Ninety percent of the album designs we do are wedding albums, but we also do all sorts of other genres of album designs: engagement, newborn, family portrait, bar and bat mitzvahs, corporate events, parties, boudoir, and senior portrait albums -- which is what today's featured album design is! And it is GORGEOUS!  
 
Minnesota based wedding and portrait photographer Brooke Elisabeth is SO talented -- we absolutely ADORE her and her work! We have been working with Brooke since 2020 and have designed over 20 albums for her in that time. She is also one of our beloved Client Advocates who is available to answer any questions regarding her experience working with Align. You can find out more about her and see some of her other designs we've featured by clicking over to her Client Advocate Profile here! 
 
One of the keys to success for this particular design is that Brooke supplied us with a variety of images that she shot in the same locations. As you can see, each spread is super-cohesive but also interesting because of the variety of images and poses she shot. 
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this stunning design:

To see the design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you, Brooke, for trusting us to be a part of your team!

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

This post is long-overdue since I've had this album in-hand since FEBRUARY, but I'm so excited to share with you my very own family yearbook album! I've been getting one of these to commemorate a year in the life of our family for the last 4 years now and the series of albums that sit on the shelves of our living room is seriously one of my most cherished possessions. Beau, our four year old, often asks to look at the one with "Beau in mama's belly" and we will almost weekly sit down and look through one of them together talking about all of our memories. 
 
This year I opted to design my own album, which I haven't done in YEARS, but I actually really enjoyed it. These are our press-printed albums that we offer to consumers and they come in various linen cover options. I get a different color each year and this year I opted for the Pebble linen. It has a really pretty texture to it. The majority of images in this album were taken on an iPhone (the best camera is the one you have with you!) and since we do 8x8 albums for these, I like to keep the pages fairly minimal and simple.  
 
Here are a few of my favorite spreads:

We live in Huntsville, Alabama and have like ONE day of snow each winter. We of course have to drop everything when that happens and have a snow day!

Balloon festival!

Bruce graduated from seminary with his Master's! So proud!

One of two professional sessions we had last year (so I can be in some photos) with Valerie Callan Photography.

Beach trip!

Beau's first college football game!

Christmas in our home with self-timer matching PJ portraits! 
 
And here is the shelf where our family yearbook albums live! Couldn't love them more!

To see the design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 

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

We can and DO design albums for every type of event imaginable and today we are featuring a darling engagement album that we designed for New Jersey based wedding photographer Jennifer Larsen. This beach engagement shoot looks like it was a whole EXPERIENCE so it is fitting that it justifies it's own album. I can just see the couple flipping through this and reliving the amazing time they had at this beach house! 
 
For this design, we used our SIMPLE design style which features clean white backgrounds and 1-4 images per spread.  
 
We LOVE how this design turned out! Jennifer did such a great job capturing the personalities of this couple and those beach shots are so dreamy! 
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this fun design:

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

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

Ninety percent of the albums we design are wedding albums, but we will design for any occasion! We are smitten with this darling maternity album designed for long-time client Tori Watson who is based in Virginia! It is absolutely stunning!! 
 
Tori is one of our beloved Client Advocates and you can see more albums we have featured of hers over the years by clicking here.  
This particular album design was completed from order form to file delivery with one round of revisions in between in exactly ONE WEEK! We love when we can help photographers turn around their album designs so quickly! 
 
Tori was kind enough to photograph the printed Madera Album so we could show you the finished product! We love how it turned out!!! 
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this precious design:

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

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

This is too fun! Michigan-based photographer Kayla Bouren recently ordered a guest book album design from us using some fabulous engagement photos she took! We love this idea! We designed the spreads to include plenty of white space around them so that guests could sign notes to the couple as they arrived at their wedding! How fun would it be to see all of these beautiful photos of your friends as you were showing up to their wedding!?  
 
We not only designed this album, but printed it as well! You can find out more about our Align Legacy Books by clicking here! 
 
Kayla did an amazing job taking a variety of photos in each location during this engagement shoot and really allowing her clients' personalities to shine! Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this fun guest book album design: 
 

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

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