How important is a flat-lay album?

Both daughter's professional album and those she did on Shutterfly are lay-flat, and they are so nice! You can see more of the photos, since an edge isn't in the page "gutter" and it gives you more lay out options since you can do full double-page spreads (e.g., you have a beautiful photo of the entire wedding party, but in order to see everyone clearly the photo would look much better bigger, but to do that it needs to spread over both pages rather than be sized to just fit on one). For daughter, it was definitely an upgrade she thought was worth it.

Lay flat would really be worth the extra money, in my opinion!

Good to know. Seems like that's the way to go. I know there was definitely at least one lay flat deal.

We upgraded to lay-flat pages for the albums we bought our parents, and it was definitely worth it in my opinion.