Wednesday, February 19, 2014

From Miss to Mrs: Closing the Book

It's been almost 18 months since our wedding. I've written 59 posts recaping it, and I've yet to finish. At least until today, with my 60th and final recap post.
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The Box for Our Wedding Album
When it came to booking our photographer, I knew there was one thing we had to had. I didn't need engagement photos, nor did I want to take bridal portraits. I didn't even care if we received hard copies of our pictures (although we did). Instead I wanted digital copies (for blog posts), rights to them (so I could print my own copies), and a professional album.
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I know for many albums are something on the bottom of the list. After all, it's so easy to use an online photo service and create your own, which is actually what I did for holiday presents, but knew it wasn't right for me. I guess until you've seen a quality album its hard to know the difference.
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The Page Thickness of Our Album
Except I was familiar with them. After my Bat Mitzvah my parents' did buy a professional album, which I fell in love with. There just something about the thickness of the pages, and the quality that you can't find anywhere else. I still love looking through my album (and even my brother's from his Bar Mitzvah) to see it all captured and help relive the day.
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Getting Ready
If there's any regret with our album it's that I didn't beg and pay for more pages. As it is I couldn't narrow it down to the numbers of photos suggested by my photographer, which meant many of the pages had a collage of smaller photos instead of one or two larger ones.
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The Ceremony
Looking back I'm so glad I decided that an album was worth it, even if the boy wouldn't agree. I love knowing that this will stand the test of time. I know it's something I going to want to look through in years to come to bring me back to such to beautiful moment. And hopefully someday I'm able to show to our future children so they too can see the day our family started.
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The Reception
Is a professional album something you did, or would, find a place for in your wedding budget?

All photos in the album courtesy of Sabree Hill Photography.

Miss a Recap Post?
Sneak Peak
From Miss to Mrs: The Calm Before the Storm
From Miss to Mrs: There's a Hurricane Coming?
From Miss to Mrs: Here Comes Isaac
From Miss to Mrs: Weathering the Cane
From Miss to Mrs: After the Storm
From Miss to Mrs: Trials and Tribulations
From Miss to Mrs: The Last Errands
From Miss to Mrs: A Night on the Town
From Miss to Mrs: The Hangover
From Miss to Mrs: Rehearsing in the Heat
From Miss to Mrs: The Last Single Supper
From Miss to Mrs: Gifting the Girls
From Miss to Mrs: The Last Single Night
From Miss to Mrs: Oh What a Beautiful Morning
From Miss to Mrs: Getting Prettified
From Miss to Mrs: Prepping the Plantation
From Miss to Mrs: Turtle Time
From Miss to Mrs: The Photographer Has Arrived
From Miss to Mrs: Becoming the Bride
From Miss to Mrs: Dress Details
From Miss to Mrs: Ou Est le Groom?
From Miss to Mrs: A Bridge-y First Look
From Miss to Mrs: Couple Time
From Miss to Mrs: Just the Two of Us
From Miss to Mrs: Grouping the Girls
From Miss to Mrs: Ain't No Party Like a Bridal Party
From Miss to Mrs: Fun with Family
From Miss to Mrs: Making it Official
From Miss to Mrs: The Bedeken
From Miss to Mrs: The Final Minutes
From Miss to Mrs: Programming Break
From Miss to Mrs: The Processional
From Miss to Mrs: Walking the Walk
From Miss to Mrs: Circle to Ceremony
From Miss to Mrs: Remembrance to Kiddush
From Miss to Mrs: The Exchanges
From Miss to Mrs: Lucky Number Seven
From Miss to Mrs: Mazel Tov
From Miss to Mrs: Ceremony Details
From Miss to Mrs: The Yichud
From Miss to Mrs: Extended Fun with Family
From Miss to Mrs: The One Who Found You
From Miss to Mrs: You Are My Fire
From Miss to Mrs: Eat, Drink, and Be Married
From Miss to Mrs: I Want Candy
From Miss to Mrs: Let's Get Toasty
From Miss to Mrs: What a Wonderful World
From Miss to Mrs: Behind From Where We Came
From Miss to Mrs: Havah Nagilah
From Miss to Mrs: Hey Mr. DJ
From Miss to Mrs: The Littlest Guests
From Miss to Mrs: Show Me the Money
From Miss to Mrs: Tossing Fun
From Miss to Mrs: Don't Stop Believin'
From Miss to Mrs: The Morning After
From Miss to Mrs: The Last Lunch
From Miss to Mrs: Inspiration to Realty
Chits and Giggles

3 comments:

  1. We didn't pay for a professional album and we only had our professional photographer for two hours. We asked one friend and Dave's uncle, whom we knew would be taking a ton of pictures anyways, to specifically send their photos to us. We ended up printing out about forty 5x7s to put into a special photo album. It worked out really well for us.

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  2. We had one included in our package which I have yet to order almost two years later. Whoops. We did photo books through Shutterfly for our parentals.

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  3. That's so cool! I wish we had one in our package but we don't. Oh well. We'll do the online thing and hope for the best!

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