Guestbooks

An important part of your wedding accessories and wedding decorations is the guestbook. Having a nice guestbook is more than just something you are "supposed to do." It meaningful to the guests to sign your guest book. The bride and groom may glance over the guestbook once or twice in their lifetime, but it's the guest who feel important when they sign it.

Your wedding decorations and wedding accessories can really set the tone for the wedding, and the guestbook is one of the first thing they see. When the guests arrive they sign the guestbook and see the guest book attendant before they ever see the wedding decorations or anything else. If you have a nice book and pen, it tells the guests that it is important to them that they are there and tells them that "wow, this will be a great wedding."

It is a place for people to feel like they are a part of the wedding, if even in a very small way. It is one of the wedding accessories that you don't want to leave out. Like everything else though, you want it to match the overall feel of the wedding with the rest of the wedding decorations. It would be out of place to put a classic book in a modern wedding or a modern book at a classic wedding.

Keep in mind the number of guests that are going to be attending the wedding. If it is going to be a large wedding then make sure you have enough room for people to sign. Keep in mind that people often take up a few lines and write short messages, or have large signatures. If you get guestbook alternatives such as signable picture frames you want to make sure and get two or three so that there is enough room for all the guests to sign. (signable picture frames are one of my favorite wedding decorations and wedding accessories because it is like hanging a good looking guestbook on the wall to be reminded of the people who love you - they are also very popular right now).

Also, if you are going to have a guestbook attendant, make sure that he or she is friendly and someone who will be dressed appropriately in order to give a great first impression to your guests!

Whatever guestbook you chose make sure it reflects your beautiful day and gives the first impression of what your wedding decorations, wedding accessories and personalized wedding favor will be like.