PROJECT!

project! it was a toss up between this quote from clueless and ben haper's with my own two hands, but i'm pretty sure that ben is talking about saving the world. and while this turned out pretty well, i'm not quite on that level yet. so, clueless (and karen broman) is the big winner.

matt and i had decided that we wanted to personalize as many things as possible for the wedding. thanks to some inspiration from pinterest, one of the most flexible opportunities for this seemed to be the guest book. we fashioned ours as part guest book part scrapbook. we really love how it turned out, because anyone who found it intimidating could sign as usual, and we get to read a little something extra from a number of our guests. we got everything from sweet, sentimental lines to "i'm missing notre dame for this." :)

the thing is that i have since realized that this could be fun and practical for a lot of celebrations: weddings, graduations, baby showers, birthdays, etc. any time that you think it might be fun to go back and see what kinds of things people had to say about your special day. and it really wasn't difficult. the hardest part was definitely picking out all of the supplies at the craft store. a book, stamps, ink, a few sheets of scrapbooking paper, little cards and envelopes, some card stock, and a lot of the roll-on glue/tape.

i used scrapbooking paper to decorate the inside cover and then laid down pieces of cardstock (left) in different orientations to form the background for each of the individual pages. people who are more ambitious than me could probably create pretty amazing patterns and designs for each page.

then i stamped one of the envelopes for each page, glued them all down, and viola!, lots of pages for people to write down their names and or wedding-related thoughts. assuming that we might have some guests like myself, i also cut down some of the card stock to make a few extra cards in case things got lost, mistakes got made, etc., etc.

we had people seal the envelop with the small seals that one is supposed to use on the outside of their wedding invitations. so far, these have been the primary challenge - it's hard to open those tiny envelopes without ripping the seals. but, we have extra, so i'm not overly concerned about it!

things came out pretty well, if i do say so myself. we've had lots of fun looking through the cards already. i'm sure they'll be fun to reread during anniversaries as well!