Late this afternoon, Melissa was sitting on the couch, looking at some things we had picked up from Jo-ann Fabrics earlier: a 2″ thick package of scrapbooking paper, and extra plastic insert pages for the wedding scrapbook we had purchased a few weeks back. She and I both thought it would be a good idea to put the various sentimental items and as many cards as possible into a scrapbook so that a few years from now, when we’re browsing the phone books for hitmen, we can refresh our memory about why we got together in the first place.

“This scrapbook stuff is so GIRLY!” she exclaimed, somewhat exasperated.
“Well, scrapbooks are kind of meant to be geared towards girls, aren’t they?” I replied, “I think doing a scrapbook for our wedding memorabilia is a great idea, but it’s definitely meant to be angled towards women.”

Imagine, for a moment, the man’s scrapbook. It would contain the following:

• A table of contents, quite possibly with colored tabs to denote the various sections and organizational layout.
• vital details about the bride and groom and their families (name, gender, height weight, birthdate, etc.)
• the number of people attending, the length of time it took, and quite possibly the minutes of the event.
• The text would all be in some kind of serif font, quite likely typed or laser-printed and affixed with staples on 8.5 x 11 paper, so that it can fit in manila folders in a filing cabinet.
• A printout of the weather from that day
• a map of the facilities used (a very nice Quaker conference / retreat center, in our case)
• A detailed line-item breakdown of the budget and expenditures
• A breakdown of wedding gifts, by category, with a matching pie chart and correlative-demographic line graph.
• the direction and route numbers used by each guest to arrive at the wedding. (Thanks Aunt Jane

You may think I’m joking… but ask a few guys about what THEY would put in a scrapbook if they were to make one.

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