Velvet Wedding Albums

What makes our Velvet Wedding Albums truly unique is the personalisation. We can stamp your names, your initials, wedding date or any words on the front cover.

Due to the texture of the velvet, personalisation is only available in blind (clear) stamping. We also recommend a bold typeface as fine cursive fonts can get lost in the plush velvet.

We will custom design artwork for your album cover from our huge library of fonts. We also have a series of Album Cover Templates that would work perfectly on the velvet cover.

To learn more about personalising your album cover CLICK HERE.

The Velvet Wedding Albums lay flat when open so the photos can be printed through the centre crease. This allows for uninterrupted panoramic landscape photos across the double-page spread and printed edge-to-edge. The photos are printed with archival-quality inks and on a fine art archival-grade thick paper stock with a timeless matte finish which helps reduce glare and reflections from overhead lighting to make viewing the photos more enjoyable.

The Velvet Wedding Album that looks more like a modern vintage-inspired coffee table art book.

Printed on fine art paper with a matt finish to reduce glare and easy to view photos.

Thick pages that won’t bend for durability and last for years.

Layflat pages to maximize the full double-page spread for uninterrupted panoramic images.

Experienced professional album designers create modern page layouts to tell the story of your special day.

Professionally printed using archival quality inks on archival-grade paper to last a lifetime.

Base album includes the first 15 spreads [30 pages] but extra pages can be purchased to allow for more photos.

The Velvet Wedding Album can accommodate up to 45 spreads [90 pages] – lots of room for photos!

Includes photo editing to balance colours and exposures for the images featured in the album.

Photo albums suitable for weddings, parent albums, family photos, maternity and newborn photography.

The colour palette includes your classic black and silver, along with rich jewel tones, soft pastels and bohemian vibes that include an olive green, rusty terracotta, muted gold and blush.

The colour of the velvet varies as the light dances across the surface from different angles, and for that reason the below digital swatches reflect the variation in the hue of these beautiful velvet colours.

We take the digital photos received from your photographer, select the best photos, then design beautiful storytelling layouts to fill the pages of your wedding album. We will adjust any exposure and colour corrections to the selected images that appear in the album. For retouching such as skin smoothing, removal of objects, etc is available at an extra cost.

Our approach to album design is modern and minimalist to let your wedding day moments breathe on the page and for the images to tell the story of your best day ever.

To give you an idea of how the album pages will be laid out, we tell the full story of the wedding day in the logical order by choosing the best images from each section of the day.

Depending on the number of photos supplied, we generally dedicate 2-5 spreads for each part of the day. Typically the ceremony, couples portraits and reception take up more spreads as there tends to be more photos and formalities from those parts of the day.

We break down the wedding day into these sections – groom prep, bride prep, ceremony, congratulations, family photos, couple portraits and bridal party location shoot, and reception. Typical most client albums end up somewhere between 30-40 spreads (60-80 pages) with a maximum of 45 spreads (90 pages).

It is hard to envisage what all the above will look like, but don’t stress, The Coffee Table Book has been designing wedding albums since 2006. It’s much easier once you see the album design laid out in front which comes together during the proofing stage.

We collaborate with our couples during the review process to ensure all their favourite and must-have photos are in the album design. Couples have the opportunity to swap, add and remove images as well as add and remove pages to ensure you are 100% happy with the design before it goes to print.

The first draft of your album design will typically be provided within 10 business days of receiving your images and deposit. This timeframe is subject to vary during peak times, for example the lead up to the Christmas and New Years holiday period.

We cannot guarantee a delivery time since the nature of designing an album requires feedback from the customer. So it depends on how quickly the customer gets back to us with changes, how many rounds of changes and the design being approved for printed.

From design approval, delivery takes 3-4 weeks. Because the fine art albums are in most part handmade, they are a labour-intensive product to manufacture and we will not rush the process to ensure the highest quality standards are meet.

The album design is printed with archival quality inks, then handbound utilising the highest quality craftsmanship in bookbinding techniques here in Australia and delivered to your door.

We include free delivery anywhere in Australia – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Launceston, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin including regional areas of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory.

We also accept international orders and ship worldwide.

Images can be supplied in any of the following ways :

Upload your photos to Dropbox, Google Drive or similar online storage then share the gallery with us.

Send us the details to access your photo gallery provided by your photographer.

Save your digital photos to a USB and post to The Coffee Table Book, PO Box 260, Northmead NSW 2152.

We will acknowledge receipt of your order when we have received your order form and the images.

We have an online shop where you can easily order your album and pay by direct bank transfer or credit card. After placing your order we will send you a questionnaire asking a bunch of questions to help with the design of your album.

If you prefer to only pay a deposit only upfront with placement of order you can use the online shop still to order just choose ‘Bank Transfer’ as your payment method at checkout and we will issue you with an invoice to pay the deposit where you can pay either by Bank Transfer or Credit Card.

*The deposit is non-refundable and based on 50% of the base price of the chosen album – refer to the Album Price Guide HERE.

Alternatively, you can use the appropriate product order form HERE Any additional charges incurred for extra pages will be added to your invoice on approval of artwork. The balance is due on approval of artwork. Only on receipt of the balance will your album will go into production to be printed and bound.

We use an online proofing system so you have the opportunity to review your design and make changes before going to print. The price includes two rounds of changes. Read more about the album design process HERE.

On approval of the design, manufacture takes approximately 2-3 weeks, with your album arriving on your doorstep in 3-4 weeks. We deliver to anywhere in Australia with delivery included in the price.