I have recently been inspired by various types of guest book ideas I have seen, one of them being from a real wedding that was recently featured on Snippet and Ink. The couple got married in Ocean City, NJ and in lieu of a traditional guest book, had their guests write notes on Ocean City postcards. After the wedding, the wedding coordinator sent the postcards to their home in Washington, DC.
I absolutely LOVE this idea! Given that we are doing the destination wedding, I can't think of a better return home, then to find all those postcards from friends and family in your mailbox! Plus, I am excited at the idea of putting them in a scrapbook of some kind, so that I can look back on them through the years. I did a search, and was able to find some postcards of Amelia Island, with pictures taken from the turn of the century.
Aren't they neat?! I love the classic feel of them. We are headed down there at the end of next week, so I plan on doing some digging and coming up with more. I'll keep ya' posted..
(photo credits: 1st- Kella MacPhee via Snippet and Ink, 2-4 Amelia Island Gift Shop)
This is a truly fabulous idea. Everyone loves getting mail. Just when you are busily writing tons of thank you notes, you will be getting these great notes from your guests. perfect!
Posted by: Jo | June 22, 2008 at 01:42 PM
Hi there! I'm the bride - that's our guestbook! :) So great to see you like it. I collected postcards when I was a kid and my husband always had this tradition of mailing them on every trip he goes on. So it was perfect for us!
Our wedding coordinator put mailing labels on them for us before the wedding, so that all guests had to do was write a little note to us. We also had a sign in a frame explaining that it was our "guestbook" since most are used to a traditional book that you sign, and to drop them in the box so that they could be mailed to us following the wedding. Our wedding coordinator took them to the post office for us and had them all post stamped for us, but then mailed them to us in one envelope since sometimes postcards get lost in the mail. We really loved it and it was so much fun reading them all when we returned from our honeymoon. You can see more pics from our wedding day here: http://mybigfatitalianwedding.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%20Wedding%20Day
Posted by: Jersey Girl in DC | October 30, 2008 at 09:32 AM