Prewedding parties
1) Shower yourself with pictures Start making memories before the wedding begins with a photo theme shower. Have the shower host(ess) ask everyone to bring a photo-related gift. The presents might be a memory-making object like a camera, slide projector or mini cam; a memory-keeping object such as a picture frame or photo album; or a ready-made memory, such as a collage of photos of you and your friends from high school or a framed picture of you and your fiance. If most of your guests have been friends for years, you could show a slide show of your shared past during the party. Have a friend or relative on hand to take pictures of the event -- knowing you, you'll want plenty of those!

2) Go for the glamour Take your bachelorette party to Glamour Shots, or a similar glam-gal photo spot, for a chic set of prints you'll keep long after the wedding. Make this "last night out with the girls" a full-scale frill-a-thon. If you still want to do the more traditional night out at the bars afterward, you'll be made-up and ready.

3) Dinner and a show
Put together a slide show for the rehearsal dinner. Pillage your old photo albums for great shots of you before you met your beloved, during your early days of dating each other, and now. Ask your sweetie (or his mother) for childhood photos, and borrow any other good shots from both of your friends. Get slides made of the prints from a photo shop and rent a slide projector (or use the one you got during your shower!). Make a tape of your favorite songs -- or the tunes that were playing while your were dating -- to play while you show the slides. Or ask one of your photo-buff friends to handle the arrangements.

The wedding
4) The write invite Rather than ordering standard engraved invitations, why not incorporate some of your own great art? Uncover that fabulous drawing of a bride and groom you did when you were five, and do your invites on copies of it. Or unearth that letter you wrote when you were 8, vowing to never kiss a boy (except your dad and brother), and reprint that along with a picture of the two of you.

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