Our generation has found an exciting new way to capture memories. Scrapbooks are a hobby, a passion, and an industry. If your scrapbooks are a big part of your life, you might consider making them part of your wedding. Scrapbook favors are a new wedding favor idea, but they're catching on fast.

The most fun scrapbook favor is an entire miniature scrapbook, emblazoned with the couple's names and wedding date. Guests can arrange their photos in them and look back fondly whenever they'd like. If you purchase mini scrapbooks, you can expect to pay four to eight dollars for each one. However, there are many websites, books and magazines that can instruct you in making your own mini scrapbooks for less. You may also consider using inexpensive photo albums for this purpose.

A second scrapbook wedding favor design is a single, enclosed page. This is most appropriate if nearly all of your guests have scrapbooks or albums of the same size. Ask to be sure. Along with each page, you can include a card stock printout of your names and wedding date to be used on the page. Choose paper that compliments your wedding theme, so each guest will have a perfectly coordinated page.

Scrapbook stickers, of course, are far less expensive favors than entire scrapbooks and their pages. You might consider giving bridal-themed scrapbook embellishments as favors to assist your loved ones in recording the day. Stickers, paperboard cutouts and vellum decorations can be grouped together and wrapped in tulle. If they are not sturdy enough for a tulle wrap, place them in a favor box or tin. A fluffy piece of tulle in the bottom will cushion them and provide an elegant appearance.

If you'd like, you can place small pieces of paper and pens on each table as well. Guests can record their thoughts and wishes for your scrapbook or their own. This is also an effective strategy for keeping small children busy and happy during a fussy adult event.

If you are planning to use a scrapbook favor, consider taking extra care in distributing photographs. Make sure that each guest receives copies of key photos: the bride and groom exchanging vows, the kiss and the first dance. Duplicate any photos that feature a particular guest and send them along as well. After all, these are their memories of your special day. Disposable cameras on each table are a good idea for a wedding with a scrapbook theme. Extra cameras result in more photographs, and clearer memories.

Scrapbook favors can be extravagantly generous, or beautiful on a budget. If scrapbooking is your passion, tap into it on your special day. Your wedding photos will eventually be placed in each guest's scrapbook or album. A desire to make that process easy and unique has created a wave of paper wedding favors that are guaranteed to make your special day picture-perfect.