Wedding Album Design From Your Existing Photos
Already have your wedding photographs but never had an album made?
Send me your gallery link or digital files. I'll sequence the photographs, professionally design your album, send you a complete digital proof and arrange the printing and binding.
You'll see and approve your complete album design before anything goes to print.
- Photographs from any photographer, any year
- Professionally designed, hand-made in Italy
- The balance is only due once you've approved the design
You send the photographs. I do everything else.
Ian Bursill, 30+ years in print, design and wedding photography
Wedding albums from £299
Most couples spend £600–£900
Free advice, a personalised quote and free sample spreads. No obligation.
5.0 from 17 Google reviews
Meet the person who'll design your album.
A minute and a half on how it works, and a look inside a finished album.
From hundreds of files to a book you can hold.
A gallery link is not an album. I delivered 548 photographs from this wedding; these are the ones the couple chose for their album, sequenced, designed and printed.
Albums people still reach for, years later.
"The care that went into the album itself is clear on every page. The photographs are ordered beautifully, so the story of our wedding day unfolds naturally as you turn each page. The lighting and shading have been carefully adjusted so the images blend seamlessly together. The finished album feels so elegant, considered and completely personal to us."
"We love our photo album. Now 13 years later, and with two children, it's great to sit with them and go through it — a treasured keepsake we will always be grateful for."
"We adore and cherish our album — it's regularly pulled out, and even though the day was 11 years ago, it's instantly brought alive again, as if we were there doing it all again."
"You created more than a documentary of the day. You created a moment in time that will never be forgotten."
"We love our album and we are really pleased we had one — it's beautiful!"
"We love our album and have our favourite shot from you hanging in our living room, 13 years (and two kids) later."
"Our album sits proudly on our bookshelf, and this canvas sits perfectly above our bed, where our two-and-a-half-year-old points out all his favourite people!"
"We absolutely love our album, it is perfect and everything we ever dreamed it would be, thank you so much for capturing our very special day so beautifully, we certainly chose well with you, you were definitely the best guy to capture our day."
You don't need to choose an album before you talk to me.
Tell me about your photographs, your preferences and your budget, and I'll recommend the size, paper and binding that fits. As a guide, here's what three of my most popular wedding albums cost.
Go Book
Lay-flat · 30×30 cm
| Pages | Photographs | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | about 70 | £299 |
| 40 | about 140 | £403 |
| 60 | about 210 | £507 |
| 80 | about 280 | £611 |
Without the GoBox.
Original Wedding Book
Flush-mount, hand-made in Italy · 30×30 cm
| Pages | Photographs | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | about 70 | £574 |
| 40 | about 140 | £713 |
| 60 | about 210 | £852 |
| 80 | about 280 | £991 |
| 100 | about 350 | £1,130 |
Includes a free white cardboard presentation box (not the box pictured).
Primo Book
Generous page counts, thinner pages · 35×25 cm
| Pages | Photographs | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | about 250 | £409 |
| 200 | about 500 | £689 |
| 300 | about 750 | £969 |
Without the Design Box.
Prices include design, proofing and two rounds of amends. Other sizes, covers and boxes are quoted to you.
Wedding albums from £299.
Most couples spend £600–£900 once size, page count and cover are chosen.
What moves the price: page count is the biggest lever, then construction (a hand-made flush-mount album costs more than a lay-flat one), then cover material, any presentation box, and any customisation of the cover or box. Your quote itemises the album, the design work and delivery, so nothing is hidden inside a single number.
Why Bursill Albums
Eight hundred photographs is an archive; sixty in a considered order is a story with a beginning, a middle and an ending.
I spent around ten years in print production and pre-press, then four years running a design studio, before twenty years as a documentary wedding photographer: more than 450 weddings, WPJA UK Photographer of the Year in 2009, and ranked among the world's top three documentary wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalist Association.
That experience is what goes into the design. I know which frames are load-bearing and which are filler, where a wide quiet moment needs to sit so the busy pages either side of it work, and how to prepare every file for the paper and press it's going onto, because there is no second attempt.
This isn't a photo-book website where you lay out every page yourself, and it isn't a faceless print shop. One person, with over thirty years' experience, doing the job properly.
Get your free album recommendation and quote
It takes 30 seconds. Your name and email are all I need.
- 1I reply personally, usually the same day.
- 2If you'd like, I design two or three free sample spreads from your photographs.
- 3You get my recommendation and a clear, itemised price.
Common questions
Can you use photographs taken by another photographer?
Yes. Most of my album work is for people whose photographs were taken by somebody else. It's worth checking the contract you signed with your photographer; I have yet to see one that forbids printing your own photographs for personal use, but it's a two-minute check.
Can you use JPEG or digital files?
Yes, and that's the most common starting point. A gallery link, a download folder or a memory stick is all I need. RAW files are also welcome, though processing them is additional work and is quoted separately.
What if my wedding was years ago?
There's no expiry date on a wedding album. I regularly design albums for weddings that took place years, sometimes decades, ago — old drives, dead cloud accounts and photographs that have simply waited are the normal starting point, not an obstacle.
Do I have to choose all the photographs myself?
No. If you'd rather not choose, I can make the selection for you as a separate, optional service at £25 an hour. I work through your photographs in three passes: first losing the technically imperfect shots and the blinks, then tightening the story, then one final pass to tighten it right down. As a guide, that's around four hours for 250 photographs, six for 500, eight for 750 and ten for 1,000. Either way, we talk first about which photographs mean the most to you, and which you'd rather never see again.
Can I make changes to the design?
Yes. Two rounds of amends are included in the price, which is comfortably enough for most albums — different photographs, a new sequence, layout adjustments, cover material. Further rounds after that are chargeable.
Do I see the album before it's printed?
Always. You receive a digital proof of every spread, viewed online, and nothing goes to the press until you've approved it.
Can I see a sample before I commit?
Yes. Send me a dozen photographs from one part of the day, such as getting ready, the ceremony or the speeches, and I'll design two or three sample spreads, free and with no obligation. I'll email you a link to view them online, so I just need your email address.
Can you work with an online wedding gallery?
Yes — a gallery link is the most common way people send me their photographs. Send it across along with roughly how many photographs you have, and I'll take it from there.
How long does the process take?
Six to eight weeks is typical: around two weeks to design and proof, then four to six weeks with the maker in Italy. UK-made soft back books are quicker, around three to four weeks in total. If you have a date, tell me at the start and I'll work backwards from it.