Scrapbooking Layouts - Memorable Weddings

Your wedding was beautiful. Everything went just as it was supposed to go. The photographer took a lot of memorable photos. Friends used the cameras you supplied to good advantage, and you have dozens of great photos. Now you want to gather the photos and other memorabilia into a scrapbook. You need a good wedding scrapbooking layout.

Wedding Scrapbooking Layouts can be found on many websites. Happy brides, having achieved success with their own wedding Scrapbooking Layouts, have posted them in the many scrapbooking galleries online.

You can do a memorable wedding scrapbooking layout, too. You can purchase a kit if you wish, or you can create your own wedding scrapbooking layout.

Helpful Tips

These tips may help you get started.

1. Photos: Begin by sorting your photos. As you do, you will see themes emerging. Jot down ideas for each group of photos. Your photos will be the main focus of most pages in your wedding scrapbooking layout. If you are fearful of ruining your photos, scan them into a computer and print copies for your wedding scrapbooking layout.

You can be sure your wedding scrapbooking layout covers everything by taking time to think through the ceremony and reception. Group photos in a way that will include every event, both serious and comical.

2. Papers: Choose scrapbooking papers for your wedding scrapbooking layout. Make sure each complements the photos that will rest on top of it. Romantic and nostalgic papers are beautiful choices for a wedding scrapbooking layout. Be sure the papers are acid free and lignin free. This will protect your photos.

3. Mementos: Gather other mementoes from your wedding. You may need to ask for copies of toasts or other speeches given. If you had paper napkins, include one of those. You may have saved a few petals from your bouquet and the groom’s boutonniere. Get a copy of the song sung as a special.

4. Notes: Each page should contain a note - it’s called journaling. This note should tell your memory of what was happening at the time of the photos. It might also be a caption of the photos on that page.

You can find free wedding Scrapbooking Layouts at many online scrapbooking sites. Paper Wishes offers free layouts to all who sign up for their newsletter. Others offer a few new free layout ideas on a regular basis.

A good wedding scrapbooking layout could begin with a page showing your wedding invitation. A small cropped photo of the bride addressing those invitations would be interesting. Your journaling might tell about the excitement and work of choosing the invitations together.

Another wedding scrapbooking layout could combine photos of you cutting the cake with a copy of your father’s toast. Add a sweet note about Dad’s feelings at losing his daughter to another man.

You should crop photos to focus on the most important part. This is another good reason to use copies rather than original photos. If you make a mistake while cropping, print another copy and try again.

No Right or Wrong Way

There is no right or wrong way of creating your memorable wedding scrapbooking layout. It is simply a matter of looking at each double-page spread as a canvas. Then lay out your paper, photos, mementoes, and journaling in a way that is attractive to you. You are the artist, and what you like is what is best.