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Spectacular color. high quality materials, and storytelling layout. That is what our custom designed storybook albums are about. They are not your typical wedding albums. These hand crafted books start with the couple choosing the best photographs from throughout their day, then each photo is layed out to tell the complete story of your wedding day. Once we have an agreed upon layout, each photo undergoes fine tuning and retouching in PhotoShop, with additional editing making each and every photo perfect. Once the order is placed, these books take about six weeks to print and companion parent albums complete the photographic package.

Notice that this stunning 12×12 Italian leather book features true photographic paper, lay flat binding with no gutter, and thick pages that give the viewer a very substantial feeling of quality and timelessness. The accompanying 8×8 Parent book includes the same true photographic paper, lay flat binding, and exact design as the main album. These additional books come at a very economical price, making them suitable for most album budgets. We are so pleased with this album, we just had to show you more than a couple photos of it before we delivered it to the lucky couple!

Kristy and Chris had such an amazing wedding at the Martinelli Event Center in Livermore, California in May of 2009. We had the pleasure of creating this awesome beautiful and large storybook album with the best shots from the day.

Each spread is layed out in a graphic design program according to your wedding style and taste. We take approximately two weeks to create the album design and email you a proof for viewing. If everything looks great to you, we send it off to be manufactured at Graphistduio in Italy and a few weeks later it arrives! Of course, why would you get just one album when you can also add two parent albums and 3o mini brag books for just a little bit more?

This album is about 40 pages, is 12×12 and has really soft and wonderful feeling leather. I paid extra to have the pages laminated so they last extra long. Nothing is too good for my clients! This is one of the most popular albums I sell so it’s fitting that I have some photos of it here! Check out the vivd color in these spreads and tell me what you think!

Notice how cool and clean the spine looks on this Graphistudio Wedding Book?

The first spread contains an attention grabbing image with the bride and groom’s names and wedding date. Of course I got to get my name in there too!

Alright, I love traditional portraits, paired with contemporary and clean imagery. Anyone like this style?

Save some room for double page panoramas. This spread you are looking at is 24 inches by 12!

We have the main album on left, the 4×4 brag book in the middle, and the 8×8 Parent Album to the right

Here you can see how they all stack up. What is very important to me is consistency and continuity in my wedding albums. I like how the design is identical in all of them but the slip cover on the parent albums make them look just a bit different.

A well made wedding album lets the images speak for themselves. Yes, there are albums with funky colors and crazy cover materials and patterns, but what will always stand the test of time is a handmade, leather bound, custom designed storybook. This album feels so nice in your hands and displays stunning quality photos on photographic paper that will last for generations. This is simply the finest album quality to be had and I am so excited to give this to Donna and Ray, right before Mother’s Day. I am including some of the layout photos as well so you can see the amazing print quality of this fine art wedding album!

For couple’s that are seeking something really unique when it comes to their wedding album cover, we offer metal covers from Graphistudio. For Monica and Sal’s album we did a brushed silver on their 12×12 storybook album. The cover photo is actually etched into the metal, giving it a very nice soft and warm look. The parent albums come standard with a metallic print slip cover and give-a-way brag books have a metallic thicker print stock for their covers . As you can see the print quality is amazing and the three products together are simply stunning!