Lovely Michigan Wedding Album Design for Kelsey Renee Photography
When an album turns out this beautifully, you just HAVE TO share it!
We are so excited to share with you today the very first album we designed for Chicago based wedding photographer Kelsey Renee! Kelsey creates beautiful images and it has been such a joy to work with her this year!
This Michigan State University wedding is full of fun moments and details -- we especially are smitten with the spread featuring the groomsmen drinking out of tea cups! Too fun!
Not only did we design this album -- which was approved with NO REVISIONS in less than one week -- but we also printed it! Kelsey was so kind to send us a few photos of the 10x10 Align Legacy Book covered in our Tweed distressed leather. This album includes 15 spreads and has gold fold debossing on the cover in Helvetica font.
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this lovely design:
We are so excited to share with you today the very first album we designed for Chicago based wedding photographer Kelsey Renee! Kelsey creates beautiful images and it has been such a joy to work with her this year!
This Michigan State University wedding is full of fun moments and details -- we especially are smitten with the spread featuring the groomsmen drinking out of tea cups! Too fun!
Not only did we design this album -- which was approved with NO REVISIONS in less than one week -- but we also printed it! Kelsey was so kind to send us a few photos of the 10x10 Align Legacy Book covered in our Tweed distressed leather. This album includes 15 spreads and has gold fold debossing on the cover in Helvetica font.
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this lovely design:
To see the album design in full, click through the slideshow:
Thank you, Kelsey, for trusting us to be a part of your team!
Thank you, Kelsey, for trusting us to be a part of your team!
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Design by: Kari (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Design by: Kari (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Classy Downtown Atlanta Wedding Album Design for Abby Byrd Photography
Georgia based film photographer Abby Byrd is uber-talented and we have so enjoyed working with her and her dreamy images for about a year and a half now! This particular album design was a stand-out and we knew we had to share it with you today!
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, as she does for every order. She also had us communicate an up-sell option to her clients that resulted in an additional 5 spreads over what was included in the original package being added to the design!
This couple met at a Super Bowl party through mutual friends and wanted to bring all their family and friends to experience downtown Atlanta on their wedding day. Their album design tells the story of their wedding so beautifully! Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this gorgeous design:
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, as she does for every order. She also had us communicate an up-sell option to her clients that resulted in an additional 5 spreads over what was included in the original package being added to the design!
This couple met at a Super Bowl party through mutual friends and wanted to bring all their family and friends to experience downtown Atlanta on their wedding day. Their album design tells the story of their wedding so beautifully! Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this gorgeous design:
To see the design in full, click through the slideshow:
Thank you, Abby, for trusting us to be a part of your team!
Thank you, Abby, for trusting us to be a part of your team!
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Design by: Rachel (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Design by: Rachel (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Ordering and Packaging the Wedding Album
So your client approved the album design. Now what?
The entirety of the album workflow can feel like such a HUGE process. At this point, the finish line is in sight, but somehow the last step or two in the album production marathon can cause frustration. Why? Because we are so consumed with the NEXT shoot, the next exciting venture, and getting a client's album order placed for a wedding we shot weeks or months ago isn't the most glamorous of tasks. But it has to be done and we need a manageable workflow to make sure the order gets placed and the album turns out beautifully. After all this work, it's important that the final album is something we are proud and excited to deliver to our client! It will forever be a reminder of their love for one another and will also be the last impression we make on them. No pressure! haha! :)
Every photographer's workflow will look a little different, but I wanted to share mine by way of example:
1 -- Touch Up Any Additional Images
Many of the photos included in the album design are touched up and ready to go, but I like to take a quick look through the final design to make sure each spread, and the editing of the images on them, looks cohesive. Occasionally I will need to open an image and retouch it to make sure everything is perfect. Perfectionism is unnecessary when it comes to preparing proofs, but when we know that a photo is forever going to be memorialized in a couple's wedding album, perfectionism is warranted. I typically request layered .psd files from Align in order to allow me to individually edit photos on their own layers before flattening. The other option I sometime use, is sending my designer the touched-up versions of a handful of images to swap out in the design before approval.
2 -- Place the Order with the Album Company
This eventually ends up being a pretty straight-forward step, but there can be two hang-ups. Initially it can be tricky to learn how each album company's ordering system works. But once you get through the initial learning curve, it becomes second nature. The main hang-up is not having all of the information you need from the client. Do you know what cover material they want? Is there a cover photo included? How do they want their names to appear if there is any type of engraving? It's important to ask these questions up front so you're not having to email the client to gather these final bits of information when you're sitting down to place the order. We recommend our Album Workflow Email Templates that will help you make sure this important step is already done by the time you sit down to place the order!
3 -- Quality Control, Packaging and Shipping
I always have the album company send the album straight to me so I can check it over and repackage it before shipping it on to my client. Occasionally I'll discover an error and am able to catch it and get it fixed before the client sees it. And it's a great touch to repackage the album with some of your own branding materials. Ribbon, stickers with your logo, and a hand-written notecard elevate the product and make it cohesive with your brand. And don't forget to take a few photos of the finished album for your own marketing purposes! Plaster those babies all over your website and instagram account! They are SO valuable in sharing your passion for albums and drawing clients to you!
AHHHH -- There's nothing quite like holding a finished wedding album in your hands. For me it provides such a sense of accomplishment knowing how much work I put into telling the couple's unique story, and thinking about how the album will be passed on to generations to come.
If you're looking to simplify and streamline your client communication, making the whole album process -- including all the little steps like getting your client's final preferences on the album cover, materials, etc. -- quicker and easier, you might consider looking into our album workflow email templates. Included are 8 pages worth of email templates for different points throughout your album workflow covering the communication mentioned above plus more! They're a huge time-saver and will help you make sure nothing falls through the cracks!
The entirety of the album workflow can feel like such a HUGE process. At this point, the finish line is in sight, but somehow the last step or two in the album production marathon can cause frustration. Why? Because we are so consumed with the NEXT shoot, the next exciting venture, and getting a client's album order placed for a wedding we shot weeks or months ago isn't the most glamorous of tasks. But it has to be done and we need a manageable workflow to make sure the order gets placed and the album turns out beautifully. After all this work, it's important that the final album is something we are proud and excited to deliver to our client! It will forever be a reminder of their love for one another and will also be the last impression we make on them. No pressure! haha! :)
Every photographer's workflow will look a little different, but I wanted to share mine by way of example:
1 -- Touch Up Any Additional Images
Many of the photos included in the album design are touched up and ready to go, but I like to take a quick look through the final design to make sure each spread, and the editing of the images on them, looks cohesive. Occasionally I will need to open an image and retouch it to make sure everything is perfect. Perfectionism is unnecessary when it comes to preparing proofs, but when we know that a photo is forever going to be memorialized in a couple's wedding album, perfectionism is warranted. I typically request layered .psd files from Align in order to allow me to individually edit photos on their own layers before flattening. The other option I sometime use, is sending my designer the touched-up versions of a handful of images to swap out in the design before approval.
2 -- Place the Order with the Album Company
This eventually ends up being a pretty straight-forward step, but there can be two hang-ups. Initially it can be tricky to learn how each album company's ordering system works. But once you get through the initial learning curve, it becomes second nature. The main hang-up is not having all of the information you need from the client. Do you know what cover material they want? Is there a cover photo included? How do they want their names to appear if there is any type of engraving? It's important to ask these questions up front so you're not having to email the client to gather these final bits of information when you're sitting down to place the order. We recommend our Album Workflow Email Templates that will help you make sure this important step is already done by the time you sit down to place the order!
3 -- Quality Control, Packaging and Shipping
I always have the album company send the album straight to me so I can check it over and repackage it before shipping it on to my client. Occasionally I'll discover an error and am able to catch it and get it fixed before the client sees it. And it's a great touch to repackage the album with some of your own branding materials. Ribbon, stickers with your logo, and a hand-written notecard elevate the product and make it cohesive with your brand. And don't forget to take a few photos of the finished album for your own marketing purposes! Plaster those babies all over your website and instagram account! They are SO valuable in sharing your passion for albums and drawing clients to you!
AHHHH -- There's nothing quite like holding a finished wedding album in your hands. For me it provides such a sense of accomplishment knowing how much work I put into telling the couple's unique story, and thinking about how the album will be passed on to generations to come.
If you're looking to simplify and streamline your client communication, making the whole album process -- including all the little steps like getting your client's final preferences on the album cover, materials, etc. -- quicker and easier, you might consider looking into our album workflow email templates. Included are 8 pages worth of email templates for different points throughout your album workflow covering the communication mentioned above plus more! They're a huge time-saver and will help you make sure nothing falls through the cracks!
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Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Historic Pennsylvania Farm Wedding Album Design for Meghan Baskin
Pennsylvania wedding photographer Meghan Baskin's work is quintessentially gorgeous. We feel so honored to be a part of her team for over a year and a half now, laying out her stunning photos in a way that shows them off to their fullest in album form.
For today's featured album design, Meghan supplied us with 61 photos and asked us to create a design with approximately 13 spreads using the best images to tell the story of the day. She ordered our Hands-off Service that allows her to be taken out of the process as a "middle-man" and we communicated directly with her clients as her "in-house album designer." Sometimes album designs can be a lengthy process of back-and-forth revisions, but in this particular case, Meghan's clients approved the design with NO REVISIONS and the whole project was completed from start to finish in 5 days flat! We love it when that happens!
This wedding took place on over 200 acres of the historic Sylvan Ridge Farm in Pennsylvania and the grounds looked so lush and beautiful on this wedding day! Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this stunning design:
For today's featured album design, Meghan supplied us with 61 photos and asked us to create a design with approximately 13 spreads using the best images to tell the story of the day. She ordered our Hands-off Service that allows her to be taken out of the process as a "middle-man" and we communicated directly with her clients as her "in-house album designer." Sometimes album designs can be a lengthy process of back-and-forth revisions, but in this particular case, Meghan's clients approved the design with NO REVISIONS and the whole project was completed from start to finish in 5 days flat! We love it when that happens!
This wedding took place on over 200 acres of the historic Sylvan Ridge Farm in Pennsylvania and the grounds looked so lush and beautiful on this wedding day! Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this stunning design:
To see the design in full, click through the slideshow:
Thank you, Meghan, for trusting us to be a part of your team!
Thank you, Meghan, for trusting us to be a part of your team!
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Design by: Denise (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Design by: Denise (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Detroit Sample Wedding Album Design for Penny Ralene Photography
We recently collaborated with Detroit based wedding photographer Penny Ralene Photography to create this gorgeous sample album for her! It turned out just stunning and we are so excited to share it with you today!
Penny ordered a design for her sample album and approved the initial design with no changes. We were able to get this album into print production within 3 days from the time she ordered it! Not only did we design this album, we also printed it! Penny ordered a 10x10 Align Legacy Book with thick pages covered in Yukon leather. The text is in gold foil in our Adelicia font.
Penny was so kind to take some photos of the finished album! Here they are along with a few of our favorite spreads from this beautiful design:
Penny ordered a design for her sample album and approved the initial design with no changes. We were able to get this album into print production within 3 days from the time she ordered it! Not only did we design this album, we also printed it! Penny ordered a 10x10 Align Legacy Book with thick pages covered in Yukon leather. The text is in gold foil in our Adelicia font.
Penny was so kind to take some photos of the finished album! Here they are along with a few of our favorite spreads from this beautiful design:
To see the design in full, click through the slideshow:
Thank you, Penny, for trusting us to be a part of your team!
Thank you, Penny, for trusting us to be a part of your team!
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Design by: Kari (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill
Design by: Kari (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More) // Blog post written by: Melissa Jill