Wedding Essentials: Wedding Guest Books
Wedding guest books are truly essential in any weddings. It holds the names of those who spent their time to attend to this one special day. It helps newly married couples to reminisce the occasion. In this special day, a guest book is something that should be ignored.
Wedding guest book is one of the most important things during the wedding. First, it provides a list of those people who spent their time with them. With the list, you can always prepare a thank you card for them. Second, it serves the purpose of refreshing your contacts. Your friends or relatives may have changed their numbers and addresses. You may also meet new faces – your in-laws, your spouse’s friends that you might want to add in your contacts. And lastly, it holds the messages and wishes of those who love you and support you for this major decision in your life.
Have Pictures on It. Pictures are very essential in capturing the moments during the wedding. You can assign one to take Polaroid shots of the guests then incorporate it to the guest book before they sign. As you read your wedding guest book for the years to come, you will not only remember their names, but their faces as well.
Make it Extraordinary. Aside from having your guests to sign their names on the guest book, you can request for something special for them to share, such as recipes, personalized letters, photographs or other memorabilia. You can inform them a few weeks before the special day. In doing so, your guest book will not be just a piece of notebook with written names on it. It is a book filled with much personality, thoughts and fun – a book worth keeping.
You can also personalize your guest book by asking some of your friends and family members to share something that can be put on your guest book. These can be recipes, a composition, and stories in the past or even letters. They may even include pictures of you when you are still single or bonding times with them. It will surely be a book that is full of thoughts, fun and love from those people who care for you.
Whether you want your pages blank or guided with lines depends on how you want your guest book to like it. Do you want it fun or do you want it formal? The above suggestions will look better on blank sheets. In blank sheets, your guest can have freedom of what they want to do and write. They can draw, doodle, write in the corner, in the middle, write long or short, or whatever. With that freedom, they can easily express their emotions and their thoughts that they want to share with you.
Books with lined papers on the other hand are commonly used in traditional guest books. It is hard to keep your writing straight on a blank sheet of paper. It will surely look unattractive and messy. Using a lined guest book keeps things in order.
Be Creative. There are no limits of what you can do with your wedding guest book. It can be a scrap book, or pieces of papers in a jar, or even a clay pot. There are certainly no rules to follow. All you need is to be creative with what you want it to look like. Little forms of encouragements will make your guests to be creative as well. Remember, it should be a keepsake. Try to spend some time for ideas and make your wedding guestbook as something you will always want to look back.
Wedding guest book is essentials in one’s wedding. This is where your guests will log their names for gracing an important occasion in your life and that is your wedding. You may want to reminisce this memorable occasion by finding real friends celebrating with you. You can also try some bridal shower favors to complete the celebration.
