1. Get a built-in wedding album.
Flush mount albums are made with hard covers and “board type” pages that do not bend. Your photos are dry mounted on cardboard so they are completely flat and spread across the entire page. This type of mounting combined with high-quality printing makes embedded wedding albums an excellent choice.

2. Get a “magazine style” layout.
The days of having separate photos manually pasted into an album are long gone. Inspired by fashion magazines, the “magazine-style” layout composes multiple photos onto one page, combining them with transitions and other “special effects.”

3. Tell a story.
Put your designs in chronological order and tell a story about your wedding as shown in the photos. Place the corresponding titles on the pages, for example, the reception, the speech, etc. Wedding albums that tell a story look more interesting and are much more fun to read.

4. Use all available photos, not just your photographer’s.
Your wedding photographer has surely taken some great photos, but you might find the most original shots among those taken by your wedding guests. Today, almost all the guests bring a digital camera, take photos during the celebration, and will be happy to share their masterpieces with you. Select the best ones and include them in your album. Albums with a couple of original guest shots stand out from those that follow the book too closely.

5. Get involved in the design of the wedding album.
Even if you trust your designer album blindly, it is your wedding album and wedding albums in general are very personal items. So, check the design frequently and if you spot something that you are not completely satisfied with, change it!

6. Choose your photo carefully.
Once the photos are in the album, you can no longer take them (unless you are going to mount them yourself). So make sure you love them all. Nothing is worse than having to skip a page when flipping through the album, because it shows your mother-in-law with an open belly.