| Tutorial 6 Just Married! |
| Ideas For An Elegant Wedding Album |
 |
- Cover page with both names, date married, and
a big picture of just the two of you.
- First Impressions - write your first impressions
of each other when you began dating. Add a page or
two of pictures while you were dating.
- Engagement - write the story of the proposal.
Have a friend take several photos for your engagement
picture. Use an assortment of the pictures in your
album and pick the best for the newspaper.
|
|
 |
- Create a page for yourself and one for your husband
that records your family backgrounds. Include information
such as place of birth, your mother and fathers name,
birth place and marriage date, names of siblings,
grandparents, etc.
Design a page
or two for each shower held in your honor. Use umbrella
stickers.
|
|
- If you took photos while trying on wedding
gowns, include a page for those, and then include a separate
page for the final gown. Take pictures while you are being
fitted and put them on this page.
- Make a page or two to record
the planning of the wedding.
Include a pamphlet about
your reception site. For instance, my reception was
at the botanical gardens, so I got one of their free
pamphlets and stuck it in my book. If it is at your
church, get a bulletin and put it in your album. Be
sure to tell how you made your choices.
- Your newspaper announcements
will make a great page.
|
 |
Include a section of pages for your rehearsal dinner.
Include the menu, invitations, and pictures. Use your
invitation colors to select background paper. |
- The morning of a wedding is always crazy
for us girls. Include a page of getting your hair done,
etc. Don't forget to write down your agenda for that morning.
- For my more formal wedding
party photos, I used
a solid color to mat the photo, and then
I put vellum behind the
paper (about one inch wider than the mat paper). Then
I put another solid color paper under the vellum that
stuck out past the vellum just enough to make an outline.
It made the pictures and the pages look dressy.
- Include your marriage certificate
with a picture of your pastor.
Get some bible or cross stickers
or other religious symbols
for this page. Oakleaf
Acre has a great selection of inspirational stickers.
Also include your vows. Our pastor printed up everything
he said during our ceremony and gave it to us afterwards.
All of these things should be in your book.
|
 |
- I cut hearts out of vellum and put them
on top of a solid color paper to make a border. This
goes nice with the more formal photos.
- Put pictures
of your farewell
on a page. If people blew
bubbles on
you, make big round bubbles out of vellum or white
paper and put them on your page instead of stickers.
Make a little black or silver mark on the top right
portion of the circle to make it look more like a
bubble than a circle.
|
|
 |
- If you have a lot of miscellaneous pictures, make
a collage by cutting each into a square or rectangle
and placing as many on your page as possible. I did
this on a page and chose not to overlap any photos.
It turned out great and I got up to nine photos on one
twelve by twelve page.
- Don't forget to include your honeymoon.
|
|
!Tip from Amy:
For an elegant but
simple wedding album, use vellum on top of solid colored
papers. Use it behind photos, to make borders, and use
it to make accents in place of stickers and die cuts.
|
|
Enjoy this Scrap Class? See the next one! Scrap Class
7 "Times Remembered"
|