How to Make Your Own Storybook Wedding Album

A storybook wedding album tells the story of the couple it honors. It should speak of how the couple met, how long they dated, the proposal and finally of the wedding itself. It should read like a fairy tale, because in this story the wedding couple are the prince and princess who are destined to live happily ever after.

Difficulty:

Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• White wedding album
• Photographs: bride and groom as children, teens, while dating; the wedding; and family and friends
• Parchment paper

1. Slip a picture of the bride and groom together on their wedding day in the slot on the inside front cover of the wedding album, if applicable.

2. Place a photo of the bride as a child into the first page of the storybook wedding album. On the second page, place a picture of the groom as a child. On the third page, a picture of the bride as a teenager. On the fourth page, the groom as a teenager. On the fifth page, place a picture of the bride with her parents. On the sixth, place a picture of the groom with his parents. On the seventh and eighth pages, place pictures of the bride and groom's best friends. On the ninth page, add the picture of the bride and groom when they were dating. On the last pages, place the best wedding pictures. More than one picture can be added to each of these pages.The very last page should be a picture of the bride and groom together saying their vows to one another.

3. Cut five pieces of parchment paper in half so there is a half sheet for the first 10 pages of the storybook wedding album. Look at the pictures in that were placed in the album to give you an idea of the story that is being told. Write out the story on the parchment paper. The story does not need to be paragraphs long for each page. One or two lines per photo is all that is necessary to make a storybook wedding album.

4. Start off the story with a beginning like this: "Once upon a time there was a little princess named (insert bride's name) who lived in (insert city, state), a place far, far away." For the groom's childhood photo add a line such as "Prince (insert groom's name) lived (insert where groom is from), which was not far from where the princess lived." Write the story on the parchment that goes beneath their teenage pictures to include something about the bride and groom when they were teens. Consider if the bride and groom were very different from each other, liked different music, whether they knew each other yet or not. Any of the answers can be turned into sentences for the story. Use the same considerations for the parents of the bride and groom and also for some of the pictures of the wedding.

5. Add each of the pieces of parchment with the story written out on to the spot just below or just above the photos in the storybook wedding album. Change up their placement by adding one to the top and then on the next page placing one piece of parchment on the bottom. End the story with a piece of parchment above the the wedding couple's photo with the words "And they lived..." and a piece of parchment just below, with "Happily ever after." Beneath this add the couple's names and the date they were married.

Tips & Warnings

• Get creative with the story. If the couple dated off and on before tying the knot, include that information. Write a draft on regular paper to get the wording straight before you put it onto the parchment paper.

• Keep the story simple and honest, remember you are writing a fairy tale, not the great American novel.