Our Photobook

A few months before I got married I came across a pin on Pinterest where someone had compared photo books by printing the same book with different companies. The result was that Adoramapix was the highest quality, so I'd been waiting to make my own book with them. It was quite a challenge to putting it together because I wanted to give every photo a special place, and by the time I finished I had twice the amount of pages I started off with. On a whim, I thought I'd add the link to my blog and see how it looks up here.

If you care to see the large version of it, here's the link! 

Think FOREVER

What I Did With Wedding Cards

I finally got around to collecting all the wedding cards we received over a month ago and making a little book out of them. I usually don't like to keep things I don't find useful, but if it's a gift, no matter how insignificant, I will keep it for as long as possible. We received some beautiful cards along with our wedding gifts, and I hated the thought of throwing them in a drawer to be scattered about over time, so I made a book out of them. It was quite simple... all I needed was a hole puncher and 3 loose binder clips to start off with.

 I chose one of the larger cards to start off with, and simply eye-balled where I thought the rings should go.

From there, I took a pen and made small dots on all the other cards for where the holes should go.

I make sure to put the smaller cards that could only be clipped to one or two clips in the middle, so they wouldn't get damaged or tear of over time.

I also alternated them; If I had consecutive small cards I'd put one on the top two clips, and then the next on the bottom two. It helped lessen the bulk.

To this I added lace which hung on our cards box. I removed the letters and wrapped the lace around the cards to hold them in place, then wrapped two rubber bands around it.
I wouldn't have done this if I meant to showcase the book, but since it's probably going into a keepsake box, then I want it to be as snugly packed as possible.

I will probably put these in a Ziplock bag and then in the back of my closet along with a bin full of wedding things. It's a nice treasure to find years later, and I wouldn't want to forget all the people who gave us these cards.