Sarah,
This sounds like a nice idea, but, the only thing I would be concerned with is the limitation you will have with the size of the frames in the book compared to the pictures or the amount of pages in the album compared to the amount of pictures they may want to put in it. Several years ago I bought a pre-made album somewhat antique looking and planned to put old old family pics in it for my Daughter. After assessing the size of the frames, many which would be too small for these pictures, I decided to just put together a Heritage album which I could plan out myself. Unless you can find an album that has decent frame sizes and not a lot of the 2-3in. ovals and one that you can add pages too that might work. Hope this helps you.

Pam

Sounds like a great idea, but it might be easier on you and the bride if you gave her instead the album, paper, stickers, die cuts, an assortment of mats that have been pre punched or the corners rounded, in her wedding colors (approx. 3 colors that match) and then let her mount the pictures as she gets them. You could perhaps put the pages in the page protectors with all the items for that page, kinda like power scrapping, when you get pages ready for a crop, and then give it with a idea book for scrapbook making. Penny

I like Penny's idea but like you said, you don't know if she's crafty or inclined to become crafty, you may want to add a "I would be happy to help you with this project!" coupon. :-)

These gals have great ideas! I liked Crystal's idea of the coupon thing too!

My suggestion would be that the album need not contain photos that the professional photographer takes. That way, you don't need to consult him beforehand or give any kind of list. Just make sure that you and a couple other guests have your own camera and just take lots of snapshots. Then you can give your prints to her and she'll have all the right photos to put in her album.

I'm currently working on my wedding album, and it is all photos that were taken by my aunts and dh's aunt. Lots of stuff; our rings, our cakes, our head table, our harpist, signing the register, walking up and down the aisle, the receiving line etc. You get the idea. Then, if the bride wishes, she can add a studio photo or two just to finish off the album.

Kelly

If you don't even know her, how can you be sure she will even like this craft? (I know it is hard to believe, but some people don't like the way scrapbooks look! They prefer traditional photo albums!) I would be worried about that. But then, I am kind of pessimistic!

I received an album from a friend and all I had to do was place my photos in it. It was such a creative and thoughtful gift; not to mention a great place to put all the pictures people sent to me after the wedding! There was a variety of pages incl. "getting ready for the big day", "how we met-the dating years"...and just some great pages for pictures I couldn't put in my album the photographer put together. I'm not very crafty,(actually because of this I've started scrapping) but it was easy to see where the pictures needed to go and it included a template so I could trim my photos. She did admit that she did not make the album herself, but the page ideas were all hers! here's the link of the place she got it. Hope this helps...

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