parent albums

[sean_morrison44]

what are your thoughts on them?
examples-
do you believe these are a necessity to be included in your photograph package?
do you think parents are already expecting you to have them included?

 

[diamondfan]

I think, if your folks are paying for the photos, they can decide to have one. I got married young and my mom paid for the whole wedding, so I left it up to her. If you are paying, they are costly sometimes, so I would really think it depends on your budget. Sometimes parents are dying to have them, other times, a few of the best photos in frames are enough for them...really depends on the parents. (I know this isn''t ultra helpful but...)

 

[ponderer]

Sean,

If your parents are paying, let them decide. But if you get it for one side make sure you get it for the other, so that no feelings are hurt.

If you are paying for the photographer yourself, it is not necessary, but a very nice gesture.

We payed for the photograher and decided to get parents albums as gifts for our parents. My mother and mother-in-law were delighted. There was nothing they wanted more, especially because they were able to customize their own albums.

 

[larussel03]

I think it depends on who''s paying. If your parents are paying then they will make the decision, but if you are paying, I would see how much it costs, see if you can budget it in and if not, just tell each set of parents how much the parents'' albums will cost and ask if they want an album or to buy pictures themselves. One set may want an album while one may want some prints instead.

 

[appletini]

My photographer gave me all the jpgs on cd and I have the all the rights. I plan on making them a smaller album on shutterfly or kodak gallery for Christmas.

 

[sean_morrison44]

thanks for your opinions.

well my parents have more money then her parents..so my mom said she would pay for a lot of stuff. but i think photos she was leaving up to us. her parents just got a little bit of money..so they said they would pay the advance deposit to hold the date.

pretty much..i was liking this one photographer for his work, and because had smaller budget packages too, and we were both agreed that our familys had dig cameras, so we wouldnt need to many professinal photgraphs for the reception. one package was for 4 hours for like 1500ish, but then he has a package for 5 1/2 hours with 2 parent albums and reg.album for us for between 1900-2000. pretty much since her mom saw that package with parent albums, it seems not having parent albums wont be acceptable.

since our wedding and reception is at the same spot..in my opinion i think the photgraphs are going to end up getting repetitive. the photographer said he strictly at the spot when i brough up going to other spots in town for a couple shots (thou might have been a bit misunderstand what i was saying). he was talking about a differetn day for that (which would prolly be another payment)
we saw another photographer (Stenzal) that had a 3 hour package for 1000 or 7 hour package for 2200. these dont include parent albums.(they''d be 300 each to add). this photographer said she knew a couple close by great spots to take pictures if we wanted which would give a change of scenery etc.

i dont know, tough for me to choose. i mean part of me feels like if i''m gonna spend 2000 dollars i would want the couple shots in anotehr pretty scenory location.
(our weddings in the outskirts of Big Sky, Mt. and there plenty of mountains/rivers to get good shots)

thou on the other hand, the first one (bruce pitcher) has his wife taking pictures too, so she get close up shots while he''s getting far away shots-so its like getting 2 people for 1 payment.

i went with her mom to meet bruce (she had to work so couldnt make). while we were there, bruce said to avoid a noonish wedding because of the light with the sun being directly overhead, and to avoid certain color tuxs if you want better quality photos.
the stenzal lady (whom my fi did go with me to see yesterday) didnt say to avoid a time for wedding because of light of sun overhead-thou she did talk about avoiding the heat of the day so dont get so sweaty etc, and then using cloud cover for shots, and shady spots from trees etc.


so my fi wanted bruce because she didnt say to avoid the sun overhead and certain color tuxs

so all in all, I dont know what to do. ahhhhh to decisions.

well, in the meantime gonna call back bruce and ask if we pick out a spot beforehadn close by, if we could get a shot there before the wedding started.

 

[ponderer]

Sean,

For my wedding my DH and I paid for my dress, our rings and the photographer (parents paid the rest). I shopped around and interviewed about 50 photographers

. I came to the realization that in general most of their photographs were basically the same (except for the guy who used to work for National Geographic, but he was out of our budget).

I realized that because there were not vast differences in the photos that the next two important things to consider were what you get for the price and the personality of your photographer.

You need to like the person who will be spending the most wonderful day of your life 10 feet away from your face. There were moments when I felt like I was spending more time with my photographer than with my husband. Good thing we got along famously.

Also, I was interested in getting the most bang for my buck. My photographers package deal included bridal portrait, engagement portrait, 7 hours of wedding day coverage, wedding album, and 2 parents albums for $1800. I was very pleased.

At one point I thought abought skimping on the photographer, but my mother in law pointed out that why would I spend all this money on a wedding and not have something beautiful to remember it.

Also, we had disposable cameras on the tables and many friends gave us digital pictures that they took, but they were nowhere as good as our photographers. You wouldn''t believe the things people did not take pictures of because they thought that everyone else woud be taking pictures.

 

[jcrow]

Date: 8/2/2006 10:52:39 AM
Author: appletini
My photographer gave me all the jpgs on cd and I have the all the rights. I plan on making them a smaller album on shutterfly or kodak gallery for Christmas.

oh! that''s a fab idea!! i''ll store that thought away till after the wedding!

 

[diamondlove]

My Publisher is also a great site to make your own albums.


http://www.mypublisher.com/default.php

 

[oshinbreez]

Hi Sean.

Speaking as a mom of 2. When my kids got married (daughter- 6 yrs ago, son-2 yrs ago) each gave me tons of snapshots, that I have in albums, and a few framed pics. That was plenty for me. The albums I have, I don''t look at very often at all, so in my case, I feel like it would have been a waste of money.

 

[monarch64]

My parents just went through our proofs and chose the photos they wanted...we had a "parent album" option but decided to let both sets of parents figure out which pics they really wanted and they also paid for them since we paid for all the photography fees and our own album and other photos.

 

[flopkins]

I am putting together my own parent albums - we got all the high resolution digital pics from our photog... prolly I will do it thru mypublisher or some such thing. the parent albums from our photog are just too freaking expensive!!!

 

[larussel03]

since I've just found my photographer, here's a word of advice--try to bargain out at least one free parents' album--we're having 6hrs coverage, buying one bridal album and one parents' album, and are getting a free parents' album as well as 300-400 4x6 proofs for 2500.00! Seeing as how bridal albums are 700-1700, depending, and parents are 300-500 (in my area) we made out really well! My parents are paying for the photographer, so getting a free album makes it easier for us to not ask the FILs for money for theirs, or to pay for their own.

ETA: If we didnt get this deal I'd have just made them though.