Things are changing in my world. One of the biggest changes that I’m relishing is being the mother of the groom. Of course, this calls for a scrapbook.
As mother of the groom, I don’t play an integral role in most of the planning. I’m okay with that. I want to be kept in the loop, though. Offering to record the event in a scrapbook gave me a perfect reason.
Life events should be enjoyed while they’re lived. But they should also be documented. This way the joy can be revisited through the years.
When we had our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, I enjoyed flipping through the wedding albums I made. The memories rushed back in vivid detail once more.
Time fades our recollections in the same way sun leeches color from our curtains.
We can’t bring our curtains back to full-color. Our recollection of events? It can be revived through visual stimulation.
As for the upcoming wedding, only a few plans have been set solidly in place. One of those – the dress – has been written about before.
Pages
Anyone who puts together a scrapbook, realized the paper makes the book. Seriously.
This is why any craft store will have an entire aisle of single-sheet specialty paper. And another aisle loaded with books of assorted papers.
It should have been easy to find a wedding-themed book of paper I loved, right?
Someone isn’t crazy about lace. Since this book is for her, I tried to avoid the books with mostly lacy-looking backgrounds.
Apparently, most brides ADORE lace.
Once I found a book with enough pages, I had to decide which backgrounds fit with which events I’d be documenting. Good thing I can always pick up more papers. After all, a scrapbook is designed two pages at a time.
The shopping excursions and final dress selection is the content shown on the four pages which record the hours days-long search for the perfect dress.
Pictures
During those escapades, the bride and her mother snapped photos with their phones. (What did we do before our phone could take snapshots?)
After the shopping trips, they forwarded the pictures to me. It was my job to sort through them, deciding which ones represented the overall experience of the day.
Since only one trip involved most of the bridal party, I chose many pictures from that day. After all, bridesmaids are an important piece of the successful wedding pie. (Or would that be cake?)
This bride went through the process of selecting a dress in a methodical manner. I must say, I was truly impressed. What happened to trying on every single dress until you fell in love with one?
If you know what you want, why waste the time and effort?
An assortment of pictures comes from the rejected dresses. Generally, there were parts of the dress that met the criteria. The pictorial rendering points out those sections, in hopes of reminding the bride of her genius.
For the bride, the dress is a HUGE portion of her wedding day. That’s one of the reasons it’s one of the first things my lovely future-daughter and son will see when they open their wedding scrapbook.
Next year when it’s finished – or ten years from now when they want to stroll down memory lane.
Next in this series is The Engagement. Guess I should actually put those pages together before I write about it.