Bound For a Lifetime
There are few truly special and unique days in our lives.
Everyone has unique days, such as birthdays and births in the
family. Many people are fanatically scrapbooking their family
photos into heirlooms for their children and grandchildren.
However, there is one day that many of us experience that are
truly unique-our wedding day.
Weddings are unique in many aspects; it's difficult to have two
weddings exactly the same. There is always some variable in how
weddings differ from each other, but no matter what the
differences are between your wedding and the Joneses down the
street, this is YOUR day and it is special. This is a day you
will likely treasure for the rest of your life. What better way
to capture the entire event than by scrapbooking the event into
a bound book that will last for decades?
There are of course the 'normal' scrapbooking practices-taking
your photos and arranging them on pages. Pictures are cut out
using special scissors and templates so that they fit best on
the page you are creating. Pages are also adorned with
backgrounds and stickers, buttons and baubles and many, many
other creative ideas. The possibilities when scrapbooking your
special wedding day are endless.
Think about your wedding, or your upcoming wedding, as the case
may be. There are photos galore and photo opportunities galore.
Photos of the wedding party, of the bride and groom, of the
bride's and groom's families, as well as photos of the first
dance the bride and groom share. There is also the opportunity
for photos of the people in attendance at the wedding and at the
reception. A photo of the bride's mom crying gently into her
hankie. A photo of the groom's brother giving a toast at the
reception. The cute little girl throwing flowers on the aisle.
Yes, there are a million photos that go along with your wedding
day, but there are other things that are a part of your wedding
that you can scrapbook and bind into a book.
Have you thought about including the invitation card, the table
placard, the lace that those little chocolates were wrapped in,
a piece of the plastic that made up the flowers that adorned
your 'just married' sign on your car or the gold ring that held
the wedding announcements together? These are all things that
you can include in your book binding and scrapbooking of your
wedding day.
Scrapbooks are beautiful pieces of artwork. The pages can last
an eternity-especially if you bind them in a book. This form of
altered book will be a keepsake for your family for decades to
come. By book binding your scrapbooking pages, you can ensure
that the fairy tale story of your wedding will remain intact and
in proper order so that future generations of your family can
relive your special day.
By organizing your photos and other sundries from your special
wedding day, you can create organized and clear scrapbook pages
that will tell the wonderful story of your special day. By
scrapbooking and then book binding the scrapbooking pages, your
hard work and creativity will create a family heirloom piece of
art that tells a story.
Can you picture your great-granddaughter sitting down with her
young child, your great-great-granddaughter decades from now and
sharing the special story of your wedding? By book binding your
scrapbooking pages, this beautiful scenario can be your family
60 years from now.