Wedding Album Sizes and Designs: A Short Guide
What 12x36 means, how many pictures an album should hold, and how to choose them.
The album is the one part of your wedding photography that will sit on a table for decades. A few decisions make it better.
What 12x36 means. A 12x36 album opens to a spread 12 inches tall and 36 inches wide. That wide spread is what allows one large panoramic picture or a designed layout of several across both pages.
Fewer pictures, larger. It is tempting to fit in as many photos as possible. Albums look better with fewer, bigger pictures. Our albums hold from 50-60 pictures in Basic to 70-90 in Platinum.
Tell the day in order. Getting ready, arrival, ceremony, portraits, family, celebration, farewell. An album that follows the day is easier to enjoy than one sorted by who is in the picture.
Mix the types. A few wide shots of the venue, formal family groups, candid moments and close details. Twenty stage portraits in a row is hard to look through.
Choose family photos carefully. Include both sides and the elders. These are the pages people turn to first.
Avoid near-duplicates. If three frames are almost the same, pick the one where everyone's eyes are open and move on.
How selection works with us. You star your favourites in your online gallery and it counts them against your album limit, so you always know how many are left.
Then we design it. Once your selection arrives we lay it out, print and bind it. Delivery is normally four to six weeks after we receive your choices.