Make Your Own Bridal Book Inspired by Florence White Williams' Vintage Work
Let's face it. You marry just once. Maybe twice. Or seven times, if you are a Hollywood star. This means a wedding is a huge event in one's life. By huge we don't mean just expensive, but time and energy consuming too. While marriage slowly falls out of fashion, millions of girls still start planning their dream wedding between six and nine years old. And this planning continues well into the thirties for some of them!
Wedding planning includes delegation to a certain degree and exhaustion to the highest degree. In the end, if everything falls into the right place before the bride falls down, a splendid wedding happens. It's not pure joy, however. There are many obligations for the bride and the groom during their big day, from welcoming the guests to posing for countless photos, but, all in all, it's a great experience. We want to remember as many positive moments as possible. Here is where keepsake memory boxes come into play.
In short, a me keepsake memory box includes souvenirs related to weddings, from a dry flower taken from a wedding centerpiece to a free example of a total invitation. Such stuff can always be better organized with a bridal book where all the crucial info is stored. We have found a lovely bridal book from 1916, designed by Florence White Williams. The concept is quite basic (there was rationing, after all) but highly effective.
The crucial stuff like the names of the guests, a list of the gifts, etc. is written at the top of each page, the page is decorated with an artistic border, appropriate to a chosen wedding theme, and the pages are put together in a binder. That's it. Of course, you can add as much of your personal style and preferences as you want. This is just an example to inspire your inner artist.
You can, for instance, present a leading wedding theme on the end paper (if you tend to hardbound your bridal book eventually) or on the special page somewhere at the beginning.
The inner title page has an informative function. While it may provide the same info as the cover, it offers in most cases more data which might, if included on the cover, break the initial aesthetics. Still, the theme of the bridal book is present, as you see. Flowers and vines, in blue, yellow, and green on creamy white will stay with us until the end of the project called wedding.
Who is the owner of the bridal book? Who gave it to her?
An aesthetic approach to the official document.
The most important members (or all, if the wedding list is not too long) of the wedding party can sign in. This is a chance to divide the wedding party according to your perception.
A list of guests, of course. You may write a short note for each one of them. It can be a lot of fun reading about one's hairstyle twenty ears after, for instance.
The list of gifts can come in handy later, especially when you want to choose a gift for one of the givers.
A new home for the newlyweds is bursting with first impressions. Don't let them fade out.
Who called you first in your new nest? Who were your first visitors? What were the first social activities in your mutual home?
Was there any news in the papers? Clipe them out and stick to this page. Or, make a fun twist with changing news into new.
Why?
A home is where your loved ones live. Still, it has to be equipped and decorated to shine in full light. Here is a chance to write a few things about material stuff and everything interesting, funny, or otherwise memorable.
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You got the picture, right? Bridal books are all about keeping memories alive. For you and for posterity.
Enjoy creating your very personal bridal book!
