Wedding and Portrait Albums and Books - explained!

Hi, this is Tina.

If you choose ColourStone Photography as your wedding photographer, then I will have the great pleasure of helping design your Wedding Album. This is a fantastic opportunity for us to re-create your Wedding Day from the fantastic images Ian has taken, knowing you can treasure this for the rest of your lives.

As you can imagine, we speak to a lot of couples about their wedding photography and are only too aware that people get very confused about the range and types of Wedding Albums available. So I thought I would write a short post giving an overview of some of the Albums and Books we offer, either as part of our Wedding and Portrait packages or as individual products.

If you have visited photographers at Wedding Fayres, you will know only too well the amount of Wedding Albums and Books available, all with a different description, range of colours and covers. You may (or may not) be aware of the difference in quality, not only of the Album pages but also the manufacture of the Album itself.

Basically, there are three types of Wedding Albums or Books, but within these three types there are still many differences between manufacturers. The three main types of Album you will come across are:

• Traditional Albums - where your images are printed onto photographic paper and inserted onto the page with matted overlays.



• Digital Albums - sometimes referred to as Storybook Albums, where the digital image is printed directly onto the page. Our Digital Albums all come with hard thick pages and are manufactured to the highest standards.



• Coffee Table Books - again, sometimes referred to as Storybook Albums. The digital images are printed directly on the page, but the page is made of photographic paper rather than hard thick pages.

Traditional Albums


Our Traditional Albums are the ultimate in luxury, coming with a genuine leather cover and the pages have a choice of four colour options.

The difference you find from our Traditional Albums to many others is simply the quality. They are manufactured to an extremely high standard, images are printed onto high quality photographic paper and then inserted onto the page with matted overlays.

Traditional Album - with overlays

Digital Albums

Our Digital Wedding Albums come with a choice of covers, some of which can be customised for you personally with an image and/or etching.

Our Digital Albums are different to many others as they are all "lay flat", which simply means that all the pages do what they say - they lay totally flat. They also come with high quality thick rigid pages - not all Digital Albums offer rigid pages. This feature gives our Albums durability and a more luxurous feel.

Lay Flat Album - Digitally printed

Imagine a normal book. You open it, the print is sometimes printed quite close to the centre, and you end up bending the spine of the book in order to get your book to lay as flat as possible in order to read the story. Why would you want to do that to your beautiful Wedding Album? So, our Digital Wedding Albums come with "lay flat" pages as standard. This enables us to place digital images across the whole of your double page without losing any of the image in the centre.

The Albums are manufactured to a very high standard and are extremely durable and cannot be found on the High Street.

We also offer a range of other Books and Albums, either for your Wedding Day or to capture other special moments, for example a special Portrait session, Christening or Anniversary.

Parent Albums

Parent Albums are available when ordering our Digital or Traditional Wedding Albums. These are an exact replica of the main Albums, giving the same quality and durability, but are simply smaller.

Portrait Albums

Our Portrait album is designed specifically for the portrait market. These amazing Albums are available in a choice of 3 popular sizes in landscape, upright or square format, with a multitude of cover options and colours.

They are manufactured with the same attention to detail as our Digital Wedding Albums.

Portaiture Album - Digitally printed

Coffee Table Books

Our Coffee Table Books are ideal for both Weddings and Family or Children Portraits.

We offer two types of Coffee Table Books - the Inifnity range which is a "lay flat" book, or the Classic range which opens as a traditional book. Both books contain satin coated paper pages and come with hardback covers, which can be personalised just for you.

Coffee Table Books

All of our Coffee Table Books and Albums are manufactured to the highest standards and cannot be found on the High Street.

I hope you have found this useful and please get in touch about any of our photography services, we would love to talk to you to see if we can work with you.