Making a Wedding Album with Scrapbooking Techniques
Wedding albums are one of the few things that stay with your for a much longer time than the cake, dress and flowers. Wile you cannot fit in to the dress a few years later even if you wanted to and the cake and flowers vanish very soon too, your wedding albums can bring back memories of that great day for a long time to come.
Online Wedding Albums
Many people like going the electronic route with the onset of digital photography. They create wedding albums online and email the link to their friends and family who can then make prints if they like or just view the pictures. This is a more environmentally friendly (and sometimes cheaper) way to go as well. However, you can add some pizzazz to your online wedding albums by using scrapbooking software and playing around with your photos.
You can add virtual embellishments, play with patterned paper, borders, quotes and other such fun scrapbooking elements even with online pictures. Make a layout and change it around - no glue required! The best part of scrapbooking the digital way is that you can test and try a myriad of options before you hit the save button and then too you can come back and crop and cut to your hearts delight!
Traditional Wedding Albums
You can choose to get wedding albums direct from your photographer or you can choose to just get the prints and then put them in your own special scrapbooks. Craft stores and specialty photo memory stores like Archivers specialize in the plethora of options for wedding albums. From the traditional white bound albums to the more contemporary dotted and striped designs, you have plenty to choose from.
Get a lot of card stock and patterned paper to go with the theme of your wedding and the colors in your bridal party. For instance, you can get lots of papers with wedding bells, cake, bouquets, religious symbols etc. you can also get vellum and other quotes saying 'I Do' or wackier stuff if you want to add some humor to your wedding album.
You can include your wedding invitation and other 3-D elements into your wedding albums to give more dimensions to otherwise just simple photos. You can add borders, stickers, lettering and brads - the possibilities are endless. However, whatever embellishments you use, always make sure the products you use are acid and lignin free and are archival safe so that they do not yellow or fade over time.
