Beautiful wedding photo albums tell your love story in technicolour or black and white photographic glory.

The photo albums are typically filled with a selection of stunning professional-quality photographs that capture the mood, ambiance, fun, and special moments of your wedding day. Fear of missing a single precious moment of the big day often results in most couples overcompensating and ending up with far too many photos to feature in their wedding photo albums.

It’s easy to spoil the visual storytelling by presenting photos in a manner that really does them no justice at all.

When you pick the right photos to include in your wedding album, you create a timeless keepsake that allows you to relive the happy memories every time that you pick it up and have a browse.

An arrangement of perfectly selected and carefully presented wedding photographs will carry you down memory lane, and instantly take you back to the joyous day that you married your beloved.

Pick The Ideal Size Wedding Photo Album

Before you begin filling up the pages of your wedding photo album with romantic, candid and fun shots of your happy wedding day, it’s crucial that you check that you have the correct size photo book.

If your wedding was an intimate affair, there’s no need to have a wedding photo album that has an excessive number of pages. Too many pages may tempt you to fill up the empty spaces with photos that are perhaps not of the highest photographic quality.

For a lavish wedding, pick a wedding album that can accommodate all of your photos, or matching additional volumes.

Choose Your Favourite Photos

When you look through wedding photo albums, it’s common to feel emotional. As you take in all of the details of the magical and romantic day, you’re reliving the feelings that you experienced as you prepared to tie the knot. For this reason, it’s absolutely essential that you feature your favourite wedding photographs in your wedding photo albums.

Choose a selection of favourite photographs that feature the bride and groom, family and friends, and your idyllic wedding venue. If you chose photojournalism/reportage style wedding photography for your wedding, balance your display by also including your favourite stylish images that showcase the finer details of the day.

Highlight The Key Moments

Every wedding photo album features a number of key moments that deserve to be highlighted with the best photos. If you view your wedding photo album as three individual sections – pre-wedding, wedding ceremony, and wedding reception – it’s easy to pick out the special key moments throughout the day.

Shots of the bride walking the aisle, the exchange of rings, the first kiss, and the entire wedding party assembled, are must-have key moments that should definitely be featured. At the wedding reception, it’s common to highlight the couple’s first dance and the cake cutting.

Display In Chronological Order

If you want to show off your wedding photographs as a visual love story, it’s important that you display the photos in chronological order. Photos taken during wedding prep should be presented at the front of the wedding album, with the ceremony in the middle, and wedding reception at the end.

A favourite wow factor photograph of you and your spouse makes a great introduction to the whole romantic fairytale story, and should definitely be placed on the first right-hand page of the album.

Layout The Photos Like A Pro

Imagine your wedding photo album is an upmarket glossy magazine that features beautifully presented layouts and gorgeous photos. Before you arrange any of your wedding photos, take a moment to think about what would look best across a 2-page spread.

Pair up the selection of photographs so that they complement each other when positioned on facing pages. As you layout one spread and move on to the next and so on, it’s a good idea to flip back and check the visual flow that you’re creating.

Remember to balance out your layouts with vertical photos across one page, and a horizontal image stretched across a double-page spread.

Avoid Visual Clutter

Having access to a variety of photographic mediums means that you may have professional wedding photographs, plus an assortment of photos of your wedding that were taken by family and friends. To avoid visual clutter, reserve your personalized and bespoke wedding photo albums for the photos of your wedding day that were shot by a professional wedding photographer. This is the wedding album to have out on display for guests to view.

Display the amateur shots of your big day in a separate wedding album that is reserved for the viewing pleasure of the person or persons who captured the images. If you have a professional-quality photo in the amateur batch of wedding photos, you can always add it to your show-off wedding photo book.

Colour & Black/White Wedding Photo Albums

It’s not unusual to have photos of your wedding day in colour, and also in black and white. Mixing it up and combining the two contrasting types of wedding photographs in one wedding photo book spoils the visual impact and overall effect, and should, therefore, be avoided.

It’s best to have two separate wedding photo albums – one for the vibrant colour shots and one for the classic, timeless, and moody black and white images.