update-Making own B &G album?! Graphic Design/printer companies????

so far- fh has found a canadian company that does self-publishing wedding books which we may get a quote for, but then i started thinking..and for my BA graduation we had a party and my uncle had a photo album made for me from kodak. and so i thought hmmmm

so i checked out the kodakgallery.com web page and they do make 'legacy 12 x 14- leather bound, heavy acid-free photo paper and professional binding' starting at $70 - it looks like we design it on the computer and send it to them-but i didnt sign up for the site yet-so i don't know exactly.

Looking at the page- it looks like my uncle paid $30 for my classic photo book which is lovely so i would imagine the legacy album is such as nice. And some photography studios have the 1 photographer, 8 hour, all proofs package for about $1700 --- very in budget. and worse comes to worse- we go back to the photographer and have them make a book for $ 800 - i think the difference is going to be the paper but i am okay with that.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/PhotoBookOverview.jsp?cm_sp_o=_gCjCx%2Fv9%2FniixCjC1wTzgY%201zAEgt&&flash=detected

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We have been meeting with photographers. I like them all but my fiance is being such a pain. He really believes he, since he is a graphic designer is familiar with printing companies and want to just hire a photographer with proofs and then call a printer company and make our album ourselves. he thinks it will be cheaper cutting out the middleman. anyone else do this? is this REALLY possible? He is going to find out this week by calling printer companies. I just want to book and not worry about it. I said we can maybe make parent albums that way or something. I do not think we'll save much. the type of book we want is $800 and then for the day -1 photographer - would be total of $2500 and I think thats great! Cant get lower than that and this is NOT the vendor to go cheapo over. What do you all think?

HELP!

there are alot of people who make their own albums, if your FH is a graphic designer he might be able to help with alot of it...If he is willing to do the work then leave it up to him...I personally dont know how much it is to go to someone else to do albums, but if you go to another company they will also charge a decent amount bc of the work put into it.

Alot of people on here do it completely themselves, if he puts more work into it himself then i think it would be cheaper.

I guess talk to him and find out prices, see if its worth it or not.

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Posted by BunnyBears

We have been meeting with photographers. I like them all but my fiance is being such a pain. He really believes he, since he is a graphic designer is familiar with printing companies and want to just hire a photographer with proofs and then call a printer company and make our album ourselves. he thinks it will be cheaper cutting out the middleman. anyone else do this? is this REALLY possible? He is going to find out this week by calling printer companies. I just want to book and not worry about it. I said we can maybe make parent albums that way or something. I do not think we'll save much. the type of book we want is $800 and then for the day -1 photographer - would be total of $2500 and I think thats great! Cant get lower than that and this is NOT the vendor to go cheapo over. What do you all think?

HELP!

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My FH cousins mother is a graphic designer and she did the albums for her daughters wedding and they were amazing!! They were much nicer than any album I have seen from a photographer and much cheaper. FYI a lot of photographers format the pictures and actually send them out to a company to be printed and put in a book. You can defenitely save oney here. HTH

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Posted by FullersBride

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Posted by BunnyBears

We have been meeting with photographers. I like them all but my fiance is being such a pain. He really believes he, since he is a graphic designer is familiar with printing companies and want to just hire a photographer with proofs and then call a printer company and make our album ourselves. he thinks it will be cheaper cutting out the middleman. anyone else do this? is this REALLY possible? He is going to find out this week by calling printer companies. I just want to book and not worry about it. I said we can maybe make parent albums that way or something. I do not think we'll save much. the type of book we want is $800 and then for the day -1 photographer - would be total of $2500 and I think thats great! Cant get lower than that and this is NOT the vendor to go cheapo over. What do you all think?

HELP!

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My FH cousins mother is a graphic designer and she did the albums for her daughters wedding and they were amazing!! They were much nicer than any album I have seen from a photographer and much cheaper. FYI a lot of photographers format the pictures and actually send them out to a company to be printed and put in a book. You can defenitely save oney here. HTH

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I agree with this poster and if worse comes to worse, if you don't like what your DH does, you can most likely add on the album after the fact with your photographer or another. I believe Angelica Glass does album work, I would guess other photogs do too.

Thanks everyone- you are definitely making me feel better

Anyone else know about doing this?

I haven't done it yet, but that was my plan, to take my proofs and arrange them nicely through kodak gallery to make an album for me and for the parents and grand parents.

my brother is always making albums on there and they come out really nice.

DH and I just wanted to make sure we got quality pictures and then figure out later what to do with them and that's what we now have amazing pictures and we are taking out time doing stuff.

And you have really nice photos!! beautiful!! may i ask your photographer? (I am also going to FM you.)