MC and entertainment for your wedding – DJ by Nick Logan
Guest books are nice to have at a wedding. If you’re going to use one, be sure to have your wedding MC remind guests through out the evening to sign. Often there’s a line at the start of the reception and some guests will skip it with every intention of doing it later, then forget.
Also, encourage your guests to contribute more than just their name. Words of wisdom, advice, or just a story or comment will be so much more memorable in 10 or 20 years.
I’ve seen some other great ideas used instead of the traditional wedding guest book.
- A photo book, like a reference type book with more photos than text. One couple had images of the world (a well travelled pair) and they had guests at the wedding from 11 different countries. Guests signed the photos, instead of writing on blank pages.
- An old fashioned photo album, complete with Polaroid instant photos. Take a pic, print the photo, then sign the page. Usually these albums use black pages, so be sure to have a pen that will show up on black – perhaps a silver or white ink pen.
- An artists canvas mounted on a frame. Supply a variety of pens (lot’s of colour) and you then have a guest book that is actually a work of art. You can hang and display this in your home. An alternative is to use paper, then talk to the photo/image outlets (the guys that used to develop your rolls of camera film) about transferring that to canvas. Alternatively, go to the experts at On2Canvas.
If you have another idea, please add it to the comments!