Leaving Their Mark

Leaving Their Mark

September 30th, 2011 @ 2:10 pm by Miss Doily
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With the majority of the ceremony planning behind me, I suppose it’s time to start showing you all the things Mr. D and I have started to work on for the reception. There was one project in particular that I started on shortly after we got engaged because I simply could not wait any longer to do it. That, my friends, would be the guestbook. There are so many clever ideas out there for personalized guestbooks. I wanted to make sure that we had a guestbook that would capture our day in a way that we would remember forever. I wanted to give our guests a chance to say something meaningful and do it in a fun way. Which is why, when I saw these bad boys, I knew I had to have them:

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Image via Guestbook Store

How fun do these look? It gives guests the chance to doodle, write, scribble, and be super creative. It’s a very awesome way of leaving their mark on our wedding day. But when I looked at the prices of these custom pages, they were outside of what I wanted to spend on a guestbook. So I went straight to DIY’ing it.

I searched high and low for awesome fonts. The sites that I found had the best selection of free fonts were dafont, 1001 Free Fonts, and free fonts! from kevinandamanda.com (which has a lot of fun doodles and handwriting fonts). Then I got out my PowerPoint and started moving stuff around. Finally, after several days of work, I finished our guestbook layouts. Here is what we came up with:

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This is the front of our guestbook page. (Personal photo)

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This is the back of our guestbook page. (Personal photo)

I really love how they turned out. They are slightly crooked thanks to my scanning job (my hard drive just crashed with all of my electronic copies on it, but luckily I had hard copies of this). We are going to put little Mason jars of markers on all of the tables for the guests to doodle on these pages. I can’t wait to see what some of our guests write on them. I know that the personalities of some of our wedding attenders are going to make for some very interesting pictures and advice.

What kind of guestbook did you go for? Did you do it yourself or buy it? If you did DIY it, was the stress worth it?

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19 Responses to “Leaving Their Mark”

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natbug21 (message) 1,452 posts, Bumble bee

Those are so cute!! I really want to do that for the guestbook as well but I am afraid the guests will not want to fill out all that info. I would but I like to fill out things lol. So it will probably be this or a coffee table book of New Orleans for people to sign.

9/30/11 @ 2:18 pm (reply)

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Miss Ladyfingers (message) 1,119 posts, Bumble bee

Aw, I love these! Great job.

9/30/11 @ 2:22 pm (reply)

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Coffee cup (message) 1,843 posts, Buzzing bee

Such a great idea. I love the ‘draw a picture..’ section.

9/30/11 @ 2:31 pm (reply)

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mija22 (message) 321 posts, Helper bee

Awesome job…it adds a very personal and sentimental touch to your big day, you and your guests will share in a memorable moment for a lifetime!

9/30/11 @ 2:58 pm (reply)

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mzjohnwood (message) 43 posts, Newbee

Lovely! How did you bind them?

9/30/11 @ 4:59 pm (reply)

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Miss Doe (message) 540 posts, Busy bee

LOVE. What an awesome idea! They turned out so well

9/30/11 @ 5:27 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Pony (message) 4,175 posts, Honey bee

So cute! Our friend had a very similar book at her wedding a few weeks ago and I had so much fun filling (and coloring) it in!

9/30/11 @ 6:58 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Jaguar (message) 4,656 posts, Honey bee

Looks great! We had these at a wedding we went to recently.

9/30/11 @ 9:09 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Parasol (message) 2,142 posts, Buzzing bee

Oh this is fun! I can’t wait to see what your guests do!

9/30/11 @ 9:30 pm (reply)

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Miss Fox (message) 859 posts, Busy bee

I love it I love it I love it!! You did a fantastic job - I honestly like yours better than the “originals”!!

10/1/11 @ 9:27 am (reply)

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Miss Doily (message) 643 posts, Busy bee

@mzjohnwood: We are going to buy a scrapbook and then put them all in one book and bind them that way!

10/1/11 @ 1:30 pm (reply)

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peaches1038 (message) 793 posts, Busy bee

so cute!!! Where did you find all the borders and hearts?! I especially love the swirls and dots borders on the second page! good job!

10/1/11 @ 2:53 pm (reply)

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AshleyB (message) 557 posts, Busy bee

five years ago I bought a book from them for my sisters shower I threw… and if I knew then what I do now I could have made it for pennies…. but I was in high school and my mom paid for it. I totally thought of making my own… good job girl!

10/1/11 @ 5:09 pm (reply)

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ktell16 (message) 31 posts, Newbee

Those are sooo cute! I was literally just gathering guest book inspiration this morning, but this idea trumps all the other stuff I found. I might just be stealing this!

10/2/11 @ 4:45 pm (reply)

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dustywrath (message) 65 posts, Worker bee

@natbug21 I’m planning to do something similar to Miss Doily’s guestbook too, but I had the same concern you did- that my guests aren’t the type to take time to fill out the whole page. So I plan to make mini versions of these pages with only one or two questions per sheet. Some people would be more apt to draw the picture, so they’ll take the sheet with that “question” on it. While other guests are more excited about sharing their favorite old memory, so they’ll take that sheet. In theory, the guests could take multiple sheets, but I’m not sure if that will happen. Just wanted to share this idea with you so you aren’t completely discouraged from pursuing this same idea that Miss Doily did.

10/2/11 @ 6:25 pm (reply)

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