Wedding Scrapbook Ideas

Photos

Generally, it’s best to avoid creating a wedding scrapbook from your formal portraits unless you’re quite confident in your scrapbooking style. Since they are still learning basic scrapbook techniques, beginners who tackle their wedding photos as an initial project often find their results less than satisfactory. If you’re a new scrapbooker who insists on including formal wedding portraits in your album, use photo corners instead of a permanent adhesive. This will allow you to easily remove the photos at a later date if you decide you are unhappy with your album.

Many brides choose to create their wedding scrapbooks by using the candid photos friends and family took during the ceremony and reception. However, deciding what to do with poor quality shots that have great sentimental value can be a challenge for the novice scrapbooker. Converting the images into black and white or sepia-toned photographs is easy way to camouflage imperfections and add an elegant look to your wedding album. You can also use image editing software to crop and digitally enhance your photos.

Journaling

One of the easiest wedding scrapbook ideas involves approaching your journaling by considering the questions your future children might ask about your special day. For example:

• Who did you ask to be in your bridal party? Why did you select these people to be a part of your ceremony?
• What was the most difficult part of planning your wedding? What was the easiest decision to make?
• “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”…did you follow this tradition?
• What did you do to cope with wedding day jitters?
• How did your guests make your wedding day special?
• Every couple experiences a few minor mishaps on their wedding day. How did these unplanned events affect your wedding?
• What was your favorite wedding gift? What was the strangest present you received?
• What marital advice did friends and family offer on your wedding day?
• How did you feel the first time you referred to yourself as a married woman?

You can also use quotes and poems as a starting point for your wedding scrapbook journaling. Look for romantic wedding scrapbook ideas on the following websites:

• Wedding, Love, and Marriage Poems
• Wedding Scrapbook Poems
• Wedding and Marriage Quotes for Scrapbooking
• Wedding, Marriage, and Courtship Quotes and Phrases

Memorabilia

A wedding scrapbook makes a lovely memento for any newly married couple.

Memorabilia is often an important part of a wedding scrapbook. Consider incorporating the following items into your layouts:

• Engagement announcement
• Bridal shower/bachelor party invitations
• Gift registry
• Wedding invitation
• Wedding program
• Sheet music for the songs played during the wedding ceremony
• Congratulations cards
• Engraved napkins
• Dried flower petals from your bouquet
• Reception place cards
• Scraps of ribbon and lace saved from wedding decorations
• Leftover confetti
• Plane tickets or travel brochures from the honeymoon

To protect your wedding scrapbook memorabilia, consider purchasing specially designed memorabilia pockets for your album.

Embellishments

One of the most popular wedding scrapbook ideas is to design your scrapbook around your wedding colors while adding black, white, gold, or silver accents when appropriate. This gives your album a sophisticated, yet elegant look. You may also want to try using the following embellishments on your wedding-themed layouts:

• Vellum
• Mulberry paper
• Handmade specialty paper
• Ribbon
• Prima flowers
• Heart-shaped paper punches

If you’d prefer to create your wedding scrapbook pages using a coordinating supply kit, check out the following options:

• K&Company Bordeaux Wedding Kit
• Paper Pizazz Busy Scrapper’s Solution: Wedding and Romance
• Die Cuts with a View Love and Wedding Scrapbook Kit in a Stack

Additional Wedding Scrapbook Ideas

For more great wedding scrapbook ideas, check out the following helpful resources:

• Reliving Wedding Memories
• Wedding Photo List
• ABC Wedding Album

You may also be interested in these scrapbooking idea books:

• The Big Idea Book of Wedding Memories
• Memory Makers Wedding Idea Book: Scrapbooking Ideas, Tips, and Techniques
• Scrapbooking Your Wedding: Fresh Ideas for Stunning Pages

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