• 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.

• 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.