Wedding Guestbook With Matching Flower Pen Display

holy long title, right? I'm just not feeling the creative juices at the moment! But I wanted to show you one of my few wedding projects that I actually remembered to photograph {and the worst-blogger-ever award goes to me!}

So since there is pretty much nothing traditional about my wedding I decided to make my own guestbook. You know, I just feel like I have to make everything myself to make it ultra-cute. But then it took a long time and I got sick of making it. And then it was done & I'm now I'm so glad I did. So on to the goods!

I started out with this 8x8 scrapbook from Michaels (for 7.99). My store was out of the vinyl brand, so this is the canvas although I would have preferred the vinyl. I cut out the names & date with hot pink vinyl and stuck it right on.

I printed off some of our engagement pictures and very simply arranged them in the book. I didn't do much with them. I bought the pack of swirly black stickers from Michaels and randomly matted the pictures with black, pink and white shimmer paper.

I also made a couple of pages that say "shower guests" and brought them to my showers.

 I realize as I'm posting this that I forgot to take a clear shot of the pages that people will sign! But it's late, I'm in my pj's with a blanket and a yorkie on my lap so you'll have to just imagine :-) I just printed them off from microsoft word, rounded the corners & used Impervious font to type "Wedding Guests" {free from amandaandkevin.com}. I'm in love with their fonts. But I did have to use a different font to do the underscore for the lines- because I'm computer illiterate and have no idea how to make lines on a page.

 We had the perfect snowy day for our engagement pictures (in end of march!).

 look at this hunk. i'm so lucky to be marrying him.

 You thought I was done? Psh....... you should know that I always overcommit myself. Why would I make things easy and just put normal pens out? So I decided to make some to match the decor.

Supplies:

 Sharpies are the only thing that I trust to write on shimmer paper & not smear. So I pulled the cap out a bit, dabbed hot glue and started wrapping!

 After three of these, I learned that it worked the best not to overlap the ribbon for the first layer because it bunches up. I wrapped really tight and glued every couple of inches.

 I left a bit of extra here so that I could fill the spaces with hot glue. I don't have a picture {you know, gotta work fast with hot glue!} but I filled it up and added more around the stem of my daisy and stuck them together. They're not going anywhere!

 I put the pens in old starbucks frapuccino bottles that I ran through the dishwasher. The black beads are from the $1 tree and I used 2 bags total and the hot pink ribbon is from hobby lobby wedding section. I love them!

 The fake daisies are from michaels. And I'm not super excited about the fake flower decor.... but this just would not work with real daisies. whatev.

 And here it is {sorry i missed half the display!}. This will be on a table when you come to our ceremony along with little buckets of bubbles & a basket of fan programs. I just love it! And now instead of shoving my guestbook in a corner, it's in a cute scrapbook that I can keep out and look at when I'm in the sentimental mood :) Now let's hope it doesn't rain! Start praying now!!

And in case you were wondering- this is where we're getting married. This picture was taken in the winter, so it's pretty ugly! But it's all green now, I promise! We will be in a big open area to the left of this waterfall. It won't be rushing this much either- this was right after 8 months worth of snow melted!

 Lily approved. So we had to pick it!

***and a total sidenote {which i never do. but i really want this one} - head over to one of my alltime favorite blogs little miss momma for a kristen duke ebook giveaway! please please i need it! i am determined to spend some airplane/beach time on our honeymoon seriously learning how to use my camera on manual {when i'm not busy baby making!!}***