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Mrs. Hippo, New York City/Dallas, TX Age and Occupation: 34, Event Planner for a Non-Profit Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35, Finance IT Engagement Date: August 8, 2009 Wedding Date: March 2011 Venue: Samuel Lynne Galleries and Marc Events About Me: I’m a thirty-something bride living in New York City and planning a modern-ish wedding in Dallas, Texas. I love trashy reality television (Jersey Shore, anyone?), online shopping, Sunday brunch, Central Park, and random celebrity spottings on the streets of Manhattan. While I love NYC, I miss good Tex-Mex, my college friends, central A/C, and being in close proximity to a Target. I’m thrilled to finally be planning an event that’s not work-related and to be marrying my best friend in what I hope will be a unique and personal ceremony followed by a reception with plenty of good food, good drinks, and dancing (regardless if it’s good or not).
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Guestbook Bargains

November 29th, 2010 @ 12:28 pm by Mrs. Hippo

I was hoping to get some use out of our engagement pictures, and after reading how pleased Mrs. Cheeseburger was with her AdoramaPix wedding album and seeing how Miss Meerkat had used AdoramaPix for her guestbook, I was sold. I went to AdoramaPix.com and created a 26-page 8″ x 10″ photo book to use as our guestbook. Not only was it super easy (and dare I say fun?), but the book just arrived yesterday and I am totally impressed with the quality. Let’s take a peek, shall we?

I used one of our landscape photos to create the wraparound album cover.

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Then I placed smaller pictures throughout the album, leaving plenty of white space for guests to write messages.

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What’s great about AdoramaPix’s online photo-book building tool is that it’s super easy to make a photo fill an entire page like this:

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Or even make a photo fill an entire spread like this:

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And since the pages lie flat, the seam between the two pages is barely noticeable.

I’m super happy with how it turned out, and it was totally a great deal! When I went online to register for the site, they gave me a $10 credit, making my grand total $42.40, including tax (because apparently it’s made in New York) and shipping (’cause I was too lazy to pick it up from the New York City lab). There’s no way I would have ever heard of AdoramaPix if it weren’t for the hive, and I’m so happy that I found it!!!

Are there things you’re using for your wedding that you would not have heard about had it not been for the hive?

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16 Responses to “Guestbook Bargains”

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Mrs. Glasses (message)  2,741 posts, Sugar bee

Ahhhh I super duper want one now! Yours is so cute!

 
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jackie-o
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jackie-o (message)  2,389 posts, Buzzing bee

LOVE THIS - - Air 5, Hippo :)

 
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feministbride (message)  283 posts, Helper bee

LOVE the way the back of the book matches the front - looks awesome!

 
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slmaynard
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slmaynard (message)  77 posts, Worker bee

I love this, but I am too cheap to go $50 in on a guest book :(It’s super cute though! Yall pictures are adorable too

 
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FMB

That’s a GOOD deal! Too bad I already bought a guestbook….but will definitely keep this in mind when the time comes to make our wedding album!

P.S. You are just too cute! Love your engagement pictures!

 
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Miss Giraffe (message)  4,216 posts, Honey bee

Oh man - I totally have to get on this! Thanks for the reminder and the review. Now I know where to go ;-)!

 
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Mrs. Trail Mix (message)  6,328 posts, Bee Keeper

That came out great!! I just ordered prints from Adorama yesterday!

 
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taupec (message)  143 posts, Blushing bee

so cute! i’m so going to steal this:-)

Thanks!

 
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nmeyer01 (message)  130 posts, Blushing bee

I used AdoramaPix after reading about it on the ‘bee too! Such a great find!

 
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DKbride (message)  3 posts, Wannabee

So cute! And love your engagement photos =)

 
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Miss HunnyBunny (message)  119 posts, Blushing bee

Wow Hippo your book looks great! I have playing around with Blurb to create the same idea for a sign in book, but I will have to take a sneak peek at AdoramaPix…..

 
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jordynrose (message)  6,351 posts, Bee Keeper

How awesome!

 
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spinningstars (message)  248 posts, Helper bee

Love it!

 
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Tara

Thanks for posting this! I immediately checked out their site and began making one for my wedding in May :) What kind of pen would you recommend using in the book so it doesn’t smear?

 
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Miss Hippo (message)  1,008 posts, Bumble bee

Hi Tara -

I’m actually not sure! I was thinking about a very fine Sharpie, but I guess if people get overly excited and don’t wait for it to dry it could be a big problemo! Perhaps a ballpoint is the better way to go.?Yikes! I don’t know! I actually hadn’t thought of that! Thank you!!!

 
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Mrs. Hippo, New York City/Dallas, TX Age and Occupation: 34, Event Planner for a Non-Profit Fiance's Age and Occupation: 35, Finance IT Engagement Date: August 8, 2009 Wedding Date: March 2011 Venue: Samuel Lynne Galleries and Marc Events About Me: I’m a thirty-something bride living in New York City and planning a modern-ish wedding in Dallas, Texas. I love trashy reality television (Jersey Shore, anyone?), online shopping, Sunday brunch, Central Park, and random celebrity spottings on the streets of Manhattan. While I love NYC, I miss good Tex-Mex, my college friends, central A/C, and being in close proximity to a Target. I’m thrilled to finally be planning an event that’s not work-related and to be marrying my best friend in what I hope will be a unique and personal ceremony followed by a reception with plenty of good food, good drinks, and dancing (regardless if it’s good or not).

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