500 Wedding Ideas - What did you do with all of your wedding photos?

What did you do with all of your wedding photos?

Did you put them in a typical wedding album or did you make a fancy scrapbook of the best photos? I have about 350 pictures ranging in poor to decent quality. Now they are in a typical album, but I'm considering putting the better pictures into a fancier scrapbook with other memorabilia. What did you do? Where did you buy materials?

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I love scrapbooking. I made my own guest book, pages, and will also add the pictures into the same book- scrapbook style. I will do a more elegant version. I have gotten different papers that match my theme/wedding colors. Some of the pics will get framed of course. I also have decided to pick out the best pics and make a DVD slideshow with music to send out to family/friends. I have found that a scrapbook adds character and can be very eye appealing and make the pics more exciting to look at (to others). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course.
We got married Nov-2008. We have nearly 1,800 photos to sort through. We put some of them on one of those electronic picture frames. The problem is that it takes a long time to get to the photo you want to show your friends. We got some photo albums so we're still working on it. Good luck to you. * * *
In addition to the traditional album we received from the photographer, we also made a scrapbook that told the story of our whole wedding process, including the wedding shower and bachelor party as well as some honeymoon pictures. All kinds of wedding memorabilia were included: wedding invitation, program, menu, dj playlist, etc. We bought most materials and Michael's and Hobby Lobby.
My photographer took over 4,000 pictures the day of the wedding. She gave them all to us on a CD; then we ordered an album with our favorite pictures from her. If you want to put the other picture in a scrapbook I think that would be nice. You can try going to a local craft store, like Michaels, to get some supplies. They also sell lots of stuff at Target and Walmart. Or, if you want to buy them online try save-on-crafts.com. Good luck!
My photographers took over 1500 pictures.. they "fixed up" about 600 and they gave me those 600 and then i had my wedding album that we picked the pictures for. We have the fixed pictures in a typical album and honestly we don't look at any of them very much - only when company comes over or something. If you didn't get a wedding album it would be nice to make a scrapbook with the best photos and other memorabilia- you can get nice scrap book stuff at any craft store. whatever you do, do it for you because after the initial "newly wed" thing has faded away you won't look at the pictures very much
We are getting a traditional album of our favorite shots and putting the rets of the 3500 photos in a regular album. We also have a digital photo frame and various framed portraits in our home. I think scrapbooking is a waste of time and money and I don't feel I need scraps of ribbon, stickers and speech bubbles to help me remember my wedding or honeymoon. However, scrapbooking is a pretty big industry and I know craft stores carry supplies as do scrapbooking stores. Good luck!
I wish I had time to scrapbook!
I made a photo book (I used mypublisher) kind of telling the story of our day I also have a small album with pictures that my grandparents took and gave to us. I put all the other pictures that people gave us plus the good pictures from the cameras on the table into a large photo album that was given to us as a wedding present. Of course we framed some and put them on display.
Nothing yet, since my wedding's not until September, but I plan to just stick the 10 or 12 I like best into one of those photo collage things you can buy at Target or wherever and hang it on the wall in our family room. I don't really like the idea of wedding photo albums- they just sit on the coffee table collecting dust and nobody ever really looks through them anyway. I don't plan on getting as many pictures as you have, though- my fiance and I aren't too crazy about how we look in pictures, so we're just having our guy take about 4 or 5 of the required boring posed photos of us and the wedding party, and then just letting him go nuts at the reception with fun candid pictures. Hopefully we'll end up with like 15 that we like. That will be plenty.
I made a scrapbook out of all of my extra photos and my proof book from our photographer. I wanted high quality materials that wouldn’t damage the photos over time so I went with Creative Memories. Their supplies are expensive, but it’s well worth it! CM products are not sold in stores. Use their website to find a salesperson in your area. http://www.creativememories.com/
I have a traditional album from my photographer with some of the best photos in it. Then I have two other albums- one is my proof set from my photographer, the other one is photos taken by family and friends. I have some of my favorite photos in frames all around the house. Recently, I scanned every photo that I have and made a DVD slideshow of the photos. That way when I wat to look at pictures all I have to do is pop in a DVD and not drag out the albums.
I expected a nice formal album from my photographer but all I got was two stacks of prints. Maybe he expected me to pick my 25 pictures and notify him, but he never let us know and he never contacted us about it. And it took him 6 months to get those pictures to us. So I just put them in a regular album we had received as a wedding gift. And I added any pictures that friends had given us to that same album. I plan to eventually have some of the pictures enlarged and place them in a really nice album. One day I'll get around to that. Last Christmas, after much prodding from my father, the photographer sent us 2 wedding albums. They were both in the form of printed books. They're nice, just not at all what we expected. We can't add any pictures or remove any we don't like. We didn't even get to pick which ones went into the album. So it's nice but overall I'm disappointed. Plus it took 2 1/2 years for him to get it to us. I would go to Hobby Lobby or Michael's or another craft store for supplies to make your scrapbook. I think it will be much more personal and it could be a nice project for you and your husband to work on together.