How to Preserve your Memories in a Wedding Scrapbook

Whether you have just recently celebrated your wedding or you have just found the time to be able to scrapbook, creating a wedding scrapbook is a great way to preserve the memories of the day. However, taking on the task of scrapbooking your wedding can seem overwhelming. There are some things that you can do to take the stress and pressure that you might feel out of creating the scrapbook.

One thing you can do is to keep it simple. We all love scrapbook pages that are full of embellishments such as stickers or die cuts. However, if you have hundreds of photos to work with, it might be better to let the pictures do the talking. Instead of concentrating on embellishments, journal about the day on your pages. Journaling helps you to capture how you felt, special moments and amusing or unplanned events that happened during the day.

You can also break up the wedding and events surrounding the wedding into different albums. This helps you concentrate on one thing at a time. For instance, I have a shower and rehearsal album, a wedding album, a reception album and a honeymoon album. We had about 15 disposable cameras sitting around at the reception, so that is why I chose to do it separately from the rest. I also have a miscellaneous album that is filled with pictures that other people gave me after I had already completed my albums. This way I don't have to worry about adding pages to the other albums.

If you must give a wedding scrapbook to your parents, keep those simple as well. They don't need all the pictures. Just choose those that you think are the best or that would mean something special to them. This will probably mean using different pictures for each set of parents.

Creating a wedding scrapbook for friends and family members who are getting married is also an excellent idea. I recently did this for a friend. In addition to pictures and memos, I had everyone put their wishes for the bride and groom on acid free paper to add to the back of the scrapbook.

However you choose to create your wedding scrapbook, it should be fun, not stressful. You should enjoy reliving the day as you scrapbook instead of feeling overwhelmed at the pile of pictures laid out before you. You have already created the memories, the scrapbook is just a way for you to share them with others and to enjoy seeing them for years to come.

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