How to Make a Wedding Scrapbook as a Gift

A scrapbook makes a wonderful gift, preserving special wedding memories that will last a lifetime. This project will require a lot of work, but you can bet it will be one of the happy couple's most prized wedding gifts.

Steps

1. Try to attend every event and visit every place related to the wedding. Take photos, gather mementos and document everything.
2. Get second copies of photos from other people, especially if their shots are better than yours.
3. Take a class on scrapbook-making, if necessary, before you begin laying out pages.
4. Buy the best materials. Acid-free papers, die-cut shapes, craft punches and scissors, stickers, mats, permanent ink pens and rubber stamps are the tools of crafty scrapbook makers.
5. Lay out the pages in chronological order, beginning with the couple when they were first dating. Proceed with the engagement, showers, wedding and honeymoon. Include photos, mementos, invitations, party favors, newspaper announcements and brochures of the honeymoon destination.
6. Wrap your gift and present it to the bride and groom after the honeymoon.

Tips

• Use an online collaborative book making site like BellflowerBooks.com to collect photographs and letters of love and excitement from family and friends.
• Consider making a video scrapbook if you've mastered the video camera and can both videotape and edit. Include both photographs and video clips for complete documentation of every aspect of the wedding festivities.
• You might let the bride and groom know you're planning a special surprise - to explain why you haven't given a gift at the wedding.
• Sometimes, when you buy a scrapbook, you don't use all of the pages. In the last pages you haven't used, get the guests to write a little note to the groom and bride.

Warnings

• Putting a scrapbook together is going to be especially difficult if you don't have access to the photos and mementos that will make it meaningful. Close friends and family members are therefore the best ones to make a wedding scrapbook.

Related wikiHows

• How to Personalize Your Wedding
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• How to Have a Small Private Wedding
• How to Lower Wedding Cake Price
• How to Save Money on Your Wedding Ceremony and Reception
• How to Add Text to a Scrapbook
• How to Start a Scrapbook

Sources and Citations

• BellflowerBooks- Their online tools enable a group of people to easily collaborate and create beautiful books full of letters and photographs from the people who mean the most. Perfect for weddings!

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