One of my new favorite ideas is doing a wedding blog. Once you get engaged start a blog together. Tell about how you met, about the proposal, blog about wedding planning, post pictures trying on different dresses, post un-used engagement pictures. Another good thing about doing a blog is that you can get feedback. You can say, "I'm thinking about going through ________ for my catering. Does anyone have any input on that?" etc. (Note: Slurping your blog to www.blurb.com doesn't transfer really well. So you'll probably want to create your book at the same time as you do your blog and just copy and paste everything into both. Otherwise you have to spend a lot of time fixing the layout of your book at blurb.)
Making sure you leave enough time to get the book before your wedding, have your blog turned into a book. You could put it in chapters; for example:
Chapter 1 - Dating
Chapter 2 - Engagement
Chapter 3 - Wedding Planning
Chapter 4 - Sign-in book
Leave lots of blank pages in chapter four. Intersperse the blank pages with engagement pictures. Then let everyone sign this book at have a peek at all your wedding plans at your wedding. In the end you will have everything about your wedding, including the love notes from those who shared the day with you, all in one place. You could even scan and include cards from friends and family who attended showers or sent something in advance.
I wish this was something available when I had gotten married. But those were the good ol' days.
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That is what I was just thinking a few days ago - having our "dating story" in my sign-in boo that I had made for mine. I''m putting it in a different book so I'll still have it, but I wish I would have had the time to put it all together in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAnother thought I had was that I wish I had put more engagement pictures throughout my sign-in book. Heaven knows that I didn't have any shortage of pictures to choose from, and I loved so many that there's a whole "Engagement Picture" section in my "All things wedding day" book, but I have had a lot of people tell me that they wish they had seen more of them.
What a cute idea. I wish we had done something like that.
ReplyDeleteCan I get the contact info for you cake maker. I sent my cousin to her blog (and your too because your flowers are beautiful!), but I didn't see anywhere on her blog to contact her. Thanks!