How to Make a Wedding Guest Book

The costs of a wedding usually go well beyond the budgets of many people. You have the large costs of the dress, ceremony and venue that most couples plan for. However a wedding brings about a lot of little costs as well. Invitations, flowers and gifts often add several hundred dollars more to the budget. Get away from spending lots of money on the little things and start doing them yourself. One way to trim a bit off your wedding budget is by making your own wedding guest book.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Cardboard (shoe or sweater box thickness is fine)
• Thick paper
• Glue gun or paper hole puncher
• Iron
• Scissors
• Ribbon
• Fabric (wedding colored is recommended but any that you choose will be fine)

1. Take about 10 sheets of paper and cut them in half. You should use 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper to start with. Put these aside. Measure out the cardboard. The recommended dimensions are 5 1/2 inches high and 11 inches wide. It can be as thick as you want.

2. Take one of the wide pieces, the one that is to be used for your binding and fold it at the 5 1/2-inch point. Mark this on the cardboard and do the same to the other piece. Glue the spine or the middle of these two folds. These pieces should now be the same size as the paper.

3. Place the stack of papers inside the cover once the glue has dried. Use your iron to reheat the glue so the paper becomes fixed inside.

4. Decorate the cover as you like with ribbon or fabric. By the time you finish, you will have a beautiful wedding book that cost nearly nothing.

Tips & Warnings

• If you don't want to use hot glue, get a hole punch and fasten the book together that way.

Resources

• Wedding budget tips