Post # 1

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Newbee
Have any of you made your own wedding album using your digital negatives? Not a blurb book or basic album, but a traditional, flush-mounted wedding album? If so, how did you do it? We’re seeing that a lot of photographers charge $1200 or more to make an album when i’m pretty sure that it can cost much less than that so we are thinking of doing it ourselves. But, we’d like a nice, leather bound album and wanted to see how difficult it was to do and how much it would cost. Thanks all!
Post # 3

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Helper bee
Target.com offers nice options.
Post # 4

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Helper bee
I found this site:
http://www.somersetalbums.com/index.asp
I don’t know anything about it though except that prices look fairly reasonable. We haven’t decided yet what to do with all of our digital proofs.
Post # 5

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Buzzing bee
Have you look at mpix? They offer a range of options including a 10×10 40-page leather flush mount alum for under $300. I haven’t used their album service, but the quality of their prints is very high.
http://www.mpix.com/Product.aspx/assembledalbums
Post # 6

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Helper bee
I made an album through Shutterfly.com for our guestbook, and it turned out great. I had no issues with it.
I choose shutterfly because I could edit it from anywhere.
Post # 7

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Blushing bee
I’m using mypublisher for an "album" and it was $70 with a leather cover. Someday I would like to have actual prints in an alum- like the Somerset link that was posted. I’ll need to save up some money though!
Post # 8

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Worker bee
gosh, flush mount albums are so expensive! I was planning to make 2 parent albums from the negatives, but with these prices, I might stick with cheaper options like mypublisher… 🙁
I’d love to hear thoughts from others that have designed their own flush-mount albums though!