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Boring Old Guest Books

katstrackkatstrack
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I've been trying to figure out an idea to use as a guestbook for my spring wedding.  Since my boyfriend and I don't hang many photos around we don't want to sign the mat of a photo.  We also don't really want to go with a guestbook we'll just put away somewhere. Any ideas?
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    frogurt814frogurt814
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    Check out etsy.  I saw quite a few interesting ideas on there when looking for guestbooks.  I think we are going to go with the tree where people leave their thumbprint as a leaf on the tree.
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    ryanplussararyanplussara member
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    My friend just did that for her wedding and the tree turned out great!
    It was a big tree that she painted on canvas
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    campbellsjcampbellsj
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    We did an engagement photo session with our photographer. He will use our favourite 15-20 images in the layout of our guestbook, which he will create. There will be pages that have just a photo, and other pages that will have just space to sign, and other pages with pic + signing.

    He also gave us the idea to add questions to the book and let our guests answer them. For example, "Why do you think we are a perfect match?" .... guest answers. I thought this was a neat idea, but our wedding is very traditional, so we opted not to do this - just our pics + signatures.
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    loop0406loop0406 member
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    I had asked this question a while back and received great ideas, we are going with a fish-bowl type vase and having guests write their wishes on little green/white note cards (our colors are sage/white) instead of guestbook....vase from walmart $5, note cards, $5 from Michaels, did our own design on them
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    hz80408hz80408 member
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    Having guests fill out postcards of wishes and binding together

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    noodle_oonoodle_oo member
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    If you don't care for a guestbook, just don't have one!  It isn't necessary.

    We saw this at a wedding and I like it:  the couple had 2 wine bottles and small pieces of paper.  The sign said to write a note for the couple to read on their 1 year anniversary (one bottle) and their 10 year anniversary (the other bottle).  You put the note in and on those anniversaries, the couple breaks the bottle to read all the sentiments.  Isn't that sweet? 
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    cschuma2cschuma2 member
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    edited June 2010

    Whatever you decide, just don't be disappointed if not many people fill it out.  I would estimate only about half of our guests signed our guestbook: a boring old one where all they had to do what write their name.  Perhaps your crowd will be different, but I think even less would have done a guestbook activity if it required more time and thought.

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    katstrackkatstrack
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    That's the thing...I DO want people to fill itout.
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    Beachy730Beachy730 member
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    I was totally against a traditional guest book and had looked into different ideas.  But we ended up going with a semi-traditional one.  Its a black and white damask book we got at Michaels (thats our theme) and the inside pages are completely blank.  We bought several gel pens in black and shades of pink, and will have them with the book.  I like that with this book people can write little notes to us if they want, or just sign it. 

    Another idea I really liked but it was way more than I wanted to spend for a guestbook was pages that you bound after.  They had things to fill out like advice for the couple, guesses on how many kids and how long until they have them, favorite memories of the couple, and things like that.  It just depends really on how big your wedding is and what you want to spend.  For our wedding with 250 people those sheets would take too long to fill out.
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    TurtlesAllTheWayDownTurtlesAllTheWayDown member
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    We're buying a few bottles of wine to drink on subsequent anniversaries and having the guests sign their names on the bottles.
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    katstrackkatstrack
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    oh...I dig that...
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    Princesaambar7Princesaambar7 member
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    We're going the photoboth route where guests get in take a silly set of pictures and glue it on a page with a message. We'll still end up with a book that we have to keep but at least this will be a lot more interesting to go through than the standard list of signatures.
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