| When buying your wedding album, you will have to | | | | Real leather is heavier than leatherette. Your wedding |
| make the choice whether to go for real leather or | | | | album will be more heavy if bound in real leather. The |
| faux leather (leatherette). The price difference can | | | | weight is important, since a heavy album seems |
| be substantial and you might ask yourself: "Is it | | | | more precious and valuable as an object than a light |
| worth it?" This article tries to give the answer. | | | | if not to say flimsy wedding album. The weight of |
| The feeling | | | | your album however can be increased by other |
| While faux leather optically looks very similar to | | | | means, for example the page strength. |
| leather, the main difference can be found in the | | | | The looks |
| feeling of the album when you hold it in your hands. | | | | As I wrote before, leatherette looks almost the |
| A leather album has simply a better feeling to it. | | | | same as real leather. Almost, but not quite! A leather |
| Leather is a natural material and your hands | | | | wedding album still looks just a tiny little bit nicer and |
| appreciate that. This is not to say that a faux leather | | | | more elegant. |
| album does not feel nice, a leather album simply feels | | | | In conclusion |
| nicer. | | | | At the end, it depends where your priorities are |
| The smell | | | | regarding your wedding album. If you want to have |
| Believe it or not, a real leather album smells better. | | | | the best wedding album you can possibly get, then |
| Faux leather is fairly neutral regarding the smell, so | | | | go for real leather. If you want a nice album on a |
| when you give your album a good sniff, you will | | | | limited budget, faux leather is good enough. If you |
| notice the smell of glue and paper. A leather album | | | | think that thick pages are more important than the |
| has a slightly more interesting whiff of animal skin. | | | | cover, go for a faux leather album with heavy pages. |
| This adds to the slightly more special appeal of a real | | | | In general, I would say that the extra money for |
| leather wedding album. | | | | leather is worth it. Still, a faux leather album can |
| The weight | | | | perfectly suit your needs. |