Wedding Album Cost

• Inexpensive traditional wedding albums typically range from $12 to $80, depending on the decoration. The variance in price has to do mostly with the size of album and quality of materials used.
• Expensive traditional wedding albums typically range from $250 to $450. These albums are often crafted from Italian leather and bound by hand.
• Inexpensive professionally printed wedding albums start at around $10 to $30 at mass-market photo printing sites like Shutterfly and Print My Photo Book. Hardcover albums with more pages will increase the price.
• Expensive, professionally printed wedding albums can cost $80 to $800 at sites like Somerset Albums and White Wedding Album.
• Simple, do-it-yourself digital wedding albums may cost $50 to $100 after factoring in the cost of the wedding album software, paper and binding. Paper used by professional photographers, such as DG Foto Art, can cost well over $600 a ream.

• Traditional wedding albums have photo slots to fit 4x6 prints, and may include additional spots for 5x7 and 8x10 prints.
• Professionally printed albums feature digital photos printed on book-quality paper in a bound book. Whether these are designed by the photographer or the wedding couple, these albums should include custom options such as album/page size, type of binding and cover design.
• Do-it-yourself digital wedding album software should include customizable layouts and page previews, accepting a variety of high-resolution photo formats.

• In general, hard cover wedding albums with more pages will cost more than smaller, soft cover books. At My Publisher, a paperback album starts at $13 while a hard cover starts at $30. Additional pages cost $0.50 to $2 each.
• Larger pages will also increase the price of professionally printed wedding albums. For example, Blurb sells 7x7 albums starting at $13, while a 12x12 album starts at $60.
• Shipping costs for wedding albums typically range from $10 to $16.
• Expect to pay extra for a photo-printed box to hold the album. This add-on costs up to $125 at White Wedding Album.

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• Expensive traditional wedding albums are sold online at sites like Wedding Album Depot. Look for cheaper options at sites like Wedding Albums Etc. and Wedding Mountain.
• An easy do-it-yourself digital photo album kit by Strathmore sells for around $9 -$12 on sites like ArtSuppliesOnline.com and MisterArt.com.
• To not only design an album but for do-it-yourself creation of a bound book, try the Photobook Creator for professionally bound pages in 90 seconds.

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