Wish Bowl AND Guestbook?

sb52584

This may be a stupid question but I am unclear of what to do. I love the idea of a wish bowl where people can write down a little piece of advice for the new bride and groom, but I already have a photo guestbook that I made for people to sign. Can you do both or is one supposed to be in the place of the other?

jagore08

If you want to do both I don't see why not but just remember that not everyone will [i]want[/i] to do both. I would choose one or the other (I would do the book).

ffmaid

Not everyone is going to do either and if you have 2 almost nobody will realize they are supposed to do both. I would pick one and run with that .

meganlyn02

I was thinking this same thing. I am doing a photobook guestbook at the church and then a 'wish bowl' sitting out at the reception near the cocktail room. Not sure if people will do it, but I think a few will and that will make it worth it!

I <3 Seabass

Why don't you just have people write their advice to you in the photo guestbook?

chelbell326

We did a wish bowl at our reception & it was a HUGE hit (so much so that I ran out of cards (I only made enough cards for about 80% of our guests... & our guests started using their escort cards to write on!) LOL

Jess&Jahanzeb

I was at a wedding about 6 months ago and they had a great system set up.... One that I’ll probably copy myself.   They had the traditional guest photo-book for people to sign when they arrived but then they had a “Wish & Advice” thing set-up on their cake table throughout the night, which was moved to the front of the dessert & seafood buffet.  How it worked was she set-up three large round vases, the centre one was taller.  One of the sorter vases said “for the Bride” , the other shorter one “for the Groom” and the centre one “for the Happy Couple”.  People came by and filled out their wishes or advice for either the bride, groom or them as a couple and placed it into the right vase.  You could even incorporate three different coloured papers for this to draw in more colour.   I just loved this idea and the more people had to drink... the busier the station was!