Crafting a Legacy for Generations to Come: Our Process for Delivering Handmade, Heirloom Quality Wedding Albums

As wedding photographers, we have the pleasure of providing couples with the same opportunity to create a legacy for their own families by crafting a physical keepsake which is wholly theirs and 100% unique, a wedding album that they can treasure for generations. Here is what you can expect from our wedding album design process:

Album Selection

We offer two handmade wedding albums options for our clients, the Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book and the Heirloom Wedding Album. Both handmade keepsakes, but each offering a different level of customization.

The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book

The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book is an entirely custom, one-of-a-kind wedding keepsake. This premium handmade wedding album is completely bespoke: artisans and designers will look closely at your wedding photos and stationery art to create a completely custom album design and presentation box with unique, one-of-a-kind fabrics and textiles, embossing, foil printing, and much more. We partner with a master bindery in Vermont, whose design team sources bespoke fabrics selected to match your wedding photos. They then design embroidered detailing, select custom decorative papers, and hand-craft letter imprinting and foiling—the final result is an heirloom that is a true representation of your love story.

Twelve two-page spreads are included standard. For this number of spreads, we recommend selecting between 20-30 images. This image-to-page ratio is a wonderful balance that allows your photos to shine. More spreads can be added for an additional cost.

The Heirloom Wedding Album

This handmade album is a high quality flush-mount style book with spreads graphically designed on archival quality paper to ensure that your wedding photographs stay vibrant and will not fade over time. Available in a variety of cover materials including faux and genuine leathers, fine silks, and linens with custom name and date embossing. Twelve spreads are included standard, and we recommend between 20-30 images. More spreads can be added for an additional cost.

Layout & Cover Design

We work directly with our clients after their wedding to customize their albums. After the online gallery of photographs is delivered, we’ll dive right into the curation process where you will select your favorite moments from your wedding day. Once you’ve selected the photographs you’d like to include, we will design an initial album layout and you will have the opportunity to provide input and revise sequencing and photo placement.

For The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book, we work with designers at our partner bindery to develop a bespoke design for your album and presentation box. They will share a mock-up of the design for your approval before moving forward. For The Heirloom Wedding Album, you will select a cover material along with name and date embossing.

Album Delivery

The turnaround time for each album varies. Due to the bespoke nature of The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book, clients can expect to receive their album within 12-16 weeks after approval of their final album design. For The Heirloom Wedding Album, clients can expect to receive their album within 4-6 weeks after the finalized layout is approved.

Timeline for Album Design and Delivery

• Image Delivery

  Three weeks after the wedding, clients recieve their online wedding gallery. Image selection for album begins.

• Image Selection

  Album image selection is finalized within 8 weeks after the delivery of the online gallery.

• Album Revision

  An album proof is created, and the revision process begins. We allow up to 2 revisions which must be completed within 4 weeks of the initial proof delivery.

• Album Production

  Album production ranges between 4-6 weeks for The Heirloom Wedding Album, and 12-16 weeks for The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book, plus an additional 1-2 weeks for shipping.