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What would you pick?
Our package with our photographer came with a proof album of 300 images. It's a leather bound album with the words "Our Wedding" on the front and the images are 4x5. My guess is the pages are the kind you'd get in a photobook.
Or we can use the cost of the proof album toward a traditional album. We would want the traditional kind of album, not the flush mount kind. And of course this would include less photos (not sure exactly how many, depends on the # of pages and stuff).
DH and I are going to talk about this tonight, but I'm just curious as to what you would choose. The proof album with more photos or the nicer traditional album but with less photos (and some cost associated with it).
Does anyone know of a place that we could make our own traditional album if we decided to get the free proof album but down the road wanted a traditional one? I know we can order one through our photographer but just curious if there are other places that make them as well.
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Re: What would you pick?
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We get a CD of all the photos and the rights.
because of this i voted for the traditional one. proof albums from my understanding are something you would get if you didnt get a CD. if you want to check out your other photos you can just go on the computer.
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I'm actually going to disagree here. I would get the proof album, and get the traditional album elsewhere, where it will probably be much less expensive. While I don't have any recommendations for where you could get this done, I DO have a recommendation for a website where you can make digital albums very inexpensively. The website is www.mypublisher.com and I've used it to make albums of both our wedding and honeymoon pictures. I got both albums for around $100 (total, not each), and they are basically like coffee table books. They always have promotions going on, and when you register and download the software you get 20% off your first purchase. My cousin used this site to make his wedding album after his wedding photographer disappeared with the money he paid for his album.
I bet that if you went into a framing store they would have some referrals for places to get a traditional album made.
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Personally I would just take the proof album.
If you get all the images on a cd with full printing rights, it is so easy to make your own album these days. There are so many options and places that can help you create a professional looking, beautiful photo book with the pictures you pick while paying a fraction of what you might pay your photographer to do it. In many many cases the photographers just go through the same services anyway and upcharge for their time to do it for you.
I also said proof book because I think you can probably find a cheaper traditional album elsewhere. I haven't printed through this company yet, but I've heard great things about it. I plan on ordering our wedding prints through them. This is the link to their albums. http://www.mpix.com/Product.aspx/assembledalbums
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Thanks for the input ladies!
I'm pretty sure we decided to go with the traditional wedding album instead of the proof album. We figured that since we get the CD and the rights, we can make our own 'proof' album at a later date if we wanted. And I doubt that we'll really want to whip out our proof album to show people pictures. I'd much rather have a really nice wedding album to show people and then have the pictures on the CD to do whatever we want with them.
The only reason we wouldn't make our own down the road is that we don't want a photobook kind. We want the kind of album that is the traditional, more old-school style of wedding album, Where the photos are matted and stuff. Not the flush-mount, magazine style. We can make a photobook later on if we really want to, but making our own matted wedding album is not so easy...or cheap.