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rlivings Posted: Jan 04, 2003 10:39 PM+

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Posted: Jan 04, 2003 10:39 PM

Number of Photos in wedding album

Hi girls. I don't post often but I read all of your great comments and advice all the time and now I need some.

I went to meet my photographer today to pick the package. To make a long story short, I had a WAR with my mother over how many pics to put in my album. The minimum was 50 and I thought that was too low considering the albums these days have some pages with up to 4 photos on a page.

So anyway, I am thinking 70 might be a better number and my mother thinks I am out of my mind. Am I?

Thanks in advance

lilmrs Posted: Jan 04, 2003 10:40 PM+

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Posted: Jan 04, 2003 10:40 PM

Re: Number of Photos in wedding album

I don't think so at all! Put as many in there as you want not that your mom wants!

Valenia Posted: Jan 04, 2003 10:42 PM+

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Posted: Jan 04, 2003 10:42 PM

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I paid for 70 and ended up with 77!!! :o) So if you are crazy, so am I!

Sassy Posted: Jan 04, 2003 10:46 PM+

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Posted: Jan 04, 2003 10:46 PM

Re: Number of Photos in wedding album

I booked for 60 pages

Edit to say, w/60 pages, the # of actual pics can get high

FutureMrsK Posted: Jan 04, 2003 11:49 PM+

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Posted: Jan 04, 2003 11:49 PM

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I contracted for 60 pictures in my album - and thought that would be fine. Now - I'm not too sure. They always say that it's less expensive to contract for more before - compared to paying for additional pages after the wedding. So - if you can do it, go for the 70 photos.

Claud2001 Posted: Jan 04, 2003 11:59 PM+

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Posted: Jan 04, 2003 11:59 PM

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I contracted for up to 90 photos in my album - not pages, photos. We ended up with over 75 pics in the album, with some pages having more than one photo on a page.

Be very careful with adding pages or photos after you sign the contract - most photogs charge *alot* of money to add things on after the fact....ask before you sign!!

shamma Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:01 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:01 AM

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Remember pages does not mean # of pix, b/c as you stated above you might choose to have some composite pages. We had signed a contract for a 30 page album, we ended up adding 6 additional pages. It would be wise to budget for more pages now, b/c you always end up wanting more than you contracted for, especially when you see all the beautiful proofs

Diane Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:02 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:02 AM

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You can always add more after your contact. We had 45 pics. Thought that was enough.

LisaT Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:06 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:06 AM

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we contracted for 36, and wound up with 45 (pictures, not pages). That was plenty for us.

shamma Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:15 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:15 AM

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I feel so darn greedy now, I think we have close to 95 pix

I think its b/c we did over 20 composites

lulu Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:57 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 12:57 AM

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I'm pretty sure we get 50 pictures.

Bride2be03 Posted: Jan 05, 2003 02:00 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 02:00 AM

Re: Number of Photos in wedding album

I think we booked for 36.

dgtlsunshine Posted: Jan 05, 2003 02:02 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 02:02 AM

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I'm glad you all have these big albums b/c I have gone over my pics over and over and I can't get any lower than about 90 pics. I thought my photographer would look at me like I was crazy.

Jess2 Posted: Jan 05, 2003 07:02 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 07:02 AM

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We chose 60 (the minimum was 50). I think that we are going to want to include alot of pictures once we get the proofs, and that it is worth including as much as you would like.

CathyB Posted: Jan 05, 2003 10:49 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 10:49 AM

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I contracted for 72 pictures.

yabbobay Posted: Jan 05, 2003 11:16 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 11:16 AM

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we had 40 pics in our contract

I chose the pics for the album not being limited to this and came out with 63 (multiple pics on some pages)

michele31 Posted: Jan 05, 2003 11:24 AM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 11:24 AM

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Does your photographer charge per photo or per page? My charges per page, not per photo, so I can add a page with 4 photos on it for one cost.
I have 50 pages (really 25 double sided pages) in my album. I think you are better off contracting for the 50 photos and then adding what you want later- unless you get a huge discount for doing it pre-wedding.

sept20yay! Posted: Jan 05, 2003 01:33 PM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 01:33 PM

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we have 50. will probably end up with more-- i would like 80...

RichsBride Posted: Jan 05, 2003 01:36 PM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 01:36 PM

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Our contract was for 56 photos I believe, we ended up putting in 80 I think. We paid extra for them , but I don't think the prices were unreasonable & we made our parent albums with exaclty 24 pictures each-that's what was in our package. You can get crazy with adding picsto the album, but I plan to frame alot of them to look at everyday.

stacedz Posted: Jan 05, 2003 04:21 PM+

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Posted: Jan 05, 2003 04:21 PM

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Oh man, I originally was contracted for 36 PICTURES which is NOT enough and I only had 250 proofs....BUT my photog neglected to tell me 36 is VERY small for an album, so of course we increased it to 69 or something and paid an arm and a leg for it, I was soooo mad. Make sure you have enough so you don't have to pay extra, it was $15 an extra pic which was CRAZY! No one ever told me that was a small album so I had no clue and I honestly would have cut out the must have pics of family if I were to keep it to 36 or so. I can't imagine if I had 800 proofs like some of the girls on here did!