Tip 1. Choosing the Most Important Images and Your Favourite Wedding Photos

Deciding what images to put in your wedding album might seem daunting when your photographer has provided you with hundreds of photos to choose from. How many photos should go into your wedding album? It’s your wedding album at the end of the day so you put in as many as you desire. However, overcrowding pages with images can compromise the design integrity and a less memorable wedding album.

Remember we do offer a photo curation service and can help select the photos for the first design draft. Then during the review process you can make sure all your favourites are included.

However, if you would like to select your favourites, go through each section of your photo gallery and add your favourites to a separate folder. Follow your instincts as usually its the best indicator for picking the images that stand out and mean the most to you.

When we are curating the photo gallery, we always like to include detail photos too, as they help add interest to the page while adding reminders of the personal touches you included on your day. Naturally key moments are selected as well as a good selection of your loved ones.

Tip 2. Storytelling

Memorable wedding albums are typically laid out in a chronological order. The opening spread could be a hero image of the couple or a location landscape to set the scene for the day.

Your wedding album should tell an authentic story of the day as it unfolds. Starting with a few pages of the bride and groom getting ready. Making sure to include details as well as candids of the bride with her bridesmaids as they get ready for the day, and the same goes for the groom and his groomsmen.

If the bride and groom chose to have a first look then this would follow the getting ready images but before the ceremony. Also depending if the couple choose to have their wedding party portraits before the ceremony they would also appear here.

Then the ceremony, followed by congratulations, a group photo, family portraits and cocktail hour. The couple often then leave with the wedding party for their photoshoot. A mixture of romantic portraits of the couple and fun wedding party images.

The reception pages generally start with details of the reception room and wedding party entrance. Depending on whether the couple are having a traditional or non-traditional reception, the order of events might differ or some things might be even skipped, but a general outline of reception events include speeches, cake cutting, first dance and the party and d-floor action.

Each section of the day will generally have 3-5 spreads each with around 2-8 photos per spread that cover the same subject and relate to each other and in the same setting or lighting.

Tip 3. Minimalist Album Design & Page Layouts

When creating a memorable wedding album design, we like a minimalist approach allowing the photos to breathe on the page and tell the story. We like full page images for impact and especially hero images running across the double-page spread for show-stopping memories. Series of photos are a create way of telling a story too.

Our design style avoids cluttered busy pages. We don’t use design embellishments, busy layouts or overlapping images as those features quickly date your album. Our approach is to create a timeless wedding album that you can look through now or in 20 years time and enjoy the memories as if it were yesterday.

Tip 4. Make A Statement With An Impressive Personalised Album Cover

A stylish cover will make a great first impression before leading in to your wedding day memories. Whether it’s a leather, linen or photo-wrap cover, you want something you love and reflects your personal style or the wedding day theme.

There are endless customisation options available to personalise your album and make it memorable. From neutral colours to bold colours, to creative cover designs and a number of embossing colours.