Albums With Attitude | Our Designer Wedding Album Line | FINAO

Last week I showed you our new sample KISS albums. But we know that simple and classic isn't for everybody and that's why we offer a second line of Designer albums from FINAO. For those of you that want to have a little more control over how customized your wedding album is, these are for you. This album line is pretty much like Starbucks, with thousands of possible combinations. They are definitely modern and ultra hip, and the swatch kit proves it. These top grain leathers are dyed and embossed to create unique textures that can mimic lizard, alligator or ostrich hides. And they come in amazing colors that you can mix and match and most of them are imprintable. And with names like "biker chic", "bomber jacket" and "platinum blonde" these albums can fit any personality. There are also several unique cover options so if you want one of your portraits as the cover you can have it printed under acrylic or on a canvas panel or wrap. Other upgrade covers include laid ink on metal, aluminum or even wood.

Besides the array of options, my favorite thing about this company is they are very environmentally friendly. Nearly everything is handmade and there is even an entire vegan collection of PVC free faux leathers and suedes as well as beautiful fabrics and silks that can adorn your wedding album. Even they're packaging is biodegradable. And last, the albums also come in a few unique sizes like 20" by 8". Here are some photos of the swatch kit which is impressive in itself- they came in their own tins. We actually don't have a full sample album yet because we can't decide what we want :)



You can see just how many options there are. This isn't even half of them.



from the vegan collection...

some of the fabrics...

and the silks...

Here are a few of the upgrade cover options...

I think this is the first combination I want to order: "saturday night special" which is one of the new metallic leathers and "femme noir" as an accent.


And of course I have the swatch kit here if anyone wants to come and play with me. I'm expecting to have a full sample of these in May.

Get KISSed! | Introducing Kiss Wedding Albums

Waiting for the UPS man is always exciting, but this week I was a bit of a crazy-person counting down the days until our new sample albums arrived. My friend Ashley was fortunate enough to be in the studio to see me accept the package and proceed to act like said crazy-person while I tore through the packaging.

There are a lot of album companies out there. We've tried several but were still looking for "The One". We discovered KISS at WPPI this year and new immediately that these were the albums we wanted to offer our clients. Simple, modern, elegant. They show off our photography well and match our style. These are not your Grandmother's wedding albums. The simplicity is fabulous; they come in leather or linen covers, 4 sizes and 7 colors. And the colors all have fabulous names like Sultry Blue and Forbidden Green. For our studio samples we wanted to show the range of the product so we ordered a 10 x 10, leather in Virgin White and a 12 x 12 line album in Voluptuous Black. We also got a Little KISS- 4 x 4 album that is great to carry around with you.



The look and feel of these albums are impressive. The leather albums are made from 100% full grain natural leathers with thick durable pages- 2mm thick to be exact. The linen is equally gorgeous, with thinner and more flexible pages. I love the linen ones for engagement albums and guest books. Pages from both albums lay flat like traditional flush mounts but the pages are creased instead of cut so you have a whole print crossing the entire spread. The prints are made from Fugi Crystal Archival paper so you don't have to worry about fading over time. And every album (even the minis) come with a sexy dust cloth cover. I never thought I'd describe a dust cloth as sexy- but somehow these are.

The best part of working with KISS is their amazing customer service (Rachel "The Helpful Hottie" was quite helpful indeed) and quick turn around time- these albums shipped 8 days early. I could go on and on about these but I'd like to show you some more pictures. And I encourage all Brides considering an album to come by and feel these bad boys yourself.








You can really see here how lovely the creased print looks across a whole spread.


And here's the Linen Album




And here's the Little KISS!




Beautiful, no? I can't wait to start designing these simply stunning albums for our brides!