Our wedding photographer's package came with unlimited shots and a CD with all the printing rights. We can order prints through the photographer if we want and she does offer albums but she did admit they're not her specialty. (She's a PHENOMENAL photographer, so this didn't bother me at all.)
Now I need to get parents' albums and a nice wedding album made somewhere. Is anyone else doing their own? What company are you using to do them? I know at least one parent is expecting the traditional leather-covered album with actual photos in it, not the flush mount books that are more popular nowadays. Any ideas?
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Re: Anyone doing their own wedding albums - from where?
If one set of parents just wants a nice traditional leather album with prints in it, that should be easy! I haven't bought an old-school album like that in years myself, but I do still see them often-- deparment stores should have reasonably nice ones.
I don't even know where to begin to look for something like that, but they specifically said they don't want the "new type of book." I offered to just give them the CD and they were offended, saying it was my job to give them an ALBUM, not a CD. SMDH. Whatever.
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I will check out those other companies and see if I can find any reviews/BBB reports on them. Thanks for the leads. In the end, we will do what we can afford and if they don't like it, too bad. They are welcome to use the CD we have to create whatever album they want at their own expense if they feel that the one we make them is too "cheap" or doesn't match my sister's album. Hopefully, this will be the final time that I have to gently remind them that this wedding isn't/wasn't about them.
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[QUOTE]I don't doubt that it costs a lot of money for a photographer to create a beautiful album, and I do believe in paying someone fairly. However, we just can't afford $1,000 or more for a parent's album, especially when we have 4 of them to do, plus our own. It took us 4.5 years to save up for a wedding for 22 guests and we had very little help from our families. We just don't have the money for that type of album. We paid for our own wedding 100% in cash so we wouldn't go into debt, and I'm not about to ruin that by going into debt for the parents' albums. I will check out those other companies and see if I can find any reviews/BBB reports on them. Thanks for the leads. In the end, we will do what we can afford and if they don't like it, too bad. They are welcome to use the CD we have to create whatever album they want at their own expense if they feel that the one we make them is too "cheap" or doesn't match my sister's album. Hopefully, this will be the final time that I have to gently remind them that this wedding isn't/wasn't about them.
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I fully understand, espeically when its a parents album, paying hundreds of dollars isn't always feasible, heck it isn't always feasible when you are buying it for yourself! Often times parent albums are done in a 6x6 size or 8x8 size which can really help on costs - rather than a 10x10, 11x14 or other large size done for brides and grooms. I think its very kind of you to purchase them for your parents and I can't imagine them not loving whatever you get them.
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