How to Prepare Your Wedding Album Order

Organizing and selecting photos for your wedding album doesn't need to be a daunting task! Follow these steps before calling to place your order, for a stream-lined experience:

1. Go through your photos one more time for posterity. Just enjoy looking through them. (You'll want to get this out of your system so you'll be ready for the tough part coming up next - making decisions!)

2. Determine how you will flag your selects on your computer, and create a separate folder for them to go into and label it "selects."

3. Go through once and take all the photos that strike you in some way - whether it's emotionally or compositional-ly dynamic, a special moment grabbed, or you just plain look fabulous. If you like two similar ones, don't be-labor it, just put them both in the "selects" folder.

4. Once you have gone through the photos once, sleep on it. Congratulate yourself on having completed this much!

5. After taking a break, go back to the "selects" folder, and begin narrowing it down. Remove any files from the folder that you decide to eliminate, and try to get the total down to about 100.

6. On a piece of paper, jot down the names of people and moments you would like to include in your album. This will be your guide, as you now begin to narrow the photos down even more. (An album should have 50-80 photos, total.)

7. Go back and add any shots you may have overlooked during the initial edit, by comparing your "selects" against your list of desired shots to include.

8. If you are in the vicinity of 100 photos, and have included all of your key moments and loved ones, you are ready to call me! I can help you narrow down the "selects" using photographic expertise, and we can make sure your album tells the story you desire.

Be sure to let me know what you are envisioning for the book itself, as well! Do you want a traditional leather album, or a custom silk album from my signature vendor Hitch & Bundle? Albums can be customized in a variety of ways, so you will want to think about your color and style preferences.

When you're ready, drop me an email at sarah[at]sarahsloboda.com.