Sometimes transforming a traditional wedding keepsake of a typical signed guest book into something more interactive for your friends and family or into lasting home decor is an alternative way to go! Many of these can be cheap if on a budget or homemade options as well.
Ideas for interactive guest logs can include a Jenga block guest book creating a game filled with memories, a custom puzzle where each guest signs a personalized piece, vintage typewriter notes or vintage phone records with heartfelt messages that you can go look back on or listen to on anniversaries; it is very sentimental. A super cute idea is to post envelopes on a post board so guests can write secret messages that you can spend the next morning opening together.
If you want to display this piece of your special wedding day you can leave a polaroid camera and films so guests can take fun selfies and paste them into a photo album or string them along your wall. For a rustic vibe keeping a large wooden frame or tree stump of everyone’s signatures. A recipe book of marriage advice or date night ideas is fun for the newly married couple! Couples that love music can consider using a guitar as a guest book. Guests can sign it, write song lyrics or albums that remind them of the happy couple and it is a beautiful wall display.
Even a vinyl record player where guests can sign and you can frame on a wall. A beachy couple may use assorted seashells or smooth stones for guests to sign that may have been collected on the beach together.
If you want some memorable piece for long lasting anniversaries, have guests sign bottles of wine labelled with 1, 5, 10, 20 and so on years of anniversaries. Creating a blank quilt or quilt squares you can later piece together is a cozy sweet way of remembering your loved ones that attended your wedding day. If you and you espouse love to travel have people sign somewhere on a globe and make those bucket list destinations.
No matter the type of guest book you have if one at all, it’s the memories that come along with it. Guest books of sorts are a way of recording the loved ones that spent that precious day with you.