We carry a variety of products to give our clients a range of choices in materials, styles and pricing. We hope clients will make an appointment to look at albums in person; however, we realize that out-of-state couples might find it difficult to visit the studio. So, for them we've tried our best to illustrate the various options online.

We use the term "album" to describe products with thick, rigid, pages. We use "books" to describe products with thinner, flexible pages, such as a fine coffee table picture book from a bookstore.

Our albums and books fall loosely into two design styles, matted and magazine. With a matted album the album page is constructed from a solid mat board, and photos are mounted in openings cut into the mats.

With the magazine style, pictures are printed on the actual page just as they would be in a magazine. The magazine style allow the most creativity; we can add color, text and other graphic elements to the page.

All albums (except the Flush Mount album) include three rounds of revision at no extra charge. If you need more revision, extra rounds are available at an hourly rate. Images captured in color can be converted to black and white or sepia-toned. Many of our product lines also allow photos to be used on the cover. Click here to download a price list and here to download an album order/contract.

Our matted albums come from New Zealand album maker Queensberry & Co, which produces some of the finest albums available. Queensberry revolutionized the matted-album concept with fully customizable, cut-to-order mats.

Queensberry can cut whatever size, shape or arrangement of mat openings we can imagine, which means we can plan the page around the photos, instead of trying to fit photos into a limited number of mat options.

Queensberry matted albums come in traditional (single mat) and pagemount (double mat) styles. The album shown above is made in the pagemount (double mat) style with a white outer mat and a navy inner mat. Click here for a traditional (single mat) style Queensberry album from a recent Kittery, Maine wedding.

Whether single mat or pagemount, our matted albums are Queensberry's top-of-the-line library-bound "feature" albums. Clients can choose a cover from Queensberry's array of fine fabrics and rich leathers; a photo cover (left) is available as an upgrade. We offer 12x12 or 10x14 albums that start at 20 pages/60 images and a 9x9 album that starts at 30 pages/60 images. Additional pages can be added in pairs. Click here to see more photos of Queensberry matted albums.

A magazine-style album is designed much like a magazine; we start with blank pages and few restrictions. Not having to worry about fitting photos into mats gives us incredible design flexibility; we can run photos all the way to the edge of the page, across the center of the page, and we can add color, type and other graphic elements to the page. Click here to see a magazine-style album from a recent Southport Island /Boothbay Region wedding.

Magazine-style albums are available from many manufacturers. We choose to work with Miami-based Album Crafters because of their superior workmanship, wide range of options, affordability, outstanding customer service, and fast turnaround.

Album Crafters' magazine-style albums are made with real photographic paper. The entire page is output as a single photographic print, then Album Crafters mounts prints to rigid boards and binds the boards together to make the album. This yields thick pages like those used in a child's first picture book. Album Crafters offers leather, silk and full photo covers. Albumcrafters 10x14 albums start at 20 pages/60 images; additional pages can be added in pairs. Click here to see more photos of Album Crafters' magazine-style albums.

Visonart is a magazine style book. This means we use the magazine style to design the pages, but the pages are then assembled without thick mounting boards in between, resulting in a lighter-weight, thinner and--most important--more affordable product. Visionart pages are made with archival fine art paper using a printing process that yields rich colors. Pages are printed on one side only, then pages are affixed back to back. Visionart books feature photo covers, are roughly 8x10 and start at 30 pages/60 images; additional pages can be added in pairs. Click here to see more photos of Visionart magazine style books.

The most recent addition to our album line-up is our photo journal from Jonesbook. Jonesbook is a magazine style book, with thin pages like you might find in a fine coffee table picture book.

When we added Jonesbook to our line-up, every other product we carried started with roughly 60 images. Many couples found it challenging to narrow down their choices to 60 images when we had delivered roughly a thousand images from their wedding, so we looked for an album or book product that would allow couples use many more photos.

Jonesbook is a perfect fit for this need, so we introduced Jonesbook at 60 pages/100 images. Additional pages can be added in multiples of four.

With 60 pages to work with, not only can we use many more images than in our other products, but we also can run the individual pictures much larger than we do in any other products. Our typical Jonesbook photo journal will have four to six double-page spreads (a photo that completely fills two pages) and a dozen or more full-page photos. Our vision for the Jonesbook is to use photos as large as possible so that they can be enjoyed. On the other hand, our Jonesbook photo journals tend to not have colored pages or extensive graphic elements. Instead, the book is all about the pictures. Click here to see more photos of a photo journal from a recent Bar Harbor wedding.

The Flush Mount album is another product introduced to address a specific need. When we first began offering albums, we carried only Queensberry, which to this day is still our most expensive line. Parents often wanted albums of their own, and many were not content to get exact copies of the couple's album, but wanted us to design a unique album for them. Some parents were put off by the expense of commissioning their own Queensberry album and this is where the Flush Mount album came in.

Design time is the biggest single expense in making albums, so we thought if we could transfer design responsibilities to the client, that would drastically cut the expense. We created a selection of templates clients could use to design their own albums and introduced The Flush Mount album as a product with a do-it-yourself element.
A client creates the design for their Flush Mount album by picking from our menu of templates. We then take their design, tweak photos and assemble the album.

The Flush Mount album is also a good fit for intimate weddings or couples on a budget.

The Standard Flush Mount album has a black leather cover with a window that will accommodate a small photo. The Premium Flush Mount album also has the window, but the cover is padded and comes in a wide choice of colors.

Click here to access a gallery showing the exterior of the Standard (black) album, the choices for page templates, photo borders, photo choices (color, black & white, or sepia), and swatches for Premium covers. Click here to see a studio sample where we've tried to use a wide variety of templates and border options to demonstrate the variety possible.(Scroll down to see all page spreads, or click on thumbnails to see pages one at a time at actual size.)

If you choose to order a Flush Mount album, we send you an order sheet to help you plan your album. You will pick one template for each album page, then pick the pictures for each template space, the photo edges, and whether you want the photo in color, black and white or sepia. You turn in the design for the book, then we lay out the album design. We post the design online to let you make sure we're properly executed your instructions. When we get your okay, we digitally manipulate photos, print the pages and assemble the album

Standard 8x8 Flush Mount Albums are available in exactly 20, 30 or 40 pages.

Exact copies of any album or book are available at discounted prices. We can also make copies of some magazine style albums and books at reduced sizes or in a less expensive line. Also, because the magazine-style album is designed digitally, you can get copies of the album on CD to circulate to out-of-state relatives or friends, which avoids wear and tear on your actual book. If you are interested in copies--for yourself or for parents--please ask us about the options.