With an impending wedding round the corner, hiring a wedding photographer becomes inevitable. However, before you select one, you can start getting acquainted yourself with the varieties of photo wedding albums that are available in the market and their differences. You need to know that based on your photo albums you want to finalize will enable you to research typical prices. It will also help you to know whether your photographer is getting you deal based on your album. Here are three types to choose from.
Gift or parent albums – It is a type of photo album which is a scaled down version of your main wedding album. The will include all the same picture but will be a tad bit smaller or they might also contain a few select pictures. Wedding albums such as these tend to have sizes around 20 cm square.
As the name suggests it is an ideal gift from the parents of the bride and the groom. Gift books are also available in smaller sizes and they make for a perfect return gift for the best man, maid of honor or the bridesmaids.
Matted albums – Albums such as these known to have the most formal and the traditional style of album for weddings. They consist of a cardboard mount with a loose photo that is glued on to it. The mount is usually slightly raised above the photo so that it does not when the album is closed.
Each pages of the matted wedding album can hold a single image which has its own aperture. The matted albums are also known for their reversible nature since both landscape as well as portrait photos can be included and are more suitable for a formal or classic wedding.
Flash mount albums – Flash mount albums are known to be more of a modern and contemporary choice than that of the matted albums. Mount flash albums have a borderless print or a rigid board which can include one or more images. There are usually two very distinct type flash mount albums, the coffee table book and the magazine style.
The coffee table book style of wedding album tends to have very distinct pictures or printed borders and sometimes they may even overlap each other. The magazine style albums are more likely to have a full page filled with pictures and might have the images overlapping with each other with no distinct borders.
Before you finalize on your wedding or bridal album, you need to think how you will use it. In case you want something that is on permanent display in your living room, you might want to have a contemporary flash mounted album. If you have a taste for a classic and timeless album, that you can keep in a safe place that, a matted wedding album is a better choice for you.