I'm Making a Wedding Album

Pachimac

Pachimac

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I've scrapped many of our wedding photos, but I want to make a Shutterfly book with the important moments scrapped in it. What are some page ideas for me to do? I don't want to make a merely chronological book - but of moments of memories.

What would you do to remember your wedding day? What moments were caught in time that you would scrap about?
 
My wedding was a long time ago. I've scrapped some of the pages but not for a book. We had the typical. Family photos after. And a few candids prior, but not a lot.
Now my daughter's wedding. A b'zillion photos and their album is 135 pages. One would feel as though they attended. Even with all those photos, we missed the family one of our whole side of the family. Ran out of time. Limo man would not wait.
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I've done some wedding books - my own, my parents, my daughters, and her husband's brother.

Mine was the hardest. The pictures were in terrible shape, even worse than my parent's pictures. I also added showers, the receptions, and the honeymoons in both of those books. I gave copies of my parent's book to each of my siblings as a Christmas gift when it was done.

My daughter's book is still my favorite book ever! We kept it simple - a place white paper background with alternating pink and blue pieces of lace on the edges of the pages. It was big! Probably 100 pages of wedding, formal, and reception photos. Then I did her honeymoon which was another 100 pages of Germany and Switzerland photos.

The book for my daughter's in-laws was very hard to do. The photographer was terrible. She was a friend of the bride who was in college majoring in photojournalism. She didn't understand why I needed High-Resolution photos. I had to keep explaining why, but in the end, that book was nice, too. I kept that book simple, too, with just a few embellishments chosen by the bride.

They were all printed at Shutterfly as lay-flat books. My daughter's wedding book is 12x12, but then we realized how big and heavy that book was, so we ordered the rest as 10x10 lay-flat. They are very nicely made. Very sturdy, and the smaller size fits perfectly on a shelf.
 
msbrad said:
My wedding was a long time ago. I've scrapped some of the pages but not for a book. We had the typical. Family photos after. And a few candids prior, but not a lot.
Now my daughter's wedding. A b'zillion photos and their album is 135 pages. One would feel as though they attended. Even with all those photos, we missed the family one of our whole side of the family. Ran out of time. Limo man would not wait.
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135 Pages!!!!???? Holy Canoli!!!!!
 
As for the types of pages - that depends partly on the types of pictures....

BUT - having said that - I would take the pictures - and some pages without pictures - and describe the day from the point of view of feelings. We have so many wedding pictures that show the pictures of the people, but how many describe how you felt on that day. Alternate your feelings and his feelings. Do you have your vows (if they were separate from the traditional vows)? Scrap those. If you did or didn't do the cake in face thing - describe the special intimate moment of sharing the cake and what it meant. Talk about your bridesmaids and why you chose them. Talk about the feeling as your mother helped with the veil. Talk about the overwhelming feeling of magic when you said "I am his wife" for the first time.

These things get lost over time.

THEN - if there were funny things that happened, or little disasters, do those, too! "The flowers were late, we had to delay the wedding, he thought I was leaving him at the altar" "I spilled coffee all over the hem of my dress. We had to pin it so it did not show" kind of things.

Or take some funny sayings and relate your marriage to those "They say that there are three words a bride thinks on her wedding day - Aisle Altar Hymn - but he was perfect already!"

Find people who were in your wedding and ask them for memories that they shared.

Record your wedding gift list.
Record your guest list.
Record your venue and the table settings.
Did you make the centerpieces or favours? If you did, then did you get pictures of you working on them.
What about the proposal?
The engagement?
A little story about how you met... "When I met the tall handsome man at my friends house and she introduced us, I had no idea that he would become the love of my life, the husband I always wanted and the father of the most perfect girl in the world."
Did you share any special moments with your dad when he walked you down the aisle - of if not him, then who?

Capture the things you wish you knew about your grandparents - your parents - and write them down!
 
FormbyGirl said:
As for the types of pages - that depends partly on the types of pictures....

BUT - having said that - I would take the pictures - and some pages without pictures - and describe the day from the point of view of feelings. We have so many wedding pictures that show the pictures of the people, but how many describe how you felt on that day. Alternate your feelings and his feelings. Do you have your vows (if they were separate from the traditional vows)? Scrap those. If you did or didn't do the cake in face thing - describe the special intimate moment of sharing the cake and what it meant. Talk about your bridesmaids and why you chose them. Talk about the feeling as your mother helped with the veil. Talk about the overwhelming feeling of magic when you said "I am his wife" for the first time.

These things get lost over time.

THEN - if there were funny things that happened, or little disasters, do those, too! "The flowers were late, we had to delay the wedding, he thought I was leaving him at the altar" "I spilled coffee all over the hem of my dress. We had to pin it so it did not show" kind of things.

Or take some funny sayings and relate your marriage to those "They say that there are three words a bride thinks on her wedding day - Aisle Altar Hymn - but he was perfect already!"

Find people who were in your wedding and ask them for memories that they shared.

Record your wedding gift list.
Record your guest list.
Record your venue and the table settings.
Did you make the centerpieces or favours? If you did, then did you get pictures of you working on them.
What about the proposal?
The engagement?
A little story about how you met... "When I met the tall handsome man at my friends house and she introduced us, I had no idea that he would become the love of my life, the husband I always wanted and the father of the most perfect girl in the world."
Did you share any special moments with your dad when he walked you down the aisle - of if not him, then who?

Capture the things you wish you knew about your grandparents - your parents - and write them down!
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You are amazing Lynnie! I would never have thought of a fraction of what you thought of here. Heck, I can't remember a fraction of what you had here about my own wedding 31 years ago, or my sons a year ago for that matter. Hahaha
 
Pachimac said:
I've scrapped many of our wedding photos, but I want to make a Shutterfly book with the important moments scrapped in it. What are some page ideas for me to do? I don't want to make a merely chronological book - but of moments of memories.

What would you do to remember your wedding day? What moments were caught in time that you would scrap about?
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Susan,

I have only done one wedding album. It was 6x6 pink cardstock with white lacy photo corners and black and white photos for my brother and his bride 14 years ago. It truly was a gift of love and it turned out amazing. She keeps it in a special place and treasures it.

Whatever you do will be the same. Put your heart into it and record what you loved about it. It will be amazing. Good luck!
 
Wow! That is fantastic! You can also include people talking, kids laughing/crying, if there's a dog present, bokeh of the couple's kiss, the bouquet, the program, candles, center piece/s, the toast, the parents.
 
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