We have been to events and weddings with and without guest books. Sometimes they have guests sign something else, like a pillowcase with fabric marker, sometimes they ask guests to write words of advice, etc. It all depends on the couple. I no longer remember if we had a guest book decades ago for our wedding and whatever happened to any we had.
My son and dil had a painting of a tree where you wrote your name of one of the leaves. I noticed that they had it framed and on a wall in their house.
We just received a wedding invitation to a April wedding and a save the date to an August wedding. We really don’t know the bride or groom of the August wedding, tho we know the parents of the bride and her extended family. We are surprised and happy to be included—mostly surprised.
This makes 3 weddings we will be attending this year (my niece is getting married in July). I would like to find a cute HI something for each couple (maybe handcrafted ornament), plus give them all money.
Big wedding year for us also. Including our wedding…we have four Save the Date cards on our fridge! We are excited about each and every invite.
On our wedding…we paid the florist deposit today.
@jym626 , sounds like a perfect Best Man assignment…airport run.
This is the engagement party, not the wedding. And… the best man, his wife and new baby are one of the airport runs to pick up!!!
@jym626 , ah gotcha. Hire a limo, I guess.
Thanks. It will take some logistical juggling and luck that the flights all make it. I called a nearby rental place the other day to inquire about renting one of those outdoor patio mushroom heat lamps, and the woman said the forecast for that weekend is… snow. I told her that wasn’t funny. She said she wasn’t kidding (we are in the south). Hopefully long range forecasts are off.
So update: we have almost recovered from the hot water heater-induced basement flood. Had some casualties and had to come up with some work-arounds but the space will be fine for the overnighters and any overflow of the large crowd in 2 weeks. Oh… and just found out one of DS#1 and wife’s friends from TN is coming down for the brunch and may stay over. That would make 14 staying in the house. Will be interesting…
Schedule got a bit snafu-ed with what we had to do this week to deal with the flood, carpet dry/repair, pad replacement, etc, but fortunately most of the big stuff is done. Just picked up (borrowed) a queen air mattress from a friend which is currently blown up for a test run in DH’s office.
Honestly, I think that some of those people need to find a motel room. Even if they bring a tent and pitch it in the yard, the contention for bathrooms could get ugly! 
Also, I have owned a couple of queen-sized air mattresses. Slept on them quite a bit when camping. Honestly, a single for each person of the kind that looks like a pool float–long cells–combined with a real pillow is FAR more comfortable. It stays inflated better, and no one else is tossed about when you turn over.
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I’m so bummed to find out for sure what I figured would probably happen … FIL can’t make D’s wedding. He has Parkinson’s and is going downhill … can’t make the trip from GA to MI. SIL’s H will stay with him while SIL, MIL and nephew drive up. My FIL is the sweetest man in the world, and we sure will miss having him there. His 90th birthday is 5 days before the wedding & we planned to celebrate it at the reception.
We have several inflatable beds. They are 20 inches high…not like a pool float at all. And they are very comfortable.
The OLD inflatables were like pool floats…but the new ones are about the same height as some beds…and very comfortable. We have aerobeds. Very nice!
I have aero beds also, we slept on one at Christmas and it was very comfortable. No problems at all.
I took the grandparents to visit my s and dil this year at Christmastime. There were 11 of us and we all stayed at s’s house. The kids have a nice 4 bedroom house and we had people in all of the bedrooms, in the empty living room and basement. It was a great time and no one felt inconvenienced at all. We would probably not use the futon again and bring another aero bed but other than that, it was fine for 2 nights.
Sounds wonderful imo @jym626
Sorry to hear about your fil @kelsmom. I’m sure while expected, it’s still disappointing
Can’t recall what brand the air mattress that is that is currently filling DH’s office, but the other one I am borrowing (back up and in case the other person stays) is from frontage. Has “legs” and looks quite nice.
We have a reasonable number of bathrooms in our house, but still, it will be interesting.
*crossposted with @deb922. Thanks, and glad you had a positive experience with your family! I am seeing this as an opportunity to get to know DS #2’s fiancee’s family, and have family time. Could have done without the basement flood, thats for sure, but we will survive!
@jym626 I have a twin and full size Aero bed if you need extra for the weekend. Both self inflating pumps, so inflate in seconds. Let me know if you would like to borrow them.
thanks, @snowball . Will do.
I would pay for ubers for them instead of making multiple trips to the airport, especially since you are hosting 14 people and the shower.
We are bringing one of the cars down to DS#1 and wife and baby so they can have it to go visit friends who live downtown, and then we will meet up with them intown for dinner and then one will go down to the airport for another run and the others will come back to the house. We are making 3 runs to the airport total, and the last one is renting a car and waiting for the spirit airlines travelers. We rented an extra car to do this since DH’s car is a convertible and wouldn’t work. Its really ok. Found a great deal at the enterprise rental by our house.
I’m glad to know that the new aero beds are so much better than the old ones. 
BTW, I volunteered DH to make the airport run after dinner b/c I’ll have done the first one in the morning, and I want to have the time with granddaughter!!
So sorry about your FIL, @kelsmom. That happened with DIL’s grandfather for their DS#1s) wedding, and they planned to stream the wedding to him on an ipad. Unfortunately the wedding was in the woods in the mountains (as @mom60 knows) and there was no cell service. But if you have cell service, I highly recommend you do this! Stream the wedding and give him a shout out.
Actually, we are fortunate to have 5 bathroom in the house. 4 of the sleeping spaces will have their own bathroom (though the office with the air mattress uses the main floor bath which will have to be cleaned up for the brunch). There is a jack and jill bath between 2 bedrooms upstairs, so the rooms have their own sink, but will share the toidy and shower. That said, surely someone (likely ME and DH) will be up and moving very early so someone else can use the master bath. When we hosted 10 and a baby for DS#1s engagement party, it worked out fine. My future DIL (DS#2’s fiancee) came into the master to borrow from what we call my “hair arsenal” (hair dryers, flat irons, curling irons, the electric brush thing that is supposed to straighten hair,etc). It was all good. Now… hoping for decent weather. It is currently 30ish and sleeting out. Sheesh- this is the south!!