Wedding Guest Book Ideas

A wedding is such a special time. You wish that all your wedding moments last forever. And you want everything to be perfect - the ceremony, the toasts, the music, the flowers..everything! Are you forgetting something? What about the perfect wedding guest book? A wedding guest book is like a scrap book in which the guests write their thoughts about the wedding, complimenting the couple and the ceremony. It is in reality, a treasure trove of emotions that the couple can keep referring back to, in order to re-live those cherished moments over and over again. Guest books for weddings are therefore very important and should be treated that way. They have to be made special. How? There are several unique wedding guest book ideas that you can choose from.

Creative Ideas

Here's some unique ideas that will come in handy when you decide on how to make your wedding guest book special.

Get Everyone In
What's the point of having a guest book that is half empty? No point. So make sure that everyone there signs. How? Hire a close friend to do it. Let him travel from table to table and get him to request the guests sign in.

Add Memories
Instead of the guests simply filling in their name, address and a mandatory 'Congrats', ask them to make it interesting. Request them to fill up the pages with their memory of you or how they met you etc. It'll be very, very interesting and nostalgic to read that again.

Stick Snaps
You'll have to prepare for this one in advance. Ask the guests to carry a picture of themselves and stick it on the page that they write on. Tell them not to make it dry but add more zing to the book by drawing pictures and other graffiti to it.

Click Snaps
Alternately, one can also have a personal snap clicked of the guest with the couple at the wedding and then stick it in the guest book. In this way, the guest will not have to carry the snap from home and you'll still have your memories.

Theme Based
Why stick to the old guest book ideas for weddings by ways of pens and markers when you can do so much more? Do you have a theme for your wedding? Then use it to your advantage. If the theme is bohemian, then add graffiti like peace signs, headbands etc which signifies that. If it's a beach theme then have motifs of shells and sand stuck on the pages. This is a very unique wedding guest book idea.

Make it a Tradition
Why not make the wedding guest book a heirloom for the generations to come? Well at least one or two? Use a HUGE book (by way of pages of course) for this, and then pass it on to your kids so that they can continue to write in their wedding messages in it. Much like a wedding dress that is passed on from one generation to the next, don't you think.

Individual Choice
Here is another idea that you can use from the different wedding guest book ideas - have a separate page sent to each guest and let them decorate it in the way that they want. Then simply bind the pages together to make them. And voila! You've got yourself a very creative and wacky book, with some messages really sentimental and others bordering on hilarious.

Alternatives
Instead of having a traditional wedding guest book, one could have a video recording of the guest's messages to you and then edit it for an entire video. This is a very nice way of capturing all the raw emotions of your guests.

Or trying other alternatives like, one could also ditch the idea of a book and opt for a heirloom that can be converted into a guest book. Like framing a picture onto a mat and then having all sign it. Or remember back in school when we had all our friends sign our clothes? You can do the same thing.

These were some of the special and rather easy ideas that you can choose from. So when you do get married, don't resort to the same old boring 'pen and book' routine but re-vamp and transform it into a book that will be talked about for a long time.