Crafting a Legacy for Generations to Come: Our Process for Delivering Handmade, Heirloom Quality Wedding Albums

My grandparents filled an entire closet with a lifetime’s worth of photo albums. Hundreds of them in precariously disorganized stacks nearly spilling out of the door; countless memories pressed between the pages of time and handled by the many hands who passed on the story of my family. Sometimes, my siblings and I would stay up late pouring over these albums beneath the soft yellow glow of lamplight, reigniting memories and sharing the stories of love and tradition.

As wedding photographers, we have the pleasure of providing couples with the same opportunity to create a legacy for their own families by crafting a physical keepsake which is wholly theirs and 100% unique: a wedding album that they can treasure for generations.

Here is what you can expect from the wedding album design process:

Album Selection

We offer two handmade wedding albums options for our clients.

The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book

This premium handmade wedding album is completely bespoke and custom designed in collaboration with you and our partner bindery. Artisans and designers will look closely at your wedding photos and stationery art to create a completely custom album design and presentation box with unique, one-of-a-kind fabrics and textiles, embossing, foil printing, and much more. Twelve spreads are included standard, and we recommend between 20-30 images. Additional photographs and spreads can be added on. For more information on this album, please click here.

The Heirloom Wedding Album

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. This handmade album is a high quality flush-mount style book with spreads graphically designed on archival quality paper to ensure that your wedding photographs stay vibrant and will not fade over time. Available in a variety of cover materials including faux and genuine leathers, fine silks, and linens with custom name and date embossing. Twelve spreads are included standard, and we recommend between 20-30 images. Additional photographs and spreads can be added on. For more information on this album, please click here.

Layout & Cover Design

We work directly with our clients after their wedding to customize their albums. After the online gallery of photographs is delivered, we’ll dive right into the curation process where you will select your favorite moments from your wedding day. Once you’ve selected the photographs you’d like to include, we will design an initial album layout and you will have the opportunity to provide input and revise sequencing and photo placement.

For The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book, we work with designers at our partner bindery to develop a bespoke design for your album and presentation box. They will share a mock-up of the design for your approval before moving forward. For The Heirloom Wedding Album, you will select a cover material along with name and date embossing.

Album Delivery

The turnaround time for each album varies. Due to the bespoke nature of The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book, clients can expect to receive their album within 12-16 weeks after approval of their final album design. For The Heirloom Wedding Album, clients can expect to receive their album within 4-6 weeks after the finalized layout is approved.

Timeline for Album Design and Delivery

• Image Delivery

  Three weeks after the wedding, clients recieve their online wedding gallery. Image selection for album begins.

• Image Selection

  Album image selection is finalized within 8 weeks after the delivery of the online gallery.

• Album Revision

  An album proof is created, and the revision process begins. We allow up to 2 revisions which must be completed within 4 weeks of the initial proof delivery.

• Album Production

  Album production ranges between 4-6 weeks for The Heirloom Wedding Album, and 12-16 weeks for The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book, plus an additional 1-2 weeks for shipping.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. In the meantime, click here to see more wedding resources.

Palm Springs and Boston wedding photographer Todd Danforth Photography is an LGBTQ+ and POC-owned wedding photography team specializing in capturing joyful and candid moments. As storytellers and craftspeople, we believe in the power of visual narratives. Our mission is to create honest and authentic photographs you can share with your loved ones for generations to come.