Getting married is an exciting, chaotic, amazing time in life. After the wedding, it’s finally time to decompress and get back to “normal”, which for many couples means simultaneously finishing grad school, moving, starting a family, and managing the moms pestering you to “order your album already!!”
Some couples will be able to immediately zoom in on the cream of the crop pics, and order their album within a month of the wedding. Let me assure you, those couples are very rare! If you’re not one of them, try these editing tips. There are methods for the web-savvy, the analog, and the “all-of-the-above” among you!
It’s so much fun to relive the wedding and look through the photos right away, but lots of couples tell me that they struggle to narrow their images down to the essence of the wedding. It’s true that editing is the hardest part of album planning. Let’s face it: most of us are awful at looking at photos of ourselves objectively. I know I am! Your job is to do your best to pretend you’re not in the picture. Is it a good composition? Does it add to the story you’re telling? My job is to help you craft a beautiful book by doing as much or as little of the editing and design process as you want me to.
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