A guest book by the door collects forty signatures and a few "congrats!" A link collects the photos your guests took on the dance floor, heartfelt messages from the friends who couldn't make the trip, and marriage advice from the couple who has been together fifty years.
Start a wedding book See how it worksThe traditional guest book asks your guests for the smallest thing they have to give. It gets a name, maybe a heart, and it gets opened about once a decade. Meanwhile every person at your reception is holding a phone full of photos of your wedding that you'll never see.
Sharing a link changes what you're asking for. Your guests upload the photos they took and write what they would have said if there had been time — how they know you, what they felt during the ceremony, what their own marriage has taught them. It arrives as a page instead of a line.
Open the project before the wedding so the people who can't travel can add their page in advance, keep it open through the reception, and leave it open a few weeks after while the photos are still rolling in.
Set it up before the big day and put the link where your 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, your wedding website, a card on each table, or a little sign by the door. Guests open it on their phones — nothing to download.
Guest photos from angles your photographer never had, alongside their written messages, each arranged into a finished page.
Order the hardcover once the contributions slow down, or download the free PDF first and read it together on the couch.
It isn't about replacing a tradition. It's about asking your guests for something you'll treasure.
The candid shots from the tables and the dance floor, shared by the people who took them, instead of lost across forty camera rolls.
Grandparents who couldn't travel, friends overseas, anyone who missed it — they add a page from home and they're part of the day.
Written privately on a phone, not scribbled at a table with three people waiting behind them.
You're not building a photo book by hand after the honeymoon. Pages are laid out beautifully as they arrive.
A 10-inch square case-bound book with a matte cover and matte pages, made to be picked up on every anniversary.
If you turn on gifting, guests can put $1.25 or more toward the printing — a small, sweet way to be part of it.
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 their wedding website beforehand. Guests open it in a browser — there's nothing to install and no account to create.
Yes. The project stays open as long as you'd like, which is handy because a lot of guest photos show up in the week after rather than on the night.
Yes. Each guest can upload up to three photos with their message, and we arrange them into a page.
Photos are enhanced automatically when they're uploaded — exposure and color are corrected, which makes a real difference to dim dance-floor shots.
Yes. You review every submission and decide what's included, and anything marked private is visible only to you and the people you invite.
Collecting is free. 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 comes to about $97.45.
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Start the project before the invitations go out, and let your book fill itself between now and the thank-you notes.
Start a wedding book