Capture Your Way To The Altar And Beyond In A Wedding Planner Scrapbook

Scrapbook Your Way from Engagement to Wedding

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Putting together documentation for family histories has become a very popular activity. You can easily capture your way to the Altar and beyond in a wedding planning scrapbook. Use the A-wedding Day Wedding Planning Guide Book. For a limited time, it is FREE to download and print it

The difference between placing photos in an album and creating a wedding planner scrapbook is that the latter combines words, feelings, wedding planning worksheets and checklists with photographs and other pieces of memorabilia. It thus becomes a timeless treasure, a family heirloom.

Today, planning a wedding is no easy feat. There are many details to attend to, which take time, energy, and money. In addition to their daily responsibilities, brides and grooms are usually so consumed in creating their dream wedding that they do not think of compiling their way from a wedding dream to a dream wedding by creating a wedding planning scrapbook.

Almost every couple replied that they would love to have a way to journal their experiences with their kids, once they have them. The most common reaction to Our suggestion was, that if they could find a way to chronicle the details, they would surely write down every step, every experience and every feeling from their first meeting through their honeymoon.

After all, a wedding scrapbook conveys the romance, joy, sadness, tears, and laughter, feelings and experiences as it tells the story of the beginning of a new family, a story to be handed down to the following generations as a family history book.

You do not have to shop for a wedding scrapbook. Just download and print our planning guidebook and keep the pages in a 3-ring binder with a window. Your scrapbook should look elegant and should have a classic, timeless appeal so that when you look through it you should re-live all of the events associated with your becoming a family.

Following are ideas for inclusion in a wedding scrapbook. In every category be sure to include text, pictures, mementos, and keepsakes. Also remember that elegance and simplicity are not trendy and will always be appropriate.
Consider adding the following items to the pages in your 3-ring binder so when it accompanies your wedding album and make both true mementos of your family history.

Page Dividers to separate the activities,

Sleeves – Clear Sheet Protectors – for documents, appointment schedules, estimates / bids, worksheets, checklists and more,

Closable pocket envelopes for brochures, receipts, fabric swatches, etc.

Business cards holder page with pockets,

Photographs page with pockets, for spontaneous photographs you take as you plan it and at your wedding. Looking at a photo with each of your vendors, will hopefully bring up fun memories too.

Other Memorabilia:

Following are items only you can add to the scrapbook:
Wedding gown and bridesmaids’ dresses fabric, receipts, transportation tickets (plane, train, bus, ship etc…) bridal registry, engagement gifts list, shower gifts list, wedding gifts list, wedding checklists, gift cards and written best wishes. You got the idea.

You may want to include details about the following in your planner-scrapbook.

· Facts About the Bride & Groom and if you have access to the information their family trees and a blank tree for their new family.

· If this is a family wedding, Facts About the children

· The Courtship and Proposal include pictures, special correspondence, mementos etc…

· The proposal

· The meeting of the bride and groom’s families

· The Engagement

· Pre-Wedding Activities

· Parties: Engagement, showers, rehearsal dinners, etc…

· Planning the wedding

· The Wedding attendants

· The Ceremony

· your wedding rings

· The officiant

· A copy Of your Vows

· A copy Of your Marriage Certificate

· Music & Songs

· Important Memories of the Wedding Ceremony and Reception including toasts and speeches

· Wedding Gifts

· The Honeymoon

· The engagement party, showers, rehearsal dinners, etc… pictures and keepsakes

Setting up your wedding planning scrapbook

Incorporate the wedding theme and colors and include: pictures, mementos such as an engagement announcement, newspaper announcement clipping, save the date note, invitations, wedding program, something old, something new, something borrowed something blue, a Sixpence coin, a hankie, place cards, printed ribbons, printed napkins, brochures about your honeymoon destination etc… You may also add important pictures from your courting days, your engagement photo, preparing the bride, the ceremony location, the walk down the aisle – wedding attendants; flower girl, ring bearer, groom and bride,
the marriage ceremony, the unity candle ceremony, the children if you have a family wedding, the officiant, the first kiss, the reception site, the first dance, toasts, cutting the cake, feeding the cake, etc…

Content

You are the bride and groom. As a family history document, the scrapbook must include your actual experiences and feelings your ups and downs. You may use the scrapbook almost as a diary and tell it about all your, trials, tribulations, fun activities, triumphs and even disappointments you encountered between your first meeting and your return from the honeymoon.
Journal them all and be specific yet creative.
Don’ forget to incorporate interesting anecdotes, funny stories and tips for a successful marriage, given you by friends and relatives. You do want this heirloom to tell the following generations about their family, don’t you?
Share your story vividly and with pictures and mementos so that they can feel as if they witnessed the creation of their family. Do not forget to tell about your heritage and religion.

You may write about:

· Bride’s Faith

· Groom’s Faith

If you are Christian you may wish to include:

· Favorite Biblical and other readings

· Religious hymns played or sung during the ceremony

· Prayers & Blessings

If you are Jewish you may wish to include:

· Beshert: Meant to be Soul Mates

· Special Preparations

· Chuppah – The Ceremony Canopy

· Kiddushin: The Engagement Ceremony

· Nissuin: The Marriage Ceremony

· Sheva Brachot: The Seven Blessings

· Your Ketubah – Jewish Marriage Contract

· A Kippah – Yarmulke

· A Talit – Prayer Shawl

· Aufruff – Throwing Candies toward the congregation

The scrapbook will become your gift of love and family legacy. Everyone who is a part of the new family should participate in its creation.
Therefore, the bride, the groom and if you have children, should all contribute text, pictures, art and decorations. The more details you include in your scrapbook the more information you’ll provide for your children and grandchildren to talk about and share with their children and grandchildren.
Since the words you write today are evidence of history to the future generations, when you have children, you may wish to add a letter from you, dedicated to them.

Now put on your thinking cap, plan the wedding scrapbook, and have fun. Remember that as the bride and groom and their children look through it years down the road, they’ll be thankful for being able to go down memory lane and re-live the creation of their family.

By Nily Glaser of A-wedding Day Magazine
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Nily Glaser is a published author. She wrote and published the A-wedding Day Wedding Planning Guide , Book. She writes important articles, and has presented workshops for wedding professionals all over the USA.
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