Weddingbee

So, working down the list — I’ve “figured out the guestbook stuff” and here are my solutions.

For the ceremony: the standard, run-of-the-mill guestbook. I purchased the Celine Countryman silk-covered guestbook from Jenni Bick Bookbinding in platinum blue. Clean, simple, functional, well-made, and not overly expensive = an easy choice for Miss Plumeria. I may dress it up a little bit to look like some of the other monogrammed choices on the site, but we’ll see… I know I’m running out of time.

My pick, top:

Some prettier ones, also available at Jenni Bick:

For the reception, it was a little harder to decide what to do. With a guest list topping 400, we needed something fast (goodbye, trendy Polaroid guestbook), as well as non-fussy (farewell, equally trendy large glass container and individual “wish cards”). So I stuck with what had been my original idea, anyway: a large photo mat for people to sign, with one of our bridal portraits inside. Since we have so many people, instead of one huge mat and frame, we chose three fairly large ones that happened to be on sale at Target for $12.99 each…

Then, I bought some rub-on transfers and definition stickers at Michael’s…

… And put them onto the mats, just to add a little something, while still leaving plenty of room for signatures. When adding stickers, I placed them intuitively: aligning edges here and there, and making sure the placement on each mat was similar, but different. I bought some gold gel pens for signing, ordered a few prints of our portraits to go inside them, and they’ll be all set and done in plenty of time.

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