Make a Wedding Slide Show

So you made it, the wedding is finally over and you and your new spouse want to make a slide show of your big day. But do you really want to pay someone else to do it for you? Making a wedding slideshow yourself is now easier than you would ever believe. And it gives you more quality time to spend together.

Steps

  1. Before making your wedding slide show, you will need to choose a program. There are many tools you can use, but one tool I will recommend is PowerPoint. As it is easy to use, and it has a step by step guide when you are in the program. Your wedding photos, videos and songs can all be inserted into it.
  2. As you may have lots of photographs and videos want to include in your wedding slide show, one thing to do before you make your wedding slide show with PowerPoint is to select photographs, video clips, songs and anything else you want to insert to your wedding slide show. This also works as a great bonding opportunity and allows you to relive all of the moments of your wedding.
  3. After that, directly import the photos, videos and songs into the PowerPoint or use the photo album function of PowerPoint to form your wedding slide show.
  4. For preserving your wedding slide show for long-time use or distribute it to your families and friends, burn the wedding slide show you made with PowerPoint onto a DVD disc. Newer operating systems have built in functions to copy files to CDs and DVDs. There are also various commercial programs that help with this process so search the web or call your computer dealer for guidance.
  5. If you have only one album to share consider uploading it to an online service such as SlideShare. You can then send all of your friends and relatives the URL and only forward CDs/DVDs to people who request them.

Tips

  • Add short wedding video montage clips - Do you have any home videos sitting around gathering dust? Think about adding perhaps a 10-15 second wedding video clip in the middle of the wedding slide show.
  • DVD Menu - Creating a DVD menu is not a big task anymore. It will provide you to show your work in a more professional look and including your great pictures in your menu to indicate different episode.
  • Give some thought to music - Choose music that has meaning to you, music whose lyrics go well with the pictures. Slow romantic songs and Fast dancing songs will have different feeling and drive different emotion. As long as the pace of showing pictures are matching to the music.
  • Choose Quality Wedding Photos - Pictures that look great printed will also look great while scanned. Now it's more and more popular to use digital camera to take wedding photos.

Warnings

  • Be safe: Things can go wrong at home. Make an extra copy of your CD and keep it in your bank safe deposit box. If you don't have a bank safe deposit box be sure a friend or relative who lives far away will keep a backup copy for you. Also, consider backing up your hard drive to an online service.
  • Remember: CDs and DVDs do not last forever. Also, at some point in the future CD and DVD readers may no longer be available. Protect your memories by copying your album to a new medium every few years.

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