Let’s take a moment and go back to my wedding.
We did not have a guestbook. We had “guest book cards.” These were little rectangles of white cardstock that our guests signed and dropped in a vase.
Mr. P actually rounded all of the corners of these cards himself (if you look at my Engagement Scrapbook Division page, there is a picture of him with the corner rounder). I ordered a custom “P” stamp using the Freebooter Script font that I used for all my wedding stuff.
Why not a guestbook? I always knew, way back then, that I was going to have a wedding scrapbook. I thought having a guestbook separate from the scrapbook was impractical.
So, I had everyone sign these little cards and they sat in a box with my wedding stuff for years. I had no idea how they were fitting in the scrapbook. Should I put several on a page? Maybe, but I felt that grouping them together would take away from the special nature of each message.
As usual, the idea presented itself to me when I was working on other projects and by the time I got to the anniversary section of my scrapbook, I knew exactly what I was going to do.
Stay tuned!
I can’t wait to see how you decided to show the guest book cards! We are doing something similar, but instead of regular cards, they will be post cards. We are getting a bunch from each of the places we’ve lived – New York (me), New Jersey (him), Chicago and Baton Rouge (both of us).
I’m not sure how I’m going to bind them after…but I have time to figure that out!
You won’t have to wait long to see
Have you thought about clipping your cards together with binder rings? I’ve seen a few friends do that. Alternately, another friend of mind used similar postcards to what you’re doing as her response cards and then she put them all into a page-protector type album.
What a neat idea! I can’t wait to see what you do with them. I am so impressed at how much you did yourself for your wedding. Wow!
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Even though I also knew I was going to have a scrapbook for my wedding, I decided to go with a premade wedding book/guest book since we had 2 receptions. I liked the idea of having all the family info and main detail summaries from all of the stages of our wedding planning/ceremony/reception, plus it was a good place to keep the list of gifts for writing thank-you notes. I was just too lazy to do it myself in a scrapbook! So now we have an abundance of wedding-related albums on our shelf… but it makes me happy. It was a very good (<–understatement!) day, and I love all the different ways I have it documented.
I think it’s great to do what makes the most sense to you! My little sister has a couple of different albums. I actually have a photobook in addition to the scrapbook that I’ll have to write about at some point.
I was actually thinking of your wedding album this morning because I was playing with some fonts. You are the only one I’ve seen that made copperplate look good! It works so well in your album! I was trying it out on a layout without much luck.
I’d love to hear more about the photobook! I hope that you will do a post on it sometime. Even though I’ve made just a few, they still manage to stymie me every time! I love seeing what other people do.
Thank you so much for the compliment on the font
I love the mixture of the block/serif with the script (if I do say so myself). It *was* a huge pain to cut with the Silhouette, though!
I’ll make sure and do a post on the photobook, but I don’t have any magical advice
I actually don’t like making photobooks and I can never get them to look as nice as I have in my mind! But I made one for the wedding anyway so I could get as many pictures printed possible and have something before I made the scrapbook.
I can’t wait to see what you did with the cards! My wedding is in 4 months and I have no idea what I’m going to do for a guestbook. I’ve been following you for a while and I LOVE your wedding scrapbook. I can’t wait to make one!
Well congratulations in advance! Let me know if you have any questions and I’m happy to answer them.
Great idea of preparing the Guest Card Books instead of the regular cards. You are really creative and artistic to such these things really well.