How much for wedding album?

mromo2813 · January 2012

My husband and I are on the fence about ordering a wedding photo album. We both really want one, but are struggling with the thought of spending such a large amount of money on it.

Did you or are you going to get one? If so, how much are you spending?

Ours through our photographer is $1000 for a 12x12 album with 34 sides. That will be about 150 pictures.

Thanks in advance!

acaponi87 · January 2012

That seems like A LOT. Are you getting rights to your pictures? Because if you are you can just make an album yourself.

My photographer included a coffee table book of our photos (30-35 pages) in our package. Our package, which includes 6-7 hrs of coverage, unlimited photos, a high res disc of all our pictures and the book is only $1825. So $1000 seems like a ton to me just for an album.

rcj2rcd · January 2012

That's about what ours cost.

zulamay · January 2012

If you have the rights to your photos, I would highly suggest you not order the album and make one yourself. Our photographer included a 20 page album in our package, but then tried to sell us a 60 page album for $2,000. We made it for $70 through iPhoto (available on most Macs) and it looks professional. There are other cheaper photo sites like Snapfish, but the quality of the books isn't as good.

Meegles4 · January 2012

Mine is included in my package, but I image it's costing about that given how much the photog is overall.

I agree with Zula on making your own if you can. I just used Snapfish for our guest book, using our engagement photos, and it turned out great! If that was my only option for a wedding album, I'd do it.

If you don't have the rights, ask what it would cost to buy them but not buy an album. Maybe that's slightly cheaper. If not, I feel like I'd still buy an album from the photographer. After paying all that money, I'd want something besides the digital images to look through. FWIW, I still pull my parents' wedding album out, 35+ years later. If anything, to laugh at my dad's paisley tux!

db1985 · January 2012

I agree about purchasing print rights and making your own. We will be making a large photo album and 2 smaller albums for our parents through the Kodak website for about $100 for all 3.

emarston1 · January 2012

We used mypublisher and got a great looking album (flush mount, lay flat pages, etc.) for about $150. I don't think I could justify spending that much on a photo album. But that's just me

Sue-n-Kevin · January 2012

I got the rights to our pics from our photographer, and made my own on Costco's website, leather bound, it was about $35 (with coupon) for 8 x 12 pages, you can use full pages, they have pre-set templates, etc. Additional pages were $1.39 (I think).

[Deleted User] · January 2012

My photographer said ours will cost $600-$700. I want a nice album...something classy that I can keep and will look nice forever. So, while it's a lot, we're ordering one.

abbeylynne06 · January 2012

If you print one on your own, I suggest using AdoramaPix. They are a little more expensive than something like Snapfish, but they make great albums, and they have the option of the thick cardboard pages like many professional albums have. I was really happy with mine.

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