Spring has arrived and before you know it, wedding season will be in full swing! That means that right now it’s bridal shower season, and if you know someone getting married this year, you’re looking for a wedding gift. I would like to tell you a story about a toilet brush. In 2009, my husband Sean (who was still just my boyfriend at the time) had a friend who was getting married to an awesome girl. Sean received an invite for us with information for their registry, and like most men completely ignored the RSVP date and gift information. By the time they called asking us to RSVP and I found the invitation, nearly every item on their registry was already purchased. Every item was marked off except one, a toilet brush with matching toilet brush caddy. Why was it the only item left? Because no one wants to walk into a wedding with a toilet brush with a bow on it and plunk it down on the gift table. I can tell you *possibly from experience* that it’s embarrassing. Don’t be like us, give the perfect gift to your friends by contributing to their wedding album registry!
What is a wedding album registry? Simply, it’s a way to contribute funds towards a couple’s wedding album ensuring that their memories will be preserved, printed, and shared for generations.
Here’s how a wedding album registry works:
- The couple picks out what kind of album they would like and registers for that item with their photographer online at albumregistry.com.
- The photographer provides the bride with printed cards that they can use in their shower and/or wedding invites to share the information.
- Guests go online, enter the wedding date and go to the couple’s secure Album Registry page where they donate as much as they like.
- Once they check out, guests receive a printable PDF describing their gift that they can slip into a greeting card to give at the shower or wedding.
- The photographer uses the gifted funds to assemble the beautiful album of the couple’s choice to enjoy!
Here’s an example of the printed cards you can use in your wedding or shower invitations!
Our custom leather bound albums feature 100(+) photos of the couple’s choice, printed on archival photographic paper in panorama across a twenty four inch spread with the cover of their choice. Every time we open a shipment from our publisher, I am intensely proud of the books that we’ve made and humbled by the value of what these albums will mean to future generations.
Here’s a screen shot of Megan & Johnny’s registry page we just launched that their guests will see when they go to the website. IF you happen to be looking for Megan & Johnny’s actual registry page because you’re a guest – click HERE!
Lastly, here’s a video explaining WHY a wedding album is so important! (Sean watched it and said this is “terrifyingly close to the truth”!
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