Guide to Wedding Photo Albums
May 18th, 2008
The only real difference between modern wedding photo albums and versions from fifty years ago is that they would have contained monochrome images; technology has started to give us alternatives though! Probably the same etiquette that dictated how the bride’s mother was shown in the album will be used today so you can expect to see her as the first photo in her wedding dress. After this photo there are usually a few images of them somewhere close by that provides a beautiful backdrop to really show them off.
Next comes a picture of the entire wedding party all dressed up for the occasion; they will be placed next in the wedding photo album. The whole group is made up of friends and family of the bride and groom; there is probably a very similar picture in their parent’s album. Next the images of the bride with her bridesmaids and other attendants that helped her on the day.
Of course you cannot leave the groom out and his pictures with all his family members then once that is complete the bride will go through the same procedure. Wedding photo albums are generally large bound examples that contain pictures that are bigger than usual on pages that may be inlaid or embossed. The wedding photo album will probably be a book with an elegant cover in white and the design will usually have wedding bells, rings or bouquets on the cover.
It is just as important for the contents of the wedding album to impress and this is achieved by clever display techniques that show the day off at its best. Most modern wedding photographers will also be able to supply in digital form on a cd or dvd. Most modern couples will have both the traditional album and the newer digital versions together because unlike the former, compact discs etc. can hold hundreds of images.
It is now becoming more common for the bride and groom to make a cd rom thereby providing a digital wedding photo album available to every guest as a permanent reminder of their special day. There are a number of benefits to this because not only can the images be viewed as normal but also printed out in the traditional manner at home or at a regular photo printing store. Modern technology has improved upon the albums from long ago with the addition of pictures available on the latest ‘digital photo frames’.