Wedding Tactics

One the latest and hottest trends in wedding photography is the coffee table album. A coffee table album is a wedding album, with a twist. I think people got tired of the traditional wedding album with a certain predetermined number of photo sides and photographers came up with an alternative.

Personally, I think we are going to get one of these coffee table albums. I have a tendency to hold tight on my expensive personal items and I can see myself paying a lot for an album, wrapping it in a felt bag and packing it away in a fireproof lockbox. Unfortunately with this scenario, no one will ever look at it, including me, and then really, what’s the point of paying a few hundred dollars for an album?

Now, safe-keeping is a great idea. But … I want to look at my album, and I want my kids* to be able to look at my album, and my family and neighbors and maybe even the mailman, if he stops by to drop off a package. I am a little torn between preserving it for posterity, but at the same time, I save a lot of things for posterity. I want my album to be on display for everyone to see, admire, and relive the moments of my wedding.

The coffee table albums feature a style of photography called photojournalism. It is the opposite of the posed, traditional shots. It is a nice modern twist and because of the way the pictures are blended into each other, it seems like you get a better display of the whole wedding and because the photojournalistic style captures more candid emotion, the album ends up looking less staged.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against the staged, group photos. BELIEVE me … I have a whole list of them planned. But, I also can’t wait to see all the candid shots from my wedding day. I really like when photos capture un-staged, unplanned, emotion, because, those are the “real” moments.

If you are interested, ask your photographer about these new “coffee table” albums. You can choose from a variety of covers, metal, fabric, etc … and the inside pages have different templates, some more modern than others.

I’m just choosing not to think about the fact that this awesome album is a slight “upgrade” of at least three hundred dollars. But really, totally not thinking about that right now.

*the hypothetical “some-day” kids….