Finally, we got our wedding album yesterday, nine months after our wedding, haha.

The delay is remarkable because this hasn’t really been our priority. We’re quite content viewing our pics from the computer and various photo-sharing sites. Our wedding pictures are also in Facebook.

It was only my friend Tonyo, a graphic designer, who pointed out to me the importance of having an album to preserve our wedding memories. Okay, I was bound to order it from outside but Tonyo gave me a good deal. Six thousand pesos for a wooden album with waterproofing, and inclusive of designing it on Photoshop. A very friendly rate, I must say, and I agreed to it.

If you’re having a budget wedding, the wedding album is another area you can save on. Usually, it is packaged along with the wedding photographer’s rates but that makes it doubly, if not triply expensive. Looking back now, photographer’s fees plus this wedding album only cost us P25K , whereas the average wedding photo coverage package out there is $1,200 or so.

If you know how to play around with Adobe photoshop or even digiscrapping, you can design your own wedding album and just have it bound in Hidalgo, Quiapo where cost of binding starts at P2,500 or so. Or, if you’re like me who has a friend engaged in graphic design, why not hire them to do it for you at a minimal fee. Saves you much and solves your problem in time.