Golden anniversary scrapbook
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Decade two spread from Mom and Dad’s 50th anniversary scrapbook album © Chris Raymond
In 1998, my parents celebrated their 50th anniversary, and renewed their vows. I wanted to do something special.
The preceding summer, I had spent many hours with my Mom, poring over boxes of pictures so I could organize them by year. So I decided to create a scrapbook that include five montages of scanned images, one from each decade of their marriage. Then I researched cultural and personal milestones from each decade, and created lists of the milestones (including the decade during which my father finally learned how to program the VCR!).
Finally, I found stock images of things in pairs, scanned them, and printed them out on vellum, alongside the list of milestones. I used colored pencils to hand color the stock photos.
To complete the scrapbook, I made a cassette tape of the song Grow Old Along With Me, which I put in a pocket I made on the inside cover of the album.