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If you are planning a wedding, and planning to scrapbook the special day later on, the most important thing you have to organise first is the images. Good images will make your scrapbook as special as your wedding, so hire a professional photographer, or detail the best photographer on your guest list to make sure you have memorable images.

The kind of images you are looking for are special one of a kind images that capture the flavor of the day. For example, the time of year will be an instant photographic opportunity. The freshness of summer, the blooms of spring, the mellow shades of autumn and the crispness of a winter's day - especially if there is snow on the ground - will set the scene for your scrapbook as well as your wedding. Make sure the snapper gets some lovely atmospheric scenic shots of the wedding and reception venues.

Detail your snapper to look out for special moments - little flower girls in cute poses, parents emotionally embracing each other, the flower girl and the ring boy dancing together - a professional will know what to look for, but a friend may need some hints.

Some wonderful ideas for special images include a close up of the bride's hand signing the register with her new name, close ups of the bride's and groom's hands wearing their new rings, and - if photography is permitted at the wedding venue - the very moment when either says "I do."

Images like these will give you great inspiration to create beautiful scrapbook pages. But what if your wedding has already taken place - perhaps decades ago - and the images are stiff and formal, or worse, non existent? It has happened that weddings have taken place with no photographs being taken.

Scrapbooks are about memories, after all, and if the images are unsatisfactory or simply lacking, call on those memories to create a special album full of love and reminiscence. Ask your parents, and other guests to write on cards their most enduring memories of your wedding day. You can use plain white cardstock cut to the size you want, and decorated with gold gel pen around the edges, or wedding themed stationery for longer pieces. If some one decides they want to write several pages, these can be folded and placed into a vellum envelop on your scrapbook page.

If your images aren't very exciting, try presenting them in usual ways. You won't want to spoil the original photos, so use photocopies or scan and print extra copes. Try printing a photo of thew bride and groom onto a large vellum sheet, and use it as a background for a page. Print out a large full color copy and turn it into a photo mosaic. Set small images within heart shaped frames or on heart shaped mattes.

Souvenirs of the wedding and recption should be added as well. These can include invitations, rsvp's, a list of gifts, name cards from the table, dried pressed flowers from the bride's bouquet, telegrams read out at the reception, and journaling of the speeches made.

Finally, if your wedding was not all you wanted it to be, and provided no useful and enduring material for scrapbooking, why not solve the problem by affirming your vows? A remarriage ceremony will provide not only a happy wedding day for you to scrapbook, but positive affirmation of your enduring love, and a beautiful thing to pass on to your descendants.

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