Wow! What a fun bridal session. Olivia and her parents (Bill and Janis) and I have enjoyed working together so much on Olivia’s photography. The bridal session was another opportunity to get together and create beautiful images. And we had the perfect backdrop, Villa Antonia in Jonestown, Texas. The lighting inside and around the villa is exceptional. So many great locations and niches to shoot in.
After I had posted Olivia’s bridal images (where Neil couldn’t see them of course), Olivia came to me and asked about some things we might do as gifts. She wanted to do a book of the bridal images for her parents. We were able to work with her budget and produce both a beautiful album and 3 accordian books. So this post is a bit different in that I am showing both the accordian book layout and the album design rather than a set of selected individual images.
First, the accordian books. These are soooo cool, sweet, awesome, whatever you want to call them. These books are wallet sized with various covers (my favorite is the red alligator leather). The covers are magnetized to hold the book closed. When opened, they are, well, an accordian of images on both sides. I love having engagement images on one side (you can go here to see Olivia and Neil’s full engagement shoot post) and bridals on the other as we can have these books ready at the wedding to give as favors to the bridal party, grandparents, parents, etc. See Olivia’s accordian book below.
Next, the bridal album. Couples have the option to include engagement and bridal images in their primary album, have seperate engagement and bridal albums, or a combination of both. In addition, our sign yearbook style guest book serves as an engagement album of sorts having engagement images on one page and a page for signing on the opposite page. As with all our albums, we started with the images Olivia selected, produced the design as a PDF file, had Olivia review it, made a few minor changes, gained final approval and submitted it for production. The result is an incredibly special book that I know Bill and Janis will love and that will be a family treasure for a long time.
