Making a Puzzle Piece Guest Book Fit for Your Wedding
As a busy DJ in the Capital Region of Upstate NY, I often get to see some of the coolest ideas in wedding planning – especially guest books of late. As you know if you have been reading my column, I always love to share the coolest ideas with you!
Here is yet another fun guest book alternative for your wedding reception that you can piece together on your own with very little work. Rather than to put out one of those lame blank page wedding guest books for people to sign that you will never look at again, how about a wooden puzzle? A puzzle is hours of entertainment and your guests will all become part of that forever in this great keepsake.
This guest book is basically a bunch of wood pieces cut out into the shape of of a functioning puzzle. Each piece is then layed out on a table and then signed by your guests in colorful markers.
WANT TO KEEP THAT RING FINGER SAFE FOR THE WEDDING? – If you are not-so-handy with a jigsaw and hope to keep all of your fingers, this idea should be fairly achievable in plank wood puzzles are available. If not, you should be able to find something already pre-made, perhaps for coins at a craft store like Michaels, or Hobby Lobby in Latham.
Lay the pieces out on a nice table
Get a blank wooden puzzle from a craft store
Spread them out with colored markers
Sign the pieces and be creative
Puzzle Piece Wedding Guest Book
Have wedding guests build the puzzle after signing
Once again, being a busy DJ in the Albany/Saratoga NY area has it’s benefits. I see some of the coolest ideas in wedding planning and love to share them with you! Here is a fun guest book alternative for your wedding reception. Rather than to put out one of those lame blank page wedding guest books for people to sign that you will never look at casinoluck.ca again, how about this?
This guest book is basically a bunch of wood chips cut out into the shape of hearts. Each heart is signed by your guests and dropped into a an easy-to-make coin slider shadow box.
CRAFTY PEOPLE NEED NOT APPLY – If you are handy, this idea should be fairly easy to make with a backer board, some molding and a piece of plexi-glass. If not, you should be able to find something already pre-made, perhaps for coins at a craft store like Michaels, or Hobby Lobby in Latham.
First, lay out some markers and the heart wooden chips.
Next, instruct the guests to sign, add well-wishes, and draw a picture even on the chip.
Add a little sign explaining to drop the chip into the coin slot on the top of the frame.
In no time at all, the chips will start piling up and you will have a great hang-able keepsake to look at for years to come!
Here is another cool wedding guest book idea that I hadn’t seen before so I decided to share it with you here.
How about a wedding guest book that is actually a bench?
That is right.
If the idea of having your wedding guests sign a book you will never look at again doesn’t sit well with you, how about this?
The trend for having original guest books has really taking off. I have seen wine bottles, painted canvasses, Jenga Games and thumbprint trees. This is another neat alternative to add to the list.
Lately less is more in the wedding industry. It seems that rustic simple wedding decor is taking off like never before. In the spirit of fun and new twists to wedding guestbooks, here is an original looking one I hadn’t seen before.
This past weekend at Treviso by Mallozzi’s, at 257 Washington Avenue Extension, Albany, NY, I had the pleasure of working with a very creative couple as their DJ for the evening.
This couple has a nice rustic theme in their house and had a mini picnic table top made up to frame and put on the wall. All they did was have their initials put on it, and it made for yet another neat guest book idea!
This simple design can be easily made by yourself or commissioned out to altogether rather inexpensively by anyone that knows how to use a hammer and saw.
While many wedding books end up in the attic, this one also makes for a great piece that the bride and groom can share for years to come!
Here is an interesting twist on the guestbook I saw two weeks back at when I was the wedding DJ at The Franklin Terrace in Troy, NY.
Wedding Postcards
What the newlyweds did was awesome. After looking around a bit online, what they did was get some custom printing done on a nice cigar box and added some special wedding postcards.
The postcards are super nice because what they do is let you get more than just the typical name you would get form your guests in the traditional guestbook format.
The post cards asked for how the guests met the bride/groom, a favorite memory and also feedback about the special day itself.
HOW TO DISPLAY:
They presented the cigar box with some nice candles and other things to dress it up. Below you can see what the set up looked like with a the uplighting turned on. This put an interesting pink hue on everything for a great added touch!
These days, nobody wants the traditional guestbook. It seems that once you have it all signed up, it gets thrown into the attic and never gets looked at again. Here is a pretty cool idea, following the trend of signing other things to record the attendees of your guest list. Have your guests sign a decorative bowl!
I was at the Hague Firehouse, just a little away from Lake George this weekend. It was for a pretty nice BBQ picnic-type wedding. There, they had something going on around a table so I took a stroll over to see. They had a bowl turned over on its side and people were signing it with a special marker made for writing on porcelain.
What a cool idea! This way when the bowl was signed, the couple had something they could actually use and enjoy, that at the same time would remind them of their special day.
