We have a dazzling album design to show off today! It's from a beautiful country club wedding photographed by Angie McPherson Photography. Angie is a Virginia-based wedding photographer whose bright and clean photography style we absolutely adore. We love how her photography gives this design a really cohesive look and sense of place. And we also love Angie's passion for providing her clients with albums... 
 
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"Instead of only uploading your wedding photos to social media... print them, frame them and showcase them in a beautiful album to pass down the generations. We flip through our own wedding album with our son Koa all the time, it's such a keepsake! I love showing off our sample album at consultations and can't wait to create a few more from my 2017 weddings!" -- Angie McPherson on Instagram

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Now without further ado, here are some of our favorite spreads from this blush, ivory and burgundy affair:

To see the 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

Oh happy day! There's a new Align Legacy Book on our blog today and we're doing a little happy dance about it!  
 
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! 
 
Southern California wedding and portrait photographer Danielle Bacon was one of the first photographers to try Align Legacy Books and we are oh-so-glad she did! Her beautiful images are a joy to see in print. 
 
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"As a long time Align Album Design client, I was elated to hear about Align Legacy Books. I am absolutely thrilled to offer my wonderful clients their stunning fine art books. As a big fan of Align's hands-off design service, I love being able to offer my clients a seamless and amazing album experience from start to finish with Align!" -- Danielle Bacon Photography

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Danielle sure knows how to make the most out of her outsourcing experience! We communicate directly with her clients through our Hands-Off Service and then she prints through Align Legacy Books -- that's maximum efficiency right there! 
 
Thanks to Danielle for sending us photographs of her finished 10x10 Align Legacy Book so that we can share them here! The cover is our Metropolitan linen material with two lines of cover engraving. The interior contains Danielle's stunning images of a romantic Camarillo Ranch wedding printed on 11 spreads of our thin-page paper.

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

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

We are incredibly lucky to be able to work with Maryland-based wedding and lifestyle photographer Lauren R Swann! She's a sweetheart AND her photography blows us away! You're going to LOVE her gorgeous detail images and stunning portraits in the following album design for an elegant Virginia wedding. 
 
When Lauren first asked us to design her albums last year, she included three links to albums she designed in the past. We found those samples extremely helpful in our quest to match the design style Lauren and her clients were expecting. We were even able to match the layout of photos and text she wanted to include on the unique opening spread of the album!  
 
If you're a photographer who's been wanting to outsource your album designs but are worried about losing your signature style, feel free to reach out to us with samples of your previous designs. We'll definitely let you know if your style is something we can mimic (the answer is usually yes!). 
 
Here are some of our favorite spreads in this album we designed for Lauren. Enjoy!

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

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

Earlier this week we featured Val Marlene Creative in a blog post in which she shares about her "why" behind offering albums to her clients. If you haven't read it yet, you've GOT to check it out. But not only did Val send us that amazing written content, but she also went above and beyond and sent us photos of one of her real clients opening up their wedding album for the first time. That was too much goodness for one blog post, so today we get to share these awesome images! 
 
Val says, "It should be noted that the images of them opening their album are 100% not staged. Every facial expression, finger point and look at each other was not prompted and true to Ben & Allison. This is the very first time they saw their album. :) :) It was such a sweet experience for me to watch them snuggle and giggle as they held their album in their hands for the very first time. They told stories of what was happening in the photos and the memories the images triggered from that day." 
 
Photography: Val Marlene Creative 
Album layout and design: Align Album Design 
Album printing & binding: Miller's Professional Imaging

Val says "This image, specifically, is Ben asking Allison if she was tearing up, because she was. Gah, it was such a sweet, sweet moment for me!" 

Allison, the bride, said "We are thrilled with the way our album turned out! Seeing it on our bookshelf everyday is a beautiful reminder of where our love story started. We feel we made a great, small investment into what will be a treasured piece we can pass on to our kids and their kids."

To view the 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

Has anyone else been following along with Abby Grace and her Signature Atelier Workshop going on IN FRANCE this week? Check out the hashtag #thesignatureatelier on Instagram to melt over the extreme beauty that comes out of a group of photographers being inspired by Parisian architecture, styled shoots, and the beautiful French garden home they're residing in. 
 
And today we're excited to show off one of Abby Grace's wedding album designs on our blog! Abby is a talented wedding and anniversary photographer based out of Washington D.C. Check out her Align Client Advocate page to view some of her past album design and learn about her album design process. 
 
Here are some photographs Abby sent us of the finished Leather Craftsmen album for this timeless and classic Georgetown wedding. For tips on how Abby photographed these spreads, check out the video she made for our "Tips on Photographing Albums" post. 
 
Enjoy!

And here's the full album design for you to flip through! 
 

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