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Wedding Albums

So....we've been married for over a year.  I would like to make 3 mini albums for our parents with our wedding pictures and one nice album for us. I've been working on this in Shutterfly and iPhoto and just can't seem to get satisfied.  I'm not creative - I don't have a good eye for symmetry. But I just cannot justify our photographers prices for this.  Any suggestions?  Are there services that will lay it out for me if I send the pictures I want to use?

 Brobin got me thinking about this.....

Re: Wedding Albums

  • I have been very happy with Shutterfly's new software for photobooks.  You get more ability to create custome pages.  If the albums are just for your parents, I would say not to worry about some perceived asymmetry and just do your best.  I am sure that they will never notice and love them. 

     I understand if you want some help though... (no suggestions here, sorry).

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  • Are you looking more for a photobook or a formal Renaissance album? 

    Don't worry - I finished our wedding album as a 4-year anniversary present for my DH Big Smile

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  • LOVE the Blurb books. Check them out. blurb.com
  • I really liked the Picaboo books that I made for our parents. The software is easy to use and they have a ton of different layouts, backgrounds, etc. that you can manipulate and the quality was really good. Also, if you are looking for deals, check out this woman's blog: http://www.photobookgirl.com/ she updates it daily with deals from all the different photo book websites. HTH!
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  • I'm in the process of making a photo book through Blub, so I don't have any comments on quality, but so far it's been really easy to put together!  They give you differnt layout options depending on how many photos per page you're using.  Kind of takes the guesswork out of it.  Also, there's no software to download.  You make it right online.
  • I am not creative eiether, but my books on my publisher turned out amazing! Our parents loved them. Plus they always have sales, so I got two free books!!
  • I did a lot of research on this a couple years ago.  There are places that will do the layout for you (full, professional layouts), but it seemed to cost around as much as you would pay your photog, so it probably wouldn't be worth it (I can't remember the name of the website I found, sorry).  I haven't used Shutterfly for books before -- do they have pre-fab layouts you can use?  I know MyPublisher has a wedding-themed layout book you could use.  We used MyPublisher before and really loved the book.
  • I did all mine through Shutterfly and was pleased with the results.
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  • Thanks for the feedback ladies.  I think I'll look at some of these other websites for options and see if it helps my cause.  But looks like I'm going to keep plugging away on my own.  Though you're right....I'm probably just being too particular.  

    Thanks again!
     

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