The Best Wedding Photo Albums to Capture Your Special Day

Apart from maybe your wedding dress or outfit, jewelry, and shoes, there are few things from your wedding day that you will keep forever. But one other is the memories you make, memories that are often immortalized in the photos taken throughout the day.

Indeed, it’s the photos that you will return to over and over to relive the joy and love you felt while saying “I do” in front of all your family and friends, and there is no better way to hold onto them than by creating a keepsake-quality photo album.

To help you find the album you’ll want to display proudly, we researched the best available to compile our list of favorites. Here are our top picks for the best wedding photo albums.

Our top wedding photo album picks

How we selected the best wedding photo albums

To find the best wedding photo albums available, we scoured the market, looking for the companies that offer the highest quality products and tools that make it easy to design an album from scratch. Many of our favorites also offer design services for an additional cost, which earned them bonus points—we didn’t want a lack of time or inexperience with design to stop any couples from finding the perfect album to memorialize their special day.

We also leaned towards products that offered lots of options in terms of album sizes, cover materials, page templates, and the like. If a couple changes their mind about something halfway through a design, we didn’t want them to have to totally abandon the project and start from scratch somewhere else.

What to consider when choosing a wedding photo album

Photo orientation and size

Your wedding photo album should encapsulate everything you want to remember about your special day and those memories shouldn’t be limited by the structure of your album. When choosing one, make sure you can add landscape and portrait photos and that your photos can be of different sizes. While you likely want to include some detailed shots of your wedding shoes or engagement ring, for example, they don’t need to be as large as the snaps of your entire wedding party.

Cover style

When you’re not flipping through your album, the cover is what you will be looking at, so choosing a style that fits you is important. If you’re planning to display the album somewhere visible, such as on a bookshelf or coffee table, you may want to consider the design style and aesthetic of the space as well. Likewise, many albums allow you to add text and/or a photo to the cover—if one or both of these is important to you, make sure you choose an album with them as an option.

Paper style

Consider if you want the pages to be paper or a thicker material. If it is an option, always choose an album that can be opened up and lays flat as this will allow you to design pages with photos going across the gutter, or the inside of the book spine, which will give you much more flexibility in terms of layouts.

Price

Some wedding photographers will offer an album as part of their package, so check to make sure you aren’t already paying for one before you begin pricing one out on your own. Once that’s confirmed, determine your budget, keeping in mind that this is a keepsake you’ll have forever.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

How much should wedding photo albums cost?

The albums on this list span a wide range of price points, from under $20 to over $500. You can create a really high quality album for between $100 and $200; from there, the price is going to increase if you want a more expensive cover material, like leather, or if you want to add many more pages than are quoted in the base price of the album.

Are wedding photo albums worth it?

We think so! It’s one thing to have all your wedding photos in the cloud or on a USB drive, but it’s another entirely to have a selection of them that perfectly encapsulates your special day in a physical album that you can pull out and look at whenever you like.

How many photos are typically in a wedding album?

My wedding album has 55 photos in it and features a good mix of pre-wedding snaps, ceremony moments, poses with the family and wedding party, and candid shots from the reception. To get that variety without going overboard, shoot for 50-60 photos. That said, some of the albums on this list can hold hundreds, so it’s up to you how many you’d like to include.

What is the best size for a wedding photo album?

The most popular sizes for wedding photo albums are 8x8, 10x10, 12x12, as well as rectangle sizes in a similar range. These allow for a variety of sizes of photos to fit on the pages without any getting too small that details are lost or too big that photo quality suffers.