Weddingbee Blog

Almost nine months ago I posted about procrastinating on making a wedding album. There are a million excuses, but the bottom line now is that $1000+ for a professional album just isn’t in the budget. We just got our hi-res photos from our photographers in October and with Christmas fast approaching, I decided to use that deadline as motivation to get me started.

Over the weekend Mr. Onion and I headed to Kate’s Paperie and bought one of each of these beautiful albums. I really love them. One for my mother-in-law, one for my mother and the large one for our album. I was hoping to find brown photo corners on-line (what can’t you get on-line these days?), but I’ve met with defeat. I decided to settle on a combination of Kraft colored corners and clear corners (per Miss Hot Cocoa’s recommendation).

I spent hours (and I mean hours) over the weekend uploading about 350 hi-resolution images to MPix.com where I ordered Mr. Onion’s wedding gift from last summer. The quality of the book was great so I trust the quality of the prints will be fantastic. They were a little pricey ($.29 per 4×6 print), but for albums I hope we’ll all have for years to come, I decided not to cut corners on the photos.

Cost break down:

Albums:
Small (6.25″ x 7.5″) = $45
Medium (10.5″ square) = $105
Large (12″ x 12.25″) = $132

Prints:
Approximately 400 = $155.07
Shipping = $5.95
Total = $161.02

Supplies:
Kolo Photo Corners: 5 boxes of 240 corners = approximately $36
Kolo Photo Tape: 1 roll = $8

Grand total for 3 albums = $487.02

If anyone has suggestions for photo corners (know where I can get brown corners other than the beautiful and expensive Martha Stewart satin), or photo tape, or any tips on making your own album look great and hold up to years of page turns… please share! I’m nervous about this project.

Is anyone else attempting to make their own albums?