Tips For Wedding Scrapbooking
by Dana Goldberg

Your wedding is meant to be one of the most memorable days of
your life and wedding scrapbooking is a unique way of capturing
those memories. The beauty of wedding scrapbooking is that there
is such a wide choice of embellishments and other items that you
can use to enhance your scrapbooking project. However, it is
also worth considering all of the other bits and pieces that
can be used from the big day itself. A wedding invitation,
preserved flower from the bride’s bouquet and groom’s
buttonhole are just some of the ideas that you can include in
your wedding scrapbooking album. Instead of having a keepsake
box with these items all mixed up and probably getting damaged
they make a wonderful addition to the scrapbooking album and
will be preserved for years to come.

Digital cameras are so popular now and this makes a wedding
scrapbooking project easier, and harder! If you send out a
request for all wedding guests to send you their photographs
you may well be inundated with pictures to sift through for
your wedding scrapbooking album but at least you will have
plenty of choice. The solution for most wedding scrapbooking
pages is to keep them as clutter-free as possible. The idea is
to have only the key elements in the journaling to enable
viewers to simply enjoy the atmosphere of the wedding
scrapbooking pictures. A picture of the newlyweds need only
have a few words with their names, date, and location of
wedding stated on the main wedding scrapbooking page. It is
easy to be overenthusiastic and purchase every wedding
scrapbooking related embellishment that is available but this
will only create a confusion of unnecessary items and detract
from the beauty of the moment and possibly ruin your wedding
scrapbooking album.

The reception is going to be the major source of pictures for
the wedding scrapbooking pages and you need to be careful
exactly how people are portrayed. It is worth having a lot of
pictures from early on to choose from. Other aspects that can
be included in the wedding scrapbooking project are a copy of
the father of the bride’s speech, the cover design from the
couple’s first dance song or anything else that you fancy.

The beauty of modern wedding scrapbooking is that you can alter
pictures if necessary using computer software. Obviously you can
crop pictures to suit but you can also change the background if
it was a particularly grey day outside or remove red-eye from
indoor shots to ensure that your wedding scrapbooking
photographs are enhanced to their best possible extent.

About The Author: Dana Goldberg is the owner of Scrapbooking
Tips. Learn scrapbook making online and get many free
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The Perfect Wedding Guest Book
by Sam Smith


The wedding guest book is a very important but often forgotten
detail of the wedding. It is very important for your future
memories of the wedding. It will become the only written and
documented record of who attended the wedding. The wedding guest
book will be something that you can pull out in the future and
read over and remember your special day. It is therefore to plan
ahead and select the perfect wedding guest book to suit your
needs. Below are some ideas that can be used or you can make you
own custom wedding guest book.

Themes -The most obvious and fun way to have a unique and
individual guest book is to use one that will compliment the
theme of the wedding. After the wedding guest book will be the
first impression of the wedding that most of your guests will
have. So this is not very shocking but if you have a fairy tale
theme wedding with knights in shinning armor and a beautiful
white horse etc. Then you will want to pick a wedding guest book
that follows along with this magical fair tale theme.

Wedding Guest Book Platter -The wedding guest book platter is a
new non-traditional guest book but it can nonetheless be a very
fun and unique. The nice thing about the wedding guest book
platter is that it can easily be displayed afterwards. While the
more traditional wedding guest book will be kept away the wedding
guest book platter can be displayed publicly and everyone can
read the plate without opening a book. There are many companies
online that make these they are easy to find. However, they make
for a unique wedding guest book that your guests are sure to
remember.

Photo Wedding Guest Book -Here is a great idea that has become
very popular recently a photo guest book. This can be
especially fun for those that are into scrapbooking. This is a
very easy yet unique guest book that can create many fun memories
of the wedding in a very visual way. Simply take a picture of
the Bride and Groom with a digital camera. Print the photo and
glue insert it into either a photo album or a regular guest book.
They should then put a little message in the guest book to their
guests. Something like "Thanks for coming to our wedding, it is
a big special day for us and we hope you will enjoy it also."
Then leave this out with a Polaroid or digital camera and enough
film to ensure that everyone get a few chances to take pictures.
As guests come in they can take their picture and place it into
the guest book with a little message.

Puzzle Guest Book-Wow! Want another non-traditional and very
creative way to do a wedding guest book? You can do this by
taking a favorite picture of the couple before the big day and
turning this into a large puzzle. There are many places online
that can easily turn a photo into a large puzzle. Then assemble
the puzzle

Monogrammed Wedding Guest Book-Want to add an extra special touch
tot he wedding guest book? One easy and fun way to do this is
have the book custom made with the monograms of the Bride and
Groom.

These are just a few of the many thousands of creative ideas you
will have. It is necessary to spend time before hand when you are
not stressed with a million other details. Think about the
theme, colors and tone of the wedding and try to incorporate as
much of these as you can. Again plan ahead and leave yourself
enough time.

Sam Smith is the owner of Plan Best Wedding found at
http://www.planbestwedding.com . This is a great resource
including articles on coffee wedding favors, Wedding Guestbooks
and more.