Weddingbee Blog

A while ago, someone on the boards mentioned her disappointment that some bees seem to disappear for a bit after we’re married. She wondered why it sometimes takes us a while to write about the wedding after it has happened. For some reason, her comments were stuck in my head for months.

I can’t speak for every bee, but guess what? We can’t write about the wedding unless we have pictures of it! And I have no digital pictures yet (except for a limited preview).

While we’ve had our proofs for several weeks, our photographer, like many others, doesn’t send discs until the album is completed, which brings me to this post.

We chose our album photos this month! Out of nearly 900 photos, we had to choose 40. Yep. Forty.

The photographer in me believes that the story of any wedding can be told in 10 images or less, but having to choose these images while I was still so emotionally connected to them had me wanting to eat my words (although I can definitely see narrowing these down to 10 memorable images in the coming years).

I tried to choose images that tell the story of the day and are the most visually interesting. I had about 25 shots that are my absolute, most iconic favorites, and then I had another 25 or so that I kept rotating in and out.

Our album will be a handmade, matted album with one image on each page. It takes about two months to make and will end up looking similar to this :

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When we chose our photography package, we had the option of a proof book or getting each photo printed as a 4 x 6. You might think we’d be overwhelmed with 879 little prints, but I loved it. I bought a cute, jumbo photo box (I’ll get something more archival when all this is finished) and little dividers, and it was incredibly helpful. I got the chance to see each image up close and lay them all out to make my choices. I tried doing this on my little computer cart…

…before my husband took pity on me and cleared off the kitchen table (and put the leaves in!) so I could work.

At the end of this thing, I have the somewhat ambitious goal of making a few more albums. I hope to have them done before our one-year anniversary, and of course, I’ll be sharing every step of the process with you.

Here are my album goals:

1. An album with some prints from our engagement party and the rehearsal dinner photos from our photographer. I am really interested in the Kolo series of scrapbook/albums. They look so nice, all of them there on the shelf!

2. A digital album with shots from our honeymoon (easy enough, since our photos are already online). I’m going to be using the Adorama books, which Mrs. Cheeseburger had great results with.

3. Since our album is so small, I’m thinking of supplementing it with a simple scrapbook. I found this adorable wedding scrapbook that was reviewed a while ago by our very own Mrs. Bee! It looks easy enough to fill out, and it’s nice to see an album/scrapbook that emphasizes that the wedding isn’t just one day. This way I can put in things like my dress sketch, a flower or two, some notes from wedding planning, and a few of the more fun images that didn’t make it into the album. Do you recognize the bride?

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I know lots of you are into scrapbooking, but if you hadn’t guessed by my posts, I’m not too much into paper crafts (although I do like to work with my hands and sew occasionally). I do, however, love the idea of prints in an album that you can see and touch. Yes, I tend to be a bit nostalgic, and I imagine looking through these books with my kids and grandkids someday, like I used to with my mom.

Oh…and there’s one more reason we don’t have digital pictures yet. While we wait for the album, our photographers have decided to submit our wedding to a couple of publications, and we are waiting to see if they will publish us! I won’t tell you which ones, because if it isn’t accepted I’ll be kind of sad and maybe embarrassed. Either way, I can’t wait to show you our wedding. It was an incredible, wonderful day, and our photographers captured it beautifully. Hopefully I can begin showing it to you pretty soon!

In the meantime, you can find me buzzing around on the boards, and I still have some other things to share with you, so I’ll be here. In the meantime, I’ll show you this box we got for our larger prints.

What a lovely box!