June 2, 2008
Tell Your Story
Hey there! My name’s Desiree and I’m interning with the web department here at Bridal Guide. I love putting my creativity to use by working on hands-on projects, so I’m very excited to help out DIYnista and blog for all of you!
Your wedding is a day you’ll never want to forget! Most of you will be hiring talented photographers to take gorgeous photos of you on your very special day. But where are you planning to store your photos later on? Here’s a great way to make your wedding day last a lifetime.
Shutterfly is a company that hosts online photo showcasing. The site allows you to make your very own PhotoBook, which you can fill with pictures of your favorite memories. And the best part? It’s fun, and SO easy (I signed up on the site and started a page just to see how the process worked. Now I’m addicted!).
Once you sign up, you can personalize your album by choosing different backgrounds, fonts and colors. When you’re done choosing the basics, you can start adding and rearranging your photos. To make the process easier, it’s a great idea to gather all the photos you’d like to use beforehand. That way, you can upload them all at the same time, and you won’t be searching around for that one specific photo you may have missed.
Be creative with this project and give it your own personal touch! Shutterfly has a few photo editing tools that can help make your images look much more eye-catching. You can crop your photos to give them a more artistic look, or change some of your color images to Black and White or Sepia, for example.
If you need some inspiration, check out the Shutterfly Community page where other brides have posted their own unique PhotoBooks. Just click the Wedding tab, listed under Categories on the left-hand side of the Community page, and you can check out hundreds of featured PhotoBooks.
Here are some fun, inspiring and beautiful example pages from wedding albums that I selected from the Shutterfly Community page:
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When you complete your PhotoBook, you too can share it with other brides by publishing it to the Community page. You can also purchase a printed version of your book, as shown below. It’s a fabulous way to preserve your wedding-day memories forever!
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In addition to its PhotoBooks, Shutterfly allows users to create their own save-the-date, announcement and thank-you greeting cards. Users can also personalize their own magnets, keychains, mugs, calendars, coasters and DVDs. Putting together a PhotoShow DVD is a great idea to add entertainment to your reception. You can select your own music, backgrounds, borders and special effects. To see an example of a PhotoShow DVD, click here.
Posted by Desiree at 3:35 p.m.
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