How to use your wedding pictures

Well now you have your beautiful wedding pictures, how best to use them? A look through our product range and how best to print and enjoy them…

My favourite thing about photographs, is that unlike most of the things that you buy, photographs actually become more valuable over time. A picture that helps to being back the memory of a time, and event, or even a person can be a truly priceless thing.

We have the digitals, why do anything else?

All of our packages include the high-resolution digital files of your wedding images. They come on a beautiful USB stick and include a presentation box and prints, so you have a lovely record of your pictures. Why do anything else?

Firstly, these images are an investment. You spent a lot of time considering before investing in your wedding photography, and now that you have so many photos that you love, leaving them on a USB stick, in my opinion, is a bit of a waste. Your pictures contain memories from what is possibly the happiest day of your life, of your love and your most treasured friends and family; show them off!

I would also like to remind my couples that no technology is future-proof. It doesn’t feel all that long ago that I worked on film for my photography! It doesn’t feel like it’s been long since I provided images on CD, before updating to DVD, and now to USB. I always recommend an online backup, as well as an additional backup token, to keep them safe, but nothing beats prints! Digital printing, whether pigment or silver-based, represents a significant advancement over older printing techniques. Well-stored prints and albums can last for decades, or even generations.

Lastly, something tangible from your wedding is essential. Whether it’s a stunning album destined to become a family heirloom or a large, framed print above your fireplace, print them and enjoy them! Your included gallery allows you, your family and friends to order great value professional prints and items directly, however you may want something a little more special and hopefully this guide will help youth choose how to use your wedding photos.

The traditional way to store your wedding images remains, while the designs have become much more contemporary and durable; the effect of a good wedding album has not changed one bit in the last 100 years or so. I use a range of suppliers to ensure that I offer the best in quality and choice for my couples, with albums being crafted in Scotland, Italy and New Zealand! The albums are primarily created by hand and printed using professional techniques to ensure high-quality images and a robust album construction.

There a multitude of options available and I highly suggest either a face to face meeting or an online meeting at least to select your album choices. Albums are entirely bespoke, with various design options, allowing you to choose from different paper types, cover materials, sizes, and shapes, and thus build your album entirely around your tastes. The albums are stunning and always prove popular with our couples, with many choosing to celebrate their first anniversary with a wedding album – a perfect coincidence, as it also coincides nicely with the paper anniversary.

Our albums are proofed with you before they are ordered, ensuring each couple is 100% happy with their album design. You will treasure this item for the rest of your life. It is brought out at family occasions and quickly becomes a talking point, then everyone wants to take a look. These will be passed down through families and become heirlooms; with any luck, they could tell your story for generations to come—smaller, replica albums available for key family members or as a special thank you.

The price guide for albums starts at around £295 for consumer-style albums. Our most popular range is our professional lab range, which typically ranges from £395 to £595, depending on your choices. Lastly, we offer our contemporary matted album (images below). The matted albums are a little more like their traditional counterparts, with images as individual prints behind mats and bevelled. These albums feel so elegant and contemporary at the same time.

Framed prints, acrylic orbs, wooden prints and premium canvases…

I love a home adorned with real family pictures, life events, and the faces that bring you joy, so I am a massive fan of large prints and gallery walls for the home. A great way to add colour, a talking point and for some of our products – literal ‘wow’ generators when people come into your home. All of my display options are professional-grade items, premium canvases and frames that are built to last.

The cost varies depending on the products you love and the size you prefer. I’m always happy to help, and a comprehensive product guide is available. Please get in touch here to request more details. Nothing is as classic as a beautiful Framed Print, but Our Acrylic Orb is one of our standalone products that is guaranteed to generate a ‘wow’ from guests. Starting at £295, they present images as personal works of art in your home. The Wooden Prints are one of my favourite ways to show images on any wall; they look both classic and contemporary at the same time.

Here is a life hack that you can thank me for later: you can use your digital images to create lovely gifts for your closest family and friends for at least a year or two! Granted, your friends may not appreciate a close-up of the two of you, they may well love a shot of your group of friends together, or them with their partner… You get to be thoughtful and save money, genius.

We offer a range of smaller items that are perfect gifts, or you can print an individual piece and frame it for a lovely gift.

A wide range of gift options are available.

Some of the more contemporary items are considered presentation products. These items are designed to show off your images in modern and often innovative ways. Some of these items beautifully fill niches and allow our couples to choose the items that really work for them. For example, we offer a Folio Box (starting at £350), which includes 10 mounts, up to 30 images, an easel, and a presentation box, all of which are included. Some of our couples have kept this intact and switched out one display mount; others have used the mounts as gallery walls and kept the box to store their wedding memories. I love our range of these items, varying from Taster Albums to Personalised Photo Boxes and Keepsake Accordions.

I would understand if you don’t want to take my word for it, you will find a plethora of articles online about the benefits of printing images, how the photos on display can strengthen you as a couple, spark conversation and even help with children’s self-esteem, here is a link to one of them if you would like to read more.