How To Choose The Right Wedding Album Photos
Top Tips For Choosing Your Wedding Album Pics You've recently got married, and your photographer has just sent you a CD full of photos. The photos look amazing, but there's so many to choose from! How are you going to choose the best ones for your wedding album? Professional Photo Book companies are experts in making wedding albums, and they are constantly being asked that exact question. So they've passed on their top tips for picking your album pics. The best albums tell a story.
Remember that an album shows the highlights of your day, not a minute by minute, blow by blow account of every smile and every pose: Vary your choice. Photographers can get a little snap happy. You'll inevitably end up with a lot of similar photos, so choose the best few, and make sure you have as many different places and people as possible to reflect everything that took place.
Give your photos room to breathe. Cram too many photos in your album and they'll have to be small, and the design will look messy too. Professional companies use lay-flat pages which allow your photos to go right across the spread, so the fewer photos you have the bigger they can be, and the more impact they'll make when the album is opened. Think about colours and contrasts.
Green fields and forest backdrops, snow covered buildings, even guests in brightly coloured dresses can make your photos leap off the page. This works especially well when contrasted with black and white and darker indoor photos. Cover to cover. Choose photos for the front and back covers. Something simple always works well for the front, as do colourful flowers and backdrops.
(White bridal dresses look great with a colourful bouquet!) Go for black and white if you want something a little more classic. For the back cover choose something that finishes the story of your day - perhaps a photo of you leaving the wedding or your guests waving goodbye. Don't worry about the orientation. Any reputable album company offering a professional design service won't mind if your photos are portrait or landscape - they'll ensure the photos flow and the design looks great either way.
Think about smaller albums. It's common for the wedding couple to order a larger album, plus smaller copies for friends and family. The latter will normally utilise the same design as the larger album, so bear in mind that when the design is shrunk to fit some photos may be quite small. Smile for the camera. Once you've got your final selection then check them over to make sure everyone is looking happy and engaged with the event.
You want your guests to look like they're enjoying themselves, not having a sneaky nose-pick in the corner of the room! Quality not quantity. Definitely true for wedding albums - enlarge your photos on the screen to check they don't blur and pixelate. If they do then they won't look so great when printed. Also check for any marks on the photos, people out of focus, and so on. We hope these tips help you choose the best possible photos for your album. A little extra time now pays big rewards when you receive an album that you'll treasure for years to come!


