Products

Here’s a brief overview of the various products I provide.

Online Proofing

All your photographs will be available online for you to view in the convenience of your home (or honeymoon hotel room!).

Online Ordering

The online site you’ll use to proof your photos will also serve as your online “store” to order prints. Pictage is my premiere partner for handling every aspect of your order fulfillment. Your family and friends will be provided with a password to view the photos for themselves.

Hand-crafted Wedding Albums

I currently offer albums with two distinct page styles: flush-mount and matted.

The Matted album employs a traditional style that is most likely what comes to mind when you think “wedding album.� Each page has physical window openings in which your photographs are mounted. The matting is made from fine-art paper that is hand-torn to create deckle edge pages, and each page is separated by a thin piece of vellum to protect the photos. The entire album is enveloped by Japanese bookbinding fabric, and bound with exquisite ribbon from Switzerland.

Flush-mount albums employ a contemporary style that doesn’t involve loose prints. Instead, each page is custom designed by Justin Hankins in a storybook layout. (This is sometimes called “magazine style.�) The images are crafted directly into the durable, hard-backed pages. This means you can run your fingers over the page without noticing any textures.

Whether you choose flush-mount or matted pages, your album will be bound in a timeless, hand-crafted cover of your choice.

Clone Albums

Clone albums (duplicate albums of the same design) may be ordered at the same time your final album is being produced for a reduced rate. This is a great time to order smaller versions of your wedding album to hand out as gifts to your parents or bridesmaids.

Custom Guest Books

A fantastic opportunity to display your engagement photographs, the custom guestbook is designed like a mini wedding album in which your guests can sign their names and share their regards. The guestbook consists of 10 pages (20 sides) of photographs. For up to half of these pages, I drop the opacity on the images to facilitate writing. These pages are essentially blank, writable pages with light “watermarksâ€? of your photographs. Finally, the guestbook is bound within a hard cover that is wrapped with a photograph of you. (Hopefully your guests won’t draw devil horns or mustaches on your face!)

Coffee Table Books

Coffee table books are designed similar to guestbooks; however, they are not designed to be writable. These books are printed on heavyweight paper with deckle edges and bound with a double reinforced, sewn binding. Several cover options are available from leather to photo hardcover.

Prints

Your very own 1st edition prints will be presented shortly after you order them online. You’ll have every customization opportunity available to you: choice of photographic paper, choice of final paper finish, custom cropping options, print sizes up the wazoo, several different border choices, as well as mounting options. Instead of specifying how many different sizes you can purchase, each of my packages includes a credit towards the purchase of final prints - whichever sizes you’d like.

Thank-You Notecards

Every couple receives a set of custom thank-you notecards (and envelopes!) to send to family and friends. Each card has a photograph from your wedding or engagement session on the front.

Event Cards

I provide all couples with small event cards to be distributed to guests before the wedding (or on the wedding day, itself). These cards contain all the necessary information to enable your guests to register for online viewing of your photographs. Each card features a small photograph (usually one from your engagement session), and is printed on quality Lustre photographic paper. The cards measure 2½ by 3½ in size, perfect to include with your wedding invitations or to place at the tables of the reception.

Frames

Perfect photographs look better in the perfect frames. From my experience traveling around selling my fine art photos to customers, I have a number of reputable framing vendors at my service to help make your photographs even better.

Slideshow DVDs

You’ve seen ‘em. They make you cry every time. Slideshow DVDs are wonderful gift ideas,. (And they’re nice to have around on those rainy days after you’ve finished watching everything on TiVo.)