Shipping: Please note orders not picked up from our Jacksonville, NC office will have an additional shipping charge of $20 per order.

Turnaround Times This time starts from the date you approve your album design.

  • Dahlia, Pocket, Atlanta, Artbooks, Evergreen & Art Journal Albums — These albums are sourced from a small fine art bindery in Europe that is known for having one of the most advanced pigment ink technologies on the market today and take approximately 20 business days to arrive at our office.

  • Carter Albums — Sourced in the US, these albums arrive in our office within three business days after album design has been approved.

Albums

We offer six different albums within our product lineup:

Entry-level, affordable albums

  • The Dahlia Album — An affordable lay-flat album printed on digital silk paper. Designed with affordability in mind, these albums are printed using non-photographic quality and are intended more for engagement, maternity, and family sessions or as gifts.

  • The Carter Albums — An affordable lay-flat album with matte paper, this album is perfect for those who need super fast turnarounds.

  • Pocket Albums — A small 6” x 6” book perfect for small sessions or as bundled packs. Printed on a silver semi-matte halide paper with a slight angle sheen, these albums provide various cover fabric options with up to 50 pages.

  • Self-Service Albums — These albums are available directly from your gallery and provide the ability for full self-service, including cover design and album page layouts. From a price vs. quality perspective, these albums do cost a little more for their quality but do provide an easy-to-use interface to allow you to fully control each element of the design inside and out.

the traditional wedding album

  • The Atlanta Album — The quintessential flush month album and industry standard for wedding albums, The Atlanta Album features photographic paper in a lay-flat design. The paper is renowned for its fantastic print quality, excellent dynamic range, and durable, fingerprint/scratch-resistant finish. A variety of cover options and cover text stamping options are available.

Exquisite art-inspired albums

  • The Evergreen Album — Featuring pages with silver halide photographic lab printing, celebrated for its beautiful depth of color and superior clarity, this album’s outside cover is showcased with a luxurious soft-touch matte photo cover.

  • Artbooks — The Artbook is a culmination of unsurpassed beauty, impeccable style, and experienced craftsmanship. Each spread in your Artbook is individually printed and carefully inspected before being folded by hand to be placed in the book. Images are reproduced using archival giclee pigment inks on gorgeous matte paper. This advanced technology provides the subtlest gradation and stunningly rich color paired with one of three archival museum-grade paper choices.

  • The Art Journal Leather-Wrapped Album — Unlike anything else we offer - a soft, leather-wrapped cover envelops pages of beautifully hand-torn, cotton rag fine prints with a gold embossed front page. This is the album of albums in presentation, picture quality, look, and feel. A rustic leather strap closure winds around to finish the look. The journal cover is unattached to the block of pages.

Steps for Ordering An Album

We’re here to make the process of ordering as easy as possible and we offer three ways to begin the process of ordering your album; in person, through video chat, or email.

Ordering In Person

Would you like to view sample albums and fabric swatches in person? Use our in-person consultation scheduler to schedule an in-person consultation.

Ordering Online

  • Step 1: Complete the form below and include as much information as possible about the album you are interested in.

  • Step 2: Once we’ve received your form, you’ll receive a $50 album retainer invoice from us. As the design process does take quite a bit of administrative and design time on our end, this non-refundable retainer is applied toward your final invoice and helps us to weed out less serious album inquiries.

  • Step 3: Once your album retainer has been paid, the next step is to select a list of favorites for images that you would like to include in your album. You can find a step-by-step guide on how to select favorites by clicking here or if you’ve already created a favorites list, please drop us an email to let us know so we can get started.

  • Step 4: Once we’ve created the design on your album pages, you’ll receive a link for a proof of your album. The proofing system is interactive and will allow you to comment directly on images or pages to let us know what changes you would like to make.

  • Step 5: After you have approved your design, we’ll send you a final invoice with your retainer applied. Once this invoice has been paid, your order will be submitted for processing.

  • Step 6: Once we’ve received your album, we’ll do one last quality check before letting you know that your album is ready for pickup or for shipment to you.

how many images should I choose?

Each spread (two pages) can accommodate between two to twelve images.

  • 60-Minute Sessions: For picking out images for albums from 60-minute sessions, such as engagement and bridal sessions, we recommend using four images as the expected number of images to select per spread. So, for a 10-spread (20 pages) album, plan to pick approximately 40 images.

  • Weddings: What we typically see for wedding albums is a finished product of approximately 20 spreads (40 pages). As it is common for specific pages of a wedding album (such as the reception) to have more images per page, we recommend using five images per spread as the base for image selection. This will place your image selection to approximately 50 images for a 10-spread album (20 pages) and approximately 100 images for a 20-spread album (40 pages).