Treasure Your Wedding Memories
By Nily Glaser
©All rights reserved, 2004-2007
You are planning your dream wedding. It will be your special day, the first day of your life as a husband and wife, the first day of your newly created family.
You are excited and busy securing locations and wedding professionals, service providers and hiring wedding vendors. Yet, with all that you are having the time of your life.
Did you stop to consider how to treasure the memories of both planning for and wedding?
You surely want to capture this most exciting period of your life and preserve it for yourselves and your children.
Following are some ideas.
PRE-WEDDING album
Get a pre-wedding album for pictures taken at your engagement party, showers, other special events, precious moments and fun activities you share from engagement to wedding.
WEDDING PLANNING KIT
Have a WEDDING PLANNING kit where you store everything related to planning your dream wedding.
Divide your kit into section each containing special pockets for:
# Notes and lists from your wedding planning discussions
# List of wedding vendors, wedding professionals and service providers
# Each category of vendors, wedding professionals and service providers
# A list of questions you need to ask the wedding vendors, wedding professionals and the service providers, regarding their specific fields.
# Brochures, business cards, web site pages you printed, and other pertinent bits of information you gathered.
# Notes from your interviews
# Planning and information regarding other activities you plan such as rehearsal dinner
# A pocket for each of your attendants with their information, attire choices, duties and responsibilities, gifts you plan to give them and photographs.
# Articles of interest
# Do it yourself projects
# Special recipes,
# General tips and ideas
# Tips and ideas for your theme and or family wedding
# Wants and needs
# Samples of your wedding stationery including your: Engagement Announcement, Save the Date, Invitation, Response card, Wedding Program,
# Thank you note etc…
A WEDDING JOURNAL
For specifics read the article Journal Your Way to the Altar and Beyond.
A WEDDING TIME CAPSULE
A Wedding time capsule makes a unique and highly appreciated gift for the bride and groom.
It provides the perfect place to store wedding memorabilia.
The capsules itself is a container that is perfect for storing precious mementos of the wedding day.
The idea behind creating a time capsule is to preserve and cherish memories of the couple's most important day.
Whether the couple celebrates an anniversary, feels nostalgic or simply wants to share their special day with their kids, they will fondly open their time capsule and have a glimpse of the past.
It is up to every couple to considers the different information, notes and items most precious to them. Once they decide, the chosen mementos - wedding keepsakes need to be placed in the wedding time capsule as keepsakes.
Some couples place a note such as "do not open until such and such a date" Before storing their wedding time capsule.
A WEDDING SCRAP BOOK
Fill a scrap book with mementos and decorate with your wedding theme, pictures, lists and more.
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