From The Straits Times    |

The moodboard

For arty or DIY-inclined brides, try cooking up your own mood board, which is essentially a collage of pictures from your wedding. It can start from the very first day you began your planning and then let it evolve as your ideas grow. 

What’s great is that you’re not limited to using tear sheets or photographs. You can throw in special details such as pictures from your fitting or dress fabric swatches. Even your designer’s initial sketches and the ribbon from your bouquet can be preserved on a mood board. 

An Insta-worthy album
Turn your Instagram shots into adorable sticker books, calendars, thank you cards, posters, collages, magnets and/or miniature photo books with Social Print Studio (formerly known as Prinstagram). Give the service access to your account, pick the photos you want printed, submit your order, and you’re done. Details at www.socialprintstudio.com.

Customised scrapbooks
With the easy availability of scrapbooking supplies in Singapore nowadays, you can easily customise your own. But if you’re not the particularly crafty sort, and would rather leave it to the professionals, you can consider services, which create gorgeous, personalised items on your behalf. One such store is www.thescrapbooker.co.uk, where you can send in your material and have the rest of your work done for you.

Face it!

Blurb (www.blurb.com), a company and community with bases in the US and UK that believes passionately in the joy of books, turns Facebook albums into actual photo albums. Grant Blurb access to your profile to launch its online book-making tool, select your final pictures, colours, types of pages and cover, preview the final product, and then place your order.

This story was initially published in Her World Brides December 2012 – February 2013.