1st jan Blog of the year is up - fun guest book alternatives..

Girls, I'm so sorry I haven't been online! I was sooo busy during the holidays and then my computer got a nasty virus and I was trying to work work work around it ... have some fun projects we've been working on to show you, but later .

The first 2009 blog is up - on alternatives to guest books ... any ideas you have that I didn't post, share share!

Mishka Designs' Blog: Sign on the dotted line...

One thing that stood out to me and I loved that you suggested was

the guestbooks thru Welcome to the Guestbook Store! Wedding Guestbooks!.

it has a spot for our guests to draw pictures of Bride and Groom. Special memory of the wedding day. advice to the couple and favorite memory of the couple. I think people will have fun filling out the pages:)

We're going to do the dry erase board/photo idea... We will have a dry erase board and marker... each guest will be encouraged to write a message to the bride and groom on the board (5 words or less) then have their photo taken with their message (I am stealing/borrowing this idea from someone else on the forum!)...

I think it will be fun to put all the pics together after in a collage - I imagine as the night goes on, and drinks are consumed, the messages will get more and more interesting!!

Jenn

Very cute! We were going to do the poloroid idea, but bad news! They stopped producing poloroids and poloroid paper!! So it costs an arm and a leg on ebay where people are selling it.

My favorite idea would be to find a Vallarta coffee book table, but couldn't find one in the states. Have you seen any down there Mishka

So my back up plan is to do post cards and mail them back to us so we get them when we get home... or just bring them home. Not sure. Since I am making a coffeetable book with my wedding photos, Im playing with the idea of scanning in the postcards and putting them into the book as background, or here and there.

I love the caricature idea. It's so different! So, you can really just go to the malecon and find someone to draw a caricature

I love the dry erase board idea which i was leaning towards after also seeing the prices for polaroids on ebay! I thought they would be cheap but i was obviously wrong lol!!!

We are buying postcards when we get down there and laying them all on the guestbook table. Then our guests can pick the one they want and write us advice or anything they want. Then we will put them all in a decorative box to keep in our house.

Mishka you are onto something.

Ladies you can make your own album on kodakgallery.com for $39. What a great price for a guest book.

I have three ideas.

1. you can do your engagement photos

2. you can do picutres of the location of your wedding (of course if you have been there before, or ask your wedding guests to send you pictures of their favorite vacation picture)

3. you can build a picture book of old photos of you and your guests and they can find their picture and sign by it like a year book.

#3 is one of my favorites

BUT

We went to PV last year and thought we might do a picture book of our fav spots in PV

I also saw someone who did a picture book of all the favorite places they had been and their guests signed that too.

I think this is such a personal touch and one you will enjoy viewing later in life.

Cheers

Kathy