A home for the cards and the words of our guests

Every card needs a home. My parent's friend Betty loaned us this white card box that her daughter used at her 2007 wedding. This was only one of many items I picked up at "Betty's Boutique". All I did was pick up some brown ribbon and tack it on. It's simple, and perfect for what I envisioned.



Jeremy and I have also had many chats about a guest book. Some ideas included:



A polaroid guest book where each guest takes a picture of themself (and their HOT date), attaches it to the book and signs next to it. Our friends Kelly and Brian did just this and they love it to this day. Kelly even loaned me the camera!! The problem, polariod film is:

1) Expensive.
2) Only available online and I don't trust spending quite a bit of cash on "Joe Schmoe Cameras" to get expired film.

Jer really wants to do this to ensure we have a picture of each guest. So, I compromised with Jer. We have our photographer take a picture of each guest as they migrate from the cocktail area to the main floor. SOLD!



I love this wish tree. Problem:

1) Expensive for all the materials.
2) Too much work and I would still need to buy a guest book to insert each wish into.

So, although Jer was cool with this idea, I decide to nix it.



I then saw this amazing idea where one couple had a friend outline a paint-by-grid on a canvas and each guest painted a square at the reception. LOVE this!! However ...

1) We lack the artistic abilities to outline the grid (despite what Jer says about his drawing abilities).
2) It would either be a huge HIT or a huge MISS.

We decided that regardless of how cool this idea is, it's too much work for it to be a huge miss. I'll tuck that away for another time. This will happen one day :)



Next up, having each guest sign a guitar. PERFECT!!! Well, I thought so. Jer was keen not sold to this idea. He didn't say why, but I think he feels it's too tacky. But, I love it. LOVE IT!! Look how cool that Les Paul looks!! But, boy wanted a book that we can put pictures of our guests next too (or something like that).

So, I decided to pick my battle. I got him his book and personalised it.



This just means my genius idea to replace Kalen's ring pillow will happen. Or, I will just get a guitar anyways .. ya, I think I will do that. (shhhh .. don't tell Jer)

97 days to DA WEDDING YO!