Now, picture this:
Grand-daughter: “Grandma Lee! Where are your wedding pictures? I want to see when you and Grandpa Brad actually weren’t so wrinkly!”

Me: “Here’s this DVD.”

Grand-daughter: “Grandma, you do realize that these DVDs are sooooo out-dated. My computer doesn’t even have a slot for it. Don’t you have, like, an album or something?”

Me: “You can look at my Facebook album!”

Grand-daughter: “Grandma, Facebook is lame. It used to be cool, but now it’s just advertisements and creepy dudes. Don’t you have, like, an album or something?”

Me: “No, but let me tell you about these things called iPods!”

And that, my friends, is why wedding albums are important! Think back to the 80′s. Back then computers were evolving and we had these awesome super-bendy floppy disks. They were so cool and cutting edge! Then we moved up to the world of smaller “floppy” disks that were actually hard plastic. Then we moved on to DVDs. And that’s where we are at currently. However, that was only 20 years, and in that 20 years, things changed at least 2 times! Imagine what the world will be like 20 more years from now, when your daughter is a teenager wanting to reminice on the back porch with you about how you and daddy got married on that wonderful day.

I still need to make a wedding album. It’s on my To-Do list, but I always put myself last in the pecking order. But I still can’t get it out of my mind. Being a photographer, I’m now well aware that my decision to have just a DVD of images produced from my wedding isn’t all that I want to remember our wedding day. I want something physical. Photographic prints have been around for years and years and years. They are a constant format. I want something that will remain.

Ok, I get it. There are also other companies like Shutterfly, My Publisher, etc out there to make albums. Mmmm yes, but they’re not always the best quality. Remember those awesome Wal-mart prints you got in high school of you and your best friends? Then you cut them into weird shapes and glued them all over your bedroom walls? Fun at the time, yes, but how do they compare to the senior pictures you had printed from the local studio? I would guess that the senior pictures are probably in a little better condition (cutting and cropping aside). So of course you can take your DVD and make your own album, but let’s think about the long haul. Think about what you want to present to your children or grandchildren years from now. Do you want to present to them an album that’s so yellowed that it looks like the dog got to it a couple of times? Or do you want to be able to hand them a tangible, beautiful leather album, and watch as they flip the pages with big smiles on their faces thinking about the day Grandma and Grandpa sealed their love, began their lives, and led to the current moment with your family?

The choice is yours. I do offer High-resolution DVDs of images with my packages. You have them for your archive, but please, if technology does change, please change your wedding pictures along with it. That is your responsibility. And if an album isn’t in your currently wedding budget – think about doing one for your first wedding anniversary, because, well, that anniversary’s signature? Paper.

• Easy to carry – fit in your car console or purse
• Up to 10 images from your engagement or wedding
• Choice of fabric cover options
• Perfect gifts for parents or friends
• Come with plastic carrying case
• Ordered in sets of three for $75