Wedding Blog

We’ve been married over 1 1/2 years at this point. I was pretty quick about making little thank-you albums for my two bridesmaids, and then making bigger hardcover albums for our parents, all Apple iPhoto books… and then… yeah. I ran out of steam. Our photographer gave us all digital images and he printed up his 10 favorites into a nice little proof album for us, and that’s the only wedding album we have: 10 pictures.

Do you know if Queensberry works with individuals, or do they only work with professional photographers? I love paging through my parents’ wedding album, which is a nice matted book, but I’m not sure where I can get that for us, since I have all the images and they’re all digital. Any ideas, anyone?

Yes, it made a world of difference to have a photo album included in our wedding package. Luckily they use Queenbury for albums. We received a printed proof book about 1 1/2 months after the wedding. They knew we wanted a flush-mount album that went in chronological order. About a month later, we were sent a link to a sample layout of the entire album. From there I exchanged photos, moved some around and added pages (which we paid extra for). This went back and forth for about 3 versions and within about 3 weeks from viewing the first layout, the final layout was set. Then it took a couple months for that album (and the 2 smaller parent albums — which included all the same photos from ours) to arrive at our doorstep. What made it easy for us is that we had a limited number of pages included in the basic album and the fact that the same photos were also printed in the parent albums, so basically we concentrated on including close family members and not so much all our friends. As we have our digital negatives, a more inclusive self-designed photo album waits in the wings — meaning this is what I’ve been procrastinating on for the last year and a half.

We had 2 albums included and paid for in our package, but it still took us 2+ years to finally meet up with the photographer to work on our albums. I just happened to call yesterday and the photographer said the albums will probably take another 2 months. So, I should get them in time for our 3rd anniversary! =P

We didn’t have any kind of album in our package. We got several hundred 4×6 proofs and 3 CDs of files, and that was it. All the same, we had a planning album, a wedding-day album, a post-wedding/pre-honeymoon album, and two honeymoon albums done by Thanksgiving the same year as the late-June wedding.

At this point I should mention I used to be a Creative Memories consultant. That being said…

Any project is going to be overwhelming if you look at it as “OMG I have to go through 2000 photos!” Grab an inch-tall stack every night before bed, and set aside the ones you really love. If you understand deep in your heart that that doesn’t mean you’ll never see the other 1900 photos again, it’ll be easier.

OR grab a stack that represents one portion of the event, like the processional, and pick some percentage of them that you feel are the most representative of what you were feeling at the time. Actually, no, saying “pick some percentage” makes it more stringent than it needs to be. Pick what you love.

OR consider that you may have already selected your favorites, by virtue of what you’ve posted to Weddingbee so far.

This is the same advice I gave to a coworker whose family albums were damaged in a flood. Realize that saving (or in your case, including) all of them just isn’t possible, so pick the ones that you love, the ones that grab you, the ones that make you smile.

We had the option of including a wedding album in our photography package. However, I’m a HUGE scrapbooker, and had the idea of doing the album myself, in the form of a scrapbook. I’m including cards from our guests, and other trinkets from the day. For me it makes it a bit more personal. And it’s a way for me to relive the experience. I will also include pages from my shower and our bachelor/bachelorette parties as well as our honeymoon.

I got the prepaid package and 7 months later still haven’t done my album.

Married almost 9 months and still procrastinating with our album. It’s included in our package and we just can’t get it together to pick our photos. There’s always next weekend.

We’re 2 months away from our 1 year anniversary…and no album yet. I *did* do a little Blurb book as an Xmas gift for our wedding party, but I have to confess, the only reason that got done was b/c I used their pre-set layouts and they were offering a discount deal that expired, so I got a fire lit under my @$$ to do it. I also did moo cards, but again, it was a V-day gift for hubs, so there were set deadlines that had to be met. I think my biggest problem is not the money, but the fact that there’s no deadline.

If our photog was doing the album, whether or not it was a part of the package, I think I’d have had it done by now. But, our deal was that we got the files, all 2000 of ‘em, so now I have to not only pick, but edit and design the puppy…sigh.