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I am not married yet, but I plan on getting a photo book. For starters, I think it's more up to date. Also, I tend to lose pictures in photo albums. Seriously, you look through the ones I have and half are missing.
Plus I like how a photographer can arrange them to tell a story, instead of just putting them in order.
I did a photo book for our guest book from Adorapix. They were the most affodable at the time and the quality and service are both very good.
For our wedding pictures, I put together 6 albums. One each for his parents and my grandmother. They weren't able to come to the wedding because of health reasons. I purchased albums that I could write notes beside and when I did theirs, I included 181 pictures; one of the pictures went in a little frame spot on the cover of the album. I catalogued them all and wrote the story of our day by hand by each picture; just put them in the mail yesterday.
For ours I got the same albums, except I used 640 pictures. Instead of putting a picture in the front of each album, I inserted a little card that I made that says: "The Wedding of (our names), March 31, 2011, Album 1 of 4", etc.
I still have to write the story in ours, but I think they are turning out much nicer than if I would have gotten an album from some place else. I used Shutterfly and Snapfish to purchase the pictures from and the albums are only costing $8.61; not including the shipping to his parents and my grandma. I got the albums at Joanns on clearance for less than $5.00.
I do not know what the difference is between a photo album or photo book. But what I did was have mine created in what my photographer calls cafe style. There is a layout on each page with multiple pictures and in a lot of cases a scenic picture is used as the background for multiple photos. I will also be getting rights to the high-res disk so I am going to print all of the pictures 4x6 size and put them in leather photo albums that I bought at Homegoods.
You aren't a bad bride I just finished the layout on mine and I got married in August.
Definitely a photobook! I hate albums and worrying about pictures falling out of them down the road.
@kperry3: A photo book is like a hard or soft cover book. A photo album, you take your own pictures and arrange them how you want. The albums that I got have little plastic sleeves to insert the photos in; some just have pages and you have to get photo corners to attach the pictures or use photo glue to attach them to the pages.
I have done a photobook for me, one for my MIL, one for my grandma, and TWO for my mom! lol. Hop to! ;) Honestly its really fun once you just sit down and get to work. I used both adoramapix and blurb. Adorama is by far better quality, but you pay for it. I have a review of the two if you look back at threads I've started.
I did a photobook for me and then did one for each of my MOH's, and my mom and MIL's. I did mine through shutterfly and I love them!! Mine was an 8 x 11 and it actually was free with a coupon I had, but original cost was $37. MOH's were 5 x 7's and I had a buy 1 get 1 50% off, so one was $12.99 and the other $6.50 and then our mother's were 8x8 and again it was buy 1 get 1 50% off, so one was $19.99 and the other $9.99. Everyone loved them and were very pleased with the results~~
I used Mixbook.com - Wonderful website~!!!! Easy to use, and the quality turned out great. Also, there are coupons online that you can use!!
Uhh, yeah, almost two years after the wedding and I haven't done anything with them. I did make my photobook through shutterfly because I had a 50% off coupon, but then I missed the deadline. So then I got a groupon deal with photobook america for $35 for a 40 page photobook. I just need to put it together.
In that case, I would do a photobook! That's what we're doing, and it's going to be amazing! She showed me a sample and it is journalistic style, with some pictures taking up two whole pages. LOVE it! I also love that they're printed on thick photo paper, that is waterproof, etc. :)
I got married in Oct too! I don't feel bad about not doing the photos yet - it seems so daunting. I do want to get it done this year though before I totally lose motivation. We'll do a professional album, it's way more expensive but that's the only wedding thing I ever really thought about before I got engaged. I love looking through my friends' wedding albums with the crazy thick pages.
I am thinking about doing a photo book from Adoramix or Snapfish or somewhere for my mom, and maybe another one for me of all the pics I want in my album but can't put in it!
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I'm a bad bride. The wedding came and went, we got our pro photos and have done nothing with them ((sheepishly shakes head)). Now that I just got around to requesting edits and they got back to me I have no excuse to not do a photo book (at least that's what I'm leaning towards).
Can you bees tell me if you did a book or album and why?
Also for you book bees, can you tell me where you did it for a reasonable price and good quality? Thanks!