How to Create an Online Wedding Photo Album

While you can hire a professional photographer for your wedding, your album can never be complete without pictures from your friends and family. Most of the lighter and less formal moments are likely to be missed by the professionals. Think about the chaos in the dressing room while getting ready for the wedding. What about the emotional moments when your old granny arrived for your wedding? Probably your cousin or friends captured those moments. Saving these digital photos is a wholesome way to gather all the cherished moments from your wedding day.

Of course, you will be inundated with digital photos from your friends and will need a way to collect and organize them. So you will need an online wedding photo album to keep the pictures well organized and easily accessible to you and your friends and family.

Many websites like Picasa offer free services to host your wedding albums. Setting up an account and obtaining a website is very simple. Unlike an email where you have to attach photos one by one, you can upload your photos in batches to your website - that makes it quick and easy.

With most free sites, you will have some image resolution and size restrictions. If you do not like that you can choose a paid service with unrestricted resolution limits. High resolution pictures produce excellent quality prints and are ideal for printing portraits. Paid services cost $50-$100 a year.

You can also choose to host the bulk of your pictures on a free site and pay for hosting a select few digital photos.

Most sites allow you to tag the photos and add comments. Use this feature to label and organize the photos. This can make enjoyable reading for your own self years later!

On many digital photo sites, you can restrict album access privileges to your friends and family and keep them out of public sight. Be sure to set appropriate access rights to protect personal information.

Some sites offer more advanced networking features. If you give access rights to your site, you friend can directly upload digital photos from his or her camera to your website.

Having an online account is a good way to backup your precious memories. It is also important to have a backup on DVDs or a hard disk if your online wedding album cannot store high resolution pictures.

Your friends and family can comment on your wedding photos or write on your guestbook online. So an online wedding photo album is a great way to share your wedding photos and stay in touch with those you made your wedding a big success.