How often have you looked at your wedding album??

goldenshilling

This may not be the best thread to put this in but thought Id ask the question. My girlfriend and I have just started looking into booking our wedding photographer for June 2013. To start with I fully expected our wedding photography to cost a fair amount but it was the one thing I didnt mind spending a fair amount of money on as I have always thought that the photo's are the one lasting thing from the day.

Anyway I was speaking to a friend who got married about 2 years ago about photographers and she said to me that although she was very happy with her photos from the day, if she had her time again she would not have paid so much for hers as apart from maybe the first few weeks since the wedding she or her OH have not looked at their album!! Since then I have asked about 6 other married couples who have all said the same...it has made me question now how important the wedding is? Is it worth spending £500-£1500 on a wedding photographer and album if we will not look at it??

If there are any married people lurking on these forums can you say that you have looked back over the album much since you have been married??

becs

Absolutely spend the money! Even if it's something you rarely look at good photos will evoke so many memories. We deliberately went for the photobook album with 5 mini ones for parents and brother and 1 for me, we chose the photobooks beause I knew if we had the tradtional big album it would stay boxed up. Having a book on the bookshelf means I can grab it anytime. I carry the little one in my handbag and regularly look at that, also nice if I bump into old friends I hav my pics with me. (by the way I loathe having my photo taken so for me too feel so strongly about it speaks volumes!)

jtr2803

Although I am now divorced I am in the batch of people who never got them out after we had received the albums from the photographer and had the initial look through! In fact, when I left the marital home neither of us even knew where they were!

I do think having a good photographer is money well spent but I don't believe that albums are necessary. You can always have one made at a later date if you wish to. I may do a scrapbook if I get married again so I can personalise it more and add it other trinkets and such.

ZsaZsa

I havent looked at ours since we got them. We have 1 photo on the mantlepiece, the others are all in a box stashed away. We've moved 3 times since and they just get moved around from cupboard to cupboard. I bought an album seperately as I wasn't keen on the photographers albu and I havent even put them in. I am glad that I've got them, but I'm equally glad we've got all the cds that friends and family gave us after with their own digital pics. Professional pics were a must for us, but I'm glad we didnt pay for a hugely expensive package

MrsDrink

I don't particularly care about having a photographer - we are having one just because we've made such good savings on other area. I do want 1 good photo of MrD and me stood in front of our town's landmark so I can put it into a nice frame and give it to both sets of parents. But other than that I'm not too fussed.

(PS we're only getting him for 2-3hrs)

emz118

I'm paying for the photographer, but only to get the photo's edited and put on a disc. We may get an album at a later date, but if so it will probably end up being a groupon deal on a photobook. That way it won't seem like such a waste if we never look at it again!

TheSeventh

I think it's probably quite common for the couple themselves to not get the album out very much after the 'weddingglow' has worn off a bit - but remember that the album can last generations. I for one, definitely enjoyed looking through at my parents' and even grandparents' wedding photos as a child (mostly to see my uncles and cousins when they were young, and the hilarious 70s fashions!) and we've had them out again recently while I'm planning my own wedding.

What I'm trying to say is that, yes, the photos probably aren't the most important thing ever, but they are a lovely memento, not just for the couple, but for their children, grandchildren and so on. Your wedding is going to become a part of your family history, and history comes alive for people when they can SEE it, not just hear or read about it.

goldenshilling

Thanks for the replies I have to say that the more I think about it the more Im thinking that getting an expensive storybook style album may be an un-needed expense. I do think like most, that a good photographer is something that we should get for the wedding but Im thinking I may go for a edited DVD with copyright so we can maybe get an album in the future if we want one. Not 100% sure the OH will agree (she was all for the storybook) but definitely something to think about.

ariba10

When we married the present Queen was still a Princess.

Our album comes out every time we want a good laugh.

74jax

I love making my own storybooks, we do it every year with our photos of holidays etc and they are in our living room and friends loon at them also.

Could you get all photos and make your own? We're undecided ln a photographer however would make our own books if we did get one.

There's loads of storybook websites.

johannalf88

I actually agree with the seventh. I'm not sure how often my parents look at their own wedding photos, but as a child I loved to look through them.