The album that came home.
A printed album lets you hold your photographs, pass them around, and preserve them for the next generation. No technology needed to look at them.
A few years ago I was asked to restore a wedding album for a sweet couple in their seventies, still very much in love, who had been married fifty years.
The album had lived on a shelf for half a century — taken down, passed around, looked at by children and grandchildren so many times that it had completely fallen apart. Some pages had quietly disappeared over the years, taken by their kids as keepsakes. The couple had to put out an amnesty to get them back.
I retouched every photograph, rebuilt the album, and handed it back. He picked it up carefully, held it for a moment, and looked up with a tear in his eye and a wobble in his voice. Fifty years of marriage, and his wedding day was whole again.
You won't look at your wedding album every day. That's not what it's for. It'll sit on your shelf, and life will carry on around it. But there'll be moments — an anniversary, a difficult day, a quiet Sunday — when you'll reach for it. When you want to remember what that day felt like. When you want to show your kids the people who were there. When someone who was in those photographs is no longer with you.
That's what a wedding album is. A family archive. Something that gets passed down, not deleted. An heirloom that holds your day safe for the people who come after you.
Three sizes, all handcrafted in Italy.
Each album personalised with your names or a monogram, laser-etched on the cover. Choose your material, choose your colour, and we'll send everything off to Italy for print and bind.
Small Storybook
A beautifully compact album personalised with your names or initials on the cover. Choice of black leatherette or pearl linen. Comes in a matching keepsake box.
Large Storybook
Our most popular album. Genuine leather cover with laser etched names or monogram, printed on HD photographic paper. Comes in a bespoke matching box with a full-sized feature image inside the lid. A proper heirloom.
Coffee Table Book
For couples who want to include as much of their day as possible. Thinner pages mean more of them — up to 250 photographs printed on lightly textured Tintoretto paper. Choice of velvet, suede or linen covers with custom laser etching. Comes in a beautiful slipcase.
From your gallery to your bookshelf.
A simple, collaborative process. Five steps, two rounds of revisions if you need them, and a finished heirloom that arrives ready to live on your shelf.
Choose your favourites
Browse your online gallery and use the share function to send me your selections. I'll give you guidance on how many to pick for your album size.
I build the first draft
I'll put together the initial layout and a mock up of what I think are the best cover colour and material combinations for your day.
Revisions if you need them
Most couples go straight to print. If you'd like changes — swapping photos, adjusting the order — you have two rounds of revisions.
Finalise the details
Once you're happy with the layout, we confirm your cover material, colour, and personalisation — names, initials, or a monogram.
Off to Italy
Your album goes to print with our Italian makers. When it arrives, it's ready to live on your shelf.