We’re here to help. Reach out anytime at [email protected].

Let’s create something timeless together.