Looking for a nice leatherbound album to arrange myself! (any other crafty-scrapbooky brides out there?)

We went with an independant photographer who can give us prints but does not do albums perse`, so I am goign to be arranging and laying out the album. I am going into NYC to shop with Keohime tomorrow, but if anyone has any specific albums to suggest please FM or post here!

Thank you oh helpful Newlyweds!

Re: Looking for a nice leatherbound album to arrange myself! (any other crafty-scrapbooky brides out there?)

this site has some nice ones

leather albums

Re: Looking for a nice leatherbound album to arrange myself! (any other crafty-scrapbooky brides out there?)

You should check out Exposures also. I got one of there oversized leather albums. I made my own with the proofs and the table cameras. (I also got an album in my package from my photographer.) You can personalize the cover.

Exposures

Re: Looking for a nice leatherbound album to arrange myself! (any other crafty-scrapbooky brides out there?)

Alright, I'm doing this right now, so I know all about this:

I got my album from eBay! It's beautiful and classic. It has 20 pages and was $179, with mats included, plus $10 for engraving and $16.95 for shipping. Here's the auction:

eBay Album auction

Now, what brand is this album? I've been looking for a long time, and I found this site:

http://1stproweddingalbums.zoovy.com/

I am CONVINCED that the same album I got on eBay is the album these people offer. It's called Venice on their site, and a 15 page package with mats is $300 from them, without engraving. I called them and I asked who makes these albums. The answer - they do. They manufacture them at a secondary Renaissance factory, and the say the main difference between their album and Renaissance is that they added corner tips to all of the pages. I think the eBay seller bought these albums wholesale.

The problem with these albums, although I love it, is the small selection of mats. So when I spoke to the album people, I asked what to do. They said that the Large Renaissance mats would fit the Venice album fine, but that you wouldn't want to mix and match because the line weight of the border around the pictures is slightly different. So you can order the Venice album without the mats, then order a set of Renaissance mats to go with it if you wanted more variety.

There's also this website:

Luxury Albums

They offer the Seldex album, which I LOVE, but was too expensive for me.

Okay, that's pretty much it, except that you need to use acid free, photo safe tape when putting the album together.