Weddingbee Blog

A couple of days ago, we FINALLY received the CD of our photobooth pictures from the wedding. This means two things: First, I can share them with you, and second, I can make our guestbook! We had 105 different photobooth pictures, and they were all pretty great, for various reasons. We seemed to have three main themes: boob grabbing, strangling and kissing. I’d really like to post the photos here, but I don’t want to offend any of our guests who might not be wild about having their faces on the internets. Instead, here’s one of me and Mr. Cream Puff:

one of my girlfriends and I:

and a really cute one of my little cousin, who somehow ended up in the Photobooth all by himself!

I’ve been putting the guestbook together, and I am REALLY happy with how it turned out. It’s super fun and I can honestly say that I think we’ll look at it again and again. One thing that didn’t work out too well, though, was the number of signatures we got. For some reason people didn’t really see it, even though it was right next to the photobooth and on the exact same table as the props (???). Unfortunately, the girl manning the photobooth didn’t take it upon herself to ask people to sign it. None of our immediate family signed it, which totally stinks, and we’re missing a few key members of my extended family. Only a few of Mr. CP’s family signed it (although, I was expecting this. When I proudly showed MIL Puff our guestbook, she said, “Chinese don’t sign guestbooks,”).

At first I was thinking that I’d just forget about it… but some people have SUCH cute photobooth pictures and no signature! I may have to torture them by bringing it with me to every family function for the next year…

Prepare yourself, Puff family:

Our guestbook was pretty big to begin with, so I wasn’t expecting it to be full. There are a lot of unfilled pages at the end, so I decided to turn it into a scrapbook. In addition to all of the photobooth pictures (and there are a lot), I decided to put a few other things inside. I kept all of our RSVP postcards, and since a lot of them have notes on them, I put them in the back of the guestbook. I’ve also received a few postcards (a few meaning three) from our OOT bags, so I put them in there, too. I also decided to include all of the cards we received with our wedding gifts. In the very front, I put a copy of our invitation, surrounded by the one photobooth picture Mr. Cream Puff and I managed to get together (I SO wish we’d gone in more!).

A few more signature pages:

Here’s an example of a page for a couple that didn’t sign our guestbook, but took a bunch of pictures. I’ll probably write their names at the top later. One funny trend we saw in the older Asian couples was repeated use of the photobooth, but exactly the same photo each time. This couple mixed it up with a prop… and one time they managed to gather a bouquet of flowers (from where? I have no idea). Some of the photos of other guests looked like passport photos–a couple of the women went in by themselves!

Here’s a page with our RSVP postcards on it…

And a page with cards on it:

I am SO glad we did this. I was a little bit doubtful in the beginning (mostly because we totally couldn’t afford it), but I am SOOO glad we did this. It’s one of my favorite parts of the wedding, and our guests loved it!