Wedding Scrapbook Albums – Scrapbooking a WeddingWedding Scrapbook Albums can hold the meaning of your wedding day in a way beyond what a normal photo book may do. After you have made copies and sent out to everyone on your list, it is finally time to take your wedding photos and decide how you want to display them in your album for years to come. My beginnings of my own wedding scrapbook album started with my bridal shower, with the gift of a beautifully made album with scrapbook supplies to make my best wedding scrapbook or wedding scrapbook albums ever! Unlike some really traditional wedding scrapbook albums, my album was chock full of some bright colors and somewhat eclectic, but variety is the spice of life. Our wedding day took place on a Saturday, on the 27th of August, 2005. It was a hot day. The Officiate performed our wedding that evening in my sister’s backyard. It was a whirlwind of a time, that evening as well as events that led up to it. The honeymoon to follow was the best. So, while I am thinking on how to start writing about wedding scrapbook albums and scrapbooking a wedding in general, it occurs to me as I am reading about the general meanings of symbols in weddings through the years, to do that. Write about the different parts of preparing to get married and what the symbols meant for us (or at least for me) as a different way to show how wedding scrapbook albums might be done. The symbols that were part of our wedding were the rings, the dress, the veil, music, tribute to our parents, the invitations, and the wine ceremony and jewelry. In hind sight, all these things were a part of our wedding story and became a part of our own wedding scrapbook album. Okay, first, how did my husband and I come to the point of deciding to get married? We had been friends for over a decade beginning with high school, I think. We were friends of friends. So, over time I realized that he and I were meant to be together. Timing is everything. I say that because while I believe that it was God’s plan for my husband and I to be one, we both had to do some growing. He did that in his way and I did it in my own way. It was through the Internet, emails that we tended to communicate when we were not together. Eventually one of us (and I will keep that one a secret) sent the other a photo email with a message indicating a lifetime commitment. So, for awhile we started actually dating. The relationship took a turn from so-called platonic friends to we are not just friends anymore. So, during those times, I would place such messages into my scrapbook albums.
I have to say that one of the reasons those rings (the one’s that were blessed in our ceremony) mean so much to me is that I just about went crazy trying to remember if I had brought them up with me when I was finishing my preparations at my sister’s house. I did. Our wedding vows were traditional. It was in the “Presentation of the Couple” that it was agreed upon that the brides first name would be recognized along with the grooms, though the last name had changed.
A newer form to making wedding scrapbook albums is the making of a wedding through the camcorder. My husband apparently wanted to do something like this, but we just didn’t end up doing that. A few weeks before the wedding, with some help, we found for me a slimmer dress off the shoulders and a nice short train. I think I lived on yogurt at the time.
The Jewelry: I wore a necklace with a translucent chain and the symbol was the letter O I chose for my married name, Olvera.
I recently looked up the meaning or legend behind the hydrangea flower family. This legend regards the hydrangea hertensia. The Hydrangeas are marsh or equatic plants, the name taken from a Greek compound signifying water vessel. A legend goes that Philibert Commerson, a French plant hunter in the mid-1700s, and his botanical assistant, a young fellow named Jean Baret, stayed by his master’s side through incredible trevails of intense cold, jungle sores, and near drownings. But, in Tahiti, Jean Baret was unveiled when he tried to fend off the advances of a Tahiti Chieftan. Jean was really Jeanne, a woman. According to one version, when the expedition was over, Jeanne Baret became Commersons housekeeper and stayed by his side until his death. Then she remarried, and for reasons unknown, changed her name to Hortense. Some say that Hydrangea Hortensia was named for the legendary Hortense. Lavender flowers are said to denote purity, silence, devotion and caution.
At the same time, same day, my fiancé was having a great time on a boat on the Dana Point Pier with the guys. This was his bachelor party. Unfortunately, I have no photos for this.The Tribute to the Parents: Roses were chosen to give to our mothers. We chose to have this in our wedding ceremony in order to show our love and gratitude to both sets of parents. Wine Ceremony: It was a breezy afternoon, so the Unity Candle idea was out. I don’t remember the specifics, but I think of how it was that Jesus did his first miracle at a wedding in Cana. That first was turning water into wine. For practical reasons and symbolic ones, I chose a white wine called “Redwood”. Our honeymoon following would largely be spent among the Northern California Redwoods. The Songs/Music: Prelude~The Wedding Song by Kenny G.; Seating of the Parents/Grandparents~Prelude in “C” by Bach; Processional ~ Con Te Partiro by Gloria Sklerov; Brides Processional ~ Canon in “D” by Michael Hollaway; Recessional ~ The Four Seasons, Autumn III by Antonio Vivaldi.
We chose the Apache Wedding Blessing for our benediction 
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people” Victor Borce. I chose this quote to finish the program because of the physical distance that was between my husband and I when we lived in different states, but always seemed to keep in touch. I also chose it because getting to the altar for some reason was not easy and laughter brings healing.Many of the photos taken were done before our wedding ceremony and a few afterwards. Choosing not to be controlled by superstition, and judging it best to take photos while the sun was still shining perfectly, we most definitely saw each other in our wedding attire before the big event. The Get-Away Car: While we were all busy, family and friends sneaked out and decked out our rental. On our trip we got a lot of attention with our newlywed status, especially on the road.
When my cousin Cheri and her fiancé Mark married, it was done outside at the Hidden Valley Golf Club in Norco, CA. The bride wore a red kimono style dress and he wore either a dark blue or black. Memory is a little fuzzy and the photos I am not recalling well. The reception was lovely, with food and dancing. The following morning, as per a Chinese custom, the bride and groom had invited their guests to their home the next morning to have breakfast with the newlyweds.
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