Wedding Albums

Wow... wedding albums come in a huge variety of sizes, styles and prices. There are two major types available right now, matted albums and flush mount albums. The most common being the matted album.

Matted albums are just that... a mat is used to frame the prints on the page. These are the style of albums you've seen for many years. It's a classic style which utilize various sizes of prints: 4x5, 4x6, 5x7 and 8x10. You can fit up to four 4x6 prints on a page, two 5x7 prints or one 8x10 print. A typical 25 page matted album will hold up to (200) 4x6 prints. It's the most popular size album I have available.

Flush mount albums are the new "digital" coffee table book style of albums. They are often very dramatic looking because you can do full double page panorama prints which are actually glued onto the cardboard page making it look like it's printed right on the page itself. And, you can have other images placed on top of the main image creating a montage look. Just look at my post on Photo Montages and you'll get an idea of what a flush mount album might look like.

These albums are very cool, but they also cost a little more too.

Recently, I put together a new option of having two matted albums to house all of the prints I give my clients. One album is a 25 page Renaissance album which can hold up to (200) 4x6 prints and then the other album is a 25 page Renaissance album which will hold (50) 8x10 prints. It's amazing when you see two huge albums stacked one on top of the other! Talk about impressive.

The cost of these two albums with all the prints inside still comes out less expensive than a single 12 page flush mount album. Amazing!

I believe you actually get more for your money with matted albums but I do have the flush mounts available for those who prefer that style. The design costs and manufacturing costs of flush mount albums are things to consider if you opt for this type of album. They are definitely the more contemporary style of album, but it does cost a little more.

To see some albums, go to www.renaissancealbums.com. I've also created a new site for you to see catalog pages from the Renaissance Milano series of albums along with the various mat styles. Visit it at http://russlowe.com/albums/index. If you right click on the links you can download these to your hard drive. Otherwise you can just click on the links to see them with your web browser.

For those who are interested in seeing what an album that contains all 8x10 prints looks like, I have put together a sample 24 page (48 prints) Renaissance Leather album just for this purpose. It is a Matte-Black cover with a single 4x4 square cameo in the cover and has silver guilding on the page edges. Be sure to ask to see it at your album layout session! It's impressive.