Project DIY: Episode 3

Episode 3: Guest Book

Why does it seem all the guests books out there are the wrong color, too frilly, boring, plain? So we were forced to come up with our own idea. We are going to use Blurb.com to create a nice, more modern guest book that will fit in with our other art and design books.

I first found out about Blurb from a Lucky magazine article which I posted about back in January. I thought this could be a good idea, and then I found the post on Brklyn Bride about the frames wallpaper. I loved this wallpaper! Since we do not have enough room to hang a huge board of the paper ( though I love that idea and think someone should definitely use it) we compromised and are using these pages as the pages for our Blurb book. The idea is for guests to write their notes inside one of the frames. We are supplying the most beautiful array of Sharpies I have ever seen and also Polaroids. So they could also take their picture , write a note on the bottom and tape it inside one of the frame boxes. I am so excited to see how this turns out and we hope to make another Blurb book of our wedding pictures. For us a nice, hardcover book is much more practical than a huge wedding album or a book with simply guest's names written in it.

The cost of creating your own Blurb book is $30-75 depending on the shape you choose and number of pages, which is comparable to a store bought guest book. Plus we get to design the book jacket/cover which will be so fun! Ease level: Very Easy (Blurb site has step by step instructions and is very user friendly).