Today's featured album design showcases an adorable wedding at a Virginia goat farm. Smiles and tractors and barns, oh my! We absolutely love it! We also love the chic photographer behind it, Tori Watson. Tori is a Virgina-based wedding and portrait photographer who is also one of Align's Client Advocates -- click here to see more of Tori's work and read about her passion for albums. 
 
We're thrilled to be featuring not only this album design but also some photos that Tori sent us of the finished Madera Books album! Hope you enjoy this eye candy!

To flip through the whole design, use the slideshow below: 
 

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

We have two awesome things to share with you today and they both come from Nicole Amanda Photography! A couple of months ago, Nicole purchased Align's Album Start-Up Kit as a way to power up her album game and we're excited to show you what she's done with it so far! 
 
1. First off, she created a blog post called The Heart Behind Albums: The Ultimate Fight Ender & Heirloom in which she shares her passion for albums with her clients. The website verbiage included in the Album Start-Up Kit helped Nicole write the body of the post in a personal and non-salesy way. She was able to customize our sample text and truly make it her own! The photographs sprinkled throughout her post come from the set of the 180 stock photos we include in the kit. Plus, the video she embedded in her post is an additional tool you can buy on our Resources page. We absolutely love that Nicole now has this webpage to direct future clients to whenever they inquire about albums!

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"The Start-Up Kit is literally all you'll ever need to dive head first into album sales. I love all of the templates for emails back and forth and website verbiage! Buying the sales video is also a must! I literally cried the first time I watched it!"  
      --Nicole Salter of Nicole Amanda Photography

 
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2. Nicole also has a brand new gorgeous sample album that came along with the Album Start-Up Kit and we're so excited to show off some photos of it below! This is a 10x10 Align Legacy Book with a "Ballet Slipper" colored leather cover. The Ontario wedding featured inside has a blush color scheme, so the Ballet Slipper cover fits that theme nicely. The interior contains Nicole's stunning images printed on 15 spreads of our thick-page paper. While the album cover that comes with the kit includes either a cameo cutout window OR two lines of text, Nicole opted to upgrade the album so that it had both. 
 
 
 
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"These albums are so substantial and high-quality looking! In an era where couples can easily make their own photo books, I pride myself in providing a quality heirloom that they can't get on their own - and these Align Legacy Book albums are just that!"  
      --Nicole Salter of Nicole Amanda Photography

 
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Thanks to Nicole for sending us photographs of her new sample album! Enjoy the prettiness below!

For more photos of Align Legacy Books, check out the Align Legacy Books category on this blog. 
 
And to view Nicole's full album design in its entirety, click through the slideshow below: 
 

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

Hi friends! We've got a gorgeous album design to share with you today! It contains Akil Bennett's photographs of a chic Houston wedding. It's full of joy and elegance (and a beautiful stain glass window at the ceremony!). 
 
Akil is a talented Houston-based wedding photographer who we absolutely love working with. Here at Align Album Design, about 90% of the designs ordered are for square albums (mostly 10x10's and 12x12's) so it's fun to design a horizontal album every once in awhile -- Akil's 13x9.5 designs are always stunning! To scope out another one of Akil's albums, check out this Elegant Texas Wedding Album Design.  
 
Here are some of our favorite spreads from this design...

To see the full album design, click through the slideshow below: 
 

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

Lookie lookie! We have a new Align Legacy Book to show off today!! 
 
This Align Legacy Book features a Virginia vineyard wedding photographed by the talented Kristen Gardner. Side note: We've been utterly obsessed with Kristen's albums lately. You'll definitely be seeing more of her albums on this blog in the future! :) 
 
Not sure what an Align Legacy Book is? We're happy to explain! Here at Align, we have been providing album design services to hundreds of photographers for more than 5 years. But starting this spring, we began offering our own in-house line of high-quality printed albums too! See this page for all the details.  
 
We've absolutely loved offering busy photographers like Kristen an all-in-one design + printing service to streamline their workflow!  
 
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"My first Align Legacy Book exceeded all of my expectations! The album is beautiful! I love the leather and the pages are just gorgeous. I also loved how quickly the album arrived! The process from start to finish was incredibly efficient and I love knowing that I'm delivering a high quality heirloom product to my clients. I will definitely use Align for all of my future designs and physical albums!"  
      --Kristen of Kristen Gardner Photography

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Major thanks goes out to Kristen for sending us the following photographs of her finished 10x10 Align Legacy Book! This album has a Fresh Brew colored leather cover with debossing. The interior contains 25 spreads of our thick-page paper.  
 
Check it out below!

For more photos of Align Legacy Books, check out the Align Legacy Books category on this blog. 
 
And to view the full album design in its entirety, click through the slideshow below: 
 

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

We're completely enamored with the romance and elegance radiating from this album design! It features a stunning wedding photographed by Virginia fine art film photographer Nikki Santerre. Nikki is also the co-founder of The Hybrid Atelier, an educational platform for photographers interested in exploring hybrid photography. She's such a sweetheart and we feel blessed that we get to work with her!  
 
Here are some photos Nikki sent us of the finished album from Blanche Prints. Check out this fine art beauty!

To view the whole album design, you can flip through the slideshow below:  
 

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