Wedding Guest Book

First of all, it's important to lay your guest book out somewhere clearly visible, so your guests can't miss it. You might also encourage them with a short announcement. Some guests find it hard to come up with an idea for a lovely, creative message. You can make that easier by mentioning in your wedding invitation that there'll be a guest book waiting for good wishes, anecdotes from the past or advice for married life. That way your guests have time to think of something original. A popular idea is to have photos of your guests taken with a photo booth or an instant camera, which they can stick next to their entry. Alternatively, you can pre-fill your guest book with a variety of questions that your guests simply answer, so they don't have to compose a whole text for their entry.

If you design your guest book with questions, you make it easier for your guests to leave their mark in the wedding book. Not everyone has an idea ready to go, while others can hardly hold back their creativity. Write pre-worded questions on all the pages or just on some of them. Do make sure the questions are ones every guest can answer. Depending on whether you'd like the questions in your guest book to be more serious or more light-hearted in tone, here are 10 ideas: 1. How did you first meet the two of us? 2. What piece of wise advice would you give us for our marriage? 3. What do you value most about us as a couple? 4. What is the most meaningful moment you associate with us? 5. What was the highlight of our wedding celebration for you today? 6. How would you describe us as a couple in three words? 7. What should we absolutely avoid in our marriage? 8. What's your best tip a) against arguments b) against boredom? 9. How should we spend our first wedding anniversary? 10. Where do you see us in 10 years' time?

The inside pages of our guest books are made from high-quality coated blank paper. It isn't completely smooth, so all standard pens are suitable for writing and drawing. Entries are especially easy to read with fineliners, ballpoint pens and rollerballs, but pencils and coloured pencils work well too. Your guests can also decorate their entries with glitter pens.

All our guest books are suitable for sticking photos in, which makes your guests' entries even more personal and lively. Glue sticks are best, as they don't leak or tend towards over-application, which can accidentally lead to pages getting messy or stuck together. Adhesive dots positioned underneath the photo are simple and clean to use. Do bear in mind that sticking photos in may mean your guest book no longer closes completely flat. We recommend sticking pictures in with a little space from the inner edge of the book to minimise that effect.

The inside pages of our wedding guest books are all blank, but you can add questions to them yourself.

A personalised guest book is a very imaginative wedding gift. It's best to check with the wedding planner or the couple first, so they don't provide a wedding book themselves, and to ask what style they'd like for their guest book. Whether classic or modern, romantic or unusual, you'll find a wide choice of designs for wedding guest books with us. If you're not having the invited guests fill the guest book in before the wedding, it's a welcome help for the couple if you provide the pens and decorations for embellishing the entries alongside the guest book, and take care on the day of making sure the guests write in it.