Wedding Blog

One more [pseudo] DIY project down, about 271 more to go!

Luckily, a friend of mine had an extra Kolo Newport album (11×14 size)…in red! She sold it to me for a very reasonable price. I slipped one of our engagement photos in. Cover, check.

I then bought the off-white colored refill pages and gummed photo corners. Using a mini T-square, a polaroid photo we had lying around, and a gridded self-healing mat, I painstakingly pasted in each photo corner.

Here’s a closeup:

Now that almost all of our RSVP’s are in (yes, still waiting on a few stragglers), we are expecting about 150 guests. Many of those guests are part of a couple or family, so we figure they’ll take couple or group photos. I bought 20 pages, which gives me 40 sides for photos and guests’ signatures. Each side has space for two photos and accompanying signatures/messages, so we’ve got room for 80 photos. From very informal research (asking a few friends who have done this), it seems that the final number of exposures used ranges from about 30-50% of the total guest count. Many guests take photos with their S.O., their kids, their group of friends, etc. Some forget or don’t bother taking the photo and signing.

The best deal I’ve found for non-expired Polaroid film is Costco.  Ebay’s got some deals, but it seems a lot of the cheaper stuff is expired or close to expiring with no guarantees your exposures will come out.  Costco’s film is almost $45 for 5 packs of 10 exposures each (50 exposures) in store.  Lucky for me, a friend has two Polaroid cameras she is willing to lend me for free.  I’ve wrangled up two friends to be my guestbook nazis (man the cameras and guestbook table).  All I need is a handful of black or brown acid-free pens, and our guestbook is all ready!