Many people inquire about the albums that we offer here and how they differ from that of many of the other offerings out there. A lot of the time it’s also a question of “Why are your albums more expensive?”, which is a pretty honest question deserving of an honest answer, which boils down to only a few words. Quality and Creativity!
Quality is at the backbone of every album that we produce. We hunted for ages trying to find the highest quality hand finished albums for our clients and after sample orders from many of the offerings, we settled on what is now called the Vogue Album. These are hand finished, fully customized albums that can be individually tailored from cover to cover to meet your specific requirements. A wide variety of leather, metallic, glass and even printed canvas finishes are available. Many refer to this style of album as a “Coffee Table Album”.
The reason why we focus so much on creating wedding albums and why we so highly recommend them to clients is simple. Albums are one of the best ways to preserve your memories for generations to come. We see ourselves as not only photographers, but also as historians and because of this it’s critical that we provide a medium for out imagery that will last. Digital technology has come a very long way, but CD’s still make better coasters then family heirlooms – but don’t worry, we always provide images in digital format for easy sharing of photos!
Each pair of pages (or a ‘spread’ as well call them) run seamlessly across the fold with no break in the image. This greatly enhances landscape imagery and also allows us, the designers, to have a degree of creative freedom that is not available with other albums. That being said, every image that goes into a Vogue Album is meticulously edited and retouched before being placed into the album layout. This is the Creative aspect, as we fully design every page to best tell the story of your wedding day through the harmonious and evocative imagery captured at your wedding.
Many photo companies offer wedding albums, but what constitutes as an “album” varies greatly from vendor to vendor. This ranges from inexpensive slip in plastic paged binders (think Blacks Photography), to soft cover books to high end, exquisitely finished hand made albums. So you really have to pay attention and make sure you know what you are receiving, no matter what photographer you choose.
We also offer Parent’s albums, which are slightly smaller versions of the main album. Each Parents Album can be customized with embossed text on the cover, image cut outs and with cover treatments, just like the main album!
If you have any questions regarding the various albums we offer (and there are many more that we will get to in the blog), please feel free to send us an email!