Thousands of wedding photos hidden away in hard disks covered in dust and stored who knows where. Galleries on Facebook titled “wedding pics” and those few Instagram posts.
Our wedding pictures are scattered across many digital properties and devices. They are always there. A click away. And yet, a printed wedding album that sits on your coffee table is always available and is a wonderful window into a beautiful time in your life.
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We love well put together wedding albums and yes the design of the wedding album does matter. It could be a light coffee table book with less that 20 sheets or the heavy traditional Indian wedding album designed to occupy an entire dining table.
Our clients have come back to us many years after their wedding and have told us how a physical wedding album makes their memories so accessible.
If you’ve every thought - Should I get a wedding album? We’ve compiled a short list of reasons you should get a physical, printed wedding album for your wedding photos.
1. Wedding Albums Force Curation
The act of wedding album design forces curation. You are compelled to select the best photos and those that mean a lot more to you.
You end up creating a compilation of pictures that reflect the people and the moments that mattered. This also reduces the fatigue of going through thousands of wedding photos on a digital screen.
2. You Can Spend Time With Family Going Through An Album
Going through photo albums is a great way to spend time with family and relieving some nostalgic moments.
Sitting down along with your spouse and your family members on a cosy winter morning, and viewing the photographs in the album, is time well spent.
Everyone can recollect the wedding day and you’ll be surprised at the loving conversations this will spark.
3. Wedding Albums Inspire Discovery
Imagine yourself cleaning your cupboard; and you come across this stack of photo albums from long ago.
You dust them off and go on a journey down the memory lane. You leaf through the photographs, touching them and remembering the moments in your life which mean a lot to you.
The feeling of holding those photos and going through them - sheet after sheet, album after album - can never be compared to swiping through the same pictures on the computer or your phone.
4. Prints Are Time Machines That Trigger Emotions
The printed photographs have an emotional attachment associated with them. You will find your grandmother clutching to the albums which store the treasures of her lifetime.
While going through them, she will - and you will - feel recollecting shared and fond memories.
5. It Is More Difficult To Lose A Wedding Album Compared To Digital Assets
It is quite possible that you might lose the data from your hard drive or your memory cards or get locked out of social media accounts.
Often, many of us don't even keep a back-up for our data. In such a case, we lose the memories which we had captured and stored; for them to never return.
If we keep the hardcopy of the photographs, such disasters can be avoided.
6. Wedding Albums Make For Great Gifts
Recently, on my Aunt’s & Uncle’s 25th wedding anniversary, I gifted them a short selection of wedding photos put together as a coffee table book.
The photos on our computers and smartphone could never have brought that smile on their face when they looked at that book.
They have put the album on their living room coffee table. And when they look at it every day, they are reminded of one of the most memorable days of their lives.
7. This Is The First Thing You Will Own Together As A Married Couple!
This is the beginning of a long journey as a married couple. The Wedding Album is the first thing you own together! This is a heirloom that you will cherish forever and can pass on to your children.
