Guest Book Ideas

An album with a slot for each instant print and space to write beside it, which is what a photo guest book needs and a foil signature book does not have. Add a 'take a photo, write a note' sign; 112 pockets suits up to about 100 guests, and the 168-pocket size covers more.

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An instant-camera guest book goes half used without a sign that tells guests what to do. This one does, in the same style as our other table signs.

~$10 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Guests leave a voicemail instead of a signature. You get to hear them again years later.

~$85 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Oil-based paint stays put on vinyl, glass, plastic and wood where a regular marker rubs off. Put two at every signing station and let them dry a minute before the item is handled; a black one covers the white sunglasses.

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Another option to White Paint Pens, for a different style or budget.

The same paint marker in metallic gold for a black record, a dark guest book or a navy frame mat. Three pens is enough for one station; guests do wander off with them.

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Put it somewhere guests pass on the way in, not tucked in a corner.

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Another option to Guest Book and Pen, for a different style or budget.

The guest book is the thing you keep forever, so this is the one to personalize: linen, with your names and the year.

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The camera on the guest book table, in a white body that sits with any palette. Two cameras for 100 guests or more keeps the line moving; the film is sold separately and runs out faster than anyone expects.

~$95 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Guest count times 1.3, rounded up to the nearest 20, is the number of shots you need; 120 covers a wedding of about 90 with retakes. Running out at eight in the evening is how this idea usually fails, so buy the extra pack.

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A cocktail-hour game that doubles as the guest book: guests sign a block with a marker and the couple plays it for years. Put a 'sign a block' sign beside it; two sets for 150 guests or more if it is the only guest book.

~$50 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Permanent, acid-free dots that hold an instant print in the album without a glue stick mess. Keep one pack at the guest book table and a second in the emergency bag; two packs cover 150 guests.

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A card at every seat gets far more written than a station does, and the box collects them for later. Read them on the honeymoon, not a hundred on the night; it is the guest book with the highest read-later value.

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A framed keepsake that fits a hundred guests as leaves. Participation collapses without wet wipes on the table, so set out two ink pads in the palette, wipes and a fine pen for names beside it.

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A warm string of lights with clips where the instant prints go during the night, so they end up on the wall instead of in purses. Two strings per 100 guests; hang them near the camera and let the display fill up as the evening goes on.

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The dinner-hour problem is strangers at a table; a fill-in-the-blank card gives everyone a script, and the best ones get read aloud at the after-party. Put one card per guest or a small stack per table, with a box at the bar to collect them.

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At a Quaker wedding every person present signs the certificate as a witness, and couples of any tradition now commission a certificate as a guest book; it hangs in your home afterward, so the ink has to be archival rather than decorative. Six pens across the signing table keeps the line moving, and the calligrapher who makes the certificate can tell you which width suits the paper.

~$20 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Guests write a date idea on a card, and the couple pulls one a month for the first year, so it is a guest book that actually gets used. One card per guest in a big glass jar with a small sign; buy two packs for 100.

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For music couples: guests sign a blank 12 inch record with a white paint pen and it hangs in the house afterward. One record per 70 guests, so the pair covers most weddings; keep a Sharpie white paint pen next to it.

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Each guest signs a wooden heart and drops it into the frame. It lives on a shelf afterwards rather than in a drawer.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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