HELP!!! DIY Wedding Album/Photo Book

Copko2012

My husband and I just got married in June, and we're on a really tight budget. I'm still in college and not working much, so we don't have tons of money to spend on our wedding album. Our photographer didn't offer any album options, but gave us all of our images and the copy right to them on CD. I've been scouring the internet trying to find the best quality album or lay flat photo book I can get my hands on for about $200. I might be able to go to $300 but really should go higher than that. Anybody have any suggestions on what company to use??? I've read about MyPublisher's lay-flat supergloss photo books, Adoramapix, Nation's PhotoLab, & MyPhotoCreation's Lake Photographic Album and Anza Album...but I really don't know which (if any of these) to choose. Has anyone had any experience with any of these or another good company? I really appreciate any help I can get!

Summer2011Bride

Are you talking about flush mount albums? If so, I love them, but they are pricey and I have not found any online for $300. The cheapest I could find was $800 which is why we decided to not do it.

FWIW, I made a photobook through Shutterfly that was very high quality with a leather cover and all the photos were printed right on the page. It was extremely user-friendly; they have pre-set layouts you can use or you can do your own or mix the two (what I did). For 50 pages, I think I spent about $80 with a coupon ($100 prior to coupon).

ETA: I don't know if this applies to any of the companies you listed, but when I looked into flush mounts, I found many sites online would only deal with professional photographers, so make sure that these websites will work with you.

fallbride1109

I used somersetalbums.com.  I made a flush mount album for $400 but they have a photo book option too and when I made mine, those started around $150.

http://www.somersetalbums.com/index.asp

Nations Photo Lab is another flush mount album company I looked into but I ended up not going with them because they didn't have a preview feature (where you could see how the album would look before you sent it to print).

http://www.nationsphotolab.com/albums.htm

I have a review in my bio with pics of mine under DIY album.

stabreech

Ive had friends do alot of things on shutterfly (like guestbooks) seemed nice for not alot of money

Aussiegirl72

I was at a bridal show recently with my girlfriend who is getting married and I came across a company that does DIY albums it reminded me of my album that I received from my photographer but for less the price. Check it out: www.fizara.com