I never thought that I would be so sentimental about everything from our wedding until I started to go through it and was deciding what to keep and what to give away. The cards were the hardest part in some sense. I sat in our living room right before we moved to a new city and spent hours going through the cards and gift bags/boxes that our wedding gifts had come in. I'm not even kidding. I teared up a little reading all the wonderful things that people wrote in those cards.
Even though I tried to make my solution to my card situation as cute as this one (she also has a much better tutorial) I still love it and it's SO much better than these cards sitting in a shoe box in our spare bedroom.
The front of the album is a gift sack that I cut down to size of the largest card we received. I layered the back of it with cardstock to make it a little sturdier. I put a large card in the front and a large card it the back. The back cover is the gift sack and cardstock combo as well.
The tricky part is getting all the holes that you will punch in your cards to line up. It might take some practice on plain paper. (That's what I ended up doing first instead of ruining my cards.)
To hold everything together I took ribbon from yet another gift bag and tied them all together at the corner then I took a larger ribbon to wrap around it. And apparently I can't tie bows.
I'll probably add more decoration to the front of it as I think of it and if I remember it next time I'm at Hobby Lobby. This isn't something that fits into a photo album and it isn't something your photographer can whip up. These cards are your family wishing you well on your journey together. It's irreplaceable. And trust me. When your grandma sees this next time she's over, she will think it's awesome.
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