It really has been an exciting week in this office, with the arrival of two wedding albums. The first was Emma and James’ Jorgensen album and now Sally and Jon’s.

When an album arrives, I have to admit to dropping whatever I am doing and rushing to open the box, and see the treasure inside. It always makes me stop and think, if I am this excited, just how excited will the couple be. I like to get them out of the box, checked and then packed for delivery to the couple double quick.

With honeymoons, image choosing, design, and then album production it is often several months after the wedding when the album arrives. Usually just after all the cards have been packed away in the memory box, the presents have been used for the first time, friends have shared all their images of the day, and all the stories of the magical day told. Memories and the excitement from the day are starting to fade. Wonderfully, so my clients tell me, the album always brings back all the emotions and reignites the magic of the day for a bit longer and continues to do so every time it’s pages are opened. (I know this from looking at my own wedding album, it really does make me smile every time I open the pages and see those precious memories.)

For Sally and Jon, this is very true. Having moved house 6 weeks after the wedding and then with a host of other commitments, we only finalised their album design in late 2009, some 6 months after they got married. Sally said when we were designing it, how fabulous it was to see the images as they really reminded her of all those wedding day memories and emotions. I love my job, it’s knowing that I have captured those memories and emotions that people treasure that just makes it for me.

Sally and Jon also chose a Jorgensen album, with a plain black leather cover, it’s very simply, beautiful.

And now I have just received another parcel of albums as I write this, yipeee! This time it is the new soft kiss books album for Ellen, Peter and Charlotte’s portrait session so you’ll have to check back next week to see that one.