A belated Happy New Year!

In my previous post, I included some pictures of Beth and Ed’s beautiful Queensberry wedding album that arrived on my doorstep a few days before Christmas day and which I was able to deliver to her mother’s house so that Ed could present it to Beth on Christmas morning.

And brilliantly Ed took this snap of Beth’s anticipation and excitement upon being presented with it:

and then a day later, I received this from Beth:

We absolutely LOVE the album and it was so special to receive it as a surprise on Christmas Day! Having got engaged and married here in Sudbourne this year, it wrapped up 2011 brilliantly.

You have created a family heirloom and something of which we are both immensely proud.  I can promise you it will bring us, as well our friends and families, many many years of happiness whilst turning the pages and reminiscing (and no doubt smiling and giggling at the fun and frolics!). As well as a set of fantastic images, you have told the story of our day fantastically well as well as capturing those special moments - so much so I want to do it all again!

We knew from the start that we wanted an album and now I know we absolutely made the right decision.

Thank you for your hours of hard work and patience with us - I hope you are even half as pleased as we are!

Beth

To see images of the album itself, please scroll down to the previous post.

I photographed Beth and Ed’s wonderful country wedding in Sudbourne and Orford in Suffolk back in September this year which was blessed with indian summer weather and packed with beauty, character, humour and emotion. Beth’s wedding speech thanking her mother for her upbringing was one that will stay with me for a long while.. straight from the heart and expressing that deep love and respect that can exist between daughter and mother.

Beth and Ed chose a 17 page (100 images) Queensberry album as part of their wedding package,  and since their day, I have been working with them both,  and the  team of experts at Queensberry,  to produce this story of their wedding day within the pages of this stunning heirloom.

Queensberry albums are the rolls royce of wedding albums. All are bespoke printed and crafted with incredible attention to detail and using the best quality materials. From the initial design through to the binding and finishing, they are a labour of love. There really could not be a more beautiful nor satisfying end result for your wedding photography.

I told Beth and Ed that because Queensberry will never rush any job but only release an album from their headquarters in New Zealand when it is 100% perfect, that their wedding album was unlikely to be with us before Christmas. But last week it arrived on my doorstep and I immediately  hatched a plan (with Ed) to take it to Beth’s mother’s house in Sudbourne where I knew they were gathering on Christmas eve so that Ed could give it to Beth as a surprise on Christmas day.

The story of this album is so lovely I will blog it over two posts. But first up here are some images of their album which I managed to snap in the chaos of orders and deliveries and preparations that were my pre-Christmas days, before delivering it to Beth’s mother in Sudbourne on Christmas eve morning.

Beth and Ed chose a microleather embossed cover for their album in Shadow:

The album has 17 pages 34 sides and 100 images so it has a really substantial feel to it as well as a comprehensive coverage of the visual story of their day:

and these pictures I hope show just how beautiful the construction is of these albums - designed and built to last for future generations:

Beth and Ed chose white metal edges to protect the corners of their album. There is an option to omit these if you prefer:

The pagemount border inside the album is grey and the mats (wonderfully thick luxurious boarded pages) are ivory

the black and white images look fantastic against the silvery grey border and the colour ones - many of which are on a blue/ivory theme - are perfectly set off

This image shows just how accurately each photographic print is positioned and fixed to the border:

Whichever way you position the album, everything is perfectly aligned in the construction: