Wedding Series: A Guest Book
Full of Memories, Not Signatures

 

Guest Blogger Stephanie Buttrill is an account supervisor at Ketchum, the public relations agency for FedEx Office. She was married in April 2009, and has had some great ideas for the Out of Office Wedding Series based on her own wedding planning adventures! We loved Stephanie’s guest book idea and asked her to share it with our readers. 

All the weddings I’ve ever been to (which admittedly are few at my ripe old age of 27!) have featured some kind of guest sign-in book on a table by the entrance. I suppose the bride imagines this book full of signatures will serve as a record of sorts, reminding her years from now just who made it to her big day…and how good their penmanship is. I wanted a reminder too, but figured there had to be a better way to do it.

As an avid scrapbooker in my scant free time, I thought: why not combine the scrapbook model with the traditional guest book? In my version of the book, the pages are split evenly between photos and messages from guests, which are tucked inside small envelopes I found in my wedding colors.   

 To get started I went to my future mother-in-law’s house to dig through and scan old photos of my fiancé. I combined those with pictures from my childhood and our recently-taken engagement photos and had an enormous stack of photos printed out. Then I got to work scrapbooking the photos and all of the envelopes and blank notecards.   
 
I even found an adorable poem that had been used by a fellow wedding-chat-board user for a project she made with “wish jars.” I tweaked it a bit for our event, and it made a great cover page explaining what the book was meant to do:
 
Stephanie & Jonathan are now newlyweds
With love for each other filling their heads.
Please write them a note, a wish, or a greeting.
When they return from Hawaii your thoughts will make for good reading.
Or if you’d prefer, some advice would be nice
On how to stay happily married and keep up the spice!
 
Here are a few pictures from my finished album and the thoughtful messages people left us. While it was a lot of work, this is definitely a memory from the wedding that I wouldn’t want to be without!
 
      
 
      
 
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Comments

Thanks!

Thank you!  I'm a big scrapbooker, so for me this was a lot of fun to put together AND great to have after the day of the wedding!

-Stephanie

Great idea!

I love this. Makes me want to get married again just for the book.

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