Weekend getaways can be just as exciting as longer vacations and the photos you snap on a girls’ trip or a few days at the coast with family can bring back powerful memories. Creating a photo book to memorialize your recent weekend getaway is a great idea, whether you stayed close to home, took a motorcycle down Route 66, or went to an exotic beach.
Once you are home and the last suitcase is unpacked, it's time to round up your favorite photos from the trip and pull together the story in a Mixbook travel photo book. Given the range of travel book themes, the hardest part of creating a photo book might be selecting a design. We’ve come to your aid with a list of our favorite themes for a variety of short trips—pick one or use them for inspiration.
Best photo book theme for camping: The Great Outdoors Watercolor
Camping trips are always great adventures, and an outdoors-themed photo book lets you relive them, over and over. According to Robert Caputo, a career photographer with National Geographic, “When you are making pictures of your friends, try to strike a balance between a picture of them and a picture of the place.”
And that’s just what The Great Outdoors Watercolor photo book design does: it showcases photos of family and friends with the great outdoors as a backdrop to let you live those camping adventures over and over. This theme offers iconic “outdoors” backgrounds, including starry skies and tree-lined mountain peaks, as well as watercolor-styled accents, to capture the magic of being close to nature.
Best photo book theme for road trips: Road Trip Adventures by bobo design studio
Whether or not you read and loved Jack Kerouac's memoir “On the Road Again,” there is something about a road trip that is utterly compelling. Once you’ve enjoyed your time behind the wheel, taking tons of photos along the way, settle in for a drive down memory lane with a road-trip themed photo book.
Road Trip Adventures by bobo design studio is a perfect photo book theme to tell your road trip story. Packed with maps, driving-themed accents, and ultra-modern fonts, this is definitely the book you need to pull together photos that show that life's about the journey, not the destination.
Best photo book theme for girls' trips: Joyful Everyday Patterns by Oh Joy!
Celebrate your ladies’ weekend out with a fun photo book theme like Joyful Everyday Patterns by Oh Joy! This theme is versatile enough for a beach trip, a girls-only Vegas vacation, or a trip back home for a friends’ reunion. Featuring great layouts to show pictures of all sizes, eye-catching text, and plenty of accents to add to the fun, this theme (like all the others listed here) is fully customizable so you can make it your own.
Best photo book theme for theme parks: Magical Vacation
Bring back the thrills of a weekend theme park getaway with the Magical Vacation photo book. With delightful fonts, accents, and backgrounds that all center on hours of fun at your favorite place to play, this theme lets you organize your photos from the front of the park to the back—or vice-versa, if you're a savvy park-goer who does it that way. Choose from full-page photos, collages, and a huge number of other layouts to commemorate your fabulous weekend.
Best photo book theme for coastal trips: Seaside Adventures by The Tiny Garden
Capture all your memories of the sun, sand and sea with an ocean-themed photo book like Seaside Adventures by The Tiny Garden. Overflowing with great design details, backgrounds, and accents, including anchors, sea life and fantastic quotes, this photo book theme is a must-have for seaside adventures. It’s perfect to bring together all the wonderful, beach-infused memories you created with family or friends.
Best photo book theme for a mother/daughter outing: Sweet Memories
When the ladies of the family get together for a fun weekend, memories are made. The Sweet Memories photo book is the perfect choice to organize all those incredible shots. This serene photo book theme has a soft color scheme featuring shades of sage, chartreuse, pinks, and soft grays, with artistic backgrounds created around leaf and flower patterns. The bright white photo frames will highlight your precious photographs of mom and daughter enjoying special times together.
Best photo book theme for any weekend adventure: Everyday Adventures
Celebrate any weekend trip—or any memorable experience—with an Everyday Adventures photo book. This fully customizable theme lets you pick from all the fonts—classic, fun and whimsical, modern or elegant—to create the perfect memory book for any trip. Drag, drop, and rearrange your photos in any order, in any layout. It is so versatile that you can use it for anything from a beach trip to a wedding shower.
Like all our other themed photo books, Everyday Adventures puts the focus on your favorite memories so you can share them with others or keep them to yourself. It's the perfect addition to your collection.
Head over to Mixbook today!
You’ve experienced your weekend adventure, now embark on yet another fun experience. Head over to Mixbook to start creating your story using your favorite theme. Each of your weekend photos is a small piece of the grand tale.
