Wedding planning season is in full swing after all of those holiday engagements, am I right or am I right? I know several lovely ladies that are in the midst of planning weddings and need a good unique wedding guestbook idea. A guest book is a great way for you to remember all your wonderful guests from your whirlwind of a wedding day as well as provide something pretty and lasting that you can display in your home. I know a lot of people do the thumb print tree, which is adorable, or sign the matting of a picture frame. For my own wedding, we had our guest sign postcards (because we love to travel) and put them in a mailbox. Now we have them framed and hung up all over our home! I was recently in one of my BFF’s wedding and I took on the task of being in charge of the guestbook.
I was thrilled to be in her wedding and it was so fun to design and put together her guestbook. Aren’t we the cutest??
She saw some wooden hearts on Pinterest and knew she wanted them to be a part of the design. So on her big day, I set out a bunch of wooden hearts, brown fine tipped sharpies, and a pretty apothecary jar for people to put them in once they signed them. Easy peasy! Now it was time to put them all together.
Wooden Heart Wedding Guestbook Materials
- A shadowbox frame
- Wooden hearts (found at most craft stores)
- Hot glue gun
- (Optional) Silhouette CAMEO and frosted vinyl
Step 1
Remove the back from your shadowbox frame and begin to lay out your wooden hearts. I had two different sizes of hearts to work with. Place them on the fuzzy backing in whatever pattern or design you want. I went for a sort of natural, haphazard arrangement that looks like the hearts are just falling into place.
Step 2
Once you are satisfied with the placement of your wooden hearts, carefully pick each one up, apply a little bit of hot glue to the back, and press it back into place. Repeat for all the wooden hearts on your board! When you’re done it should look something like this:
Step 3
Pop the back with the wooden hearts back into the frame et voila! You can be done here after this step if you want. I decided that I wanted to add a little more customization to my friends wedding guestbook, so I decided to make her and her hubby’s names as well as their wedding date and had it cut out of frosted glass vinyl using my Silhouette CAMEO. You could also get the same effect from using stickers! The frosted glass looks like it’s really etched into the glass. I like the fact that it’s mostly transparent so you can still read all the sweet messages on the hearts inside!
And there you have it! A super easy and unique wedding guestbook idea that you can put together in a snap, both at the wedding, and after it’s done! I’m so excited to give her the finished product so she can put it up in the new home she now shares with her new husband 🙂
What was your wedding guestbook like?
I really like the way these wooden hearts a look and also how they seem easy to make. I tried something similar for guest books before but they were clay egg-like crafts tat were put in some basket. Thanks for sharing, and I am sure it was real fun.
Cindy
Thanks so much, Cindy! That egg in a basket idea sounds super cute! I definitely had fun making this guestbook for my friend – she loved it 🙂
This is such a nice post as it gives wonderful idea. With this idea we can keep all the best wishes of our relatives with us forever. I’ll also use this idea on my wedding. Thank you for sharing this unique idea with us.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Fredy! It definitely is a special way to keep relatives’ and friends’ writing and wishes close to us! Congratulations on your wedding 🙂
I love this idea Erika and definitely want to do something like this at my wedding! What size frame did you use? I will need about the same number of hearts!
I’m so glad you want to do this for your wedding! It really is a fun project and looks so great as home decor 🙂 I believe the frame I used was a 16″x20″!
I love this idea and want to do it for my wedding but my question is what size frame did you use and how many hearts did it fit? We are looking to have around 100 people at ours.
Congrats on your upcoming wedding and marriage! I believe the frame I used was an 18×24. I also used probably roughly 100 hearts – Michaels craft store sells them in two sizes, so it would be good to go there to check out which ones would work best for you – I used a mixture of both sizes for a varied look. I hope that helps!
very very beautiful … just loved it
I just loved your content, especially since I’m close to getting married. I was also unsure of the size of the frame that you use, and if it will have approximately the same number of hearts, but I have seen that you have answered in previous comments. So I’m satisfied!
thanks
you have great ideas. Very creative and beautiful.
Really cool! I will make it for sure!
That’s so great to hear! It really is a great way to commemorate your wedding day! 🙂
Very creative and beautiful.
Really cool! ,very good
Thank you!
Very creative and beautiful, very good
Thank you!
Very creative and beautiful. Congratulations!
Thank you so much!
his is such a nice post as it gives wonderful idea. With this idea we can keep all the best wishes of our relatives with us forever. I’ll also use this idea on my wedding
How was this presents to guests to sign at the wedding?
Hi Rebecca! Thank you so much for your question! For the wedding, the wooden hearts were spread out on a table with sharpies for guests to sign – then there was a beautiful glass apothecary jar set out for people to put the hearts in once they were done. After the wedding I put them in the frame myself!