alternatives to a guest book

We are having a guest book but we are also having a guest signing frame. ( a big card with space for a picture in the middle )

Like this http://www.confetti.co.uk/product/view/67735-0-0-silver_signing_frame.do?a26=f715&a39=f1080

Our friends had baytrees with tags that you could leave your message on. Nice idea but a bit fiddly.

We also have a wide range of signing frames that have proved to be a nice alternative to the traditional guest book. You can put in a pre-wedding photo for the wedding day and then replace with a wedding picture later if you wish. Hope this helps.

Not sure if it's what you meant, but if you're having a DVD a lot of videographers let guests leave video messages - some of them are hilarious ?

We are leaving cards out beside our postbox so that everyone can write a personal message and post it in there. This means that the only people who get to read the messages are me and other half.

Nic x

I'm going to get one of these I think they are fab. We have a pre wedding shoot type thing with our photographer so we will put on of those pictures in and then replace it with wedding pictures after the wedding.

I agree that a photograph that your guests sign is a great idea. My sister had one of these at her wedding and as I was so impressed with it I'm going to have one too.

At the wedding reception it will have a photo from our pre-wedding shoot with the photographer and then after the wedding we will change it for one from the day. I'm not sure how much things like this cost though as my parents have a picture framing business so I get the family rate ?

BTW - I've been told that your guests should sign the picture with pencil as it does not fade over time like ink in the light.

Poosie x.

My brother had a 'tree' (silver twigs, like you'd get at xmas) and had lots of love hearts cut out or card with ribbon attached to hang from the twigs, and asked people to write messages on the hearts....

Instead of a guest book our photographers gave our guests a card and markers to write their message, and then took pictures of our guests with their messages in front of a white background. When we got back from honeymoon they had them all made into a book for us - I loved it!

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm thinking of getting one of those wedding plates, that people sign, then you 'bake it' in the oven for the ink to set, thought it was a nice keep sake.

Hi!

We have chosen to have a wedding messege service (www.weddingmessages.co.uk) where please can leave a recorded or typed message on this machine and it also takes your pic. They then put all the messages and pics into a binded book - its great. have a look at the website and u willg et more of an idea of what i mean! lol

Hope this helps!

Great ideas there guys!

We got talking about this earlier this week and actually decided on something very similar (before i saw your post). H2B's sister is a fantastic photographer so am going to ask her to do it, will be nice for her to be involved and also a LOT cheaper than getting our photographer to do it!

As we're going off, just the two of us, I'm making a website with an online guestbook which people can sign as they wish. I will then be able to copy and paste those messages and put them into a photobook for use to have.

I had originally looked at the polaroid guest books you can get but when I priced the camera, film and the special album it was going to work out at about £100 and our photographer charged £150 to set up the white background and take pictures of all our guests so it worked out only marginally dearer and I knew I wasn't going to have to rope someone in to passing around the book and camera etc!

We had people sign and write messages on our table plan. It just seemed a shame that I spent loads of time making it look pretty and then it was never going to be seen again! We're gonna frame it and stick it in on a wall for posterity - possibly in a spare loo as its there's lots to read!