Wedding season is here: the must-have albums for every couple

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A wedding to-do list is always going to be lengthy. This is true whether your wedding is an epic event with hundreds of guests or an intimate celebration with your closest family and friends. Fortunately, many of the tasks on your list can be very enjoyable. Among the more pleasurable line items are choosing, designing, and printing wedding photo books.

Your wedding album is the most important photo book, as well as the longest and most comprehensive of all. But don’t forget about the other must-have albums to fill with favorite photos taken throughout your remarkable romance. From your engagement to the big day to your honeymoon, every collection of photos—and memories—is worth transforming into a tangible photo book treasure!

Not sure where to start? Browse Mixbook’s comprehensive collection of wedding photo book themes, which you can filter by wedding ceremony, guest books, engagement books, or anniversary books. You’ll find beautiful options for every aesthetic taste, and they’re all 100% customizable. Personalize the color palette, typography, and other design details to match your wedding style.

Wedding album: Tell the beautiful story of your big day

Most couples put a lot of thought and time, and a big chunk of their wedding budget, into professional photography. This is undoubtedly a worthy investment. Your wedding is just one day, but the memories should be among the most treasured of your lifetime. Photographs are the magical keys to capturing those memories, and your wedding album preserves them forever. It’s so sweet to imagine you and your new spouse flipping through the book for decades to come.

When you receive your photo collection from your wedding photographer, it’s time to start creating your wedding album. This is a post-wedding task, so there’s no set deadline and you can take your time poring over the photos, choosing favorites, and finding the perfect photo book theme.

Your wedding album design should complement the style of your wedding and your personal preferences. This could be chic and editorial, like the Wedding Magazine Coffee Table Book and Editorial Wedding Coffee Table Book. Or, lean into the classic sophistication of the Elegant Black and White Wedding Collection or Minimalist Deco Wedding album. Maybe your style is more Boho Chic, Industrial Chic, or Vintage.

You can read more about wedding photos and albums here:

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Guest book: Treasure a compendium of love and well wishes

A wedding guest book isn’t essential for every to-be-wed couple, but we’re definitely counting it among the must-have wedding albums.

A guest book is an unrivaled way to capture the love and well-wishes of those family members and friends who were there to share your wedding day with you. Imagine you could pause time for a moment during your wedding day and ask each guest to share a personal sentiment, memory, or piece of meaningful encouragement. This is what a guest book is for. Elder guests, some long-married, might have real words of wisdom to share in your guest book. Others will be inspired by the time-honored ceremony of love and commitment, and compose their own sweet sentiments.

A guest book is also a beautiful way to showcase photos of you and your soon-to-be spouse during your pre-wedding life together. Let handwritten notes from your nearest and dearest serve as the best captions of all.

You’ll find ample choices for wedding guest book themes on Mixbook. As with all our wedding photo books, many and varied styles are available. Just a few best-sellers to consider include the Simple Modern Wedding, Elegant Botanical Guest Book, and Bold Modern Wedding Guest Book.

Engagement book: Capture how it all began

If you were able to capture the moment of your engagement on camera, then an engagement photo book is an absolute must-have. But, you don’t need to have real-time photos of the proposal to create a beautiful engagement book. You just need photos that each tell a piece of the story. You can also recreate for the camera the way in which one of you popped the question, and the other said “yes!”

Of course, the story of your engagement started some time before that moment, and extended all the way up to the big day. Fill your engagement photo book with photos that tell the entire story. You might start with the day you met, continue through your first dates, through to the realization that you had fallen in love. Choose a mixture of candid shots and special photos taken just for your engagement book.

Some engagement book themes include typographic features for telling your story in words, such as The Story of Us Engagement Book. Another of our other favorites is the Rustic Chic engagement book. Its earth tones and charming botanical motifs are a perfect match for an engagement photo session staged in an outdoor, countryside setting. The beautiful Blue Floral Engagement book, with inky blue decorations on crisp white pages, is a great choice for engagement photos with sunny, beachy vibes.

Here are some more ideas and tips for engagement photos:

Honeymoon book: The most romantic of all travel books

Travel photo books are among the most popular Mixbook projects. A honeymoon photo book is an extra-special version of a travel book, as your photos and memories are amplified by that loving, post-wedding glow. You might also notice a hint of relief in your smiling faces, as all that wedding planning is finally done.

A honeymoon photo book combines travel and romance, so be sure to browse both our travel theme collection and romance themes. Customize a travel theme to include a touch of romance, whether it’s with the occasional heart sticker or the same font you used for your wedding invitations. Or, add design elements reflecting your honeymoon destination—a seashell sticker or forest landscape background, for example—to a romance-theme that matches your wedding album.

Here are a few favorite themes for honeymoon photo books:

Wedding stationery: Getting the message out in style

While it’s not another photo book, a set of wedding stationery is another custom photo product to add to your list. Customized wedding stationery has a practical purpose, but its design also sets the tone for the event. These items will likely be the most stylish and stunning pieces of mail you’ll ever pop into a mailbox!

The essential stationery items will depend upon your particular wedding details, but will typically include most of the following:

You might also need invitations to other wedding-related parties such as an engagement party, bridal shower, bachelor/bachelorette, and rehearsal dinner.

As with your wedding photo albums, your stationery should reflect the aesthetics of your wedding and your personal style preferences. Mixbook has ample, fully customizable options for all.

Read our expert wedding stationery tips here:

Capture your big day in photo books

A collection of must-have wedding photo albums is a treasure you’ll enjoy for the entire rest of your lives together. No pressure! Luckily, Mixbook Studio™ makes it easy to create the wedding photo books of your dreams.

Don’t forget to come back later—you’ll have anniversary photo books to make.

Our app is all you need to make stunning photo books.

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