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Your wedding day goes by so quickly, it’s just obvious that you’ll do everything in your power to preserve your memories! I can’t think of a better way of doing this that with a Wedding Scrapbook.

Its important to decide what your goal is before you enthusiastically approach your first page. Would this book only tell your wedding day tale or do you want it to include everything from the engagement to the honeymoon? Decide on a look and feel (romantic, vintage, clean) as well as on the colour scheme before you start this exciting project.

The most popular way is to go with your wedding colours, but it might be interesting to add a bit of extra colour, for example if your wedding colours were white and lilac, you can add silver and a deep purple to this, even a slight touch of pink. As long as the colours don’t overpower your photos – the extras should be subtle in order to make your photos the primary focus (the majority of the memorabilia can be stored in a nice memento box). You wouln’t want to look at this in 15 years and shreak, therefore its better to keep it simplistic, which will definitely guarantee a timeless and elegant look.

It would be wise to do your planning before you hit the shops. This would include how many pages your album would be, what photos and memorabilia you’d like to use etc. To create a personal, intimate feel, use the more spontaneous photos for scrap booking, the more posed photos can be framed or sent to family members, the remainder of the photos can be stored in a separate album. It’s a good idea to print a duplicate set to work with – this would give you peace as you’re working, knowing that your originals are safe.

Memorabilia you might want to include:

– Wedding and bridal shower invites

– Fabric from your dress (as well as any other fabric samples)

– Receipts

– Bridal registry

– Napkins

– Any form of printed material (menu, song-list etc, congrats and thank-you cards)

– Honeymoon tickets and extras

– Congrats and thank you cards

The foundation of a scrapbook is the journaling, sit down somewhere where you won’t be disturbed and go back to that special day – What did you feel when preparing for this big day, when the minister declared you husband and wife, sitting at the reception looking at your guests? When writing, be real and be yourself. We so often forget these very special moments, this way your memories will be preserved as long as you both shall live.

Bring in some of your friends or family’s thoughts – ask a few people you are close to, to write down a sentence or two on what it was that stood out for them on this day (supply them with nice paper or a colourful pen). Start the book with a dedication page – why you are creating this book, why your wedding day was such a special day etc. Some other pages you can add is “what I remember” or “what I was grateful for” or even “what didn’t matter at this stage” – as women we often plan this day and want it to be absolutely perfect, but when we are in the moment, we realize that that’s so not the point of this day.

As you create your book, be real and true – don’t only choose the perfect pictures – being real when choosing your photos and writing your love story will show throughout your book. And most of all, enjoy making this book and enjoy this season!

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Your wedding photo can be taken by your family members during the event but if you do want to have a more artistic and professional look, you can hire a service of a professional photographer.  In this way, you are sure that you will have the best shots that you can get on your wedding day.  Aside from getting the picture perfect moments, you are sure to have high quality pictures because of the photographers upgrade and latest camera.  Now you can have something that is for keeps.

Not just the people, pictures of wedding items such as the wedding gowns, suits, footwear and most specially the ring are also taken.  This is because it will be a good addition to the photo album that the newlyweds will have as a remembrance of their wedding.

The aim of the photographer is to take as many pictures as possible.  The reason for this is to have many pictures to choose from and be added to the album.  Now you see why photographers are bringing extra memory space in order to fit all the possible shots that can be used.  Aside from extra spaces, these photographers are even bringing extra cameras.  This is because you will never know if a camera will be damaged.  It is better to have spare because weddings happen only once in our lives.  Even if we have yearly renewal of vows, the first wedding is still different from the following ones.

Apart from using the photos for albums, you can also use your photos in making a wedding photo collage.  This is a unique gift idea that you can give for your loved ones or even guests several days after the wedding.  These collages can have variety because you are not limited from using photos.  You can even use your photos when you and your spouse are only dating, college photos and even baby photos.  This will be a good anniversary gift for your partner as well as to your parents or grandparents.

You take this collage to the next level by transforming them into a jigsaw puzzle.  You can create your college and bring it to studios for them to create a big puzzle.

Wedding photo is important for couples because they can together have a good walk back to the memory lane with just one photo and this is the most important photo of their lives as a couple.

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Hiring a professional to take your wedding photos is definitely worth the investment. You want to have quality photos of your special day that you can keep forever. However, you should also consider some candid wedding photos as they can be fun. There is always plenty going on while preparing for the wedding, during the ceremony, and at the reception. Yet it is impossible to take it all in at once.

While your professional photographer is taking the great photos of you during the wedding and the reception you can have others taking those candid shots. There are several great ways that you can make that happen. You may know some individuals with a love of photography that will be attending.

Ask them if they would mind taking those candid shots throughout the ceremony and reception for you. Chances are that they will be more than willing to do this for you. Work out the details such as if you will be paying them or if they will do it for free. If they will do it at no charge you should be willing to pay for the film and for the developing.

Another option is to place disposable cameras on the different tables at the reception and at different areas of the wedding location. Place a note with them asking guests to please take some fun candid shots throughout the events. Let them know you want to see all of them having a great time. Your message should also encourage them to take pictures of themselves and others around them. You don’t want them to only be photographing the wedding party and the new couple.

Select a location where they can drop off the disposable cameras once they have been used up. That way they can easily be gathered at the end of the wedding reception. These types of cameras don’t cost very much at all. They will allow you to have some great wedding shots from different perspectives. You are going to have a great time going through them.

Make sure you offer lots of cameras so that you can get hundreds of great shots. It is going to be amazing to see all that was going on during your wedding and reception that you may not have been focused on. These photos really tell the entire story of all that took place that day. The more photos you have the more you will be excited about them when you get them back.

Keep in mind that not all of the candid wedding photos are going to turn out. That is okay though, so don’t have too high if expectations. There are going to be enough fabulous ones that you will really be happy you decided to add that type of photography to your wedding day events.

After you develop your candid wedding photos, you can decide which of them you would like to keep. Others you can give out to the wedding guests along with some of your professional wedding photos. It is perfect to place all of these photos into the envelope with your thank you letter. They will really enjoy getting those extra photos of them enjoying themselves the day of your wedding.

It doesn’t cost very much at all to have fun memories of your wedding and the reception through candid wedding photos. This is an idea that gets many people involved with your event. If you haven’t considered it in your planning, you still have time to implement it. This process won’t cost very much but the memories that are produced will be priceless.