Okay ladies, I need your wonderful expertise and opinions. My FI and I set our date and our venue this week (YAY!) and the set up of the venue (a historic home in CA) has the ceremony where you would consider a backyard to be, and then the reception moves back toward the front where guests initially walk it. On the walk way to the ceremony side there is an (outdoor) built in stone bar which is beautiful and in my opinion the perfect place to have the guestbook. The space is large enough to have a card box (something understated) and still room for any boxed gifts that are brought (very common in our families). I've done some lurking on different discussions to see what would be ideal as far as having someone at this "table" but I'm on the fence. Since it is between the two sites and it can't be seen clearly from either, I would prefer to have someone there to keep an eye on things until our DOC moves the gifts to my parents car. I also would prefer this because it is outdoors and it wouldn't be too difficult for someone to walk up uninvited. My idea was to ask a friend to be there until the ceremony starts, and then let her enjoy the ceremony and reception worry free. Am I totally off-base?
