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Beyond the White Album
Sharp ideas for showcasing the shots of a lifetime.
By Dimitria T. Phill
Finding a beautiful way to preserve and display your wedding pictures
is easy, and it goes beyond filing away your photos in a big leather-bound
book. We asked some local photographers and stationers for innovative
ideas about showing off the visual record of your big day, and their
concepts were both simple and smart.
Books
Still one of the best ways to hold wedding pictures, albums are
also the most popular. Yet today's wedding albums need not be white
vinyl books stamped with the gold words "our wedding" on the cover.
Rory Sparks and Kirstie Zahansky of Four Hands Design fill their
custom albums with handmade papers that reflect each couple's personality,
and such pages make a beautiful background for wedding pictures.
Snapshots tell a story
Whether you call them memory books or scrapbooks, books that keep
more than pictures are the newest trend, said Elizabeth Grubb of
E Photography. "More and more couples don't want an album of 50
or 60 static posed pictures, one per page," said Grubb. "I like
to put several images that tell a story together on one page. And
brides like decorative writing and space for mementos." Rather than
an album, though, Grubb's latest keepsake is a century box-a sturdy
box that holds photos of nearly any size and can be filled with
matted wedding pictures. This format allows pictures to be beautifully
kept, but kept privately. Place the century box on a coffee table,
and it's a like a treasure chest for visiting friends.
Like Grubb, Leah Campbell of Leah Campbell Photography believes
that wedding pictures should tell a story. Campbell is a documentary-style
photographer, and each hour of the wedding, she shoots about 5 rolls
of film. "I want people to have every single picture," says Campbell.
"On average my clients take home 4 volumes. Each page in the album
has 3 images, so there are 6 images when the book is open. Looking
at those pictures together like that really shows what happened."
For more on innovate ways to show off your photos, see the current
newsstand issue of Minnesota Bride.
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