DIY Guest Book - CHECK
June 26th, 2007 @ 4:18 pm by Mrs. Raspberry
As I posted about earlier, after a good amount of research (ok, I just asked my married friends) I learned that the guest book is not usually seeked out and if it is, people just sign their name. Therefore, I didn’t want to spend too much time or energy on it, so I decided to just whip it up with a kit from Paper-Source.
Here are a few pics from the process and the final result. Using the kit, it was quite easy.
You start by cutting out your cover paper to 2 inches bigger than the cover board and gluing that on…
Guest Book
June 25th, 2007 @ 4:37 pm by Mrs. Raspberry
After a lot of debate, I have decided to make the guest book, even though I need another DIY like a hole in my head. I took a poll of my married friends and most of them said people didn’t really write a ton in the book and several people missed it all together, so I decided to forgo spending a lot on it.
I went and purchased the pieces from a bookbinding kit at Paper-Source yesterday (total cost of the things I had to purchase - around $37).
I already have a boning tool, the glue brush and plenty of paper. 
Shy Guy
June 21st, 2007 @ 1:56 pm by Mrs. Butterscotch
I am a very open and vocal kind of bee. I love to meet new people, and standing front of a crowd to make a speech has never scared me. But Mr. Butterscotch doesn’t feel the same way. He isn’t really into meeting new people if he doesn’t have to, and he hates taking pictures. Some may call it anti-social, but I just call it shy. And I love my shy guy , I think we balance each other out. One thing he has requested from me is to always leave his name and pictures off my blog. But wait! I love taking and being in pictures so, ugh, to him! So I apologize in advance for any pictures that are posted with his face dotted out.
That said, I just ordered my picture-filled guest book (yes, he actually gave me the green light on this). It will be in my hot little hands sometime next week. I chose photos of us through the years along with shots of us as kids. I will post my review of the quality once I get it. I used My Publisher and I know they have had a bad rap within the hive, but the cost and basic easiness of organizing the book were too good to pass up. Read more…
One Man’s Trash
June 20th, 2007 @ 5:57 pm by Mrs. Corn
Ok…so maybe it isn’t trash per se…but over at Nettleton Hollow they are offering up three ’seconds’ of their sandblasted manzanita branches for $43.50. While I was unwilling to pay $60 for three of the branches when I visited the site a few months back, somehow, $43.50 didn’t seem like it was that bad for branches that, according to the site, have fewer lateral branches than the regulars.
So without further ado…I give to you our guestbook wish tree…(although the vessel itself may change to something a bit more galvanized pail-like.)
Guest Book Find at Etsy
June 19th, 2007 @ 4:40 pm by Mrs. Kiwi
Even though I already have my standard white guest book (which drives me crazy since it’s WHITE and nothing else in our wedding is white, but it was a gift so oh well), I found a fabulous one at Etsy!
By seller Repaper, it’s a beautiful gold and cream creation with matching gold endpapers. A hand-bound spine sewn over gold organdy ribbon, I literally drooled when I saw it. Best thing? Twenty bucks!!
This, for $20.00!!
Look at the detail!
Be Our Guest!
June 13th, 2007 @ 1:44 pm by Mrs. Bell Pepper
Our photographer Nicole Polk designed our guestbook which features our engagement photos. It looks gorgeous and I love how our guests signed and left memorable and amusing messages throughout the book. I think it’s a great way to hold memories!
The cover
Be Our Guest(Book)!
June 5th, 2007 @ 4:59 pm by Mrs. Eggplant
Wedding planning has been slowing down significantly for me. It’s not that I don’t have things to do; my Knot checklist is about a million items long. I’ve just been a bit overwhelmed with all the pending details and don’t know where to start. Instead of creating a plan of attack, I’m sticking my head in the sand and avoiding everything. Snap out of it, Miss Eggplant! Denial is not a river in Egypt! 
I did work on one thing this weekend–our reception guestbook.
I first discovered the Guestbook Store while attending my cousin’s wedding last fall. At their reception, I was handed colored markers and a page that they had purchased from the Guestbook Store. The pages were completed during dinner and collected at the end of the event after guests had filled them out with with fond memories and wedding wishes. I loved the experience, however the Guestbook Store requires customers to purchase a storage album per every 60 guestbook pages. With a guestlist of close to 200, our total ran close to $200 worth of materials, which was definitely not in our budget. Read more…
Ghetto Scanning
May 29th, 2007 @ 2:40 pm by Mrs. Snow Pea
Alright Snow Pea, stop procrastinating. Get your photo guestbook done! If I tell myself that enough, I’ll eventually get to it. Oh, who am I kidding. I am so dragging my feet. So it doesn’t help that we have this old-ass scanner from like 2001. Gosshh! After an agonizing hour of putzing around with the scanner, Adobe Photoshop, and redoing my french manicure while blogging, I decided to revert back to my original way of scanning old photos.
It’s what I have affectionatedly deemed ‘Ghetto Scanning’. Simply taking a picture of the picture with my digital camera. It takes 2 seconds to do that and upload them all to my computer. In many cases, I find the picture even looks better when I do that.
Take my cutie pie Mr. Snow Pea for example. Old-Ass Scanner:
Stone Guestbook
May 11th, 2007 @ 6:06 pm by Mrs. Bee
I love this unique guestbook idea I recently found in an old issue of Real Simple Magazine. Have your guests write their name on white stones with paint markers, and after the wedding you can display them in a vase. Simple and beautiful.
You can get 5 1/2 pound bags of polished white river stones for $6.99 at Jamali Garden or any garden supply store.
I’m Wishing…
May 7th, 2007 @ 5:21 pm by Mrs. Lemon
After months of pondering the issue, I’ve settled on my guestbook choice: a wish tree!!! Yes, Martha has reeled me into her venomous web. I felt that this was the perfect solution for a decorative display and fun well wishes from our guests. But how were we actually going to create this “tree” and what was it going to look like? I handed this task off to Papa Lemon by showing him pictures of what I was looking for and he swiftly recommended we use manzanita branches.
Good thing Grandma Lemon has manzanita in her front yard, and my parents were driving up for a visit the very next weekend. Here’s the tree in full bloom:
