Wedding Album...

It's finally done!!! Six years and three months later (to the day...) I finally finished our wedding album. I like it. It's simple, it has all of my pictures in one place. It makes me happy! Come take a trip down memory lane with me ...

(Sorry for the picture quality here...) This is the page for the day we got engaged. Yellow bandanna is the one I was wearing when we got engaged.

The little hearts are some of the ones that I saved that Trent used to propose to me. I was working at a girls camp and I was hiking with my campers when he proposed. These were all scattered on the trail tied to flowers. They say things that he liked about me on them... Ahhh...

Some mock engagement pictures that we took our at the Great Salt Lake. We had little brine flies all over us... gross.


Our REAL engagement photo shoot. Also on this page I put a copy of our wedding invitation.

Bridal shower page. I saved one of the invitations from the bridal shower my friend Ashley threw. Just lots of pictures of people sitting around...

This is my bridal picture page... pretty lame if you ask me. I didn't know what to do with this page so I just sewed some fabric on there. I don't know what that's suppose to look like... a veil? An old Kleenex? Don't know... but one thing with sewing on paper, once you sew it on you can't take it back!!!

I LOVE THIS PAGE!!! I saved this one for last because I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do with it. This is the page about the day that we actually got married and it has all of the pictures that were taken at the temple in the pages that follow. I decided to make a bouquet like the one that I had that day. We had our reception a week after our wedding so I didn't have a bouquet that day. I wasn't worried about it, but Trent bought me a beautiful winter bouquet from Costco and I loved it! It was perfect. I had a fun time recreating it. The only thing missing is the pine cone, yes there was a pine cone in the bouquet... but I wasn't sure how to do that and I didn't want to "ruin" the page so I left it out.

We had a wedding dinner following our sealing at the Lion House in Salt Lake. I wrote Trent a song when we were dating and surprised him that night by playing it at the dinner. So for that page I sewed a little guitar and printed out the words to the song that I wrote and put it on the page.
This is the page for our reception. All of the dresses that the bridesmaids wore and the sisters etc. were made, so we had some fabric scraps of everything. My cousin made me a pillow out of all the fabric scraps that has been tucked away in my cedar chest for some time. So I took one of the panels off of the pillow and sewed it onto the page. I also have a napkin from the reception and some leopard ribbon that I used to make my garter belt. I had to throw leopard print into that wedding somehow!!

Lots of reception pictures in here. Can any of you pick yourself out? Ashley, Shannon, Jules, Amy, Erinn, Berlee, Angela!!! Lots of you in there to share this special day with us!

Last but not least the honeymoon. We went up to Yellowstone and went snowmobiling for our honeymoon. It was so great! Nice to "take a break" every once in a while but it was so cold that we didn't break for long! I would love to go back there in the winter and snowmobile around again. I saved a map that we had of the different trails around there.


So there you have it. My non scrapbooked scrapbook! I know that some of you think that this is the same thing as scrapbooking, but I tell you what. It was so EASY and CHEAP and fun to put together. It really didn't take any time at all. I used the same color thread on everything and didn't use one dot of glue. If you would like to review the "book scrapping" method you can refer back to it here.

Book Scrapping...

One of the crafty things out there that I have never had a desire to get into is scrapbooking. Now don't get me wrong... I've seen many beautiful scrapbooks in my day... and every time I think, "Wow, that looks great! But that is just not for me!"



Scrapbooking seems too high maintenance for me. The thought of sitting down and cutting out all of those little bits of paper, gluing them onto the page, picking which picture you'll put on the page out of the hundreds that you have... I don't know. Not to mention, I'm a cheapskate. It seems like it's a hobby that requires a lot of money on ribbons, paper, little clips...you name it!!!

So there you have it. Please don't hate me! But that is why I have never gotten into scrapbooking...



With that being said, I have so many pictures that I want to put into an album that are just sitting in boxes. I also am a pretty sentimental gal so I have lots of coaster, napkins, ticket stubs, etc. that I also want to put into an album. So I've been trying to tackle this project in a non-scrapbooking type of way. I wanted to give you a sneak peak into my idea on what I'm doing here... I came up with a few rules to making the book that I am following.



1- Absolutely no glue or tape will enter the book. Every item that is attached to the page has to be sewn.

2- The "sewn" page only contains items that have meaning to the particular day or situation. Either pictures, fabric from clothing, little sentiments that have been kept from that day.

3- Each page has a typed out description as to what was important about that picture or that day. I like attaching the memory of why this was important or what was meaningful for that day.



I'm working on putting my wedding album together right now. Here is a peek at the first description page that I put together...

This is from the day that we got engaged. I have a picture of us smiling from ear to ear, a tree that I sewed onto the page since we got engaged in the mountains on a hike. I also saved the bandanna that I was wearing when we got engaged so I cut it up and sewed that onto the page. Total cost for the page - $0.29!! That's all the the piece of paper that I sewed it on cost. The rest of the items I already had.

I found these great page protector refills that have 4x6 pockets to store the rest of the pictures from our engagement on the following pages. This way I can put all of my pictures into the book and I don't have to make a separate page to highlight all of them.

I am so excited about this project! Each page has only taken me a short amount of time to put together. I have a few more to do before I finish the wedding album so I'll show that when I get it all done.