If you've been around these parts for very long, you already know that we're HUGE Jean Smith fans. We have designed over 150 albums for the Michigan-based photographer and she is ridiculously talented.  
 
Jean is also one of our beloved Client Advocates. Click here to watch a short video where Jean shares two mistakes that she regrets making when she started her business. She is such an inspiration to us -- every time we get a new wedding from Jean, we are picking our jaws up off the floor. 
 
This wedding is another feast for the eyes. The venues -- both the Orthodox church for the ceremony, and the golf club for the reception -- are full of character. And everything about this couples' style oozes class. 
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this design:

To see this stunning design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you so much, Jean, 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

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

DC-based wedding photographer Christina Joy does something incredible -- she gifts all of her clients a surprise 4x4 min album with images from their engagement shoot! Of course they fall in love with it (and her) and then end up EXPERIENCING the power of an album. What an incredible idea for getting more albums into your clients' hands! 
 
Christina shares: 
Working with Align Album Design streamlines this process for me by consistently creating beautiful album designs. We photographed Emma & James' engagement session at the National Mall in Washington, DC and Kari did such a beautiful job with this design! 
 
Since she knew this printed album was going to be very small -- only 4x4 -- Kari purposefully kept the design very simple -- employing our SIMPLE design style which only uses 1-4 images per spread.  
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this fun design:

To see the design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you, Christina, 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

Guess how many albums we've had the pleasure of designing for Virginia-based wedding photographer Katelyn James in the past 10 years??  
 
126. 
 
Nutso! We're probably not suppose to play favorites, but Katelyn is definitely on our favorites list! We owe her a world of gratitude because she has sent so many photographers our way by sharing about how she integrates us in her workflow through all her educational resources and courses. If you are needing help for anything photo or business-related, you should definitely check out all she has to offer here!  
 
And if you're interested in hearing a little about Katelyn's journey with albums and what caused her to start outsourcing even though she LOVED designing her own albums, check out this video: 
 
 
 
Here are some of our favorite spreads from the most recent design we created for Katelyn:  
 

To see the design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you, Katelyn, for allowing 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

We have had the pleasure of working with Pennsylvania and Charleston, South Carolina fine art wedding photographer Meghan Baskin for a year now and boy are we lucky! Her work is so inspiring and just stunning! We are so excited to share an album we created for her clients today!  
 
This wedding took place in Pennsylvania, but from looking at the photos, you might be convinced it took place at a beautiful chateau in the countryside of France. What a lovely venue Hotel du Village in Bucks County, Pennsylvania makes!  
 
Without further adieu (see what we did there?), here are some of our favorite spreads from this stunning design: 
 

To see this design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you, Meghan, for choosing 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