ART ALBUMS
designed to be enjoyed for generations.
We offer the finest quality fine art wedding albums. They have been carefully chosen to reflect our creative approach and promise to showcase your wedding photography in the best possible way.
Designed using our “classic, clean & beautiful” philosophy, your wedding albums will look as fresh in 20 years as they did the day they where handed to you. Our fine art albums use a combination of traditional methods and the latest environmentally friendly materials, technology and techniques.
Every album is made by hand using best natural ingredients: paper, wood, linen, leathers. They offer a unique combination of traditional hand-sewn bindings coupled with contemporary design allowing them to open out flat with an almost invisible crease so each image is on full view.
The museum grade fine art papers with a gorgeous finish and are guaranteed not to fade for many decades. Each page is one large print, giving the album that unmistakable fine art feel. Your albums will be wrapped in a sleeve made from natural, unbleached cotton and then carefully placed in a sleek keepsake box.
“Oh god - it’s absolutely gorgeous - we just went through it over a glass of vino - I’m crying again remembering it all! ”
The Sizes
Our Fine Art Albums come in 2 sizes (main albums)
A choice between a most impressive classic 12*12 inch and modest 10*10 inch for the main albums. Smaller sizes are reserved for the parent albums, available in 8*8 inch or 6*6 inch. Parent albums are exact duplicates of the main album. All books start with a generous 30 pages, but can be made with to hold a monumental 120 pages, now that's a celebration!
THE PAPERS
2 paper choices to go with our fine art albums.
Both papers are outstanding in quality and both offer fully archival museum-grade certification - the only choice for a great depth and perfect presentation of your wedding images. All the beauty of fine art print enclosed in a book.
Matte Cotton Rag (premium) available in both straight and distressed edges (shown above)
Matte Paper (Superior / Included)
The clean, white matte paper renders superior image sharpness and an ultra-smooth surface. The extra weight gives this paper a soft, sumptuous feel and appearance as well as deep and crisp colours.
Weight: 240gsm
Print type: Fine Art 12 color
Surface type: α-celulose with some brighteners
Appearance: Smooth, pure white, matte
Spread limit: 15-60 (30-120 pages.)
Depth of color/blacks: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Matte Cotton Rag (premium / Additional)
Cotton rag is preferred by photographers for high quality art prints. The fine, slightly textured surface and feel of this paper is ideal for printing black and white and colour photographs, with impressive pictorial depth.
Weight: 310gsm
Print type: Fine Art 12 color
Surface type: 100% cotton rag acid free, no brighteners
Appearance: Slightly textured, warm, matte
Spread limit: 15-40 (30-80 pages.)
Depth of color/blacks: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“Just looked through the album with Christy and it’s safe to say we love it!! Thank you so much. Your so understanding and such a pleasure to work with.”
THE COVERS
you can judge our books by their covers
Beautiful, modern and timeless describe our selection of fabrics and coverings. A rare case where we actually do want you to judge a book by it's cover. Our Fine Art albums come with the highest quality cover materials and finishes. The more traditional genuine Italian leather, has a soft as butter feel. Our modern fabrics come in a choice of colours that range from earthy and pastel to bold and vibrant. We're confident there's a cover to match your personality, perfectly.
IMPRINTING
Choose one or multiple customization features
Same as your photography, we’re happy to go off the beaten track to make your albums unique and beautiful. If you have any ideas for your album cover, let us know. Our album partners can do practically anything.
Embossing is a process of stamping with letter blocks at great pressure and temperature. We use one font (FUTURA) which is 1cm high. Available in plain (blind) or gold/silver colour. Artwork not required.
Embossing (included)*
A special foil is bonded with the linen. Similar to custom stamp but it doesn't dent the cover and is flat. Available in gold and silver. (Artwork required)
Overprint
(€100)*
*Please note that some customization are not available in all cover types. We’ll be happy to recommend finish options based on your cover choice.
“The albums arrived, we are absolutely thrilled with them they are just gorgeous!!! Mum is so happy with hers too”
PRICING
ORDERING
Now that you've seen all the goodness of our Fine Art Books, you might have some questions on how to get the ball rolling. Here's a step by step break down of the process.
Spread vs Page
Over the next section, you'll notice us referring to spreads. A spread is simply any 2 facing pages in your book, right and left. When your book is opened and laid out flat, the entire footprint is referred to as a "spread".
Image Selection
A great album design requires great images and curating your photography for your albumis not an easy task. Each layout (spread) should contain images that work together and have harmony. When selecting, try and imagine how images will work together when placed on a page. Truth is, a wedding album can fit more images when the images can be easily grouped together. If your selection includes many images that don't gel together, then it's much harder to create an exceptional & cohesive design.
We like to dedicate at least one full spread of your wedding book to your guests. When you're choosing guest photos, imagine a collage of 10-12 images per spread and choose the photos that you'd like featured most on your "guest" spread. If there are too many shots of your guests to fit on one spread, no problem we'll span them across two spreads if needed.
How Many Images?
The guide on image count in your wedding book is 2 photos per page. Our books start with 30 pages, so this would be roughly 60 photos. Really, it all depends on how the images flow. As mentioned, if we get a selection of images that work well together, it's easier to fit more in, comfortably.
How many pages?
Our books start with 30 pages / 15 spreads. Our book binding experts suggest 60 pages / 30 spreads as comfortable size and 70 pages / 35 spreads as a maximum. It might be considered that books with higher page counts start to become a little "blockish", and we suggest looking at the 12*12 inch option for books over 50 pages.
The process
The online gallery with your photographs has a handy album selection workflow built in. When you’re ready to get started with your image slection, send us an email and we’ll activate it for you. Once you reveive the unique link you choose the exact images you want in your album. When you’ve got the list widdled down to the absolut must haves, hit the “share with photographer” button. This will us know when you’re ready and we’ll download the images you’ve selected for use in the album design.
Book Design and Feedback
This process can take a bit of time, after all we want your book to be perfect. Once we have what we think is the best possible layout, we'll send you an email with a link to our on-line proofing service. Here you'll be able to see your book come to life. As much as we hope you love the 1st draft, we expect there to be some changes. All feedback and edit requests are made conveniently in the proofing system. You can ask to remove images, swap images or any other request you might have to make your book perfect. Once we've implemented the edits from the 1st draft, you'll be sent a 2nd draft. At this stage we hope to have gotten it perfect. If there are a couple more tweaks, then we go through the same steps. Getting things just right before you approve the book.
Printing + Binding
The layouts are perfect and you've approved the book design. Now, we package everything up and send your book(s) in for printing and binding. We hope your book comes back within 4 weeks, but it can take a wee bit longer at busier times. We'll get our book experts to courier your Fine Art Book(s) directly to whatever address suits you best.
Questions?
We know it’s a lot of information to take in, and as much as we’ve tried to keep it simple, the options are complicated. If you have any questions at all, please give is a shout and we’d be happy to talk you through everything.