All of my wedding packages include a custom designed wedding album, so I spend quite a lot of time creating my client’s wedding story. Putting together these books are one of my favorite parts, I love tying all the images together to tell the story and finding custom details to match each bride & groom’s unique style. After I put together the “wedding story” I then set up an album design consultation with my clients to make sure the design is exactly how they want it…after all they are going to have it for the rest of their lives and it will be passed down for countless generations, so gotta make sure everyone is completely happy with it. After the design is confirmed I then go through and prep each page for optimum printing and retouch every image to make sure there are no yucky facial blemishes, distracting exit signs in the background, or any other stray marks that can be burned, dodged, cloned, etc… Sure its a lot of work, but I wouldn’t feel that my job is complete if my brides & grooms didn’t have a beautiful wedding book to relive their wedding day by. Below are my last album designs of 2010, whoo, what a year!

Red Rocks Wedding in Colorado

City Park Wedding in New Orleans

Grant Humphrey Mansion Wedding in Denver

Peace Lutheran & Stonebrook Manor Wedding in Colorado

Wedding season has officially come to an end (last one of was last week, has been a long late season this year!) but wedding album season is in full swing! In case you wonder what us wedding photographers do when we’re not shooting & editing…we’re working on print orders & especially wedding albums, books, stories, whatever you prefer to call it. I love this part of my job, because not only do I get to collage all these amazing photos together into a custom designed story, but I get to relive the fun of the wedding day and share that story with the world…or with the bride & groom at the very least. Then it really gets fun after 20+ hours of production comes to fruition when the albums are printed and the images really come to life! Even though on my computer monitor I can zoom in on an image to the tiniest pixel…and yes sometimes I really have to view each little tiny pixel to retouch that bra strap or hair popping out of place…but even so, once you see the image in print you see so much more then you ever noticed before! Like when I notice that guest in the background winking at his date, or the reflection of the crying mom peeping through the mirror on the wall. It’s sometimes those little things in the background that don’t go through my Photoshop retouching zoom that give me the biggest laugh or gasp when I see it in print. And yes, sometimes that means reprinting an image because that pixel that blended away on my computer monitor prints as a white mark on the groom’s face….or that fancy script font that looked great in the design, we now see in print was misspelled on the cover of 2 wedding albums! Yea, that happened to me today, not cool when you got to eat hundreds of dollars in reprinting costs…but alas that is the cost of business. =P The bride, my assistant, and myself all missed that one till it was printed, whoops!
Click on an image below to check out just some of the wedding album designs I’ve been working on, and please let me know if you see anything spelled wrong

Colorado wedding story

Wedding Story Tatiana Joaquin

New Orleans wedding album proof

Stacy Jeremy Wedding

Denver wedding album proof

Cassie Cameron Wedding

New Orleans wedding album

Jonathan Jeremie Wedding