Why You Need a Wedding Photo Album

The day you get married is one that you’ll want to remember forever – but the truth is that memories fade faster than we think! But, your photos will allow you to relive your wedding day over and over, and they’re the best way to preserve all those incredible moments, and to share them with other people… if you actually look at them.

How many photos do you have on your phone? And how often do you actually look at them? Most likely, not very often, despite that message that keeps popping up telling you you’re running out of storage. Don’t let your wedding photos get lost in the digital clutter, trapped behind a screen forever! They deserve better than that, so this guide is about why you need a wedding photo album – and how getting one will make you love your photos even more.

Reasons to Get a Wedding Photo Album

Here are some reasons that a wedding photo album is the way to go!

You’ll Actually Look at Your Wedding Photos

The first reason to get a wedding photo album is a big one – when your photos are printed, you’re so much more likely to look at them! When you get your photos back in a digital gallery, if you’re like most coules, you’ll be so stoked – you’ll download them to your computer, save some to your phone, and open your gallery a few times to look through it again… for about a week. After that, if your photos continue to live on your phone and computer, chances are, you won’t look at them very often! It’s just what tends to happen to files that are on a screen – we don’t often take the time to pull out the computer and open up the gallery.

But, if you have a wedding photo album that you keep on the coffee table, or even on a bookshelf, chances are, you’ll find yourself flipping through it a lot more often! Unlike digital files, which are often out of sight, out of mind, a physical album is much more easily accessible. 

You’ll Share Your Wedding Photos With People

Not only will you probably look at your wedding photo album a lot more often, you’re also more likely to show it to others! When friends and family members come over, they might see the album and want to take a peek, or you’ll be reminded to show them the photos. It’s so fun looking through photo albums and sharing those memories with the people you love! And it feels more meaningful than pulling out your computer to scroll through photos that are on a screen.

Printed Photos Are More Nostalgic

There’s just something about flipping through album pages that’s more captivating, more meaningful, and more nostalgic than looking at photos on a screen! Seeing the story of your wedding day come to life on the pages adds a whole new experience to how you see your photos, and having something tangible to hold is more fun than looking at pixels.

Wedding Photo Albums Make Great Gifts

Along with printing a wedding photo album for yourselves, you can also give them as gifts to parents! Many couples make a smaller album for their parents to keep, and giving them a gift they can hold and display is so much better than emailing them a link to your photo gallery.

Wedding Photo Albums are an Heirloom

Have you ever found old photos of your parents, or a family photo album with your baby photos? That experience is so meaningful, and if you print your wedding photos, you’ll have something to show and to give to your kids or grandkids if you have them, or even to nieces or nephews or other family members. Future generations aren’t going to find your computer files, but they might find your wedding photo album and be entranced seeing you when you were young (and maybe they’ll be laughing a little at the clothes that will be old fashioned by then)!

Digital Photos Aren’t as Safe

Technology fails, and the truth is that digital photos aren’t guaranteed to stick around forever. You definitely don’t want to lose these precious memories, and printing a wedding photo album is a great way to have a physical backup! 

Of course, things can happen to a wedding album too – but if you still have the digital files, you can get a new album. You often can’t, however, recover damaged digitals. So, make sure to have multiple copies of the digital photos, but also print your album!

Where to Buy a Wedding Photo Album

There are a lot of companies that will print a wedding photo album – countless websites offer cheap albums and prints. But, stay away from them! 

Printing your wedding photo album through Shutterfly or going to Walgreens just doesn’t compare to a professional album. The quality will be significantly worse, the colors won’t be quite right, and when it comes to your wedding photos, you probably invested quite a bit in a photographer – so don’t let that go to waste with low quality prints. Purchasing an album through your wedding photographer is the absolute best way to guarantee that it’ll look amazing! 

Different photographers may have different processes, but when I deliver your photos, you get a digital gallery (through Pic Time) that allows you to easily download and share them all. And, it also allows you to easily create and purchase albums! You can choose from different kinds of albums, customize the cover, size, and number of pages, and then choose which photos to print. You also get to personalize the layout – either start from scratch and design it yourself, or get one done for you, then tweak it a little to look just right! 

Your wedding photo album will be printed in a professional photo lab, guaranteeing that each photo is high quality and that the album lasts forever. Purchasing through your photographer ensures that everything is perfect!

You can also get an album at any time – some couples get one right away, while others wait a little while after the wedding day to invest in an album. If you want to learn more about wedding photo albums, contact me!