Weddingbee Blog

Sure, it might collect a little dust over the years. Yes, it might get relegated to the back of the closet for a while. And you might not pull it out every time a new guest comes over. Still. Get an album. Here’s why I think you should…

Mr. Tiramisu and I spent a night a couple of weeks ago having dinner with his grandparents. His grandmother had asked us to bring over our wedding album, which we had just received from our photographer, Samantha Warren. We had so much fun reliving the day as his grandparents flipped through the pages, commenting on all of the beautiful pictures. We laughed as his grandfather commented that Mr. Tiramisu looked like he had just won a prize as he was walking me back down the aisle, and he said he remembered feeling that way when he married Mr. T’s grandmother, more than fifty years ago.

That’s when we decided to pull out their wedding album. The white silk cover was stained, and a little discolored, but that didn’t take away from the pictures on the inside. Mr. Tiramisu’s grandmother actually giggled as she looked at pictures of herself getting ready. Her husband visibly swelled with pride looking at her bridal portraits. We all laughed at the style of the tuxedos, and at the guests showing off their best dance moves.

Bringing over our wedding album resulted in almost two hours of us pouring over pictures together. We pulled from their closet the wedding albums of Mr. Tiramisu’s parents, his aunts, and his uncles. It brought back memories of looking through my own parents’ and grandparents’ albums as well.

I am so thrilled that we have a beautiful keepsake that we can enjoy for years and years. Here are a few more shots of the gorgeous album that our photographer put together for us:

Sam chose for us one of her “Signature Albums”. We were able to choose the colors of the leather to match our wedding colors.

The pages are thick and designed to be durable- awesome for something that we will treasure for decades!

With the album open, the pages span two feet! This image takes up that entire space:

Thank you, Sam!

While it was important to us to have a keepsake album, we also wanted to gift smaller albums to our parents and grandparents. Enter Mpix!

For Christmas presents this year we made photo books at Mpix.com. In the past we have made photobooks with both Blurb and My Publisher, and are most impressed by the quality of the Mpix books. Of course all of these options pale in comparison to the beautiful album that our photographer made for us, but the albums we purchased are lovely, with clear photos printed very true to color at a much lower price.

I used the Mpix software to layout 30 pages of photos to fit in a 11″ x 8″ Custom Hard Cover photo album. I mostly used the pre-built layout options that they give you, although you can create your own layouts and upload them if you prefer. We changed the family pictures in each book to be specific to the family we were giving the album to, but the rest of the pictures were the same in each.

Here are some shots of the finished product:

What do you have planned for your photographs post-wedding?