Just a quick ‘latent bridezilla’ shout out to Blurb.com, for making it really, really easy to put together an awesome wedding album. Even though the day itself was pretty low key, we still managed to spend some significant $$ (hmm, must have been those two dresses I bought…), so I turned to Blurb as a way to save on the album production. We had beautiful pictures and wanted to showcase them in a way that suited the style of the wedding itself: yes, low-key, clean black and white, with a slightly period feel. Even though I’d used Blurb once before, I was still a little wary of getting started on something as important as a wedding album. I mean, you can’t really mess up the photos that you want to look at for the rest of your life, can you?

But I needn’t have worried. It was super easy, intuitive, and definitely catered to a novice like me. My biggest problem was deciding what shape and size I actually wanted the book to be (square, for that slightly deco feel). The end result? Loved it! I wish there had been a more elegant way to mix the black and white with the color pics, and that I’d done a better job of cropping, to prevent image bleed and cut-off, but overall, i was really happy. And even though it still wasn’t bargain basement pricing, it was a lot cheaper than getting it done professionally, and we got to control the artistic direction. I even had a fancy glossy dust flap!

I’m sure we’ll treasure this for years to come, and now get to make Christmas gifts of the pics for all our family. Yes, they are that lucky this festive season ;)

I’ll leave this post with another one of my fave wedding photos: