The invention of the digital camera has changed wedding photography forever. Not even 10 years ago, a photographer shot an average of 300 pictures per wedding; today, with memory chips of up to 2 megabytes, wedding coverage can easily produce twice as many. With the flood of digital pictures and the relative ease of accessing them from the Internet, many professionals offer all of the images on a CD and charge
extra for the wedding album. A number of professionals I know are distancing themselves from the tedious work of preparing an album.

Internet companies, such as Heritage Makers, now offer album preparation services to everyone. My friend, Bianca Szyperski, is an associate of Heritage Makers and can help you create your own fashionable coffee-table album. Each is bound and printed on archival paper to last forever.

An album can serve different purposes. You can create a storybook of your courtship for your guests to enjoy on your wedding day. You can create both a wedding album and another book containing the prose and good wishes of your guests sprinkled with wedding photos. And you can make copies of your album for the special people in your life.

While you can undertake these projects by yourself, using state-of-the-art, Web-based technology, Bianca can assist you or even take over the entire project. For inspiration, check out bianca.heritagemakers.com or biancabooks.com.