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[M160]Make Your Own Wedding Album

by Talking Weddings, Tal

Your wedding album is one of the most important elements of your wedding and will be a lasting reminder of your special day that you will be able to enjoy for many years after the day. Wedding albums also often become family heirlooms, being passed on from one generation to next, and form an important part of a family's history.

In the vast majority of cases wedding albums contain a fairly set series of pictures starting with perhaps some studio portrait photographs taken on the morning of the wedding (or perhaps a few days before the event) before moving on to a number of posed photographs taken outside the church and finishing up with a selection of photographs taken at the wedding reception. In some cases couples will also include pictures from the honeymoon at the back of their wedding album.

So what can you do to ensure that you have a unique wedding album?

Well, the first thing to consider is whether your album should contain only pictures from your wedding day itself or should be a complete record of the event starting with your engagement and including a complete photographic record of the whole process of planning your wedding. How about including pictures of some of the alternative venues you considered, the dresses you tried and rejected and the cakes you considered but decided against?

Another idea is to include items other than simply photographs, such as copies of your wedding invitation, the order of service from the church and even the caterer's bill.

Yet another idea is to ask you guests to sign a sheet, perhaps as they enter the reception room, or to write a short message for you which can then be included in your album.

And how about asking your guests to help with the wedding photos? Distribute a number of ?instant" cameras amongst the guests and ask them to take a couple of photographs each and to pass the camera along. You can even ask them to take as many pictures as they like to take home as souvenirs as long as for every picture that they take home with them they take at least one other picture which they leave with you.

This list of ways in which you can create a unique wedding album is very long and is really only limited by the number of ideas that you can come up with. The most important thing to remember though is that there is no set format to a wedding album which, at the end of the day, is your personal memento of the day. So, the more you can include in your unique wedding album the more you will have to enjoy in the years ahead and to pass on to your children.

A wedding is one of the most important and eagerly awaited days in a person's life and one looks forward to it with many anticipations. Great care is taken to ensure that the preparations are in place and nothing goes wrong on the D-day. The entire family pitches in to take up some or the other responsibility for the wedding to ensure the smooth flow of every ceremony and ritual. As the bride's family and groom's family are tied up with the last minute wedding shopping and arrangements, it is natural that they will not have the time to enjoy the actual marriage rituals and ceremonies. It is therefore essential to capture the precious moments so that they can be reviewed at leisure and cherished for a lifetime. A wedding album is the most preferred method to capture and collect the memories associated with the wedding day.

Many people also opt for video recording of the entire ceremony and that also has its own charm. But the old world attraction of a wedding album continues to attract millions of people in clicking snaps of every important moment and preserving them for future. The wedding album gives a feeling of having frozen the precious moments in camera and hence appears to be more nostalgic not only to the couple who were married but also for their family and especially their children in later years. Hence much care is taken while selecting the apt design and style for the wedding album and a wide range is easily available in the market from where you could take your pick.

A wedding album may have compartments into which the photographs are slipped into, while other albums may consist of thick and heavy paper with a sticky substance where the photograph is placed and a plastic cover is attached to the top. A wedding album may also have the simple provision of thick paper on which the photographs can be attached with glue. A person can select any style of albums depending on the preference for a particular style. As a wedding album is preserved for a person's lifetime and is often handed down through generations special care must be taken to ensure that the album is not damaged at any cost and is taken care of like a precious belonging.

The advent of technological advancements on the internet has made the concept of an online wedding album very popular among the internet savvy people. A person can now simply access a website offering the facility of online albums, upload the photographs and create an online album for any occasion. Online wedding albums are a popular choice as they can be stored without using up physical space and can be easily forwarded to friends and family. People can also visit the link for the website and view the album as and when they want. All these advancements have ensured that the charm of a wedding album continues to have a special place in the heart of every couple and their families.

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