The Best Wedding Albums for Every Budget

We're sharing some of our favorite options at multiple price points so you can turn your big-day photos into a beautiful heirloom.

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Your photographer should be able to give you suggestions for wedding albums (or offer to create one for you!), but if they didn't—or if you waited too long to order one—you might be wondering about your options. Since we firmly believe all wedding photos deserve to be transformed into an heirloom you can appreciate for years to come, we rounded up our favorite (and most trusted) sources for turning your favorite big-day pictures into an album. From the most hands-off (therefore, most expensive) to the most hands-on (and most affordable), we found the best albums on the market.

When to Order Your Wedding Album

No matter your printing method or the formality of your wedding photo album, you should aim to order your book within six months of the celebration when your emotions are still fresh, but you're far enough removed to be critical of which selects should make the final cut (it's important to cull your favorite snapshots together in a way that beautifully commemorates the occasion). We can't tell you how many couples postpone creating a wedding album so long that they ultimately never get around to it. While you're at it, consider creating albums for both sets of parents—they make wonderful gifts.

Designing Your Wedding Album With Your Photographer

Familiarize yourself with common printing methods and binding techniques before signing any dotted lines with your photographer—or at the very least, ask to see samples. Otherwise, you might be disappointed with the quality or style of the finished product. If you find yourself feeling some sticker shock, remember that you're creating a custom, priceless keepsake that will last for years to come—and you can always ask about different pricing options. While the tab can reach upward of $1,500, the end result is worth it, says New York-based photographer Christian Oth: "It's an heirloom that will be passed down, and a pro knows how to create an outstanding visual story, from aligning margins and spacing to retouching and tweaking the layout."

Going the professional route is also the easiest, quickest way to get a gorgeous album. For an idea of how your expert-designed wedding album might look, click through samples on the following album companies' websites, like Priscilla Foster and Heirloom Bindery. Top wedding photographers often source books from these companies—some of which don't offer direct-to-consumer options, which means that to get a final product from them, you have to go through your photographer.

Designing a DIY Wedding Album

If you opt to do it yourself, there are a handful of great resources with numerous offerings to choose from. Below, see our favorite sources for wedding albums—most of which you can easily order online.

Zola Deluxe Wedding Album

Zola Deluxe Wedding Album
Courtesy of Zola

There's one key advantage to designing your wedding album with Zola: The company's free Album Wizard tool helps you pick, organize, and lay out each image to fill up as many as 90 pages.

Pioneer Tree Embossed Wedding Post Bound Photo Album

Pioneer Tree Embossed Wedding Post Bound Photo Album
Courtesy of Michael's

Do you want a wedding photo album with a unique cover? Consider this ivory leatherette option, which is embossed with a tree and two love birds. It has 10 12 x 12-inch sheets, white cardstock inserts for pictures, and a rounded spine.

Pottery Barn Leather Bound Photo Albums

Pottery Barn Leather Bound Photo Albums
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If you're a minimalist, you'll appreciate this sleek album covered in Italian Nappa pebble grain leather and constructed with a binder board. Complete with 100 pages of heavy cream stock paper, you will be able to include up to 500 self-adhesive photo squares from your wedding inside it.

Priscilla Foster Handmade Photo Albums

Priscilla Foster Handmade Photo Albums
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Many of the industry's top wedding photographers work with Priscilla Foster Handmade when creating personalized wedding albums. With dozens of cover options to choose from (including silk, leather, and velvet) and eight different album formats, nothing is pre-made or mass-produced. Should you not see something you want, they'll likely be able to accommodate your special request.

LiuMy Photo Wedding Album

LiuMy Photo Wedding Album
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Couples who want a more tactile wedding photo album will appreciate this sleek, hard-cover iteration, which comes in over 20 muted, earth-toned colorways. It is not a printed album, per se: This booklet has internal slots, which allows you to develop your favorite snapshots and tuck them into the pages (it fits 4 x 6 and 5 x 7 images), which are grooved for a snug, secure fit.

Heirloom Bindery Albums

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California-based Heirloom Bindery offers couples and photographers alike high-quality wedding albums with linen covers. Their most popular book size is 12 x 14, but they offer five other options. All of their pages are made of cotton paper, you can foil-stamp the cover using custom artwork or text, and, should you need some help, they offer full design services, too.

Artifact Uprising Layflat Photo Album

Artifact Uprising Layflat Photo Album
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Artifact Uprising was founded on the belief that life's moments should be honored in print. Their premium lay-flat photo album is an heirloom in the making, though there are several other options, including a small square album for everyday viewing. If you need help with design, the company offers a design service that helps newlyweds create the perfect wedding album.

Martha Stewart Mixbook Elegant Wedding Photo Book

Martha Stewart Mixbook Elegant Wedding Photo Book
Courtesy of Mixbook

With eight different album sizes, seven cover styles, and three paper options, you'll be able to find exactly what you want from Mixbook. Choose from hundreds of customizable album designs or create one from scratch. Once you've placed your order, you can expect your finished album to arrive as quickly as one week later.

Artsy Couture Photo Albums

Artsy Couture Photo Albums
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You don't need to have design experience to create an album with Artsy Couture. Their website has the tools to get you through the process with ease. Their most popular product, the 12 x 12 gold leather wedding album, couldn't be easier to create.

Mpix Photo Books

Mpix Photo Books
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With everything from a basic coffee table book to a high-end flat-lay album, Mpix offers a wide range of wedding-worthy products, including softcover and an optional dust jacket. The company prides themselves on their fast turnaround (just one to two business days!), so their albums make for a great last-minute gift. Even though it's a quick process, each of your photos is reviewed by a color technician before hitting the printer.

Blurb Photo Books

Blurb Photo Books
Courtesy of Blurb

Photo books from Blurb go from small and simple to grand and luxurious thanks to five sizes, six paper types, and three cover options. Their lay-flat books can accommodate up to 110 pages, which you can design using their free tools or sync up to Adobe InDesign with a plug-in.

Printique Wedding Album

Printique Wedding Album
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Printique offers the same high-quality wedding albums to both photographers and their couples. Handcrafted in Brooklyn, all three of their styles offer lay-flat binding, sturdy pages made from one of seven paper types, and archival boxes to protect the memories inside.

Shutterfly Professional Flush Mount Albums

Shutterfly Professional Flush Mount Albums
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The professional-quality flush mount albums and photo books from Shutterfly are made from premium materials—like genuine leather, acrylic covers, and metallic accents—at a typical price point. Customers pay an average of $400 for a deluxe album, which comes with the assistance of an in-house design expert to help you curate the photos to tell your story.

Pik Perfect Premium Layflat Wedding Album

Pik Perfect Premium Layflat Wedding Album
Courtesy of Pik Perfect

All of Pik Perfect's photo albums include design services in their pricing, which means you can count on the pros to help you from start to finish. They'll send you a proof, you'll make as many revisions as necessary, and then they'll print, bind, and ship your hardcover wedding album to you, your parents, or anyone else who wants a collection of the day's best pictures.

Velvet Raptor 10-Inch Photo Album

Velvet Raptor 10-Inch Photo Album
Courtesy of Velvet Raptor

Though Velvet Raptor first started out as a company that worked directly with photographers, they now sell most of their wedding albums directly to brides and grooms. The books are blank and you'll fill each one up by adding in prints. Think of it as a wedding scrapbook you'll cherish forever.

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