Wedding Albums Melbourne
Your gallery lives on a screen. Your album lives in your house. It gets pulled out at anniversaries, survives every phone upgrade and expired subscription, and one day gets handed to a kid who says "tell me about them". Designed by me from your gallery, approved by you, printed to last. From $349.
Digital means for now, not forever
Nobody loses their wedding photos on purpose. They lose them by leaving them somewhere.
A laptop that gets replaced. A cloud account that lapses. A gallery link that expires, which every gallery link eventually does, including mine. Over half of people say they have lost photos that mattered to them by never printing or downloading them, and almost all of them assumed digital meant permanent. It does not. It means for now.
I can still open my grandparents' wedding album. A printed album is the only version of your wedding guaranteed to still work in 2076, because it does not need a charger, a password or a company to still exist.
A book you actually read
Eight hundred photos in a gallery is a library. An album is the book.
Every album I make is designed by me, from your gallery, after you have had time to live with your photos. There is no template dumping and no leaving you alone with 800 images and a design tool. I build the story of your day spread by spread, in order, with room for the big moments to breathe. You approve an online preview, we adjust until it is right, and only then does it go to print.
A book or an album
The two words get used interchangeably, and they are different objects. A book is printed pages bound together. An album is thick lay-flat spreads where a portrait can run across both pages without disappearing into the spine, on paper made to hold its colour for a century. Both have a place. Only one gets handed down.
The Linen Album, $349
The album most couples start with. Your gallery as a linen-bound printed book, laid out by me and built to be handled for fifty years. It is the album that sits within reach rather than behind glass, the one that gets flipped through when friends come over and when you have both had a couple of wines on your anniversary.
If you were going to make your own online, this is the honest alternative: designed properly, printed properly, for about what the online version costs once you add the hours.
Fine Art Albums, from $950
Handcrafted lay-flat albums where every spread opens completely flat. The 10x10" Fine Art Album ($950, 30 pages) is the sweet spot for most couples, and the one I would choose. The large-format 12x12" Heirloom Album ($1,450) is printed on archival cotton rag, the paper family used for collectible fine art prints, with a texture and depth that photographic paper cannot match.
Both include embossed personalisation with your names and date, a presentation box, and an online preview to approve before anything is printed. Extra spreads are $60 each if your day will not fit in 30 pages, and most days will not.
The Heirloom Collection, $2,950
The complete set. A 14x10", 50 page album for you, plus two duplicate parent albums, designed once and printed as a family. It exists because the question "can my parents get one" is asked after nearly every album, and this answers it before it is asked, at the size most couples wish they had chosen.
Parent Copies, $99 to $450
Duplicate albums for the people who cried the hardest. Parent copies of the Linen Album are $99 each, and 8x8" replicas of the fine art albums are $450. They are the anniversary and Christmas gifts that sort themselves out, and the fastest way to become the favourite child.
Why $950 for an album
Roughly half of it is the object: cotton paper, pigment inks that will not yellow, hand binding, a box. The other half is the part couples never see: choosing 80 photographs from 1,000, designing 30 pages so they read as a day rather than a pile, two rounds of changes, and carrying the risk of a reprint if anything is wrong.
Couples who plan to make their own almost never do. A year later the gallery is still sitting there, and they feel bad about it. If that is you, the Linen Album at $349 is the fix. If you want the object your grandchildren argue over, it is the Fine Art.
How the album process works
Live with your gallery first. There is no deadline and no pressure to choose photos straight away. Most couples order two to three months after the wedding, once the favourites have made themselves obvious.
Tell me your favourites, or let me build the first draft straight from your full gallery. Most couples find the first draft is already most of the way there.
I design the story of your day, spread by spread, in order.
You approve an online preview. We tweak until it feels right, and nothing goes to print until you have signed off.
It arrives at your door, four to six weeks after approval, boxed and embossed with your names and date.
Album questions couples ask
How long does an album take to arrive?
Once you approve the preview, allow four to six weeks for printing, binding and delivery. Fine art and heirloom albums are handcrafted, so they are worth the wait.
How many photos fit?
Around 80 to 100 in a 30 page album, at a pace that lets the big frames be big. Extra spreads are $60 each, and we will work out the right count when we design the preview.
Do we have to design it ourselves?
No, that is the point. I design every album from your gallery, you review an online preview, and we refine it together until it is right.
Can we change things?
Yes. Two rounds of changes are included, and most albums need less than one.
Can our parents get their own copy?
Absolutely. Parent copies of the Linen Album are $99 each, 8x8" fine art replicas are $450, and the Heirloom Collection bundles two parent albums with yours.
We got married a while ago. Is it too late?
No. Albums are ordered after the wedding anyway. If your gallery is with me, send me your twenty favourites and I will show you a spread.
Is it cheaper to add an album when we book?
Yes. Albums added to a photography or film package at booking are priced in, and it is the version of you that actually ends up with an album. Ask when you enquire.
Something to hold
Albums can be added to any photography or film package, or ordered after your wedding once you have lived with your gallery. Send me a note and I will walk you through the options, no pressure at all.