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Leading wedding photography and video providers Essential Photo and Video is located in the Chicago area of Illinois. Operating with four studios, Essential Photo and Video run offices in Chicago, Schaumburg, Orland Park, and Naperville.

Essential Photo and Video offers clients easy-to-understand, inclusive packages and customization for photography and video. Implementing photojournalism approaches with traditional wedding photography, Essential Photo and Video captures and preserves clients’ wedding days in spontaneous moments, portraits, and detail images. After the wedding, Essential Photo and Video packages include custom albums. Clients choose from five album styles: Classic, Coffee Table, Masterpiece, Prestige, and Italian.

Essential Photo and Video’s Classic Wedding Album is available with a standard aristohyde (artificial leather) or full-grain leather cover. Exemplifying traditional wedding albums, Essential Photo and Video’s Classic style album uses the “slip-in” method, whereby photos go under a matte, which slides into the page. Available in square formats of 10” by 10” and 12” by 12”, the Classic Album holds up to four photos per side. Essential Photo and Video allows custom options of gilding and inlay colors of the client’s choice.

A more casual option provided by Essential Photo and Video is the Coffee Table Wedding Album. Produced with a glossy photo as the cover and in square sizes of 8”, 10”, and 12”, Essential Photo and Video’s Coffee Table Albums are the compact version the bride and groom can take with them to show family and friends or make available for casual browsing at their home.

The contemporary Prestige Wedding Album by Essential Photo and Video is in a similar style to the Classic Album, except that photos are laser cut and reverse-mounted on the pages and not slid under mattes. Essential Photo and Video’s Prestige Wedding Album offers more options for layouts (showcase and myriad) and does not limit image sizes. Available with a standard, full-grain leather cover, the Prestige Album comes with suede, dual leather, metal, or glass covers.

Available in a number of different cover options and dimensions, Essential Photo and Video’s Masterpiece Wedding Album combines digital and traditional formatting. Accommodating individualized layouts and designs, the Masterpiece Wedding Album imposes no restrictions on photo size or shape.

Essential Photo and Video’s Italian Wedding Album utilizes digital technology and is designed and created in Italy. With a basic cover of leatherette, metal, or acrylic, Essential Photo and Video offers this album with a standard cover of leather, cover photo, varnish, or crystal glance. The Italian Album provides distinctly different options; unlike the other albums, its pages customizable; the client can choose among textured, metallic, or photographic paper.