Is a wedding album worth it?

The value of a wedding album can be very subjective and depends on personal preferences and lifestyle. Here are some reasons why you might consider investing in a professional wedding album:

1. Quality: A professional wedding album is usually of much higher quality than a photo book you might create yourself online. The materials used are typically designed to last for generations without showing signs of wear.
2. Curation: A good wedding photographer will help you curate the photos that go into the album, ensuring a coherent narrative and including the best images from your day.
3. Tangible Memories: A wedding album is a tangible keepsake of your special day. It can be an excellent way to relive those moments with family and friends, or in the future, with your children and grandchildren.
4. Aesthetics: Wedding albums are generally designed to be beautiful objects in their own right. They often look lovely on a coffee table or bookshelf and can be an appealing way to share your photos with visitors.

However, here are some reasons you might opt not to get one:

1. Cost: Wedding albums can be expensive, especially if you're working with a high-end photographer or studio. If you're on a tight budget, it might not be feasible.
2. Digital Convenience: With most photographers providing digital copies of your photos, you might find it more convenient to view or share your photos online or create your own album through a less expensive service.
3. Storage: If you live in a small space, storing an album might be inconvenient. Digital photos can be stored without taking up physical space.

In the end, whether a wedding album is "worth it" really depends on you. If you appreciate the tactile experience of a high-quality photo album and enjoy the idea of a beautiful, curated keepsake of your wedding day, it might be worth the investment. However, if you're budget-conscious and comfortable with digital images, you may choose to forego it.

Yes 100% if you get a luxury fine art one like I provide. All my couples who have bought an album say its the best album they have ever seen, like nothing else. Great quality will last generations and why not present your album with the style and class it deserves!! Something tangeble in your home to pick up every anniversary or everytime you meet a new friend to look at over a cuppa! THE BEST! Have your experienced professional photographer design and print for you (a good photographer will be able to do this for you)  We are professioanl story tellers and will design the album to tell the story of your day so when you look at it, all the emotions come back in order of how they felt on the day! 

I think wedding albums is a personal choice. They are beautiful and ofcourse Im happy to supply an array of choices. 

I always give you a coffee table book of the best 100 shots so its a good starting guide if you were to go ahead with an album. 

At West Coast Weddings we belive that LIFE BELONGS IN PRINT, and that YOUR love story deserves to be told! Because every love tory deserves a beautiful heirloom wedding album - we include a stunning handcrafted, bespoke artisan album in ALL of our Collections (Albums). These gorgous keepsakes showcase your wedding day to everyone and, being archival quality, will become family heirlooms to treasure, unlike digitals that can't easily be looked at, never get printed and can be tragically lost forever if the media corrupts or crashes. Your wedding day is such an important part of your family history that you will want those images printed and preserved for the generations to come!

I certainly am swayed to the side of yes on this one. However, I personally love my own wedding album. It's something tangible in your hand, of many photos of your day for you to share with family and friends to gush over. It's more than the few top picks printed around your home, it's many of your best moments to reminisce over when you have the urge. Anniversary Days are great days to bring out that book and re-kindle the feels as you go through all the moments that were captured. I highly reccommend going an album, ahuh yep.

We certainly believe so. I see so many couples say they will do their own and a year later when I touchbase they still havent even started.  We have a professional team of graphic designers who will design your album to a unique look specifically to your specifications.

This is the thing that will perpetuate your wedding forever and will always be the centrepiece and talking point of the room where it is.

An album is the final touch to your wedding photography experience. Many couples feel they will save money by doing one themselves and perhaps they will, but when you have your images shot and edited by a professional, it makes sense to purchase a professional album. Often cheaper albums are cheap because of the paper used and this can have an impact on the colours. Many couples with the intention of doing their own album find it a daunting task to select approximately 80 images out of 1000 to go into an album and often put it in the 'too hard' basket. Understandably!

Over the years I've been photographing weddings, I've seen the change in how I provide images. Firstly it was a disc, then USB and now digital download. I think an album is something you won't regret, but you might regret not getting one. If computers no longer read JPEG files, an album is a physical reminder of your wedding day, it's kind of like insurance and something to showcase your photos. You may love the photographers work but the album is out of the budget, ask them if you can purchase one later. Many couples come back to me months down the track to purchase an album and that is perfectly fine. 

110% yes. Having all of your photos in one central place with high quality paper and binding is truly one of the best things to take away from your wedding day. Rather than only having a few photos up on your walls in frames, having all of them kept in a tangible album on your coffee table, book shelf or bedside table is definitely worth the cost at the end of the day.

Most photographers will either create the album for you, or will have a service built into your client gallery.

A wedding album is soooooo worth it. I have been producing Albums for couples for many years and it is always "the icing on the cake" pardon the pun. But it is!!

A wedding day goes by in a flash. Money spent, beautiful day had, memories made, vows exchanged. And an album gives you a touchstone to remember all of it and more.

Something to share with family and friends. And just to revisit yourselves especially when you are giving your relationship a little TLC.

Hello, great question specialy as we now live in times where everything is digital!

My honest opinion is a BIG YES!!! So worth it!

Nothing compares to the delicate touch of holding your precious memories in your ow hands. There is something truly amazing about seeing your photographic memories in print, the experience of discovery as you flip through the pages of your verhy own love story in a custom designed wedding album is truly remarkable. Your wedding album is your heriloom to be shared with your family and friends when they visit and ofcourse future generations. 

I believe most photographers offer wedding album design services, I know we do offer quality albums with warranty on them. 

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Karla

Qualis Photography