Mary Kay Lady
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Nov 1, 2015 6:00:52 GMT
My sister is getting married in two weeks. I live in Texas and she lives in Tennessee. I'm flying out for her wedding. I've offered to make a wedding scrapbook album for her and she said yes. (I'm a paper scrap booker, not digital.)
Originally, I thought I'd make the album and give it to her at her wedding. I've never created a scrapbook without the pictures. She doesn't scrapbook that I know of.
I'm having trouble creating pages without the pictures. I usually have the pictures and create the pages/scrapbook around them. Would it be rude to ask her to send me the pictures so I can put them in the album?
Part of my problem is that this is her 4th wedding (I know, right?!?) and she's not hiring a professional photographer. She's having a friend with a camera take the pictures. I don't know what size they'll be or the orientation of the photos.
I'm open to suggestions. Originally, I planned to do the layouts and provide her with the photo mats and a tape runner and let her complete the album, but I'm not sure that's the right way to go on this.
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Post by ExpatBackHome on Nov 1, 2015 6:07:11 GMT
Since she isn't hiring a photographer, I would ask for her friends to email photos to you. I would also take a camera to get some shots. Since this is her 4th, I think giving it to her afterwards with the photos is fine. Also, she may have other people attending the wedding send her photos afterwards and I would ask that she send those to you as well. It's more likely to be completed if you do it  |
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Post by megs78 on Nov 1, 2015 9:45:37 GMT
I agree that completing the album yourself would be the best way to go about it as someone who doesn't scrapbook could be a bit overwhelmed even with just photos and mats to work with. I also think having the photos emailed to you would be the best course of action - then you can print the sizes as required.
Perhaps you could setup a DropBox account and share it with all the guests, so that anyone who takes photos can load theirs into DropBox and you can pull what you need from there? You could also ask guests to email through their anecdotes from the wedding/couple so that you can use that for journaling...
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Nov 1, 2015 12:03:10 GMT
Completing it after the wedding will be more artistically satisfying for you, so that gets my vote. As it is a 4th marriage, will there be a dominant colour scheme? Attendants?
As no professional photographer is involved it will be more difficult for you to predict "standard" shots around which you could build more generic pages with spaces for 5 by 7 or 4 by 6 photos to be added later. I say give her a scrappy card with an IOU representing the album and set up a dropbox as suggested upthread. In addition, candid photos with a relaxed couple and their family and friends just hanging out will probably make you want to pull from parts of your stash which don't come to mind now as you try to plan pages "cold". Good luck!
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Post by digirlwiz on Nov 1, 2015 12:08:26 GMT
Drop box is a great way to get pictures. I would complete the album and give it to her afterwards- I think some people will not complete them- even with a tape runner and mats. I gave my niece an album with finished pages of the engagement, etc and give her more pages as I complete them...dress shopping, cake tasting, etc. She loves getting them along the way.
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Post by eastcoastpea on Nov 1, 2015 13:43:15 GMT
If I was the bride, I wouldn't expect the album until after the wedding. I would also not be expecting to have to add the photos myself. I would be thinking that it was fully completed. (I am saying this nicely and not at all aggressively.)
I think an album is a great gift. I know that I would have liked one. My wedding photos still aren't in an album yet.
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Post by caangel on Nov 1, 2015 15:07:42 GMT
If it were me I would make a point of taking as many photos as possible on my own. The probability of getting bad, few or no photos is high.
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Mary Kay Lady
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Nov 1, 2015 18:34:32 GMT
Thanks for all your input. I so appreciate it. I think I was stressing over it because I'd envisioned having this completed album to give to her at the wedding. But then as I was thinking it through I couldn't imagine how to make it work.
I'm not familiar with Dropbox. How does that work? Is it a photo sharing site?
She's created a FB event for her wedding. Could I ask people to upload pictures to it and tag her in them?
The colors that she's using for her wedding are fall colors (green, brown, yellow, orange). Her dress is ivory with black lace.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2015 19:18:41 GMT
I think *I* would take pictures myself and use those. I have given up on relying other people to supply me with what they say they will!
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Nov 1, 2015 19:41:29 GMT
Dropbox is a file sharing site/app. For me the issue with downloading from FB, email and texts is the typically small file size. I would hope for the best but take my own photos so I know I have something decent to work with. Then supplement with others' photos if they work out.
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 1, 2015 20:01:24 GMT
I made a wedding book for two of my good friends. I made traditional pages with spaces for lots of 5 x 7's and some 4 x 6's. I had everything from the engagement photos, the ceremony, the cake cutting etc. I made 20+ double sided layouts and then put in a good 10 PL pages in the back so extra photos they loved and could be added. One lady had to wait over a year to get her professional photo book sent to her, so she loved having mine to show off her pictures much earlier. Her mom also borrowed it.
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