It’s a 60 side 11×14 matted Album, which is nice to show because it’s something a bit different!  In a matted Album, instead of the images being printed on one solid sheet, they are printed and placed individually, with a matte around them.  It doesn’t get more traditional than this for a Wedding Album!  However, even with the tradition of the mattes, we were still able to make it solidly ours by custom designing the mattes.

This is how matted Albums have been brought into the 21st century – with cutting edge digital technology that allows us to design on our computer here an Album that we want, and having it laser cut and assembled in New Zealand.  I love that these aren’t templates we had to somehow squish the images into.  I love that it was 100% us, whatever we wanted to do, and it would be cut then for us on the other side of the planet.  I don’t care who you are, that’s just cool!

Barbara is such a sweetheart, that she got a flushmount copy of her Album for Aaron’s grandmother!

And here is how the final design came together:

We wanted to continue the Red theme from the wedding day, and we were able to perfectly match Sophie’s red sash and shoes to a leather I carry called [appropriately] Scarlett O’Hara.  How perfect is that?!

Sophie’s Album features 161 images on 80 sides in an 11×14″ Horizontal Album.

The red leather covers the spine and back cover, but the front cover is part of the ARMOUR series, a picture printed onto a metal cover.  It looked exquisite!  I have no idea how the process works for printing onto metal [but if I did do you think i would be foolish enough to spill my secrets?!]

And now here are my favorite spreads from this gorgeous Album!

Of the hundreds of wedding photographers in Utah, and from the thousands of weddings that were photographed, the editors of Utah Bride & Groom magazine select just 6 to showcase in their magazine each year. This is the fourth year that Pepper Nix Photography has been selected to be featured, and we would like to say to the editors of Utah Bride and Groom, thank you – clearly, you are brilliant, and you have excellent taste!

I have been waiting to show you this wedding ever since I learned that it had been selected to be featured, and I just got the PDFs this week from the editor to share the full article with you!  [The PDfs from Utah Bride and Groom are SO much better then the scans from my scanner...]

This great article [spread over 6 pages!] told in great detail of Sophie & Aaron’s courtship, wedding plans, and finally, the execution of their Wedding Day.

It was a fabulous article, but of course, there are limitations with printing and page space [honestly I could have filled an entire magazine with pictures from this weekend!], so here for you now are my favorites from their Wedding Day!

Meanwhile, while Sophie gets ready witht he bridesmaids, our Groom has been busy as well!

I love this!  What should be a tender moment of a mother preparing her son for his wedding day, and Aaron is making faces and patting her on the head!!!  Of course, this fits his personality.  And it’s not like Barbara was expecting anything different, she raised these twins from birth, she knows all the antics they get up to.  Barbara later told me this was one of her favorite pictures…

Andrew again, just being Andrew…  [Tip:  To tell the twins apart, check their faces.  Aaron wears glasses.  Andrew has contacts.]

A few of the wedding guests finish skiing for the day and pop in the brides suite for some drinks and to get ready!  [Eventually, maybe just one more glass...]

And it’s time to go meet Aaron for some pre-wedding pictures at Empire Canyon Lodge!!!

Action sequence!!!

Aaron and Sophie, thank you for such an amazing day!  I am so grateful we got those pictures beforehand, the weather was perfect for a beautiful March wedding in Park City!  Tomorrow, more Sophie & Aaron!  [I didn't think it was possible, but it gets even better!]

Each and every Monday I present another Album for you to view, ooh and ahh over.  All of these Albums are actual albums ordered by real brides who had real weddings which I really did photograph.  I will show you the Album in great detail, tell you all of the specifications, and then after I present what it looks like on the outside, I’ll let you take a peek at the guts of the book, and you’ll see the final design.

Why Album Monday?  Well, here’s the deal.  I think it’s easier to decide if you like something if you can see it.  Sample Albums in my studio are nice, but here are the numbers.  I work with 3 different Album Companies.  Each one of those companies offers a completely different selection of covers and options, about 80 apiece.  So we are looking at 240 cover options right there, and that doesn’t include anything like slipcases or accent panels.  Factoring those in, we have over 19,000 different options to choose from.  I love my studio, but I do not have room for 19,ooo sample albums.  I just don’t.  So the purpose of Album Monday is for my brides to see what is new, what is current, what Album I got in last week, and what other brides are doing.  Get ideas, get inspired, and have fun in picking what you want your family Heirloom to look like!

Today’s Book is completely custom, and I do mean completely!  Karen picked out the elements of 5 different Books that she liked, and we combined them into something truly spectacular!  This is a 200 side 8×8 Wedding Book, holding 300 images excatly.  The style is called Paris, but we upgraded the material to the Italian Dark Woven Leather.  We added a picture to the front cover, and also a slipcase, also in the Italian Dark Woven Leather.  Instead of the silver end sheets, we had custom color printed end sheets, and a different one for the front of the Book than for the back of the Book.  Enjoy!

The custom front end sheet

The custom rear end sheet

And here are a few of my favorite spreads from the design!  Karen and Roger wanted to also include pictures from the bridal and engagement sessions as well, altogether in 1 volume.

Thank you for joining us on this, our 37th installment of Album Monday!  Join us next week for Part 38 on, you guessed it – Monday!

In addition to having a fun shooting week, it is also tax time. I am very pleased to say that I am now DONE with my taxes!!! But it did mean that I spent about 20 hours this week going through things with my bookkeeper and explaining things and pouring over bank statements. Moving forward we won’t have to do that anymore, which is awesome, but it did mean that all of my sweet blog posts I had planned for last week didn’t get posted!!

So, to make up for it, a guaranteed full week of posts! You get a blog post! You get a blog post! Everybody gets a blog post! Technically it’ll be 8 posts in a row, counting Monday the 19th too! So enough with the apologies, you know I still love ya, and let’s take a look at today’s Album Monday column!

I would SO love to show you a few shots from today, but she’s not getting married for a few months, and you know, the groom might just stumble onto my blog. Hey, it could happen! Regardless, you’ll still have to wait. Besides, it’s Monday silly! And everyone knows that on Monday, you don’t show brides in dresses, you show Albums!!!

Here it is: Part II of Casey & Peter’s Album set! I mentioned before that they let each of their four children pick a color for the album, and the Wedding Album was chosen by the girls, Lilly and Delia, who went with a sunshine yellow leather for the Main, and a baby boy blue for the vertical accent panel. To match the family album we had another 3 B&W images on the cover, but we put them in a slightly different configuration. This 84 side Wedding Album holds 168 images.

OK, so check out this album I’ve got for you! Casey and Peter each brought two beautiful children into their marriage, and they decided to get an Album of the Wedding Day and a separate Album of the engagement/family session we did a few days before the wedding.

When it came time to pick out the colors for these 2 Albums, they had the fun idea of letting each child choose their favorite color out of all of my 87 leather swatches! I believe these colors were selected by the 2 boys, Owen and Jimmy. This Album has 3 square B&W images, as well as a vertical panel.

And here are a few of my favorite spreads!

Stay tuned, the wedding album is next monday!

I was just reminded that it’s Monday. Shannon reminded me – she’s a self-proclaimed blog stalker who lurks but doesn’t post, and I told her I was gonna call her out publicly! I know you stalkers must be out there. I’ve got the handy dandy Google software that lets me know we’re getting a couple hundred unique people every single day, but everyone is too chicken to leave a comment. So I just wanted to let everyone out there know the truth about me. I’m not scary. I don’t bite. And if you leave me a comment or question I will answer it as quickly as I’m able! OK, enough about that, all you lurkers are on alert to participate in the conversation, and now on to the Album!

This is a 102 side Album holding just over 200 images from Jennifer & Lucas’s wedding day at Wilson Creek Winery in Orange County! The cover is called Bomber Jacket, and they opted to go with 1 4×4″ photograph on the front.

OK, this one shows more of the coffee table than the actual album, but I had to show it, I love my coffee table!!!

And now here they are, my favorite spreads from the Album Design!

I always find it so interesting to see what I choose for my blog post vs. what the couple chooses for their wedding Album. I think there’s about a 50% overlap, about half the images I fall in love with get picked for the album. I think that only goes to show how different people become emotionally attached to different images. When I look at a picture, I’m only think of the aesthetic qualities and how the emotional content appeals to a complete stranger, but of course the bride looks at the images and they’re people that she knows and loves, which brings a whole different element into how she personally reads the emotional content. Anyway, just thinking out loud, I’ve got some fun posts I’m working on this week that I think you’ll love, and don’t forget to take a minute today to go outside and breathe in the spring air!

Love, Pepper

]]> http://www.peppernix.com/journal/2010/03/22/wilson-creek-winery-jennifer-lucass-wedding-album/feed/ 9 http://www.peppernix.com/journal/2010/03/15/pink-leather-guest-sign-in-book-nancy-will-album-monday/ http://www.peppernix.com/journal/2010/03/15/pink-leather-guest-sign-in-book-nancy-will-album-monday/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:16:11 +0000 Pepper http://www.peppernix.com/journal/2010/03/23/pink-leahter-guest-sign-in-book-nancy-will-album-monday/ I had intended to write a big blog post on Saturday all about how spring had finally arrived and that I was wearing shorts and goodbye winter. Fun! I had a client consultation that morning up in Park City, and when I left it was sunny and warm and gorgeous, and I was excited to head back and get in a run! My very first run of the year OUTDOORS. See, I’m training for a triathlon. Anyway, midway to SLC, the sun…

disappears. No worries though, I don’t need sunny sunlight to exercise. But by the time I got back to my home, it was a full-blown storm. And it seems a bit unfair. Because I’ve been so excited to be holed up in my toasty warm home and drink cocoa for a few months now, and we’ve hardly had any snow. So for me to almost publicly declare it to be SPRINGTIME and get weather like this? So totally uncool. But, speaking of cool [hey did you like my awesome segue?] check out this cute engagement album we did for Nancy & Will’s Wedding Reception!  It’s pale peachy-pink leather, 20 sides, with plenty of room for guests to write their best wishes and congratulations to the couple!  I think it’s totally adorable. 

First I have to tell you about a mistake a made.  A pretty big one in fact.

I woke up on Sunday morning with a massive headache and a severe sore throat.  I woke up and took the strongest meds I could find, some Tylenol that I had to get a few months ago from the Pharmacist personally, they wouldn’t sell it over the counter.  So I pop these pills and set to the task of making sure I’m all packed up and evrything is in order for the trip.  As the hours progress, I am getting much worse.  Not only are my symptons still there, but now I am getting very sluggish and having trouble thinking straight.  Not a good thing when you’re trying to pack.  As we had finished packaing the car, I ran back inside and grabbed the nighttime Tylenol as well.  But the only box I could find was daytime…  Hmm…..  Unless… OMG.

I had taken the nighttime Tylenol by mistake!!!!  I spent the next 12 hours falling asleep everywhere, on the way to the airport, on the plane, in the taxi to the hotel, at the hotel, AND at dinner.  And then, at 10:00 pm, I woke up!

We went to two awesome parties, the first one was broken up by hotel security when we arrived, [nothing bad - too many people is against the fire code] so then we headed to the GoBee party and had the perfect evening with a few hundred of our closest friends!  Sara & Lauren, seriously, it was an incredible party, the best yet!  My husband had his birthday, and it was great having everyone at the Swanky Soiree sing to him as well as taking us out until the wee hours of the morning!

I spoke today on the convention floor in the SmugMug booth about my Wedding Albums, and since it’s Album Monday we’ve got another gorgeous book for you to feast your eyes on!  Sarah went with a full copper Cu29 album with an Armour cover.  We tinted the cover image to perfectly match the coppery sheen of the spine and back cover, and it all came together perfectly!  Here are my shots of the Album:

Sorry for so many pictures, but i really wanted to capture the sheen of the copper leather as well as how the cover looks different depending on the angle of the light!

Here are a few of my favorite spreads from this gorgeous Album!

Thanks so much Sarah & Andrew!  I hope you and your family enjoy this for many years to come!