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

What could be better than a snowy engagement shoot? How about one that also includes A PUPPY!!  
 
We adore Minnesota-based portrait and wedding photographer Brooke Elisabeth and her light and airy style that strives to emulate the romantic look of film. You can see a senior portrait album design we did for her here. 
 
This design came together so seamlessly. Brooke's clients were amazing at providing prompt and detailed feedback which made their album get done faster AND turn out exactly how they wanted it. 
 
Here are some of our favorite spreads from this fun design:

Click through the slideshow to see the design in full: 
 
 
 
Thank you Brooke for allowing us to work with your beautiful images!

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