Weddingbee Blog

I’ve been trying to think of more ways to bring the community feeling that Mr. EB and I want for our wedding to all of our guests. I thought about creating some sort of guest-list tree or timeline to show guests how they know or are related to Mr. EB or me, or what random connections people might have to each other that could make for good conversation starters. I was thinking about making something similar to these:

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Source (I LOVE the one that Mrs. Dolphin made!)

But I was a little nervous about taking this on because of my complete lack of design programs besides Word (which doesn’t exactly count) and my not so impressive design skills. But then! I had dinner the other night with some great friends, and one of them had the most brilliant idea. They had been at another friend’s wedding earlier in the summer, and the bride and groom had made a facebook for their wedding. Now, I’m not talking about Mark Zuckerburg’s website, but rather the types of books that we got at the beginning of college that had everyone’s picture and name in them. They were printed on paper so that you could actually flip through them. (I’d show you pictures of my old college facebooks, but I recently threw them all out in an attempt to purge my life.)

So that’s my new plan—to make a wedding facebook for all of our guests to get to know each other. (They did “five fun facts” about each person—not certain we’ll necessarily do that, but I really like the idea of having some information about each person beyond just a picture and a name.) I think we’ll have these available for people to grab whenever they end up checking into their rooms at IslandWood. I’m super excited about this project—now I just have to figure out the best way to create and print them…

What are you doing for your guestbook?