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

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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?

70.....that's quite a, um, healthy number of photos.

Your husband sounds as though he's suffering wedding fatigue.

Ours are in a box still, seven years on, they never made it to an album! There are more than 70 though. Rather than ordering an album we got them all on a disc set to our fave songs, I loved it. We also had the jpegs for all the photos, so could print copies of whatever we wanted for other people, frames and for an album (if we ever got round to it!).

I waited ?12 months, and it was nice to go over them all again. Plus ended up putting in a few photos family had taken that they only posted CDs to us weeks later.

Do it now!

We never sorted ours as first we went travelling, then on return I started a new job, then became pregnant and felt rubbish, then the baby, and repeat...

We've got expensive albums sat empty. I need to sort a photo book for DM. I should do it before we get to a decade...

Brilliant. This expensive album thingy is a gift. They print photos for you. Has anyone out there had one of these wizard tomes? I'm calling it this because some are 1k! However they do look lovely, kind of like you want to stroke them all day. Only I wont unless I am wearing those jewellers white gloves

Just to add mine wont cost 1k!

Do it now, unless keep it for a rainy Sunday thing to do.

I have always done year books which is lovely for the DC ( even though I'm divorced now) and they love looking at my parents old albums as well. This is also a winter Sunday activity:) there are loads on the cloud, but I try and choose the most interesting which always have people in them to put in a book.

I would do it now

Does it have to be one per page? Just thinking maybe you could get 70 on the 50 pages and not have to pay extra, I often do photo books and only have a few per book which are on a page of their own, it makes those extra special ones really stand out

Yes, there will be three a page

Do it now! Ours was part of a package from the photographer - and we never did get round to choosing the pictures. I regret that.

I'd do it now, otherwise it will get put off and put off. Having said that, ours has lived in the loft for the last 14 years (married 15), I love photo albums generally as reminders of people and places, but the wedding one just isn't interesting in the same way.

I agree with people saying to do it now.
You have no idea what you could be doing 6 months from now.

So in 6 months life will move on?! I have wedding come down and want to do it all over again

But you've already started the job, OP, if you've decided on 70 photos out of the 500, haven't you? Perhaps your DH thinks since you're so obviously in the driving seat he won't have the opportunity for any input until a bit of time has passed and your enthusiasm has damped down a bit?

I seem to be a lone voice but I would wait. I think a little time would result in a better, calmer choice of photos and fewer daft photos of the close up of a flower.

Do it now. We didn't, now 5 years down the line we just gave a copy of the photos on cd.

I'd wait, sorry. Time adds a little perspective; the photos you choose now may not be your favourites over time.

I do a proper, old-fashioned, photo album of every year; doesn't stop me sharing small photo albums on Facebook shortly after events. What I will say is that very often, the photos that appealed immediately are not the photos that end up in the physical album.

Mind you, you can take it to extremes: DH and I didn't rush with our wedding album (part of the photography package). I collected it with our 9-month old DS and got some wonderful informal shots of him (for free) as the photographer thought he was so cute. That was only 4 years after our wedding!

Don't see the point in waiting. But also don't see the point in 70 photos! That's a LOT...

if the cost is already paid for, do it now - you won't be interested in six months and you'll look at them only a few times in your life.

if the money can be recovered, do that and spend it on something more interesting/useful.

and you do NOT need 70 photos. 10 is plenty TBH.

Interesting that so many people agree being desperate to do it now... waiting for me sounds like a good way to remember and reminisce about the wedding in 6 months, and with a deadline of doing the photos will be good.

Why would the DP be trying to get out of doing it? Surely that's "sounds lovely, why don't you show me when it's done..." not please can we do it later?

Compromise and do it in a couple of months?