to want to do wedding album now, straight after wedding? DH says wait 6 months...

[robinlovesfatman]

Post wedding am feeling excited. One of the gifts was a really expensive album, you know the kind... made of unicorn hair and rabbit's dreams.
DH saus we need to wait for six months to carefully pick photos as people change their mind after wedding. The thing is the gift allows fifty photos but I want 70 which we'll need to pay extra for.

Am I just caught up in post wedding excitement?

[MrsHenryMountbattenWindsor]

Why does your DH want to wait 6 months? What does he think you'll both change your mind about? Whether you still like your guests?!!

I hate to tarnish your new marriage, but I think your DH just can't be arsed and is trying to come up with good reasons not to do the album.

Don't get the 50/70 thing.

[Dowser]

Can't see the point of waiting. You either like something or you don't.

6 months is a long time to wait . You might not be bothered by then.

Get them done now while you are still in the excitement of it all.

Congrats btw

[selsigfach]

Do it now or you never will.

[Justmuddlingalong]

He doesn't sound very interested in doing the album. Either do it yourself, (not very romantic), or do it together, with him being a bit, meh. (Even less romantic) Congratulations on your marriage.

[ProcrastinatorGeneral]

Does anyone actually look at them though? Seems like a waste of time and effort to be fair.

[robinlovesfatman]

Thanks guys!

[robinlovesfatman]

I will look at them. I love photos

[robinlovesfatman]

I used to love looking at my parents albums. I would like to do the same for my girls.

[SayThisOnlyOnce]

Actually we have a couple of people in our wedding photos that split up, and one who turned out to be cheating on my best mate. I think I'd look at the photos more often if dickshittwatman wasn't in them.

[SirPercyPilkington]

Do it now, while it's fresh in your mind. You can connect your memories to the photos iykwim.

[Penfold007]

Why do you want 70?

[SlinkyB]

Do it now, whilst you're still excited. Pay extra for the extra pics - you don't want any regrets.

Not that I'm bitter about it taking two years to get mine done, on my own as DH still couldn't be arsed to help pick photos

[ZenNudist]

I'd just choose 50 good ones.

Remember you do not need a close up photo of your shoes!

Or, for that matter floral displays and table decorations...

Get the ones with your family and friends and obvs good ones of you and dh.

[ZenNudist]

Yy to doing it now. If he's not bothered ask him to be honest and do it yourself. Waiting makes no sense.

[robinlovesfatman]

I would have all 500 if I could! Did I say how much I love photos? I don't pin to bore people with these!

[FadedRed]

Been married years and years and years, but 'the album' still gets looked at occasionally, more in later years, and especially around significant anniversaries.
I think DH is probably a bit 'weddinged out' at the moment so why don't you make a start and ask him to have look when you've got on with it a bit, rather than trying to engage his enthusiasm straight away.
Having said that, 70 photographs!!!!! IMO way toooo many. You might enjoy looking at them, but your audience will have gone to sleep, gone home, gone to heaven before you're a quarter through. 20 good ones and a few funnies is plenty.
Congratulations on your marriage.

[CrapBag]

Do it now. There is no point in waiting. People could split up in 5 months or 10. You can't predict the future and pick appropriate photos accordingly.

I love photos and albums too and love sitting looking at them.

[TheWildRumpyPumpus]

Ours sits forlornly under the bookcase, occasionally retrieved by the kids to ooh and aah over!

I can't see why you'd need 70 pictures of your day in an album, unless you did lots of those swoony pictures up against trees and wandering through meadows looking longingly at each other.

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

Do it. We still haven't got round to doing ours and we are approaching our second anniversary.

[ThursdayLast]

Do it

If you like 70, do 70.

[robinlovesfatman]

Its reportage style, not swoony. In a fish and chip shop, seaside wedding

[caffiene99]

Do it now.

If you can afford it - go for the 70 photos.

I kept my expensive album at the specified limit (can't remember what it was now) but then made a second (cheaper) album online myself with all the other photos.

Don't wait to do it either. If you wait it will never get done. Which is why, almost 3 years later, I still haven't made an honeymoon album.

[Biggles398]

I can see both sides. Do it now, as 6 months may never come round (our photos are still sitting in their bag 6 years on). But I would be inclined to wait a little while to pick out your favourite memories (ie 50, as opposed to 70!)

[PervyMuskrat]

As pps have said, if you leave it six months, it'll end up like ours and still unsorted and in temp folders ten years later

[AdeleDazeem]

Do it now while it's all still fresh. I remember the post-wedding euphoria feeling. You want your wedding album to reflect that, not the calmer, 6-months-in, dust has settled normality of everyday life.