How to Organize a Wedding Album: 3 Tips to Make Your Photo Curation Process Easy
Congratulations on tying the knot! Before you enjoy your lifetime of happiness, there’s one more task on your to-do list: curating photos for your wedding photo album.
If you’re unsure how to organize a wedding album, you’re at the right place. We’ll cover advice to transform this daunting task into an enjoyable labor of love that lets you and your spouse relive the big day.
Consolidate your photos
Before you choose the best photos for your wedding photo album, you must first collect them. With photos floating around your friends’ social media accounts, stored on your photographer’s memory card, or living in a relative’s phone, the last thing you want is for these precious snapshots to be lost or forgotten.
The best way to gather all these photos is to create a shared folder, then invite your guests to drop in their selfies and behind-the-scenes snaps. Once your photographer sends their photos, you can add those too.
Taking the time to unite your photos in one place guarantees you’ll have the best pick of the bunch when you start selecting which ones to spotlight.
Create sub-folders for each part of the day
Organize your photos into subfolders based on key moments. To do this, consider sitting with your spouse and listing the most important memories of your wedding, such as:
Getting ready
The first look
Your first dance
Cutting the cake
Toasts from your families
Speeches from the best man and/or maid of honor
Pre- and post-ceremony portraits of different friend groups and family units
The more granular you get, the better. Think of each subfolder as a different chapter of your wedding story, which will inform the chronology of your wedding photo album. By grouping your photos into smaller chunks, you can also avoid photo fatigue — scrolling through 30 photos is much more manageable than a thousand!
Choose a balanced mix of photos to feature
With your photos neatly categorized, it’s time to select the best ones to feature in your wedding photo album. This can be challenging — if you have dozens of near-identical photos featuring the same moment, how do you decide which ones to cull and which ones to keep?
Ultimately, the best wedding photo albums strike the right balance of people, emotions, settings, and events. Keep these tips in mind:
Pay attention to the background details of similar shots. A photo of the best man’s speech with expressive reactions from the crowd is a better shot than one where guests are looking down or taking a drink.
Use a mix of posed and candid photos. While posed shots are great for showing you at your best, candid moments add authenticity and capture small details you won’t want to forget.
Weed out blurry and dimly lit images. You have limited space in your wedding album, so the photos should be as high-quality as possible.
Consider the layout of your wedding photo album. If you’re opting for a lay flat album, remember to choose images that can span two pages (e.g., a wide shot of your first dance). Having a mix of portrait and landscape photos in your album can also make it feel more dynamic.
Once you’ve completed the photo curation process, it’s time to bring your wedding photo album to life. Beyond knowing how to organize a wedding album, you also want to research different album styles, sizes, and paper options. For lay flat wedding books, we recommend heavyweight matte or lustre paper: not only do they provide high durability and age resistance, but they also enhance your beautiful photographs with rich colors and subtle textures.
As a keepsake you’ll leaf through over and over again, your wedding album must be designed to last a lifetime. Mixbook offers some of the most popular and high-quality wedding photo albums for newlyweds — check out our lay flat wedding photo albums today.
