When adding the little touches that make your big day truly yours, a wedding guest book is often on the modern-day couple’s list of last-minute buys, but why is a guest book a worthy addition to your wedding day? And what guest book ideas go beyond tradition to ensure an out-of-the-box, personalised vibe couples love and wedding guests expect?
Read on to discover the answer to these very questions, and uncover a top trend that’s sweeping the wedding scene and providing a wedding guest book format that’ll get everyone talking!
The benefits of a wedding guestbook
While a guest book isn’t required, there are several perks to adding a wedding guest book to your reception, a fact that has made it a big day staple for as long as we can remember. Zola reveals more about the sentimental value a wedding guestbook can have:
“This is where your grandparents and parents can write sweet messages with advice for you as a couple, where a friend from college can reminisce about the funny encounters you may have had on your way to find each other, and where your siblings can recall memories about the first time you spoke of your partner. While it is no longer the only one, a guest book remains a record of everyone who came to celebrate with you.”
Whether guests choose to scribble a few words of wisdom or share funny anecdotes, your guest book will certainly be a keepsake that you can treasure and look back on long after you’ve tied the knot.
The top wedding guest book ideas for 2023
Your choice of guest book can be personalised just like any other aspect of your wedding day. You really can be as creative as you like with alternative wedding guest book ideas that go beyond pen and paper.
Green couples will love a super sustainable, wooden wedding guest book. Designs include drop box frames, where guests select a wooden tile to write on before adding it to the box to create an amazing work of wall art. Wooden jigsaw puzzle pieces can be signed and framed too.
For an even more spectacular display at your wedding, and within your home post-big day, create a wishing tree guest book and encourage guests to hang their messages from its branches. Our love of tree-themed alternative guest books continues. This time guests can add their fingerprints to a custom tree print for a literal personal touch!
The list of alternative wedding guest book ideas goes on, with postcards, Jenga blocks, Polaroid pictures (this is a great idea for festival-themed weddings), corks, typewriters, and even surfboards doubling as alternative wedding guest books.
But the best alternative guest book has to be…
For an alternative guest book that ticks all the right boxes, go audio. Audio wedding guest books are a top trend, and provide a quirky way of capturing that all-important advice from your wedding guests. Many wedding audio guest books come in the most beautiful vintage packages, with retro telephones adding a timeless touch to modern and traditional big days alike.
To leave an audio message for the happy couple, guests simply pick up the receiver, say their name and message after the beep, and hang up. It really is that simple!
Some audio guest books even allow the couple to pre-record a message that will be played to their guests when they pick up the receiver. Alternatively, you can get creative with wedding signage to share details of how to use your audiobook with your guests.
The messages left on your wedding audio guest book can then be played back and cherished for years to come – what’s more magical than that?
