Weddingbee Blog

When we started to think about our guestbook set up, we agreed that making cards for the guests to sign was the best route for us. I wasn’t sure how I wanted the final guestbook to look, and I liked the idea of being able to assemble it after the wedding. A friend had already lent us a birdcage for our cards, so we purchased another cage for the guestbook. I bought this at Target last summer, but have seen them recently in their home decor section.

Mom Taffy had given us this white cake stand in the spring; I thought that it would be perfect for the birdcage and give it some height at the display.

Instead of using pictures for the guestbook display, I made these silhouettes in Photoshop and put the prints in oval frames.

Once we had all of the elements, we mocked it up on our dining room table. I used the most wrinkly tablecloth ever for this!

The cake stand was perfect for the birdcage.

The whole display, including our favor jars (before we wrapped them in black ribbon and attached the signs).

The cards were plain white cardstock with printed gray lines. We used the scalloped Martha Stewart punch to decorate the bottom edge, and rounded the top corners. I thought they looked like cute eyelet Pac-Man ghosts! I also liked that the eyelet look matched the darker style of the birdcage. We had a ceramic tray that we used to display the cards; adding a blue ribbon under them helped tie in our wedding colors. We made a very plain sign instructing guests to sign the cards for our book.

Oh, that tablecloth is just sad. Our actual linens were ivory, and pressed! Yikes.

What kind of guestbook did you decide to do for your wedding?