They've been together for 11 years and so when Covid cancelled the wedding in 2020, it wasn't that big a deal for them. But they were both surprised to discover that being married has made them feel somehow different, and very happy!

This spread, the second spread in Part 1 of my daughter's wedding album (Part 2, the party, happens in January), focuses on turning the rustic pavilion into a wedding venue complete with a breakfast and hot lunch buffet. We kept everything simple and seamless. The kids got changed in the parking...

The blowing-hair thing seems to be a motif in all my albums.... :)

It's uncanny how it happens--my daughter and I flew out to CA for wedding-dress shopping for my other daughter years ago and it happened then, too--The First Dress. I can imagine these dresses becoming animated and beckoning to the brides-to-be in some silent but effective language. (It actually...

That's a nice trick with the title--the outline unifies it all. Note to self: TRY IT!

This is so fun and awesome! I love the bold graphic complementing the action of the fishing rod!

The actual pages are posted separately, but here's how the spread about the wedding dress turned out, just for fun. Products are listed on the posts of the separate pages. I'm freewheelin' this album, not being driven by design concerns like page-to-page unity or overall book unity because...

This page complements its partner on the left page of the spread, showing the dress finally being worn in 2024 after the wedding was Covid-cancelled in 2020. The layout combines the Classic Caducous Release (on sale for a limited time) with a Scenic Template. I removed the postage overlays...

Page 2 of Part I of the wedding album for my daughter, the wedding having taken place last Friday after being Covid-postponed since July of 2020. In this layout the template does the heavy lifting, while my photos and journaling tell the story of the dress in the window back in 2020. The beaded...

Beautiful framing with all the embellishments. Love your sandhill crane pages!

Just one suggestion: A FULL PAGER ABOUT THOSE KNEE PATCHES WITH CLOSE-UPS! You are so creative! Enjoyed the journaling here, as I just assumed the weather remained the same in LA year 'round. And always enjoy a Cher update! Oz has morphed from "cute" to "handsome" as his bone structure appears...

Love this! Give me the feeling of looking through a tunnel...and having surprised eyes looking back!

Such a carnival of color! Love the arrangement of leaves with the little label at the top.

Loving the way the rocks in the blended photo curve toward the framed photos--this design makes me want to be there! Excellent placement of the flower element, too.

Beautiful. Someday I hope to catch the sandhill cranes on the Platte River.

Glad this became fun and you found your groove--it's an important story. I know what going up against the "shoulds" is like...and I'm already thinking that my 2025 thing is going to be to break every rule that I can. I'm loving your highlighting of the "firsts."

There is something that jangles about this design, and therefore I love it lol. You've broken a few of the "artistic" rules here, and that works for me.

This one hits it out of the park on so many levels. So beautifully crafted.

Thanks! I have the template to thank for the design. I'm in the storytelling zone at the moment and happy to let the pre-packaged design do the heavy lifting. It's already becoming an addictive project, and I know you know how good that feels!

It's off to a great start and it's energizing for me to focus on creating a record that is a milestone in so many ways. I'm finding myself digging out photos from 2020 to tell the full story--our dress-shopping day, e.g., was right before NYS lockdown, and little did we know that the sound of...