engagement & wedding shutterfly books

sooooo i have been known a time or TWO to make ian a picture book. perhaps for our anniversaries. i plan to keep this tradition alive each year by making a yearbook of sorts. it is fun to look through our old ones to see how we have changed. i often take wayyyy too many photos. it's kind of like "my thing." my friends and family hate it but also love it. because i usually come up with some gems. for both of those i used a program called photobook designer - shout out from groupon.

so naturally i wanted to make books to commemorate both our engagement & wedding. it makes selecting pictures to frame in the house much less stressful because we have all the beautiful pictures printed out to tell a beautiful story.  so we are thinking of going minimal in printed and hung pictures so we can do more "artwork" pieces. i used shutterfly for these two books, using a story book feature. it was a slight upgrade but totally worth it. i may have taken forever and obssessed over page layouts and design. but that is all up to you. they have pre-set styles for the less savy brides / bride-to-bes.

we got each book on sale. the engagement book was 45. and the wedding book was 55. and totally worth every penny!

here are some views of our books. they are hard cover with a glossy finish.

Engagement Front Cover:

Sample page:

Wedding Cover:

Sample Pages: