For the past 5 years we have had the honor of designing albums for Charleston AND Vermont-based photographer Amy Bennett Photography. She and her husband split their time between the two places and get to shoot in so many beautiful locations as a result!  
 
We recently got news that Amy is no longer booking weddings, but is focusing solely on portraiture moving forward. We are sad that we won't be seeing more of her wedding work for obvious reasons -- she is SO talented! 
 
Today's featured album design showcases a fun wedding party and some amazing vintage vehicles! We couldn't resist sharing this one with you! Amy used our Hands-off Service for this design and we were able to complete it in just two weeks from order form to approval! Amy also printed this album through us and chose to drop-ship the album to her clients.  
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this stunning design:

To see this design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you, Amy, for allowing us to work with your beautiful images!

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Design by: Sarah (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill

Today's featured album design is a record-setter! It is the largest design we have ever created. It ended up being 87 spreads and was printed as a four-volume set!  
 
Madonna and Andy's wedding was held at their home in southwest Michigan. The large clear tent was erected on their driveway and featured several style changes - the rehearsal party, ceremony and wedding reception all had distinct and unique styles by HMR Designs and Detaljer Events. Dinner was held in the barn where Andy usually stores his antique car collection, which they personally transformed into a magical space for dinner. All portraits were taken on their property. 
 
Madonna was so excited about her images that she elected to have a four-volume album set created. 
 
Chicago-based photographer Ann & Kam Photography shared this about working with our designer, Denise: "I was so grateful for Denise's patience and attention to detail through the design process. I am not exaggerating when I say I could not have done it without her." 
 
The finished album includes a whopping 590 images! It was certainly a labor of love for Ann as she worked on retouching images to make this heirloom perfect for her clients.  
 
Ann & Kam are so incredibly talented and really captured this multi-day event so beautifully. It's no wonder their clients wanted to include so many images in their album! Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this grand design:

To see the design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you Ann & Kam for allowing us to work with your beautiful images!

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Design by: Denise (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill

Today's featured album was a dream to design.  
 
For one...North Carolina based wedding photograph Amber Hatley's images are incredible.  
 
Two...her clients approved the design with NO CHANGES. That's always a dream scenario.  
 
And three...this venue is gorgeous. It's easy to see why this area is known as the "Blue Ridge Mountains".  
 
This design is on the larger side -- 23 spreads (46 pages) -- which allowed for plenty of space to showcase the best photos of the wedding day without making the design feel too cluttered. Enjoy perusing a few of our favorite spreads from this stunner:

And click through the slideshow to see the full design: 
 
 
 
Thank you, Amber, for allowing us to work with your beautiful images!

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Design by: Sarah (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill

The album we are sharing with you today is Georgia-based wedding photographer Abby Byrd's FIRST album design with us! Woot woot! We are SO thrilled to be working with her and her beautiful images! 
 
Abby shared this with us shortly after we started working together: 
 
"I was on vacation last week and it was SO amazing to see you guys progressing on the album without me. What is life?! That made it so much easier for me. I can't believe it!" 
 
It took only 8 days from her client receiving the initial design to the client approving it. And Abby used our new and improved Hands-Off Service enabling us to communicate directly with her clients AND grab revision images that were needed from the full online gallery. The whole process was a breeze! 
 
AND LOOK AT THE RESULTING ALBUMS! SO stunning! Abby used Redtree to print these albums for her clients and she sent these beautiful images our way. We are obsessed! 
 
Here are some of our favorite spreads from this gorgeous design:

To see the design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you, Abby, for allowing us to work with your beautiful images!

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Design by: Shannon (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill

"An epic album for an epic photo shoot!"  
 
Today's feature album is a special one! It is an album that our client -- Payson-based wedding and portrait photographer Marquette LaRee -- had created for her own family!! Amazing! Her friend and fellow Payson-based photographer Mikaela Dufree took the epic photos of Marquette's sweet family that are now showcased in this stunning Align Legacy Book that is in her home.

We love what Marquette shared about her motivation behind getting this album created:  
 
"I wanted to be able to show my photography clients that albums aren't just for weddings; albums can add strength and power to any home! I realized that I wanted these in our home in a tangible way. Not just a few on the wall, but more of them where we could see them easily and where they could be accessible and part of our life so we could look through them over the years, bring up the memories, and draw strength on the love we feel when we see these images. An epic album for an epic photo shoot was a must. What better way to show my clients what a family album could mean than by leading by example?! I've been so excited to have this in our home and the kids LOVE getting to look through the beautiful pages. It's truly a treasure!"

Here's the background story Marquette shares about how this family shoot came to be: 
 
"After we had our second baby in 2016 we decided we were done as a family of four and had an epic family photo session taken on dry lake beds in New Mexico. A big canvas from that session has hung in our home since then. Then in 2020 our family actually became complete with baby number 3. And still the same canvas of Mowers Party of 4 hung in our home. We decided we needed to do another big epic family photo session to update the big canvas to include our Molly girl. Mikaela and I schemed on this for a few months. I picked our location and she was game to try it out. Shooting out in the open isn't Mikaela's normal style (as Payson is surrounded by gorgeous forest and mountains), but I knew she could nail this. Jokingly I said, "We'll just pray for some epic clouds." Well months later when it was finally time for the session we were just hoping we could make it to the location between storms and that it wouldn't be too soupy of a mess. We lucked out with GORGEOUS textured clouds, beautiful light, and the land had drained enough from the flooding rain it had received just two days before.  
 
Mikaela is a master at capturing things as they really are in such an artistic way. The photo of our two year old stomping off not even 5 minutes into the photos session is one of our all time favorites! Her slogan used to be "You know how it feels to love your family, let me show you what that love looks like!" and it always feels so fitting. I love looking at these and seeing our 1st grader's missing teeth, our 9 year old's goofiness, the independent toddler, and the joy I feel with these people of mine."

We just can't get over how stunning this design turned out! Every page is just so beautiful! 
 
Marquette took these beautiful photos of the printed Align Legacy Book and sent them our way and we couldn't be more grateful! For the cover, Marquette chose our Yukon leather. She had the album printed as a 12x12 with thick pages. The text on the front is debossed with rose gold in our Adelicia font. Just so stunning!

To see the design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you Marquette & Mikaela for allowing us to showcase this stunning album! It was such an honor to be a part of creating it!

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Design by: Shannon (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill