“Leaf” Your Print and Sign

“Leaf” Your Print and Sign

September 29th, 2010 @ 1:50 pm by Mrs. Plaid
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I knew from the moment I saw the thumb print/guestbook tree trend, I was going to have to include it in our wedding day!

I’ve always wondered what people do with their guestbooks after the wedding. I didn’t want a book with people’s signatures just hanging around collecting dust. I love the idea that I can take our guestbook and display it proudly in our house after the wedding.

These were some of the first examples of this that I found:

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From the fabulous Mrs. Poodle

How can you not love this? And what a perfect opportunity to get Mr. P involved in the wedding planning again!

I asked him to draw a tree with just branches. Check out what he came up with:

I was blown away by how quickly he drew this and how awesome it looks. He started with pencil and traced over it in Sharpie. I think it took him only an hour and a half. Thank god he’s artistic because I am not. At least not with a pencil and paper.

I am, however, proficient with fonts and lettering. Once he finished the tree I added the lettering underneath. I chose Centurion Ho for the font.

Are you going with a traditional guestbook, or doing something a bit different like Miss Starfish’s postcards, or a bench ala Mrs. Sand Dollar?

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25 Responses to ““Leaf” Your Print and Sign”

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Miss Ostrich (message) 1,948 posts, Buzzing bee

isn”t the thumbprint tree the best? mr. o and i are seriously considering it for our beachw edding…and are wondering if we could get one rendered in the shape of a palm tree! i can’t wait to see how the plaid’s tree turns out!

9/29/10 @ 1:57 pm (reply)

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Jewellers Ireland

Love this idea. Great to have a memory of the day and a remionder of your close firends.

9/29/10 @ 2:01 pm (reply)

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Miss Cardigan (message) 8,645 posts, Bee Keeper

Oh my goodness he did such a great job! I love this idea, and I think it will look amazing!

9/29/10 @ 2:05 pm (reply)

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Mr. Aggie

This works best if you use your fingers and not your thumbs. The thumbs take up a lot of room and I guess would be OK for a smaller wedding. But if you have more than 75 people doing it, think about having them use their fingers.

9/29/10 @ 2:11 pm (reply)

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Miss Plaid (message) 769 posts, Busy bee

@Mr. Aggie: Oh wow, I hadn’t even thought about that. Great tip! Thanks.

Thanks everyone else too!@Miss Ostrich: Ooo a palm tree would be awesome!

9/29/10 @ 2:22 pm (reply)

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Miss Cinnamon Bun (message) 1,100 posts, Bumble bee

I’ve thought about it, because it is pretty, and very cool-looking to hang up later. But…. does everyone then have green fingers for the rest of the evening? What if someone does that, then hugs me, and gets green on the dress?!

9/29/10 @ 2:25 pm (reply)

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yelhsa439 (message) 73 posts, Worker bee

We had this at our wedding and loved it!!! So many guest said this was their favorite thing they have seen!! But we had almost 200 thumb prints on it and it looks great!!!! We are so thrilled with it! He did a GREAT job!

9/29/10 @ 2:40 pm (reply)

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ladyox (message) 831 posts, Busy bee

We did this at our wedding with a slight twist - we had a small tree for those who were there for the ketubah signing (done before our ceremony) which was pretty much just our immediate families and wedding party and then at the wedding we laid out a photo mat for our other guests to sign. Now we have our lovely tree with framed by everyone’s well wishes and we love it!

Your tree looks great, I wish we had the talent to pull that off but we ordered the first one your featured…

9/29/10 @ 2:45 pm (reply)

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Autumn

Love it!
We did a fingerprint tree at our rehearsal dinner. It is now framed and hanging in the house and we get a lot of compliments on it.

9/29/10 @ 3:00 pm (reply)

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Miss Husky (message) 1,754 posts, Buzzing bee

Wow, you’ve got quite the artist! It looks great, and I think your guests will love it!

9/29/10 @ 3:01 pm (reply)

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Miss Elephant (message) 6,182 posts, Bee Keeper

Mr. Plaid did a great job! We’re really looking into this for our rehearsal dinner group!

9/29/10 @ 4:03 pm (reply)

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LadySunshine (message) 87 posts, Worker bee

That is a new option, never seen it before!

I also, didn’t like the idea of a guestbook sitting around collecting dust. My fiance and I decided to do something I’d seen a good friend of mine do . . . we got a plain white matte, and a beautiful frame (I think 11×14″) and one of our engagement pictures (don’t have wedding pics, yet!). We will have our guests sign with archival pen on the matte, around the photo of our choice, and if they want of course put a comment for us and then, we will put it in frame to display in our home!

We’re excited!!

9/29/10 @ 5:15 pm (reply)

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VanCountry (message) 24 posts, Newbee

We did a variation of this as well. We did a sunflower, with guests signing a petal and placing it all together around the center of the flower. Turned out beautiful!
We used Absinthe Custom Print on Etsy, and she was AMAZING!

9/29/10 @ 5:17 pm (reply)

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gc762 (message) 121 posts, Blushing bee

@rycrafty: I was wondering the same thing about guests walking around with ink on their fingers!

@vancountry: just looked up absinthe custom print on etsy…wow! I’m thinking of doing the “tree guest book”…thanks for the info!!

9/29/10 @ 6:50 pm (reply)

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Miss Plaid (message) 769 posts, Busy bee

@rycrafty: I’ve got wet wipes for people to wipe their fingers off with. I’ve tested them with the ink and they work. I wouldn’t want green on my dress either. Eek!

Thanks y’all!

9/29/10 @ 8:03 pm (reply)

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jordynrose (message) 6,351 posts, Bee Keeper

Wow! Mr. P did such an awesome job!

9/29/10 @ 9:55 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Pin Cushion (message) 1,012 posts, Bumble bee

He really is artistic! The tree turned out great!

9/30/10 @ 8:32 am (reply)

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Wishin’ and Hopin’ | Weddingbee

[...] already showed y’all our guestbook in my last post. However, I also love the idea of collecting well wishes and advice from guests and wise married [...]

10/1/10 @ 4:31 pm (reply)

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Taxdaybride

I so wanted to do this (found it on etsy), but my fianace was not really feeling the idea