Product Spotlight: Wedding Guest Books

One of our favorite products to create for wedding clients is a wedding guest book. There are so many reasons for this:

1. It’s our specialty (we LOVE making books).
2. It includes photos of the two of you having fun together, wearing regular clothes, just hanging out and being yourselves. Many years from now, it will be so nice to have these pictures to complement the photos in your wedding album.
3. The guest book is a place where your friends and family write very personal messages to you, messages that will probably become even more special to you as the years go by.
4. It is a physical object, a beautifully produced art book that will last the rest of your life.

Below are pictures of the guest book we created for Stephanie and Paul. The cover is bound in grey Japanese silk bookcloth.

We design a custom title page. Stephanie and Paul’s wedding colors were grey and green, so we used those colors.

An interior spread — as you can see, Stephanie brought a bouquet of balloons to their engagement session in Greenwich Village. They got a lot of smiles and congratulations from the passers-by on the street!

We leave plenty of blank space in the book for guests to write messages. The photos are printed on fine art watercolor paper, which has a beautiful texture and is a wonderful surface for writing on.

We try to have at least one full-bleed image in every book — it makes such a striking impact.

Here are two of Stephanie’s bridesmaids enjoying the book on her wedding day.