Wedding Day Advice | Wedding Photography
Creating a Wedding Scrapbook
Creating a scrapbook of your wedding is one of the best ways to preserve the memories of your special day. Here’s how to go about it…
Image courtesy of 100 Layer Cake | Photo courtesy of Wedding albums
What do I need for scrapbooking?
- A scrapbook album – select an appropriate size and colour that fits in with your wedding theme
- Refill pages
- A sharp pair of scrapbooking scissors
- An adhesive which works on photos and cardstock
- Cardstock, or patterned paper, which matches the theme of your wedding
- Fine-tipped marker pens
- A flat workspace and a storage area.
Where to buy scrapbooking supplies?
- Scrapbooking supplies can be bought at specialized scrapbooking stores, craft shops or even some supermarkets.
How to get started scrapbooking
- Decide what you want to achieve with your scrapbook – will it include everything from the engagement to the honeymoon or will it tell the story of the wedding day, only?
- How many pages will it be? It might be useful to create a sketch of your proposed layout
- Decide on a look and feel – for example, contemporary, vintage or romantic
- Decide on a colour scheme – your wedding colour scheme would be a good choice
Your scrapbook could include the following embellishments:
- Photographs
- Engagement announcement or invitations
- Wedding and bridal shower invitations
- Fabric samples from your dress and those of the bridesmaids
- Bridal registry
- Order of service pamphlets, name cards, congratulations and thank-you cards etc.
- Napkins
- Dried flowers from your floral arrangements
- Honeymoon tickets, receipts etc.
How to create a scrapbook page
- Decide what you want the page to be about – for example, it could be about a concrete aspect of the wedding, like the First Dance, or an abstract concept, like ‘Things for Which I’m Grateful’
- Choose a focal photo – for example, the bride and groom dancing the First Dance
- Choose a few other photos to compliment the focal photo – for example, the guests looking on
- Choose a cardstock for the background
- Choose some memorabilia and embellishments to compliment the photos and the cardstock, and which add to the story of the page
- Create a title and journal entry on un-patterned paper – this can be written with fine-tipped markers or typed
- Lay out the photos, journal entry and title, memorabilia and embellishments first, before you stick them down on the card
- Once you’re happy with the layout, get busy sticking!
TIP: Always have a duplicate set of photos printed – work with the copies and keep the originals in a safe place.
Remember, it’s always nice to start your scrapbook with a dedication page, detailing who you are thankful to, why you’re creating the book and why yours was such a special day.
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