I’ve been working hard on designing an album for Aimee & Alex’s wedding album as a studio sample. Their wedding collection includes a credit towards an album and since they haven’t had a chance to choose the pictures for their album yet, I decided to show it to them and see what they thought. This was Aimee’s response “YAYAYAY!!!! It is so beautiful, Jennifer ” I think a lot of couples are extremely busy and feel overwhelmed with the thought of picking out 50-75 of their favorite images from over 600 pictures, so I think it helps to visualize and have a framework for the album and then if they want to make changes it’s much easier. I love it!!

Heather and Shane’s guest book is finished! I had such a great time photographing their e-session which you can see **HERE** I am so excited for their wedding in May! They’ll be getting married at St. Joseph’s Church in Portland, Maine and then celebrating at Keeley’s Banquet Center. Right now, their wedding will be the first to kick off the 2008 season…I can’t wait!!

Becky and Mike got married July 14, 2007 at the Westford Regency Inn (you can see my wedding blog post **here**) and I just recently set their final design off to the album company, a beautiful 11×12.5 coffee table album that tells the story of their wedding day. It came out so gorgeous and I think they are going to love it! I just love designing these, first because each one is unique and second, while I’m designing it I get to relive the wedding!

I just mailed Jennifer & Chris’ album to them yesterday and I can’t wait for them to get it…it’s absolutely gorgeous! Jennifer and Chris got married May 19th at the Carriage House in Springfield, Massachusetts and you can see my blog post about their wedding **here**

Now that the wedding season has slowed down until May 2008, I will be concentrating on album designs so stay tuned for lots of album posts.

I just love these guest books!

I always have such fun designing these albums! I think this guest book came out spectacular.  This is the first draft, so if they have any changes I’ll post the final book when it’s completed. We had such fun shooting these pictures, and I can’t wait for their wedding!

I’ve been working on Caitlin & Josh’s guest book for their August 18th wedding and realized I never posted Stephanie & Tony’s final album design for their’s, so here it is.  It’s gorgeous!  I just love these guest books!  I think it adds such a personal touch for your guests, plus I have so much fun shooting engagement sessions!

“May your hands be forever clasped in friendship and hearts joined forever in love.”

I have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of my studio sample from AsukaBook (www.asukabook.com). I designed the album using pictures from Althea and Scott’s September 10th wedding and submitted it about a month ago for printing and binding. It takes about 4 weeks for them to process the order and last week I received an email that it had shipped. I was tracking it’s progress across the country by UPS and it finally arrived yesterday and I LOVE it. The album came out better than I could have imagined. I can’t wait to show potential clients and also design some albums for upcoming weddings:)

I also offer Renaissance albums, which are the traditional matted album, but I feel they are very limiting in telling the story of something so special as a wedding day. In the coffee table album you can really get creative and use lots of pictures, graphics, colors and text to tell that story.

For the past few months I have been doing a lot of research on wedding albums and looking at different companies to add to my packages. My main focus was on finding a company that offered coffee table style albums. I already offer Renaissance Albums, which are traditional matted albums.

I have been hesitant to offer flush mount albums as I would think they are not as durable as coffee table albums or the traditional albums. Flush mount albums can look very similar to coffee table albums but the photos are printed and then adhered to the pages. I am worried that with no protections on the edges and corners, flipping the pages might cause some wear on the album and damage to the prints.

After much research I settled on AsukaBook and I just finished my studio sample and sent it to them for printing and binding and I can’t wait to get it back. I love designing these albums, they really tell the story of the wedding day. These are some of the pages I designed.