Our wedding album arrived from Italy and we are stoked! It's a really cool book made by a company called
Graphis Studio. Check out our
album slideshow. One of the best things about this album is that it's sold as a set. It comes with two 8x12 hardcover parent albums and a bunch of 4x5 hardcovers which we can gift to our families.
The photos were done by our close friend Mark Adams of
LaCour Photography. We are starting to show this album to interested couples even though the pictures weren't done by us. We always find ourselves talking about our wedding because it had a lot of creative personal touches and we needed the pictures to show them off. The photographs that Mark shoots are in the same style as our own photography and by showing our album it's a great way for people to get to know us better.
If you're looking at wedding photographers right now here's an idea: See if they will show you their own wedding album. (They need to be married of course.) Our advice about wedding photography: Don't let a set of proofs or a CD gather dust in the closet.
Cathy and I had a September wedding in her father's apple orchard in
Whitefield, New Hampshire We had about 130 guests. Some traveled from as far away as Germany to attend.
Here are some of our own personal touches:
• We recruited most of the musicians in our family to sing and to perform (including my cousin the bagpiper)
• Ceremony readings included Dr. Seuss and Henry David Thoreau
• Cathy invited everyone to help bake pies for our wedding
• Instead of a cake cutting, we served pie to our guests in matching bride and groom aprons
• We provided Polaroid cameras for our guests to use and had a place to display the photos during the reception
• Cathy ordered boutonnieres for our families, but she picked her bouquet on site a few minutes before the ceremony started
• We had an extended cocktail hour (closer to 2 hours) before dinner and had lawn games including croquet, golf and horseshoes
• A friend who brews beer set up a beer tent for the reception
• Our caterer served dinner family-style
• We had a local group of dancers give contra dancing lessons after dinner
• A bonfire was started and we danced and played music into the evening
• A pancake breakfast was held for everyone the next morning
Labels: Sean and Cathy, Ultimate Wedding Book
'We LOVE our wedding album!! It is absolutely fantastic...Thank you for all of your patience as we changed our minds, slowly picked photos, etc — it was worth the wait! We can't thank you enough for all of your work. We've been thrilled with everything - both the photos, the album and making new friends!'— Kelly and Nate
