The Guest Book

Michelle and I have been looking for alternative guest book ideas. We have played with several possibilities, including covering a plain guest book with fall leaves. Though it was nice, we were not impressed and felt that it did not fit our personalities. At the end of the day, we have come to the realization that the guest book as we all know it is old, tired, and boring. We asked ourselves how often will we actually drag out the guest book and flip through it? Once? Twice? Never.

Stock Photo - with a little addition :P

Michelle found a pretty cool spin on the guest book that does fit our "fall themed" wedding perfectly. It is the Wedding Tree! The concept is simple; there is a tree printed on canvas, ink pads of various "fall" colors, and a pen. Allow me to explain further...

Stock Photo

Stock Photo

Guests will find a large canvas with a tree painted on it where the traditional guest book would usually be found. Next to the "tree" the guests will find various colors of ink pads that they can choose from. Then they can ink up their thumb (or any finger) and press it on to the tree. Finally they can pick up the pen and sign their name under their "leaf". Like I said...simple concept.

Stock Photo

Stock Photo

We did find an awesome website that will allow you (for a limited time) request a pdf template be sent to you customized for your wedding - totally free! So we did...and this is what they sent us...

We plan on sending this PDF to Kinkos to print for us, then we will affix it to the canvas. Once we get this done we will be posting to show how it turned out. I will also post a link to the website where you can get your own custom PDF file created in the resource tab (if I ever get that put together). 

What you think of the Tree Guest Book? We would love to hear your feedback...