How to Create Your Own Wedding Album
Photographer's wedding albums are very expensive and often leave out many photos of your wedding. Make your own personalized, inexpensive album.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Lace
- Rubber Wedding Stamps
- Wedding Invitations
- Books About Scrapbooking
- Acid-free Scrapbooks
- Glues
- Scrapbooks
- Wedding Albums
- Acid-free Ink Pens
- Acid-free Papers
- Ink Pads
- Cameras
- Disposable Cameras
- Film
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Choose whether you'll hire a photographer or only use photographs from family and friends.
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Assemble mementos such as your guest list, gift registry list, the list of gifts you received, paperwork about the flowers and dress, passages you've chosen for the ceremony and other items you can place in your album.
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Keep two copies of your wedding invitation. Plan to use one on the cover and the other inside.
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Keep your place cards from the reception, a copy of your wedding program, your announcement in the newspaper, the papers you wrote your personalized vows on and a copy of the lyrics of the song you danced to together. Save all of the cards you receive on your wedding day in case you'd like to include a few.
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Obtain photographs from friends and family.
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Purchase proofs from your photographer. Proofs are small 3-by-5-inch photos you're supposed to use to choose the photos you want blown up.
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Select a few special photos to blow up, and use the proofs in your album. This way you can include every single photo that was taken, if you wish, and save a lot of money.
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Purchase a large album or scrapbook that will hold many items on a page. Make sure you use high-quality materials so it will last, and be sure that everything is acid-free.
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Arrange your photographs and mementos in any order you like. Consider decorating the margins of the pages with drawings or cutouts.
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Create a special cover for your album. When the wedding dress is altered you can ask for the material that's removed and use that to decorate the cover. Lace also enhances a wedding album cover.
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Tips & Warnings
Wait until a few weeks after your wedding to make the album so that you're sure you have all the photos that friends and family members took at the wedding.
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Comments
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Aug 08, 2006
For my wedding I asked a friend to take pictures. I also had color disposable cameras with flash placed on each table. An announcement was made after everyone had settled in at their tables to please take photos using the cameras provided and leave at your table to be collected. This was a wonderful idea. Everyone respected our request and took some great 'real moments' pictures! My album is filled with wonderful memories that mean more because my friends and family helped. -
Dec 15, 2005
I ordered black and white disposable cameras. Cost about 3.50 each. They were placed on each table. The candids and moments that were caught on these were priceless and the photographer missed most of these moments. Well worth it. Note: black and white film adds to the candid style.
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Dec 15, 2005
I ordered black and white disposable cameras. Cost about 3.50 each. They were placed on each table. The candids and moments that were caught on these were priceless and the photographer missed most of these moments. Well worth it. Note: black and white film adds to the candid style.
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Nov 22, 2005
I would advise against using disposable cameras at the tables, as a professional these cameras have very poor quality and normally fall into children's hands who will take all kinds of bad photo's of the floor. You might have a few good shots out of the bunch, but many more wasted and you will have to pay to get them all developed. With more and more people having their own digital cameras, that can produce good quality images, if you are creating your own album; have your family and friends send those files over to you.
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Nov 22, 2005
At the reception, place disposable cameras (with flashes if the reception is inside) on the tables. Have your guests take candid photos of each other. Have someone collect the cameras for you after the reception. You'll get great shots for your album.
