Alternate title: “The Bee Who Stole Ideas”
Alternate title: “The Evolution of DIY”
When you’re DIY’ing a wedding, it’s amazing how much your original vision grows as the wedding gets closer. Case in point: 8 months ago, I was 100% sure that I *had* to have a Polaroid guestbook. BUT I also ordered about 140 sage 4bar place cards from Paper Source that I would no longer be using because I also *had* to have origami escort cards. So to continue to reap the benefits of DIY, I had to make some adjustments – mayhaps to the guestbook?
When I was thinking about how else to use these place cards, one thing kept sticking in my mind – a blog that I had read back in my weddingbee lurking days – where Mrs. Lollipop described how they asked their guests to draw a duck on the RSVP cards. To this day, the idea makes me giggle.
So that was it for me. I decided we’d have to have our guests not only sign our guestbook, but also dazzle us with their artistry. And how do the 4bar cards come into play? Well, a la The Jolly Postman, I decided we’d paste each card into the book – not for utility, but gosh daggit, for CUTENESS.
For months now, I’ve been telling Mr. BG about this idea…
Me: “Come on, think of something to draw. Y’knowww, like, ‘draw a duck’!”
Mr. BG: “You keep saying duck. WHY A DUCK?” *unlike Mr. & Mrs. Lollipop, we have no special affinity for ducks*
Me: “It doesn’t have to be a duck, that’s just what Mrs. Lollipop did. So think of something LIKE ‘draw a duck’!”
We thought about kitties. I maaaay have mentioned once or twice that we have three beautiful kitties. We thought about having them draw our portraits (which I still think would be funny). But then, the other night, in a fit of productivity, Mr. BG finally just said - “Y’know what? Nothing sounds as funny as saying ‘now draw a duck’! I think it has to be a duck.”
So months later, here we are, with our guestbook ready to go – a veritable duck pond!
Our Kolo book - any ideas on what to put here on the cover? A picture of us? A thank you note to our guests? A monogram??

A couple of the inside pages (each one has a unique design)


And I don’t know how readable this last one is, but it says “please leave us your thoughts…” and “…now draw a duck.”

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