There is no better feeling than being in love and no celebration of that love more poignant than the wedding. The wedding day is dedicated to celebrating the bond that only two people in love can share. Think back to your own wedding, or any wedding you’ve ever attended, and immediately it conjures up images of the magical princess gown, the fragrant suffusion of flowers, the fairy-tale settings. It is a compilation of moments that stand out; the toss of the bouquet, the cutting of the cake.

The wedding day is full of those moments that we scrapbookers live to scrap. What could be more fun than pretty dresses, faultless makeup, styled hair, and flowers galore. Each moment is infused with meaning and each picture taken has its own special story to tell. No wonder such a large part of the scrapbooking industry is dedicated to making embellishments and papers to help us capture those moments with just the right layout.

Love… by Karla L. Fatula

Supplies: Paper: Best Creation, Chipboard: Technique Tuesday, Rub-Ons: BasicGrey, Making Memories, Flowers: Prima Marketing, Bling: Studio 18, Other: branch, pen, wire, clipart. Tools: Stamps: Stamps by Judith, Other: sewing machine, sandpaper.

Design Notes: The butterflies are homemade. Print desired clipart butterfly onto cardstock, cut out, and adhere antennas made out of black wire.

Beautiful Bride by Natalija Elijas

Digital Supplies: Kit: Stories of the Past Value Collection by Lauren Bavin (Digital Scrapbook Place), Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Fonts: Selfish, Sylphaen.

Design Notes: For the bottom left image, I masked out part of the photo with a large soft brush, then I changed it to Hard Light mode with a opacity of 50%. I duplicated it and set the copy to Lighten and 45% opacity. I made a third copy and changed its blend mode to Overlay and 18% to achieve the blended effect. Then I put a Lace Circle element on the edge of the photo and and changed its blend mode to Lighten/71% opacity. All the other elements are just layered and clustered on the layout.

Forever by Sandra van der Geest

Supplies: Paper, Die Cuts: Little Yellow Bicycle, Cardstock: Bazzil Basics Paper, Flowers: Kaisercraft, Prima Marketing, Ink: Versamark (Tsukineko), Inkadinkado, Kaisercraft, Truike Bron, Other: chipboard alphabet, tag, buttons, ribbon, brads.

Design Notes: I was married almost 15 years ago when there was no such thing as digital photography and I had never heard of scrapbooking. I had my wedding pictures digitalized recently and now I'm creating my own wedding album again with all the scrapbooking techniques of today.

Journaling: 28 Juli 1995.