Historically, guest books helped the new lady of the house form an address book for thank you notes and future mailings. Nowadays, though, this idea has been taken to brilliant new heights from framed photos of the couple and glittery gel pens made available at cocktail hours to impromptu amateur photojournalism at the reception itself. I love the idea of getting advice from everyone who attends, but I would hate for something so cherished to end up on my shelf of dusty photo albums. Here is one idea that really intrigued me... Let me know what you think!
This couple had a real old fashioned wedding certificate hand scrolled, autographed by all their guests, and then presumably held up like this by these quaker kids for the duration of the celebration. Certainly makes for a cute pic!
Some have suggested just putting a typewriter in a conspicuous place at the reception where people can leave us a note about life or marriage or how much fun they have at the reception or whatever, but again comes the problem of preservation and storage of such a beautiful memento.
This all leads me to wonder if this blog will somehow end up becoming a relic of our wedding that we show as proof to our great-grand... uh... nieces and nephews that we were young once too... "Come here, sonny, sit up on my lap and let me tell you about something that we used to call a-hrefs..."
2 comments:
Hey Amy and Billy,
Uncle Ray here. I happen to know where you can rent some Quakers. They're actually Amish - same thing, right?
From my Penssylvania connections; there's an underground Dutch railroad that ships them to and fro to make furniture; bet we can snag a couple for the day.
I went to the website where they have the most expensive weddings to see if my and Nas' wedding was in there. Alas, not! If only we had done the monogrammed tp!!
We got married in Nas' Mom's home with immediate fam only. Everyone else went straight to the reception. We met them all there.
I say, go cookie cutter and cheap and let the friends and family make the event unique and memorable. Disclaimer: I have not spoken with your Dad about this at all.
So lets have a K-E-G-G-E-R!! Anywhere!!!
This is one scenario that I didn't even bother posting:
1...rehersal dinner at bowling alley (http://www.amf.com/southshorelanes/centerHomepage.htm) with keg(s)
2...roll out of bed hungover to hell for small and stinky bird sanctuary(http://www.ebparks.org/parks/crown_beach) wedding ceremony on the beach in Alameda
3...walk to local motel(http://www.coralreefinn.com/)for a courtyard reception and party till the bums come home!
Any fans of this one better speak up. Billy needs some convincing.
;-)
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