How to Make a Wedding Anniversary Scrapbook

A wedding anniversary scrapbook is a sentimental way to commemorate the milestones of a marriage. The memorabilia you include in the scrapbook will be determined by the number of years the book will cover. If you create a scrapbook for each anniversary, you can include photographs and keepsakes that highlight the year past.
The wide assortment of scrapbooks on the market today are made to suit all needs and tastes. Once you find yours at a stationery or craft store, you can get to work preserving your memories.

Things You'll Need

• Scrapbook
• Photographs
• Souvenirs

Instructions

1. Tell family and close friends that you're creating a wedding anniversary scrapbook. Invite them to submit photographs or a note with their thoughts on the occasion to include in the scrapbook.

2. Collect all items that will be included in the scrapbook. If it's a first anniversary, showcase activities and accomplishments from the year by choosing pictures of your first home, first vacation together as a married couple, or first home purchases. Remember special events you've attended or occasions spent with family by preserving theater programs, concert or movie ticket stubs, pictures from travel brochures from the places you visited, or even pressed flowers.

3. Now it's time to sort all the memorabilia. You can arrange items by date, occasion, or any other order you want. Pair keepsakes from events such as a Broadway play with newspaper reviews, theater program and photos taken at dinner that night on the same page. Remember to include the notes from friends and family.

4. Lay out the page designs before you attach items permanently. Don't crowd everything onto one page. Allow room on the page so you can enjoy looking at individual keepsakes or photographs.

5. Assemble the scrapbook. Slide souvenirs inside protective covers, or use double-faced tape to hold cards in place so you can open and read them. If you attach souvenirs directly to the page, be sure paper items don't interfere with each other, especially cards with cutout designs, or they will stick.

6. Write your thoughts on the pages alongside photos and paper keepsakes. Narratives will enhance your enjoyment of the scrapbook.

Tips & Warnings

• Make copies of the scrapbook pages for relatives and close friends who were present at the event highlighted on the page. Because most scrapbook pages are oversize, you'll have to have them copied on an industrial copy machine at a printer's. Friends and relatives will enjoy the chance to reminisce with you.