10 wedding photo book ideas for every happy couple

Hold on to your bouquet. Before you do anything, you’ll need to decide if your wedding photo book will have a particular theme and feel. While your wedding is obviously the main focus, you might want to fill your book with all the most romantic shots, the funniest moments and selfies, or the best photos you took with friends and family. The choice is yours. 

Your photo book can feel as modern, traditional or creative as you like - and it all starts at the front cover. Whether it’s a softcover or hardcover, this isn’t just a great place to show off your fave photo, but your choice of colour, background and other design elements will always set the tone for the pages inside!

Okay, so your wedding photo album will mainly focus on the big day, but starting your book with early relationship snaps is always a load of fun. It could be a nervy first date, a scorching first holiday or the first day you brought an adorable pet home - you’ve had loads of firsts together, so share your favourites and show how your love story led to your wedding day! 

You might have spent hours posing in front of a professional photographer, but you should also include some more natural, authentic and unexpected moments when creating a wedding photo book. 

Besides, literally everyone took zillions of photos throughout the day, so all the biggest hugs, loudest laughs and happiest sniffles have likely been caught on camera somewhere. These may not be as polished as your professional wedding photos, but they perfectly capture teary-eyed parents, an uncle’s dodgy dance moves, and all the other small moments that made your wedding so special. 

A picture might say a thousand words, but that doesn’t mean they tell the whole story. From the meaningful vows to the hilarious speeches, your wedding was jam-packed with all kinds of amazing quotes - so add these little snippets of text next to corresponding photos inside your album!

It could be a well-timed joke, a scribbled message in your guest book, or the lyrics from your first dance together, wedding quotes will add some real meaning to your photos as you flick through them in years to come. When a quote doesn’t come to mind, you can always come up with your own creative captions when making your wedding photo book!

Even if you sneakily saw each other before the ceremony, there’s just nothing more magical than when a happy couple meets at the altar. This was the biggest moment of the day, so should feature prominently somewhere in your wedding photo book - if you’ve got a good landscape shot, we’d even recommend spreading this across two pages. 

Your first portraits together as a married couple are also a must-have. It was your special day, after all, so either fill a few pages with your favourite lovey-dovey photos or scatter them throughout the rest of your book. Oh, and these photos are also absolutely perfect for your front cover. 

You’ve taken loads of amazing wedding photos with friends and family, and some of these involved squeezing in as many people as possible. Whether it’s a snap of all the bridesmaids or both families together, these wider group shots could be the perfect centrepiece for your wedding photo album. 

Once you’ve chosen your favourite wide photo (this is definitely the hardest part!), add this to the halfway point in your photo book and spread it out over 2 pages. This way you won’t have to shrink it down and can clearly see everyone’s beautiful faces!

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with keeping every page uniform. If you want to keep things simple and use the same layout on every page, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that (this is your book, remember, so do things your way). 

However, we love wedding photo books that experiment with different page layouts, image sizes and angles. This makes every page feel fresh and different, while also drawing the eye to certain photos and offering you much more creative freedom. 

There really is no right or wrong answer here, but switching up page layouts and image placements makes sure your book never feels boring to flick through!

Clean and simple wedding photo books always look suitably elegant, but you shouldn’t be afraid of adding a bit of character to yours. Even if you’re crafting a modern, classy photo book, you can brighten your pages with the right use of illustrations, filters, backgrounds and other fun embellishments. 

For example, you could scatter adorable love hearts across one page, shower another with confetti or add illustrations of flowers that really brighten your photos. There’s no need to overdo things here, but using these illustrations in the right places can really bring some personality to your wedding photos. 

Yes, most wedding photo books will tell your wedding story from start to finish. You’re probably thinking of doing the same thing: with all the vows, bouquet throwing and dancefloor antics appearing in chronological order. 

This is a perfectly good straightforward idea (which is why you thought of it), but you might want to try mixing up the chronology to make something a bit different. For example, you might want to group photos by family, photography style, colour or even just order them at random so people don’t know what to expect next!

Making your wedding photo book is really easy. For starters, you can choose books with a pre-made wedding theme, with layouts, backgrounds, illustrations and everything else already set up for you. You can then simply drop your photos straight in or move things around until you’re completely happy with it!

Alternatively, you can choose a blank photo book and start your masterpiece from scratch. These pages will all be completely empty, so you can use your creativity and imagination to make a wedding photo book unlike anyone else’s. The page is yours. 

Either way, you’ll need to sign in to your Max Spielmann account before creating a wedding photo book - since this makes sure you can always save your creation and come back to it later! Whether you choose a small, medium or large photo book, 20 pages will always be included as standard, but you’ll have the option to add extra pages and upgrade to a premium gloss finish.