This album design is special for me because it was done for one of my friends! Ellen and Vance eloped five years ago in Norway and it was such a magical snowy wedding day. Their wedding story was beautifully capture by Norway-based husband and wife team Wide in Wonder.  
 
Ellen is a long time friend of both mine and one of our designers, Andrea. Andrea generously offered to design this album as a gift to Ellen and then we were able to print it at cost for her. It brings me so much joy to be able to bless others with the gift of a wedding album -- even years after their wedding! Ellen and Vance have two sweet kiddos and I can just imagine how cherished this book will be as their children grow up flipping through it! 
 
A special thank-you goes out to Stipi and Kristine for allowing us to feature this album showcasing your stunning photos! And to Ellen for taking photos of the printed Align Legacy Book! Ellen chose our Carob leather, for the cover, with text clear debossed in Helvetica Neue font.  
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this beautiful design:

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

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

There are a plethora of options for your album cover. You can choose a cameo photo, up to two lines of text, or both. Here are some resources and examples to help you make the best decision! 
 
Cameo Photo 
 
Our cameo photo covers include a photo of your choice that will be cropped square. You will be asked to upload the photo of your choice. If you are particular on how the photo is cropped, please make sure to crop it square before uploading. Otherwise we will choose the crop for you. 
 
Here are some examples of our albums with cameo photo covers: 
(Top: upright album Tweed leather; L album Metropolitan linen; R album Silhouette linen)

Above: Parchment linen

Above: Tweed leather 
 
Text 
 
If you opt to include text on the cover of your album, you can do 1 or 2 lines of text. We offer 6 different fonts to choose from** and 4 options for debossing color: clear, gold, silver, or rose gold. Click here to access our handy font previewer tool to try out your text in our various font options.  
 
** Please note that our Family Yearbook albums are a bit more limited. We only offer two font choices -- Cardo or Helvetica Neue -- and the engraving color will be determined for you by the linen color you select. In this case your text will be engraved in a contrasting color to your linen cover. 
 
Here are some examples of the various debossing colors (available for Wedding Albums) on our cover materials:

Above left: Cardo font on Parchment linen. Above right: Adelicia font on Eight Ball leather.

Above left: Euphoria font on Silhouette linen. Above right: Allura font on Yukon leather.

Above left: Euphoria, Cardo, Allura & Adelicia fonts on Eight Ball leather. Above right: Euphoria, Cardo, Allura & Adelicia fonts on Silhouette linen.  
 
 
And here are some photos of various albums that have text on their covers:

Above: Venus font in all caps clear debossed on Carob leather.

Above: Adelicia font with silver foil debossed on Cobblestone linen

Above: Adelicia font with rose-gold foil debossed on Indigo linen

Above: Cardo font with silver foil debossed on Metropolitan linen

Above: Allura font with gold foil debossed on Parchment linen

Above: Helvetica Neue font clear debossed on Carob leather 
 
 
 
We hope you've found this helpful in your decision making! Please don't hesitate to reach out to us at info@alignalbumdesign.com or in the comments below with any questions!

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Blog post written by: Melissa Jill

This was the first album design we had the pleasure of designing for Brooke Elisabeth -- a wedding, engagement, and high school graduating senior photographer based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota -- and we are SMITTEN. Her work is stunning and this senior session album featuring twin girls definitely made the list of our all time favorites! 
 
Brooke did her homework before submitting her first order with us. She browsed through all of our album design blog posts and took note of which designs she liked then specifically requested the designers who did them. As a result, she had very few revisions to the initial design. The extra time spent up front paid off when she got a design that she loved right out of the gate! 
 
And we love it too! Brooke ordered a 10x10 Align Legacy Book with a Metropolitan linen cover and is using it as her sample album. Can you imagine? Every senior who comes through her doors is going to want one! 
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this design:

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

Thank you Brooke for sending us photos of the printed album! It was such a pleasure to work with you!

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

Santa Barbara-based Sarah Ellefson photographed this sweet wedding at Los Poblanos -- a historic inn and organic farm located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This was a destination wedding for the couple who travelled in from Austin, Texas, and Sarah knew that they loved the location so much that she made sure we featured it throughout the pages of the album design. She also requested that we design additional spreads beyond the 15 that the couple included in their package because she knew they would be interested in ordering more. And they did! The final design included 19 spreads and was printed as a 10x10 Align Legacy Book with thick pages and a Metropolitan Linen cover with silver foil debossing.  
 
We are so grateful to Sarah for sending us these images of the printed album! Here are a few of our favorite spreads:

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

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

Michelle Ray is a Dallas-based wedding photographer who specializes in eco-ethical/green weddings. She recently collaborated with a team of vendors to produce a vegan styled shoot to inspire her ideal clients and we were honored to create a sample album design for her to show off her stunning work! 
 
In addition to designing this album, we also printed it! Michelle chose our beautiful Metropolitan Linen and ordered a 12x12 Align Legacy Book with thin pages. It turned out so pretty! We can't thank Michelle enough for sending these beautiful images our way!

Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this design featuring florals and tables capes by Campbell Events:

To see the design in full, click through the slideshow: 
 
 
 
Thank you Michelle! It was such an honor to work with your beautiful images!

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