A table by the door gets forty signatures and three sentences. A link gets photos from the dance floor, messages from guests who could not travel, and advice from the people who have been married fifty years.
Start a wedding book See how it worksThe traditional guest book asks for the least interesting thing a guest has to offer. It gets a name, occasionally a "congrats!", and it gets opened again about once a decade. Meanwhile every guest at the reception is holding a phone full of photos of your wedding that you will never see.
Sharing a link changes what you are asking for. Guests upload the photos they took and write the thing they would have said if there had been time — how they know you, what they thought during the ceremony, the advice their own marriage taught them. It arrives as a page rather than a line.
You can open the project before the wedding so guests who cannot travel contribute in advance, keep it open through the reception, and leave it open for a few weeks after while people are still sending photos.
Set the project up before the wedding and put the link where guests will see it.
Add your names, a cover photo, and the date. Choose whether the project is public or private.
Put it on the invitation, the wedding website, a card at each table, or a small sign by the door. Guests open it on their phones — nothing to download.
Guest photos from angles your photographer never had, plus written messages, each arranged into a finished page.
Order the hardcover once contributions slow down, or download the free PDF first to see how it reads.
The point is not replacing a tradition. It is asking for something worth keeping.
The candid shots from the tables and the dance floor, contributed by the people who took them, instead of scattered across forty camera rolls.
Grandparents who could not travel, friends overseas, anyone who missed it — they contribute a page from home.
Written privately on a phone, not standing at a table with three people waiting behind them.
You are not building a photo book by hand after the honeymoon. Pages are laid out as they arrive.
A 10-inch square case-bound book with a matte cover and matte pages, made to be handled.
If you enable gifting, guests can put $1.25 or more toward printing — a small, concrete way to contribute.
Put one of these on the table card instead of "please sign our guest book".
Collect for as long as you like — through the engagement, the wedding, and the weeks after — and print when it feels finished.
Create the project, invite everyone, and gather photos and stories for free. You only pay if you print.
A 10-inch square matte hardcover with matte interior pages, plus shipping. Extra pages are $1.25 each.
Friends and family can chip in toward printing — each $1.25 covers one page of the finished book.
Most couples put it on a small sign by the entrance and on the table cards, and share it on the wedding website beforehand. Guests open it in a browser — there is nothing to install and no account to create.
Yes. The project stays open as long as you want it to, which is useful because a lot of guest photos get sent in the week after rather than on the night.
Each contributor can upload up to three photos alongside their message, and the layout engine arranges them into a page.
Photos are enhanced automatically on upload — exposure and color are corrected, which makes a real difference to dim reception shots.
Yes. You can review submissions and decide what is included, and contributions marked private are only visible to you and the people you invite.
A hardcover is $34.95 for the first 20 pages, then $1.25 per additional page, plus shipping. A 70-guest wedding with a page each runs about $97.45.
Other occasions people build books for.
Start the project before the invitations go out, and let the book fill itself between now and the thank-you notes.
Start a wedding book