January sounds like a great time for a wedding. To our surprise, we will be attending 3 weddings this year—two family friends and one niece. The niece’s is a destination wedding near Northstar (hopefully no one will have altitude sickness). The other two weddings are in HI because grandparents of brides live here and no longer travel.
This is the most weddings we’ve attended in a very long time and it should be a lot of fun! A home has been rented for the Tahoe wedding for FOB and us to stay at with bride and her best friend and best friend’s H and baby.
I am trying to figure out whether/why to have a guest book. We will know who came and people will write their congratulations and other sentiments in cards.
Are these still done? Is there some point to a guest book that I’m missing.
Our DD and FSIL are using a really nice atlas as their guest book. They like to travel, and so do many of our guests. They hope folks will write on pages where they have been…and we think that will be fun. It’s a beautiful National Geographic Atlas. We will use fine point sharpie pens.
we went to a wedding where the guest book was a huge bible and you had to highlight and write something by your favorite verse. It was awkward for non religious people like us (especially under the rather frowning gaze of the disapproving matriarch who appeared to be , um, supervising the process). I probably know some verses but I don’t know where to find them. My daughter was a bridesmaid and happened to walk up as we were looking like deer caught in the headlights and I whispered “do you know the numbers of any bible verses” to which her response was “that’s what smart phones are for Mom”. Good point but when I found a verse it turned out that it was some different version of the bible and the numbers were different. I’m all for doing whatever you want at your wedding but an in advance head’s up would have been nice for the heathens amongst us!
20 some years ago I had two friends get married (to different people) both almost 40 years old. Both were just obsessed with guest books and spend a lot of money on them. One was covered in pearls and of course wouldn’t stay open on the table for anyone to sign. The other was made out of paper with flowers and cost a lot.
I thought they were crazy then, and I’m sure in the past 20 years neither has even looked at the books.
Lol, love it. Damn, I’m such an idiot - instead of Google I should have come straight to CC! (I’d love to have seen frowning disapproving matriarch’s face. The bride, however, would have been amused)
S & DIL had a photo guest book. It had photos of the 2 of them growing up, and, as much as possible, they had similar photos at similar ages ( birthday photos, snow photos, band photos, Halloween photos, graduation photos, etc). It was fun helping S find photos that met their parameters.
No guestbook for the wedding here, though we did a giant and personalized crossword puzzle for the engagement party. Guests filled it in and offered their thoughts in the perimeter. It’s one of those things that they will keep and then toss.
I went to a wedding with a photo booth that printed out stickers of the silly pictures people were taking of themselves. The guest then put those stickers into the guest book. And there were photos to keep to put in a refrigerator magnet. But we won’t be having a photo booth. So decided - no guest book.
What I recall most about weddings, as a guest, were the fun conversations I had with people so the seating chart is on my mind now.
I despise guest books.