The Guest Book - Our Wedding Tree

Before the wedding I had shared our idea of what we wanted for our guestbook that came from an inspiration provided by The Classic Bride blog.

It was our chance to show a little bit of our creativity inspired by another. It also was our last minute project. We were up until 1am the night before I was leaving to head to my hometown 2 days before the wedding. A great bonding moment for us. Mister, me and some wine and beer :)

So to make ours a little different than our inspiration, I decided we were going to paint our tree on a canvas. A canvas should be easy to hang up in the house but it also brings in our passion of painting into the wedding. Also, instead of having separate signage for the guestbook table, I thought it would be cute to also paint the signage on the canvas as well.

So a little paint, color pencils, Sharpie fine point markers and Martha Stewart ink pads and voila!

Pictures courtesy of Ute.

Close up of guestbook signage.

Used the "leaf" idea that the CB blog had.

So how do you think we did?

Did you find any inspiration from another and "alter" it to best fit you?

The Family Wedding Tree

In the beginning of the wedding process I was all into the wish / prayer box as my alternative to a guestbook. It was something I have not seen at a wedding yet and I thought it would have been a cool keepsake. So, I bought the wishbox from The Wedding Outlet and loved it.

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That is until I saw this posted on the Classic Bride's blog...

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Oh my, oh my! The Wedding Tree was probably one of the coolest "guestbooks" that I have seen. So of course, I decided to "borrow" the idea for our own guestbook. Instead of a poster like paper I came up with the idea of using a canvas. I thought it would be easier to preserve but it also brought in our art theme. Mr. Roddy will be in charge of painting the tree stump and branches and I will paint the wording. For the wedding tree, I purchased two different green ink pads for the thumbprint leaves, fine point sharpies for the guests to write their name as well as wet wipes for the guests to wash the ink off their thumbs.

I am so excited for this. Although I have changed my mind on the guestbook, I still haven't given up on using the wishbox elsewhere in the wedding. It still would be cool to have wishes or prayers from our guests, so we will see.