Learning from Korean Wedding Albums! How to Create a Stylish Album Like a Photo Book ♩

What is Wedding Album Design?

A wedding album is a collection of photos from the wedding day.

An album that allows you to recall the day's events just by opening its pages is the culmination of months of wedding preparations and the big day itself ♡

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There are two ways to create a wedding album:

☑ Order it from the venue

☑ Prepare it yourself with data received from the venue

If you ask the venue, the album’s layout and design will be left to them after you choose a plan.

On the other hand, if you prepare it yourself, you can choose the size and number of pages as you wish.

Since it’s something you’ll keep for a lifetime, you’ll want it to have a design that still feels "wonderful" years from now.

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Korean Wedding Albums are Too Chic ♡

For brides-to-be aiming for a stylish wedding album, we recommend looking at wedding albums from Korea, a country famous for its wedding photography.

With Korean brides showing great passion for pre-wedding shoots, it’s no surprise that their wedding albums are also very stylish!

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In this article, we’ll introduce photos of actual Korean wedding albums and point out why they look so fashionable.

Please use this as a reference when deciding on your own album design or choosing a service to order an album from ♩

Stylish Point 1 of Korean Wedding Albums: Large Photos

A major difference between Japanese and Korean wedding albums lies in the layout!

In Japan, it’s common to pack 3 or 4 photos onto a single page to showcase more photos in fewer pages, giving a sense of value for the lower price.

However, Korean wedding albums generally feature one photo per page. Sometimes, a single photo is placed across two pages.

By not collaging photos and featuring only one per page, each scene draws you in.

Unlike pages with a mix of various scene photos, the sense of immersion is incomparable.

Vertical and horizontal photos are also arranged with plenty of white space.

It feels as if you can almost sense the couple’s breath at that moment… ♡

By the way, it seems that a matte paper with a subtle color tone is often used, rather than a high-gloss paper.

With the basic design of one photo per page, Korean wedding albums tend to be quite large and thick. As a result, they also tend to be more expensive.

In Korea, there’s a mindset that one wants to create the best album possible to vividly remember their wedding day, rather than saving a few thousand yen on an album that will be looked back on for decades to come! ♡

Stylish Point 2 of Korean Wedding Albums: No Excessive Designs

Not only do they boldly arrange the photos, but the absence of unnecessary decorations is also a notable feature of Korean albums.

While many Japanese wedding albums feature decorative borders or illustrations on each page, Korean albums have none.

They adopt a simple design with only a white background and photos.

This adds a touch of luxury, and because it isn’t influenced by trends in decoration or illustrations, it feels stylish no matter how many years pass.

Stylish Point 3 of Korean Wedding Albums: Chic Covers

Korean albums all have very chic covers!

Instead of using a photo for the cover, standard covers are made from leather in colors like black, deep green, or navy.

An elegantly weighed wedding album is sure to evoke special feelings every time you take it out.

While cute covers like those of Japanese albums are nice, I find myself yearning for the mature albums like those in Korea ♡

Let’s Take Inspiration from Korean Wedding Albums!

When considering how to compile your wedding photos into an album, take inspiration from Korean wedding albums.

☑︎ Start with a large format

☑︎ Allow for spacious layouts

☑︎ Choose a simple design

☑︎ Go for a chic cover.

You'll be sure to create an album that becomes a lifelong treasure ♡