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

Ninety percent of the designs we do for photographers are wedding albums. But we also do album designs for alllllll sorts of different occasions -- parties, trips, bar & bat mitzvahs, maternity sessions, newborn sessions, senior portraits, and engagement sessions -- to name a few! 
 
Today's featured album design showcases a snowy destination engagement shoot that Detroit-based wedding photographer Niki Marie did for her clients out in the mountains of Colorado! The snow-covered trees and foggy air created such a stunning, clean backdrop to this couples' love. Niki always does the best job connecting with her clients and making them look their absolute best and we are once again blown away by her incredible work!  
 
For this album, we used our SIMPLE design style which utilizes no more than 4 images per spread. This design style is perfect for engagement and portrait albums! 
 
Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this magical snowy destination engagement album:

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

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Design by: Denise (View More) // Design style: Classic (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

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

The story behind today's featured album is very touching. I'm going to let Arizona-based wedding photographer Marquette LaRee tell it in her own words:  
 
"This couple and wedding will always hold a special spot in my heart. The week of Austin and Tatum's engagement session was the week I went to be with my 55 year old mom in the ICU in New Mexico. My Dad needed to be able to go back to work, and we didn't want her there alone as they tried to figure out what was going on. The plan was for me to be there Monday-Wednesday with her and then go back home to do Austin and Tatum's engagement photos. Wednesday the doctors were finally able to figure out what was going on and the news was grim; they asked for a family meeting the next day. I immediately got in touch with Austin and Tatum to let them know what was going on. They were so gracious and understanding, and encouraged me to be there with my family. There was no hesitation, no "but you owe us!", no hassle from them as we cancelled their engagement session (knowing we likely wouldn't be able to reschedule it with how quickly their wedding was coming up afterwards).  
 
In the end the exact time that we'd originally set up to meet for their engagement session ended up being the exact time we got the call to head to the hospital for a final visit with mom. I wouldn't have been able to make it had I not already been in New Mexico. Because of their grace and kindness, I could be there with my family and my mom and not worry about how to fix any business drama.  
 
Their wedding was the first wedding on my schedule after my mom's death. It made me hyper-aware of family interactions and special moments. I got one of my favorite mother-daughter shots I've taken, and while it made me tear up I felt so grateful that I could be there to capture that moment for them and to know how much of a treasure that photo will be through the years. The wedding planner, Stasha Barlow, was incredible. She took such amazing care of the couple and their families, showed incredible grace, patience, and kindness when another vendor was incredibly late due to staffing shortages from Covid and tourist clogged forest roads, and she kept checking on me making sure I was doing ok (as she knew of my mother's passing). My second shooter lost her mother too young the year before to a fast and aggressive cancer, so she was also hyper aware of family moments and was ready to step in and take charge if I needed a moment to collect my wits (thankfully I didn't, but she was ready and willing and I'm so grateful). So it was a hard wedding, but an incredibly beautiful one not just visually but for the love, grace, and kindness that was shown in so many ways to so many people." 
 
Marquette loved how this wedding turned out so much that she decided to have us design and print a sample album using the images from it so she could show it off to potential clients. It is SO SMART to create sample albums from your best work! In fact, we believe it's the number one key to selling albums!  
 
This Align Legacy Book is a 10x10 album with thick pages bound in our striking Auburn leather. It includes 10 spreads and has rose gold foil debossing in our Cardo font on the cover. Marquette was so kind to take these images of the finished printed album and send them to us! Gorgeous!

Here are a few of our favorite spreads from this beautiful design:

Click through the slideshow to see the design in full: 
 
 
 
Thank you, Marquette, for allowing us to work with your beautiful images and create this sample album for you!

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Design by: Kari (View More) // Design style: Classic (View More)