Coated

The same cloth, sealed. Fingerprints and spills wipe off. If the album is going to live on the coffee table where people actually pick it up, this is one of the more durable of the color options.

Coated Sprinkles

A metallic fleck woven through the color. From across the room, it reads as a solid color, but up close it catches the light.

Deep pile with a real nap, so the color shifts depending on which way you run your hand across it. Dramatic, and much better in person than on a screen.

Café Leather

Bonded leather with a top coat, in warm and familiar tones.

Eco Leather

Vegan, animal free, and quite soft. A good middle ground if you want the feel without the leather.

Premium Leather

Thick, smooth, and treated to resist stains.

Full Grain

Real, untreated leather with all of its natural grain. It builds a patina the way a good bag or a pair of boots does, and looks better in ten years than it does the day it arrives.

Rustic

A soft, open-textured leather that deepens as it is handled. The most lived-in-looking option here, and the one that feels the least “new.”

Nubuck

Brushed to a soft suede, then treated so water and stains bead up instead of soaking in.

Foil or blind. Blind means no color at all, just the impression pressed into the material, catching light instead of contrasting with it. It can go on the cover, the spine, or both.

This is the paper pasted inside the front and back cover. It’s a small detail, so yours can be plain, or printed with anything at all: a photograph, a newspaper, a design, a repeating pattern.

I include this as an option not because I want to overwhelm you, but because it’s another chance to make the album custom.

You’ll have every photo I would use to print from, but files wait for you to do something with them, and most of us never quite get to it.

The album is that part done with you. I design it, you tell me what to change, and it arrives finished. The bindery guarantees it for life against any fault in the paper, ink, or binding.

It’s also the only way to get the whole range: every cloth, every leather, every color, a debossed design of your own, endpapers printed with anything you like. The album you can order yourself through your gallery is a much smaller set of choices, with far less say over how the pages are laid out.

If you select 40 of your favorites, I’ll do the rest.

The album holds roughly 80-120 images across 30 spreads. If you’re struggling to select favorites, focus on three to five family photos, any moments you’re drawn to, and your favorite portraits.

I do recommend wrapping up the design and printing it within the first year, so you can have it for your first anniversary, but that said, drafts are kept for up to five years.

Say the word and I’ll use my favorites, which are already marked in your gallery if you want to see them first.

Most couples change a few after they see the draft, which is much easier than starting from nothing.

Also, if you just have questions or want to chat about it, email me at info@nessakphotography.com and I am happy to talk through options: covers, sizes, or anything else you may have questions about.

Yes to both.

One 4″×2″ debossed stamp is included, in any color and anywhere on your album.

Additional stamps are $100 each. If you have several designs, they can be different colors and sit in different places, as well.

Most couples already have a logo: a monogram, a crest, the typography from their invitation suite. Send it over and I will match it. If you would rather have something drawn, I’m also an illustrator.

I’m happy to illustrate something for you. It could be the venue as an outline, your pet, a flower, or the tree you were married under. I would do almost anything to avoid seeing something like generic clip art on something so personal.

I upload the draft to an online platform where you leave comments right on the pages. Change as much as you want, twice, for a total of three album drafts. The album is designed with your favorites, but I can add in photos to help tell the narrative of the day or create designs.

Album changes after the two rounds are $100 per draft of unlimited changes; however, I have never had to charge it.

Three to four weeks.

After the final draft is approved, I’ll look everything over to make sure it’s print-ready, then send it to my art book makers.

My handmade albums take three weeks for production. When it’s ready, I’ll send you the tracking information for your insured album to ensure it makes it safely into your hands.

• Extra spreads beyond 30 are $100 each, up to a maximum of 50 spreads.
• Additional deboss stamps are $100 each.
• A slipcase is $250.
• Album changes in the standard revision process are $100 per draft (however, I’ve never charged this)
• Duplicate albums printed at the same time are $800 for parents.

Everything else is included in the $1,400.

I offer parent albums for $800 so they can have a copy to have, too. Parent albums are discounted duplicates of your album.

Most couples receive album credit when they book. The purchase of an album will immediately use the credit, and any additional money is due at the time of purchase.

Anything added later is due when the album is finalized, before it goes to print.