Scrapbooking Articles

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Scrapbooking Tips For Your Invitations Of Marriage.

It becomes increasingly popular to conceive the single invitations of marriage. The declaration with your family and friends whom you will marry is one special moment, and you can create some manners amusaèves of announcing them your plans for this special day!

Your single invitation of marriage is your first impact on your family and friends about your marriage. It is the first stage towards your marriage. You can depict to feel it totality of your day of the marriage in your single invitations of marriage.

If you are a jokester, you could want to do something which will mystify them at the beginning and then you can announce at the person that you marry. If you are romantic, you could want to create a quotation of your experiment with your been engaged and how you consider your life will be as like a couple wedded.

If you are an occupied person who travels much, you could choose to send the advertisements outside to your family and friends who show your love of voyage. A single idea of invitation of marriage is to create the plane tickets false which have an image far with far from a destination (or of much far with far from destinations if you desire).

That have your specific information of marriage printed on the � of “ticketâ€. If you like the time and the money of economy, you can send your advertisements like easy and creative invitation single complete of marriage. There is a broad set of the models to choose of by selecting your own invitations of marriage, if you want to do it the formal manner with a gracious single invitation of marriage.

Your basic elegant colors: black, white, silver plated and gold are always an astonishing manner to conceive your invitation for a formal business. However, and your fiancé be distinctive for you. If you want to show your individuality, you need one or the other find that a place which can help you to adapt your invitations or you can conceive your own single invitations of marriage.

You can conceive something exclusive that nobody could find in any " of ½ of ¿ of ï of store; in line or with far. You can employ astounding colors, or the earthy colors invite the family and the friends with your ceremony of marriage. The majority of the couples choose to conceive their invitations of marriage around their colors wedding chosen, however you can choose to make the opposite.

A fantastic manner to conceive your own single invitation of marriage is to visit a store scrapbooking. You can find all the materials which you can imagine to conceive your own imaginative and single invitations of marriage. You could have a time crafty one to obtain your fiancé to be implied by doing them, however.

However if you ask him that to carry out an easy task of invitation for you (like putting the chart of RSVP inside the invitations carried out) and to make your request resemble He relieves much of weight in addition to your shoulders, should easily obtain the assistance to you which you want.

Not to forget to have the recreation with finding the good invitations of marriage for you and your fiancé. By maintaining it similar to your own interests, your own single invitation of marriage will become an enormous memory to remember your very special day.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Creating a Wedding Scrapbook

A scrapbook of a wedding is different than a photo album of a wedding. I believe a photo album is to showcase the photos taken at the wedding. I believe a scrapbook of the wedding is to share the story of the days/years leading up to the wedding and then share photos of the event itself.

The following suggestions are just that, suggestions. There is no right or wrong in creating a scrapbook. It is my goal to provide some thought starters to creating a wedding scrapbook.

Consider starting with a few photos of both the bride and the groom as children. Add a few photos of them as teens and then some photos of the couple during the dating process.

During the planning stages, often banquet rooms are looked at, dresses and tuxedos are looked at, and invitations are looked at. Taking a few photos of the various planning days are great additions to the scrapbook. If the bridal shop will allow it, it can be fun to take photos of the bride in each dress she tries on.

When you decide on a banquet room, take a few photos of the room empty. Take a few photos of the building housing the banquet room.

Once a menu is decided on, save a copy of the menu provided by the banquet room. One event I helped with, we actually made the menu ourselves. We wanted guests to know what was being served that night and so we included our self made menu in the scrapbook.

You’ll also want to save one copy of all of the following:

• An invitation

• An R.S.V.P. card

• A place card

• A thank you note

• A copy of the guest list

If you order candy bar wrappers, or any other wedding favor, save one for your scrapbook. If you use a D.J. or a band, save one of their business cards, or one of their brochures, to include in your scrapbook. If you hire any other type of entertainer, again, save a business card or brochure.

As you plan your wedding, it can be fun to journal the days. There will always be mishaps along the way and as you are celebrating your first anniversary, you will laugh over the mishaps and the other notes you took as you planned.

When the R.S.V.P. cards come in, often times folks will write personal messages. Save those. Just like a high school yearbook, it’s fun to go back and read what others wrote, several years later. And now, the day of the wedding has arrived. It’s time to take those photos that you’ll want for both your wedding photo album and also your wedding scrapbook.

Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for several years. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or visited at http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com

by Audrey Okaneko

Friday, July 18, 2008

A Very Unique Wedding Scrapbook

We have all been to weddings where the bride and groom have placed a pretty signature book somewhere near the entrance. A pretty pen or pens usually accompany this pretty signature book.

While these books are lovely, they almost never are looked at again. I know when I looked back at my own wedding guest book there were actually a couple of names I couldn’t read.

With some planning, you can create a guestbook that will be created as the guests arrive. You’ll need to choose a scrapbook prior to the wedding. You’ll also need to hire someone who can take and print digital photos on the spot. Next, find a local scrapbook consultant who will put together the album as the photos are being taken, so that by the end of the evening, you’ll have a scrapbook-guestbook that everyone can enjoy.

As your guests arrive, you’ll have someone at the entrance taking their photos. I am not a fan of Polaroid photos. This is why I recommend digital photos. With a laptop and photo printer, the photos can be printed out as they are taken. There are electrical outlets in almost every lobby I’ve seen.

You’ll also want to have available precut acid free paper and pens that your guests can write a personal message to you on. After their photo is taken or while they wait to have their photo taken, they can both write you a personal message and sign their names.

If you have someone there who can create the pages as the photos are taken, you’ll have a completed guest book by the end of the evening. Embellishments and enhancements can be added by the bride and groom after the wedding, if they want to add these items.

This is a very unique way to create your guestbook and have a lasting memory of your very special day that you and others will look at over and over again.

Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for several years. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or visited at http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com

by Audrey Okaneko