Whether you’re making a photo book from scratch for yourself or creating small format copies for your family and friends, the photo book is an enduring classic for many reasons. Read on for a list of creative and thoughtful photo book ideas.

1. Baby’s First Photo Book

Baby’s First Year is our most adorable idea for a photo book since there are so many milestones to document in a baby’s first month (let alone first year!).

2. Our Wedding / Married Life Year One

Create a stunning photo book for the wedding itself and then create another showing the highlights from your first exciting year together, e.g. moving house, honeymoon, other trips or holidays, new pets, the changing seasons.

3. New Home / Tribute to Our Old Home

Moving is always a massive event, whether it’s to a new flat or a forever home. If you’ve been snapping pictures since moving day, from living out of boxes to settling in for your very first Christmas at home, you could document your progress in a yearbook. Why not scan things like wallpaper samples and décor options to look back on all the hard work you put in throughout the year? Print your Instagram stories from your home improvement adventures. (A ‘Before & After’ photo book would be very fun to look back on throughout the years.)

4. Travel/Holidays

This one’s obvious. There’s no greater, more tangible way to enjoy your best travel photos than compiling them into a gorgeous, inspiring travel photo book.

5. Year in Review

Even if your kids have flown the nest, you could start a new tradition by creating a year in review photo book every year. Add your favourite family snaps, from enjoying nature to relaxing, cosy times at home, and look back on another year spent with those you love.

6. Furry Family Members

Fill your pet’s yearbook with pictures of everything from cuddly naps to walks in the woods and pampering sessions. You can also personalise it with adorable clip art for a custom book as cute as they are.

7. Graduation/Uni Life

From the emotional graduation ceremony to moving into student accommodation, there’s so much to celebrate and document at this crucial stage in your child’s life. Create a photobook that details their journey to this point in pictures.

8. Memorial Book

Gone, but never forgotten. Create a beautiful and poignant remembrance photo book commemorating the wonderful life of a loved one with treasured pictures.

9. Family History Book

This one could be quite fun and even revelatory for the creator. Enjoy learning about your family history through old photos (which you could scan or take photos of) and interviews or quotes from the elders. Curate the best photos and print a document of your family history as a photo book.

10. True Love/Valentine’s Day

A photo book that showcases your love story would be perfect for your partner’s birthday or Valentine’s Day or your wedding/dating anniversary. You could even create a ’10 reasons I love you’ book to ramp up the sweet factor. Check out our best selling photo book designs that celebrate your love!

11. Mother’s Day/Father’s Day

Scan pictures of your kids’ art and mix them in with your best family photos. Guaranteed ‘awws’ from Mum and Dad for this family photo book idea.

12. Kids’ Art Preservation

Create ‘scrapbooks’ of all their masterpieces to save yourself some storage space and for them to enjoy looking through when they’re older. Just photograph those kid’s art masterpieces, upload the photos and create a photo book with all those amazing kids drawings printed into a photo album you’ll all treasure.

13. Family Album

This is a longer lasting, more stylish way of keeping track of all of those lovely family photos and heartwarming family milestones and events that a professionally printed family photo album.

14. Yearbook of Recipes

Create a beautiful document of all those family get-together meals, or create a collection of your favourite recipes using your own pictures, printed in a photo book.

15. Become a published author/artist

You could make a printed catalogue of your portfolio, poetry, short stories, drawings, sketches, artsy photographs and paintings.

16. Key Life Achievements

Think of your hobbies, as well as what you did at school. Show off everything from craft projects to new photo techniques or climbing competitions that have made your year one to remember in a simple picture year book!

17. Portfolio of your work

A printed portfolio is especially useful for artists or those who run their own business as a wonderful way to keep all of your best work in one convenient (and stunning) place! Our smaller format photo books are perfect for leaving at a client meeting too.

What have you created and celebrated with photo books? We can’t wait to see how you’ll make it your best year ever! Tag us @snapfishuk and #snapfishuk on Instagram when you share your personalised Photo Book Inspirations.