Wedding Card Scrapbook

Over the last few years, I've been making mini scrapbooks using greeting cards from events like our engagement, our wedding shower, and my 30th birthday.  It's been a great way to collect and display different items from these special occasions.  The last piece of the mini album puzzle was making one from our actual wedding.  Every time I went to start it, though, I was overwhelmed with all the stuff we had collected from that time in our lives.  I had tons of leftover Save the Dates, invitations, menu cards, etc.  So I found myself opening the bin containing everything, looking through it for a few minutes, and then packing it all back up.  

With all the snow we've been getting around here lately, I've been home a lot more, so I knew it was finally time to tackle this project.  I started by laying everything out and making a rather large toss pile.  Did I really need 25 extra programs?  Plus, you may remember that I made a wedding shadow box a few years ago, so I already had some of our favorite wedding things preserved in that.  Anyway, while sorting, I decided to keep one program and invite to store in our memory box (new post on that coming soon!) and then deconstructed the others to use in different parts of the scrapbook.  I did either shred or recycle a good amount of stuff which felt great!

Once I had decided what to keep and what to purge, I set to scrapping.  I used a gray file folder to make the pages and just cut them to the size of the largest card.  For the front cover, I took the flower, monogram and announcement from our invitation as well as the pink paper.  I found a "We tied the knot" embellishment I already had and used my heart shaped hole punch for the mini hearts. 

 

For the inside, I cut out the pocket from our invitation and slipped our Save the Date, photos of our parents we displayed on our wedding day, and the infamous watermelon swatch from David's Bridal.  I carried that thing everywhere for the majority of the time we were planning our wedding so I really wanted to keep it.  I also added our engagement announcement from our church bulletin.  On the next page, I used our thank you card, a picture of the church we got married in, and part of our program cover.

On the back, I added our thank you page and a quote from our program as well as one of the tags my mother-in-law made to go with our Alzheimer bracelet favors.  I also took one of our table number and just punched holes it in so I could include the whole thing.  If you didn't know, we named our tables after places in Alaska where we went for our honeymoon, so I included the one for Ketchikan, one of our favorite stops.

I also included one of our menu cards which had the same pink and gray flower as our invites.

The last step was to punch holes in all of the cards.  This was the hardest (it's really hard to punch through some of the thicker cards) and most cumbersome part, but it was also fun to reread messages from our friends and family.

Once everything was punched, I took some leftover pink ribbon and tied everything together.  I had used this ribbon for a bunch of wedding stuff, such as to wrap the jewelry I gave my bridesmaids.

All in all, I'd say this book took me about an hour to an hour and a half to complete.  I'm so happy to finally be done with this simple project and can now add it to the collection.

Be well,