Couples spend months planning every detail of their wedding day. They agonize over the florals, perfect the color palette, spend hours choosing between linen options. And then they grab a generic guest book from a craft store two weeks before the wedding.

Guest books aren’t usually at the top of the priority list. But after five years of photographing weddings, I’ve learned this: the guest book is one of the few tangible things from your wedding day that you’ll actually look at regularly. The flowers wilt, the cake gets eaten, the dress goes into storage.

A professionally-designed photo album turns your guests’ messages into part of your actual love story.

Traditional guest books end up forgotten on a shelf.

Traditional guest books get signed during cocktail hour when everyone’s distracted. Half the signatures are illegible, and the messages are often just “Congratulations! Love, Aunt Carol.” They end up on a shelf somewhere, and you maybe look at them once every 5 years if you remember where you put them.

They’re also completely impersonal. Even the nicer ones are just blank pages waiting for signatures. They don’t tell your story, they don’t reflect who you are as a couple, and they have nothing to do with the relationship you’ve spent years building together.

Professional photo albums turn your guest book into something you’ll want to display.

Professionally-printed, heirloom-quality albums are completely different. Instead of a blank book with signatures, imagine a beautifully designed album filled with your favorite photos from your engagement and/or your proposal, with space on each page for guests to write their well-wishes next to images that capture who you are as a couple.

Your guests aren’t just signing their names. They’re writing messages alongside photos that spark memories and emotions. “This is such a good picture of you both!” or “You two look so in love here.” The messages become more personal, more meaningful, because they’re responding to images that show your relationship, your personalities, your story.

These albums are printed on archival-quality paper that won’t yellow or fade over time. The binding is meant to last generations. They look like the kind of thing you’d display on your coffee table, not hide on a bookshelf.

I design each album layout with the same care I put into editing your photos.

That means thoughtful page composition, intentional color flow, and a visual story that captures who you are as a couple.

I select photos from your engagement session that showcase your relationship: the way you look at each other, the moments that made you laugh during our shoot, the moments that tell your story as a couple. Then I design each spread with enough white space for guests to write meaningful messages.

The result is something that feels cohesive, intentional, and uniquely you. It’s part photo album, part guest book, and 100% something you’ll actually want to look at over and over again.

Heirloom-quality albums are designed to last for generations (not just five years).

Professional albums cost more than a $30 guest book from Etsy, Michael’s, or Shutterfly. A piece of heirloom-quality art that combines your favorite engagement photos with personal messages from the people you love most. It’s not just a guest book. It’s a visual record of your love story, designed to last for generations.

The binding is reinforced to withstand years of being pulled off the shelf and flipped through. This is the kind of album your grandchildren will look at someday.

When you think about all the wedding expenses that are here-and-gone (the venue, the food, the bar tab), this is the kind of thing you’ll pull out ten years from now and feel incredibly grateful you invested in. The nostalgia alone makes it worth it, and you’ll never regret having something this meaningful and beautiful to hold onto.