It’s September, which means we’ll soon all be getting emails from our album suppliers with their holiday deadlines. That usually means a huge spike in album production between photographers, me, and the binders themselves! Now is a great time to invest a few days in talking with your clients and setting up their expectations for normal album production time as well as encourage them to approve their current album designs.

As usual, I will do my best to return all albums in my normal 7 business day turnaround throughout the fall season. In order to accomplish this, as of October 1 I will cease to take new clients unless I’ve fully finished the workload on current clients. So if you’ve been thinking about using Willow Album Design, get your first album design in to me NOW to qualify as a current client throughout the busy fall season!

I’d like to also take a few minutes to remind clients that if your album binder deadline is November 20th, the last reasonable day to submit an album to me for design is around November 1st. This would mean your first draft will posted around November 10th, allow for ONE day to make revision requests, and then the second draft posting around November 18th or so. Again, please consider time for revisions when submitting album designs!

As a reminder, I am a boutique album design company, which is another way to say I’m a one-woman shop. This means that your albums gain my personal expertise, but also means that when I get busy I do not send out extra work to unknown designers. The fall season is busy and I take that seriously!