advice for an October bride

catwine · October 2012

hello ladies! I'm an Ocober bride in need of some advice from all who have recently been married.

We are undecided about a guestbook...we don't really like the traditional 'write your name here' style but feel like our other option of having guests write us a note and leave it in a box might not be well used. people often seem a t a loss for words and just end up writing "congrats" best wishes" etc anyways!

so, what sort of guest books did you all have and were they well used?

kellycatalo · October 2012

we had a photobooth so two copies of the pictures would get printed and one would go into our guestbook, and our guests would sign next to their picture. very fun!

NO2012 · October 2012

In Response to Re:advice for an October bride:we had a photobooth so two copies of the pictures would get printed and one would go into our guestbook, and our guests would sign next to their picture. very fun! Posted by kellycatalo We did this too and it was very fun. I wanted something I'd actually look at again. I've read about other girls on here create a photobook on Snapfish or other similar sites using engagement pictures. I always thought that would be nice and something I'd look at again had we not had a Photobooth.

celticmyss · October 2012

We had everyone sign the mat for a frame and we'll display a group shot of everyone in it. We had a small wedding though, not sure how many people can fit on there.

lbarr088 · October 2012

We created a photo guestbook on shutterfly. Make sure that the table it is on is NOTICEABLE. Literally no one signed ours besides a small handful.

BMcLeodTeam · October 2012

We took a canvas and put our monogram in the middle. The guests signed around the outside. We're going to display it in our house with pictures around it

wcasar · October 2012

I created a book on Shutterfly. I put a bunch of our engagement photos throughout the book and gave people pages or sections of pages to sign. I even had a page for the Bride's Side and Groom's side of the wedding party. Parents got their own spot to sign as well. Much better than the one line thing in my opinion.

AriesAngel86 · October 2012

We did a spin on the traditional guestbook. There was the standard Name/Greetings section but underneath it had a box that said "Draw Yourself" We got some pretty interesting drawings!

hollyweenOR · October 2012

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[QUOTE]I created a book on Shutterfly. I put a bunch of our engagement photos throughout the book and gave people pages or sections of pages to sign. I even had a page for the Bride's Side and Groom's side of the wedding party. Parents got their own spot to sign as well. Much better than the one line thing in my opinion.
Posted by wcasar[/QUOTE]

We did this, basically- our photographer included it in our package, and made a nice book from our engagement pics with lots of blank space for people to sign. I'd say 2/3 of the guests managed to sign it?

Anyway, that's easily done through Shutterfly or similar, or even Costco makes those kinds of books. And it's nice to just have a book of pictures of you two, too! :)

em105 · October 2012

We put big sheets of scrapbook paper on each table with pens and asked people to write their best piece of marriage advice for the bride and groom.

We got AWESOME answers and are working them into a wedding scrapbook. The paper was cheap at a craft store and I just wrote/drew the table number on each sheet.

I think just about everybody signed them at the tables- mostly in between courses. I would HIGHLY recommend it.

(FYI- we went through just about every idea possible and this was basically the simplest, cheapest idea we had.)

ejheart · October 2012

Our idea was similar to Em's but we did it at a separate table (although, I think guest tables is an excellent idea) and we asked people to write advice/well wishes for our 1st, 5th, and 10th anniversaries. We had mason jars labeled with the respective years for people to put them in. I bought the signs off of Etsy from a shop called Marrygrams, and I thought it turned out pretty cute! (We plan on creating a scrapbook for them later.) My only bit of advice would be to remind people to sign their names! From what I've heard most people just left anonymous advice...

mcda04 · October 2012

We had a digital guestbook with our engagement pics. everyone loved it.

vbjoanna · October 2012

We didn't have engagement photos per se, but had gone around town and taken a bunch of photos -- some with us, some just of places and things we like. We made a photobook on iPhoto, and designed it with some blank pages. I'd guess that at least a third of our guests found it and signed. Since it's something we'll happily leave on our coffee table, others can sign it any time!

I definitely agree with the OP -- the sign on a line thing made no sense to me. I'd wanted to get a coffee table book of photos of our town, but couldn't find one with enough white space. making our own was perfect, and we'll paste a wedding photo -- or maybe the big group shot we took -- in the back of it on a page I designed for just that. If you have photos handy, it doesn't take too long to make (no matter what program you use), and delivery might be a week or so. Not sure if you have that kind of time or not!

MrsBassPlaya · October 2012

I did a book that I plugged in engagement pics and other random pics of us. We would have a page of pics, then a page of lines for people's names, then a page for some random stuff like "Share some marrige advice for the newlyweds," "Where should we travel together?" "Share suggestions for date night," "What do you admire about us as a couple?", and "Anything else you want to say?"

The book was placed prominently before the ceremony and at the entrance to the reception (and next to the buffet line/cake area). Because the pages were all mixed together and had pictures, people actually looked through it to find the questions they wanted to answer. I think almost everyone signed it, and we had at least 5 or 6 answers to every question. In fact, multiple times I would get up to visit tables and the person I got up to go visit was out signing the guest book. I love our guest book, and DH and I acually took it with us on our wedding night and read through the answers before bed. It was perfect!

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