{album} amanda + aaron's book o' happiness

I love our album vendor, seriously love them! They rock the albums, take a look at Amanda and Aaron's album, we shot their wedding in May and they now have this fabulous heirloom to share with their friends and family.

It's a Finao flushmount 10x10 inches of luscious goodness with a silk brocade in Dusk and leather spine in Opaline. This baby is gorgeous, just take a look for yourselves. There are so many options when it comes to making your album, that we know you can find the perfect look for you and your wedding, make it match, make it not, just as long as you love it.

I love their packaging, and it's completely recycled, pineapple leaves, mulberry leaves, yum.












Just a little look compared to a couple of our other albums.

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Our brand spankin' new sample album

I got home from my long day at work today to find, well I knew it would be waiting since I'd been checking the tracking number all day, my Finao ONE sample album!!! It is utterly gorgeous and so substantial, you won't have to worry about hurting this baby, it's one tough cookie. The album, which is our new offering for 2009, is completely handmade, which we love, and is packaged completely green, the album is wrapped with handmade paper made from recycled pineapple leaves and wrapped in a ribbon from recycled mulberry leaves. Take a look:



Now, here are a couple of our albums with the new ONE on the bottom. The ONE is a 12x12 flushmount with metal armor cover, then we have an 8x8 Element in Lady Danger, and to top it off a 5x5 Upper Element in Bomber Jacket, which is such a gorgeous leather, I could just hold it all day!


Look at this gorgeous spine, and the pages are so thick and smooth.

This baby lays flat, yeah you heard me, flat! We've got a gutter running down the center, but we can also do creased prints, but you can barely even see the gutter. Now, you may remember some of these images, we shot one of my high school friend's wedding in August and they had the most amazing wedding so we just had to use their wedding for our sample.


I am so happy that we finally got our sample in, I love it, have I said that enough? Now I really can't wait to start designing these for our clients, I know you'll love them just as much as us!

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{samples} swatch tins

So, we got in part of our sample order yesterday. I had been checking my email all week, and noticed that they were to arrive yesterday, I was so excited. I got home, saw the box sitting on the front porch, cleaned up the toilet paper that the kids had decorated our house with the night before (it's homecoming, you know! although why our house got hit I have got no idea, anyways back to my story), I take the box inside, clean off the coffee table so there is someplace clean to place the albums, go wash my hands, and then wait. Wait for Rob to get home so I don't open the albums without him. He gets home and I open the box, and lo and behold, it's not the sample albums, but the swatch tins we ordered along with them!!

I've got another email saying that the albums (crossing my fingers) will be here next week. So, I was a little sad that it was just the swatches until I took a look at them. They are so luscious and gorgeous and so much more elegant in person that now I have tons of colour combinations running through my head of all the albums that I want to order next! Now, I'm really really really excited to get our samples in, the swatches were so soft and delicious, they have completely environmentally friendly swatches along with leathers so we've got everyone covered. I can't wait to begin our new year with these albums. If you'd like to checkout our new line go to www.finaoonline.com, they are just gorgeous and so many options!

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{in the works} sample albums

Well, it's been a crazy busy week. After sunday's engagement shoot, we got together with a bride and her groom on wednesday to finalize their wedding plans for next friday. This upcoming week is going to be busy busy busy. We, well I, have a wedding on friday night for the cutest couple, it's a second marriage for both of them and I have some great ideas running through my head, and then on saturday Rob and I will be shooting Kristin and Aaron's wedding, you just saw their engagement shots, aren't they adorable, too! We get the coolest couples.

We have some sample albums in the works right now. I am so excited to be offering our new albums, they have so many different cover styles to choose from that I am stoked to get them in, the waiting is what will kill me, I'm sure. As soon as I get them in my little hands I'll post a shot. Plus, we are getting ready for one of the bridal fairs in January, so we are stocking up on samples of our works and some new things we are planning on offering for 2009.

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