How often have you looked at your wedding album??

Dekazer

I guess we're still in post-wedding glow (not even 3 months in) and already I'm a bit bored of looking at the photos!

We decided against having a book/album because we live on a narrowboat and don't have the space. I have one photo prnited and framed, largely because the frame was a gift and it's a lovely photo, and partly because I feel like I should.

Actually, our favourite photos of the wedding were actually of the honeymoon, so they're also framed and hung.

The rest of the photos are sitting on a computer. My grandparents have all had some printed copies which they like, and I've sent some to other family members. We thought that one day we could make a Photobook if we wanted to, but I can't imagine why we would bother. Maybe in a few years' time we'll do one for posterity, but with so many photos in the ether on Facebook etc, is hardly seems worth the bother!

For the cost, there are definite pros to having a professional photographer, but I really don't see that having an album/photobook made is one of them...

Brightside

I have my maternal great grans copy of my maternal grandparents wedding album from 1945, and a copy of my parents wedding album which was my paternal grandmothers.

They are both treasured by me, and me and my gran often look through them. She has dementia and it one thing that makes her happy and she can talk about with confidence.

I will definitely get an album done, although this will be from friends photos as we are not having a professional photographer.

double_mummy

i'm having all my photos edited on disk i have bought a nice cheap ivory album from amazon and will do a load of prints when one of the offers come up for 100 free prints or the like and then stick them in the album

i will be getting a few big ones and hanging them on the walls and a couple of special ones i will print and frame for the family (such as MIL with her 7 bros and sis as they dont have one since they were teenagers)

we also get an online gallery so we can show everyone them and if they want some printed i can email them over to them and they can get it done themselves

sugarwalsh

I think it would be a little weird to sit around constantly looking at your pictures anyway! How often do you look at your other photos and in what format? Ours will be edited onto disc and I will make a book so the kids can look and laugh! I will probably do smaller ones for my parents and my MIL. I do think it is a shame that my kids can't go thru pics like we used to when we were kids as they are all on the computer. Scouring thru pics was a favourite pass time when I was a kid!

My friends have theirs out so anyone can have a look and it is really lovely to have a look when we all feel like it!

74jax

sugarwalsh wrote: »

I do think it is a shame that my kids can't go thru pics like we used to when we were kids as they are all on the computer. Scouring thru pics was a favourite pass time when I was a kid!

My friends have theirs out so anyone can have a look and it is really lovely to have a look when we all feel like it!

That's why we do yearly storybooks mainly, for other people. I do occasionally look though - mainly when with friends and drunk ha ha ha

We do just one a year, and take pics of facebook and friends ones that they've posted of us, we have the silly photos that you take on your phone etc and stick them in just one small yearly album.

We do make up holiday storybooks as well though. We used to do scrapbooks but as computers started to rule the world we moved to photobooks :rotfl:

Idiophreak

74jax wrote: »

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.

I'm not so sure. I like storybooks and have a lovely one I made with all our honeymoon snaps, plus another couple from various occasions.

(Finally) Picked up our album from the photographers this weekend, though...and it's really in a completely different league. The quality of the design, the printing, the paper, it's all just so much better. Yes, I know it was very expensive, but I think it was worth every penny. We'll look at it when we're old and grey and our children and grandchildren will look at it. We'll only ever buy one, so for us it was totally worth the investment. It's so substantial (thick metal cover, really thick card pages, fitted brief case for storage) and high quality, it feels like an instant heirloom.

About 8 months in so far and in no way bored of the photos. Have got a set in the kitchen, about 8 photos in the lounge and a dozen or so in the hallway. I've also got a diary at work that wifey made me with all the photos mixed in, which I look at most days. It was just such a brilliant day, I'm always happy to be reminded of it - and a lot of the photos are so good *as photos* that I love looking at them - the fact that we're in them is just a bonus

pinkteapot

We have some of our pictures framed and up around the house.

The big group shot of everyone at the wedding is in our dining room. In our lounge we have a lovely photo our photographer took of the drinks reception. She stood back and it's a black and white photo of the building with everyone chatting and having drinks. You only realise it's our wedding when you look up close. I like these two because they're not in your face - I didn't want a huge close-up of us being smoochy above the fireplace!

In our bedroom we have a set of four photos framed; these are the more intimate shots of the two of us.

These make me smile every single day and were worth every penny of our photography cost.

We only got married in 2010 but our photographer shot on film, not digital. Included in the price we got a 7x5 print of every picture, so a box of 400 of them! (We then paid separately for the enlargements that we framed). I loved sorting through these and putting them into traditional albums.

I still get the albums out occasionally but we scanned the best photos to put on Facebook and I flick through them on the computer more often than I look at the originals in the album.

michelleb2b39

goldenshilling wrote: »

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??

A wedding video you would probably look at more. Especially if it can go up on facebook or somewhere. Plus if you buy HD (in progressive) then you can have photographs from it.
Be carefull of people making wedding videos with a camera that they use for photographers as they have rolling shutters, meaning when turned the picture might look like a wobbly jelly.

Roz_V

We're having an acrylic digital photo frame instead of an album. The photographer will put all of the wedding & Pre-wedding shoot pictures on there, and we can add our own photos & music whenever we want. That way we don't end up with an album that gets put away & forgotten about, and we get to have all of our pictures on the wall.

Tried to find a picture but can't as it's a new product that can only be purchased by professionals at the minute. Basically it's a large square black acrylic, which has four 8" digital photo frames mounted in it. They can all be operated seperately and they look AMAZING.