What you need to know about Wedding Albums in Richmond and Central VA


Album track record

If you would like a wedding album make sure that when you choose a photographer that you choose one only after viewing a few of his albums

Invest in a Quality Wedding Album

Make sure what you buy is a quality wedding album, a few ways to ensure this is to inspect the spine, the page corners & page thickness, the page gutters, and any place on the album where things are adhered.

Know the types of albums that are out there and find the type you want

There are many different styles that are out there, but the four main styles are:
  • Traditional Wedding Albums
  • Flush Mount Wedding Albums
  • Parent Albums
  • Coffee Table Books

  • A Traditional Wedding Album is one where the images are printed then mounted onto the page and then matted. This is most likely the type of album that your parents and grand parents had when they purchased their wedding album.

    A Flush Mount Wedding Album is one where the images are mounted onto the page flush to the edges, these are the most recent in the world of wedding albums and are by far the most popular.

    A Parent Album is an album intended for parents. It is little larger than than a 5' by 7' print. It is usually filled with the formal portraits and the other "important wedding photographs" that the bride and groom choose. However, today there are parent albums that are exact copies of the wedding albums only on a smaller scale.

    A Coffee Table Book is a great alternative to a wedding album, sizes range just as normal wedding albums do, the only differences are the cover usually isn't leather bound and the pages are usually thin like magazine pages. The main benefit to purchasing one of these is price as they are significantly cheaper than most album options.

    Wedding Album Special Features

    Some special features that are offered in Wedding Albums today are:
  • Photo insets (a wedding photograph of the bride and groom's choice is set into the album cover)
  • Leather cover styles (today there are so many more choices than black and brown such as ostrich leather wedding albums, red leather wedding albums, plum colored wedding albums, silver wedding albums, distressed leather wedding albums, white leather wedding albums and many more)
  • Name imprinting (you can have the bride and groom's name or anything else printed on the cover of the album in silver gold black white and in many different fonts)