How to Make a Hawaiian Wedding Album
The wedding album carries a significant amount of memories, nostalgia and love, as it is the pictorial representation of the special day shared by the couple with their family and friends. The album should carry on the theme of the wedding as well to remind the wedded couple of the beginning of their marriage. A Hawaiian wedding is not only a beautiful destination, but it also offers a theme unto itself with its tropical breezes, exotic flowers and gorgeous beaches. The wedding album should incorporate these ideas, along with elegant and fun photographs of the special day.
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Things You'll Need
- Wedding photographs
- Scrapbook
- Silk Hawaiian floral blooms
- Silk floral leis
- Seashells
- Crafter's glue
- Archival pens and markers
- Photo corners in wedding colors
- Embellishments
Instructions
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Purchase a large scrapbook with a plain dark wooden cover that is held together with a hinge system. This will mimic the Koa wood specific to Hawaii. The cover can be engraved, or the wedding album title can simply be written on it.
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Select which photographs will be placed inside the album. Order them from the beginning of the event to the end, allowing them to tell the wedding story in their organization.
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Lay out the photographs on each page according to the order previously decided.
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Choose decorative Hawaiian elements that pick up on colors from each photograph. One page could have a silk floral lei loosely strewn around the image. Another page could have silk floral blooms along the border, while yet another could showcase seashells randomly placed around the images.
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Use photo corners to adhere the images to the pages of the album.
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Glue on the embellishments, ensuring that all elements are properly adhered.
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Slide the pages into their plastic sheets protectors, then share the album with friends and loved ones.
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Tips & Warnings
Before adhering pictures to the album, look at all pages laid out together to ensure balance in colors and composition. For example, consider beginning with a large picture that takes up most of the page, followed by smaller shots, then intersperse the large ones again, ending with a large image to give the album more impact.
Incorporate the wedding colors into the embellishments on each page.
Remember that the most important factors in the wedding album are the photographs, not the embellishments. Do not overwhelm the pages with decorations, as the photographs will lose the focus.
The theme is meant to enhance the special day, not dictate it, so organize the album accordingly.
Purchase photo corners that are officially made for this purpose, as any unknown products may damage the photographs.
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