Wedding wishes book: what is it for and how to do it?

A book is the best gift, a wedding is the most memorable event. How to combine these two concepts and make yourself a surprise? When pronouncing the word “book”, fiction or a large volume of encyclopedia most often comes to mind. Perhaps in modern life I will also recall an electronic book. But how does this item relate to the wedding? Directly. After all, this is a book of wishes. Next, we will discuss why it is needed, where to get it and what to do with it.

A wedding wish book has become an almost indispensable attribute. Usually she is placed in the so-called welcome zone. So that when the newlyweds have not yet arrived, the guests who are already gathering in the banquet hall immediately drew attention to the book. Wellcome zones are designed differently, but most often the wish book lies separately on the table in a conspicuous place.

It is always nice to look at your old photos and remember the events stored on them. If we print out photographs and put them in an album, we usually sign the dates and names of the moments in which they were taken. Sometimes these photos are accompanied by various funny comments. For similar purposes, you need a wish book. In order to be able to remember.

Of course, there is a photographer at the wedding, with the professionalism of which the photos will turn out to be of excellent quality with original productions. A video operator also works, who can take the power to shoot and edit a film of stunning beauty about a wedding day.But how great it is to pick up a book full of various wishes, and after many years to read parting words from relatives and congratulations from friends. Moreover, to watch the video you need technical means, and the book is available at almost any time. Anyone present can write in it, so you can also ask everyone who created a unique celebration to leave wishes.

If you look from the other side, then this book is a wonderful gift. Especially if made by yourself. Just do not forget to warn the young that you are going to present just that. Otherwise, it may turn out that they, too, will decide to make a memory book for the guests' signatures, then your gift will be superfluous.

Many ideas, from the simplest to the incredibly creative, can be found on the Internet, as well as come up with yourself. They meet a book on the cover, and if you undertook independent work, we offer options for its design.

The cover will be simple and concise. For example, choose two colors. One will personify the bride, the other - the groom. You can proceed from the characters of the young. Passionate and temperamental bride is red, courageous and brutal groom is blue. Or a gentle and sophisticated bride is the color of ivory, and a calm and thoughtful man is green. The variety of color palette knows no bounds. You can also choose a color based not on the qualities of the young, but on the color scheme of the wedding, which the young people will probably tell when sending invitations.

The cover will be divided into two parts by the selected colors, and the wedding date will simply be written in the middle. On both parts the color will be the opposite. This will create a mirror effect. Edging can not be done, the most important thing is already clear.

This option is especially suitable if the wedding is held in any particular style. Nowadays, rustic, vintage, provence, boho and others are particularly popular. Take, for example, the rustic style, it is an eco-friendly design, filled with natural attributes. If this is chosen, then the cover of the book itself can be sheathed with burlap and filled with hay inside. The work is painstaking, but the result will be amazing. Also, on top of the cover, attach the date or initials of the newlyweds, cut out of wood or laid out from cereals.

You can make a book using additional materials in case the wedding does not have a certain style. There are many techniques in which you can perform a similar thing, for example, decoupage, scrapbooking, quilling, Furoshiki and much more. It is difficult to learn everything at a time, but you can take a more interesting one for yourself and try to make a simple design.

The book consists not only of a beautiful cover. Pages also need to be given attention. Moreover, the most important thing will be inside, namely, future wishes. Consider how you can beautifully design the pages of our book.

• You need to select the paper weight. The longevity of the book will depend on this. Whether you take standard office paper or cardboard, the look will be different.
• It is necessary to determine the color of the sheets. The paper may be plain or have a gradient. Perhaps a metallized coating. A very original option is engraving sheets. Only then, instead of the usual pen for writing wishes, a special pen with an iron tip should be attached. Such sheets will initially be black, but as soon as wishes are written on them, they will immediately find a real “highlight”.
• Solid pages can also be decorated with sequins and feathers, or made on each element from the cover of a book in a reduced size.The original idea is to attach a little candy to the sheets so that the congratulators take them for themselves as a small reward.

An unusual version of the wish book is a photo album. Long ago, Polaroid cameras came into our lives. They took instant photos, which appeared a minute after they were taken. If someone has such a device preserved, it can turn out to be an excellent improvisation in retro design, possibly even a joke.

For this, a professional photographer is not required. It will be necessary to remove guests writing wishes, and in the future it will be possible not only to recall the wedding parting words, but also to see those who wrote them. Book design will take place directly in the process of filling, for this you can pre-paste corners for photos on the pages. Photos can be attached randomly and take up places not one at a time on a page, but two or three. It all depends on the size of the book.

In addition to the wish book, many interesting things have been invented now that replace it, but are still carriers of congratulations. The most popular is the wish tree. For example, a beautiful tree is painted on a piece of paper or on canvas. Nearby are attached, for example, prints of different colors. Guests leave multi-colored fingerprints on the branches, and write mini wishes from above. The very best can leave an imprint of the whole palm.

A very interesting way for wishes is wooden hearts. They are most often made to order. Small wooden hearts are attached either to a large wooden heart, or whatever your imagination allows.

A non-standard option is a globe. Wishes are written with a marker, the main thing is that it be indelible. Or you can replace the large-caliber ball with a card that is more convenient to carry, which you can simply fold into a tube.

We offer a simple master class for creating a wish book in one of the most popular techniques - scrapbooking.

For work you will need:

• paper - the basis for the book of the desired density and size;
• clippings from magazines and newspapers;
• prepared and printed drawings in advance;
• eyelets, curly buttons, chains and other jewelry;
• pens, markers, pencils;
• curly hole punch, paper embossing kit;
• glue, needle and thread.

To meet your expectations, follow these guidelines.

• It is assumed that your future album will be on grommets, to insert them, make holes on the desired number of sheets.
• Then go to the cover. It should be harder than the pages, so we take cardboard, which is two and a half times wider than one sheet of the future album, and cut it to the right and left of the middle by a couple of centimeters. As a result, we get three parts - two main ones and in the middle a strip of the selected size for binding our book.
• Now glue this cardboard to the base. It can be felt, fleece, linen and other rather dense fabrics. Instead of gluing, you can sew on the material. The basis of the cover is ready.
• The inside of the cover can be decorated with kraft paper. We glue the middle with beautiful, but not thick paper, and on the sides we will close our spread for more neatness with paper with an original pattern.

• We take the sheets and put them on the detailed cover. We insert a needle into each hole from the hole punch and press. Thus, we determine the location of the eyelets. Their installation will not be difficult, we turn the cover upside down and fasten it.
• After we put the future book again with the cover down and attach the sheets. We sew with a beautiful thread or stretch the ribbon and tie it well.
• Now let's get down to design. The background of the cover can be decorated with pre-prepared buttons by sewing them on a lurex thread. Do not forget about the theme of the wedding.Perhaps the cover turned out to be in a marine style, then a drawing of the ship would do, or perhaps in a vintage theme, then we select the clippings from the old yellowed newspapers.
• On each page, using a special embossing machine, you can make a nice convex picture. What it will be depends on the stamps in the set.
• The edges of the pages can be framed with pictures that will be knocked out by curly hole punchers.

The wish book is almost ready. Adding decor elements always remains your right, which is limited only by imagination. You can watch a couple of samples on the Internet, or be inspired by the examples below.

The wish book will definitely be marked at the wedding. If it is presented as a gift to the bride and groom, then the leader is simply obliged to announce this publicly. If the book was made by young people for their happy event, then all the more all guests should know which needlewoman is the bride.

See how to make a wedding wish book in the video below.