Weddingbee boards

I used Shutterfly and it worked out very well. The only thing I suggest is to leave LOTS of white space for guests to write on. I specifically wanted them to sign near a photo. Guests were hesitant. I recommend leaving blank white pages as Mrs. Emerald did. Also, make a "Please sign our guestbook" sign. No one at our wedding knew to sign it.

I did one using Picaboo, but I wasn't really thrilled with the print quality. (Photos and text were kinda grainy looking, and the first time around, there were some really bad quality issues with the "softcover" option -- creasing on the spine before it had been opened, etc.)

However, a plus for them is that they are the only place I found (maybe someone else knows more) that does small size (typical guest book size) HARDCOVER (fabric covered) books. Everyone else's small, rectangular books were only in softcover (paper).

I used our engagement photos on the left hand page and lined pages on the right. I mostly did it b/c I didn't like any of the commercially available books for various reasons, including my own weirdness about how the lines were spaced/printed.

I think I would've done it differently (see my post in the "creative cards" thread) in hindsight. We only had 90 guests, and so only 2-3 pages were signed. I wanted people to put name/address per usual, and also write us a message. Hubs said "yeah, right, no one's gonna do that."  ...Sigh. He was right. (Of course, I didn't tell our guest book monitor to tell them that, nor did I have a sign, so I've only myself to blame.)