Photographers often ask us how many spreads we'd recommend for a wedding album. While we love designs that are 20-25 spreads (40-50 pages), we suggest having at least 15 spreads (30 pages) in order to tell the full story of the day without crowding the design with too many images. However, the design we're featuring today proves that it IS possible to create a beautiful design in only 10 spreads, which is Align's minimum. 
 
This album design was created for Florida-based wedding photographer, Kimberly Smith. It's a great example of how only featuring "the best of the best" images allows those top photographs to shine and gives the book a fine art feel. 
 
Kimberly, thank you for allowing us to work with your beautiful images AND for sending us photos of the finished Miller's Signature Album with a black leather cover! We love seeing this beauty in print!

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

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Design by: Kari (View More) // Design style: Simple (View More) // Blog post written by: Denise

Wowza, we've got such a pretty album design to show you today! The following is a design featuring photography by Caroline Ro Photography based in Charleston. You can see another design we created for Caroline here.  
 
Today's design showcases Caroline's photographs of a gorgeous Charleston plantation wedding with vintage details and elegant touches. Get ready for some serious eye candy as you scroll through our favorite spreads! 

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

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

It's a special treat when we get to design and print a photographer's OWN wedding album!  
 
Andie & Tony of Costola Photography are a husband and wife photography team based out of Maryland. Earlier this year, they were one of the first studios to create a sample album using Align Legacy Books, our in-house line of high-quality printed albums. Imagine our thrill when shortly after receiving their studio sample in the mail, Andie placed an order for a second album -- this time trusting us with her and Tony's own wedding photos! We felt honored to be asked to create an album for a couple who values photography as much as they do! 
 
And we're excited to share it with you today! But first, here's what Andie shared about her Align experience: 
 
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"Align's products and customer service go above and beyond with every step in the process - from design to print. They work EXTREMELY quick and are always in constant communication with us. We love the option of being able to hand off the design process to our couples so that there is one less middle man to be included in the design. We can not wait to order more sample books for our collection and to print more of our couple's albums through Align!" -- Andie Ingagliato of Costola Photography

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Thanks to Andie & Tony for sending us photographs of their finished 12x12 Align Legacy Book so that we can post them here. The cover is our Seascape leather with two lines of engraving. The interior contains 25 spreads printed on our thin-page paper. 
 
Album photos by Costola Photography 
Wedding photos by Molly Lichten Photography

For more photos of Align Legacy Books, check out the Align Legacy Books category on this blog. 
 
We're in love with Andie & Tony's album design, so we encourage you to click through the slideshow below to view the whole gorgeous thing: 
 

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

We just did the math and realized we've been working with Selena Sorensen of Sorensen Studios for over 5 years now! Wow! She's a talented wedding and portrait photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona who has been with Align since our first year of offering album design services to professional photographers. We love working with her so much! 
 
To view more albums we've designed for Sorensen Studios over the years, check out this gorgeous rainy day wedding, this sweet family affair and this beautiful church wedding. 
 
The Sorensen Studios album design we're featuring today contains both the engagement session and the Arizona country wedding of Selena's clients. So much happiness contained in one gorgeous album! Selena even sent us photos of the album after it was printed at Finao. Thanks, Selena, you rock! 
 
Check it out...

To view 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

It's show and tell time again! We've got a new Align Legacy Book on our blog today -- a gorgeous new studio sample album for Jane & Co. Photography! 
 
What is an Align Legacy Book? Glad you asked! 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 an all-in-one design + printing service to streamline their workflow! 
 
The album we get to show off today is a studio sample for Portland based film + digital hybrid photographer Monica Martinez of Jane and Co. Photography. Learn about our sample album discount here. Monica requested our Simple Design Style in order to give the design a fine art look and allow her images to shine. We're in LOVE with how beautifully it turned out and Monica loved how easy it was to order! 
 
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"I am obsessed with y'all. You literally take the work out of ordering an album. I can have y'all design it and then put together a gorgeous album that is high end quality. On top of that, when ordering I am actually in communication with the company from beginning to end. I am speaking with a real person, not a machine. I am not waiting for hours on the phone with customer service to make sure that what I am ordering is what I hope I am ordering. You walked me through every step of the way and in a very timely manner. I've already ordered another Align Legacy Book for a client because I showed them this sample album and they were obsessed. lol! Thank you Align!"  
      --Monica Martinez of Jane & Co. Photography

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Thanks to Monica for sending us photographs of her finished 10x10 Align Legacy Book so that we can share it here! This album has a Yukon colored leather cover. The interior contains Monica's stunning images from multiple weddings printed on 10 spreads of our thick-page paper.

To flip through the whole design, click through the spreads below: 
 

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