At our wedding, my wife and I provided blank guest-book pages at each table, along with a glass of colored markers. The guests really enjoyed filling in the open-ended blanks. After the wedding, we sorted the pages and then had them bound to make a personalized keepsake.
At the bottom of the page I have included an image of each side of the guest-book page, as well as the original SVG source files. You are free to edit them to suit your needs and use them for your own wedding if you would like. In the SVG files I have included some alternate borders and artwork outside of the printed page that we decided not to go with. You can use any vector artwork program to edit the SVG files, but I recommend Inkscape, which runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
You can download the source files here:
If working with the SVG files, you will also need the following fonts:
Note: When dealing with the MA Sexy font, I found it necessary in some cases to manually position letters (Kerning) because some letters would overlap. I did this by selecting individual letters (Shift arrow) and then using the alt-arrow or shift-alt-arrow keys to move the letters 1 pixel left/right or 10 pixels left right.
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DIY Wedding Guestbook…
Jay writes: At our wedding, my wife and I provided blank guest-book pages at each table, along with a glass of colored markers. The guests really enjoyed filling in the open-ended blanks. After the wedding, we sorted the pages……
I LOVE this idea! I just got engaged, and of course am wanting to create most of it myself instead of going through a wedding planner. I already know I'm going to make origami flowers for my bouquet! I am definately going to create my own wedding guestbook, and I like the idea of having colorful markers at the tables. Even with a small wedding, this will just personalize it even more! Thank you!
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Good design, who make it?
naisioxerloro: I made the design, with aesthetic feedback from my wife. Thanks!
I was just wondering. Did you print the pages on regular paper or did you buy card stock? Or did you have them printed out at a place like Kinko’s? I have a very small budget and was looking at a guestbook website that sold pages similar to this but it would save me money to print them myself!
Cindy,
We printed them using a laser printer onto 110 lb card-stock. (Water-color paper). We took them to a bindery after the wedding which charged us $35 for a custom binding.
Jay
I have been looking for something like this forever. This is awesome! Thanks Jay!
Hi Jay,
I’m having a wedding coming up soon and I’m trying to figure out the best way to print out the svg file once I edit the file in inkscape. Can you give me some advice?
Ken,
Nothing fancy…I just exported them to PDF’s and then printed them onto heavy cardstock (110 pound paper) on a laser printer. An inkjet would also work, but then you risk ink running if the pages get wet.
Jay
Hello,
I cannot open the wedding guest book pages! I really want to use them but I can’t get them. Is there any way you can send them up my email, already opened, ready to print? Please let me know. Thanks,
Crystal
Crystal,
You will need to install the Inkscape application to open (and customize) the guestbook pages. [You need at a minimum to change the names...]
They are currently customized for my wife and I, so would be of no use to you even if I could send you a ready to print version. A URL link to the Inkscape download page is provided in the post.
Jay
I have downloaded inksacape but cannot figure out how to get these files onto it so I can work with them. Are you able to help me through this?
Mekayla,
To load the files, you should first open Inkscape, then use the “File…Open” menu to open the file.
The following URL has a tutorial that will teach you basics about Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/doc/basic/tutorial-basic.html
Jay
I really liked it. But not bad, it would be to add a few important sections.
Thank you so much for these!! I customized them and they are amazing just what I was looking for!!
How do I copy and edit this myself? I downloaded Inkscape but it wont let me copy it and open it in that program
Rebecca,
You must download the .svg files to your hard disk, and Inkscape should be able to open then and allow you to edit them.
Jay
thank you so much for the idea!
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