Speak now or forever hold your peace
April 2, 2008 – 12:42 amAfter large amounts of nagging from my mother and encouragement from our wedding photographyer (actually, his full on pleading), I finally have put the finishing touches on our wedding album. I am currently waiting to have one small question answered by him and then it will be sent to him for photo retouching and then processing.
Seriously, y’all, this was hard. I had twenty pages to work with and over 500 photos to choose from. I couldn’t decide if I should do twenty pages of just one shot on each page or attempt to use the more scrapbook type templates to fit as many pictures as I possibly could onto each page. Should I use all candid shots, all posed - all color, black and white, sepia? What about all the pictures of our friends and family dancing? Are there enough of each of us alone and together? The bridesmaids and groomsmen? The family? To make matters more difficult, the parent albums are just smaller reproductions of what I put together. So a year from now, ten years, twenty, my parents and in-laws will only have what I put together to show off (unless they purchased their own photos from the photographer). Are they the ones that I want or the ones that I think my mother will want? Perhaps I am the one adding all the pressure onto myself, but it had me freaked out, nonetheless.
It is comforting to know that I will also get all the photos on a DVD set to songs of my choice (yet something else I have YET to do), so the ones that didn’t make the album won’t forever be lost into the abyss of nothingness. But I think that it is done. I know it’s done. I can’t wait to have it in my hands and be able to pour over it for the next sixty years.
