I really enjoy designing albums, and I thoroughly enjoyed designing this one. Kylie has a background as a wedding photographer herself, so pretty much gave me free reign to design whatever I wanted.
I have chosen not to pre-design my albums, instead allowing the bride and groom to choose the images that go into the album themselves. I’m not pre-occupied with selling extra album sides after the wedding, and this way it allows my clients to control their costs accordingly. I do offer larger albums upfront as part of my packages (minimum 30 sides), and find it works better all round. But that’s just my opinion.
So when Kylie chose all of my favourite pictures and let me go wild, I had a lot of fun. Also this has been one of my favourite weddings this year, so it was kind of like reliving it all over again!!!
This weekend I caught up with Tim & Kylie to deliver their gorgeous wedding album. Seeing a client receive their album is probably my favourite part of the whole process. It’s the end of the line. Where all your hard work comes together. Their first family heirloom that will hopefully be handed down through generations to come. Irreplaceable memories that will bring a tear to their eyes a million times over. And *I* did that. I helped make that happen.
A while back I used to feature client albums on the blog, and then for reasons I can’t recall, I stopped. But I liked showing off the finished product, so in the future I will be featuring select client albums, so you can see how it all came together.
Tarrant & Melanie came over to the stoffice this week and we finalised their album. Their wedding was uber awesome, and hopefully we’ve created an album that will reflect that.
Tonight I finally finished a project dear to my heart that has been sitting on my desktop for the past year. Sadly, in this business it’s always the personal projects that never get ticked off the list. With some free time on my hands, and jetlag keeping me up till all hours of the night, the Millypede Project has been completed.
Before Milly was born, I had an idea that I wanted to document the first year of her life at different stages, and compile it into an album just after her first birthday. Well, Milly is two now, but at least my heart was in the right place. As I’ve sat here and watched this album come together, it’s hard to believe she’s the same little girl who now gives me hugs and kisses on command, and calls me “Aunty Todi”.
So Kel, suprise!! I was going to wait and give you the album once it was ready, but I really didn’t want to wait any longer. Love you xxxxx