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Wedding Guest Book |
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April 14, 2003. I made a guest book for my friends Anne and Pete, who are getting married next month (for the record, I'm not presumptuous enough to assume that everyone would want a handmade guest book; I had mentioned the possibility to Anne months ago, and she was into it, so I felt ok about making it and foisting it onto them for use in their wedding). |
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Here's the cover. I found a book cloth that had these white embroidered squigglies on it, which seemed very wedding-y to me. If I had thought about this more, I probably would have made the guest book smaller, but it ended up being about 12 inches by 12 inches (closed). |
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The wedding invitations had dark pink circles on them, so I copied that motif a bit for the endpapers. I actually had about six different (pre-made) endpaper options, but in the end they all seemed to clash with the style of the cover, so I made my own circle rubber stamps and did these endpapers myself. |
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I had originally planned on using the sumi brush to do all the writing for the inside, but once I started playing around, traditional wedding Copperplate calligraphy looked much better. I did use the bamboo pen and sumi ink to do it, though. |
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Here's what the inside of the guest book looks like. I didn't use lined pages, mostly because it's really hard to find archival-quality lined pages. I think blank pages will be more fun, anyway, since Anne and Pete have some really artistic friends who can draw instead of writing something. I ended up hand-writing the word "Guests" on all the pages, because the thought of taking it to Kinko's and having them copy it, and copy it correctly, was really stressing me out (that had been my original plan). |
Craft Projects
birthday
card
book for Mom
book
making class
glass
magnets
knitting journal
linoleum
block cards
star
journal
square journal
Valentine
wedding
guest book
