Would this work for my guestbook?

So we have decide to do one of these guest books http://www.guestbookstore.com/wedding.ht... . We had been having a lot of trouble figuring out the logistics of the whole thing. Our venue (who is doing all of the set up and breakdown) said that they could place one of the pages and a pen on each of the guests seats of the ceremony, along with a program, then they would have it with them to take to the cocktail hour when they could fill it out. I would either put in the program or attach a note to the pen explaining they should fill it out during the cocktail hour.





I am about the order the guest book but before I do I just want to check that this will likely work. I know not everyone will fill out one but I think all of the people who actually matter will. I feel like I am wasting a lot of money putting one of each and every seat but there is no way to know which seat is going to be occupied by who, and we do not have someone to hand out the programs/guest book pages to each person.

Would this work for my guestbook?
Tough one...I would definitely worry about wasting money on all of the pages that do not get filled out...especially since you will have a lot of couples and only one will probably fill it out for the both. Can you go through your RSVPs and do a rough estimate?





I would consider doing everyother chair. People will see them even if there isn't one on their chair. And if they want to fill one out, then I'm sure they will use someone's that is not being filled out. Just a thought...its a tough one. I didn't look at the price of them but I'm sure they aren't cheap.





Good Luck!
Reply:I just went to a wedding and they had guests sign the guestbook before being seated. Of course someone was there to make sure they signed. They also had a reception that immediately followed the ceremony.
Reply:Personally, I love it.


Very cute and quirky, but still has the feeling that it's not a birthday party, but a wedding.


Two Thumbs Up.
Reply:We are actually hoping to do something similar at our wedding, I thought the price was a little high so I went to DIY bride and found out in her Downloads section she has a guestbook page that is very similar to the one you are looking at, it doesn't have the fancy flourishes on it but you could easily find and download those for free, I downloaded her page and was easily able to change colors, box shapes, lines, fonts, and move things around so it was really personal to us. I am going to have it printed on nice scrapbook paper that I will get on sale at Hobby Lobby or Micheals and then I will just insert it into the scrapbook of our choice, much cheaper option I think and that way I can have one for every guest, if they would like. I have heard people say that they rolled them like a scroll and put them on tables or at peoples chairs and had a couple of pens at each table that people could share, that might be a little difficult to make them flat again, but I like your idea about one per chair, or perhaps have them on a table like you would a regular guest book and people can take them as they enter or exit. Good Luck!