Book of wishes for the wedding: what is needed and how to do?

The book is the best gift, the wedding is the most memorable event. How to combine these two concepts and make yourself a surprise? When pronouncing the word "book", fiction or a large volume of the encyclopedia most often occurs in the head. Perhaps in modern life will be remembered also e-book. But how is this item related to the wedding? Directly. After all, this is a book of wishes. Next, we will discuss what it is for, where to get it from and what to do with it.

Wedding wish book has become an almost mandatory attribute. It is usually placed in the so-called welcome zone. So that, when the newlyweds have not arrived yet, the guests already gathering in the banquet hall immediately paid attention to the book. Great zones are drawn up in different ways, but most often the book of wishes lies separately on the table in a prominent place.

It is always nice to view your old photos and remember the events stored on them. If we print photos and put them into an album, then we usually sign the dates and the names of the moments in which they were taken. Sometimes these photos are accompanied by various funny comments. For similar purposes and need a book of wishes. In order to have the opportunity to remember.

Of course, there is a photographer at the wedding, with the professionalism of which the photos will turn out to be of excellent quality with original performances. There is also a videographer, who may be able to shoot and edit a stunning beauty film about the wedding day. But it’s great to pick up a book full of various wishes, and after many years read the farewell messages from relatives and greetings from friends. Especially since you need hardware to watch the video, and the book is available at almost any moment. Everyone present can write in it, so you can also ask everyone who created a unique celebration to leave wishes.

If you look on the other hand, this book is a wonderful gift. Especially if made by hand. Just do not forget to warn the young that they are going to present exactly that. Otherwise, it may turn out that they, too, decide to make a book for guests ’signature as a souvenir, then your gift will be superfluous.

Many ideas, from very simple to incredibly creative, can be found on the Internet, as well as come up with yourself. Encounter a book on the cover, and if you have undertaken independent work, then we offer options for its design.

The cover will be simple and concise. For example, choose two colors. One will personify the bride, the other - the groom. You can proceed from the characters of the young. Passionate and temperamental bride - red, courageous and brutal groom - blue. Or the gentle and refined bride is the color of ayvor, and the calm and thoughtful man is green. A variety of color palette knows no boundaries. You can also choose a color based not on the qualities of the young, but from the color gamut of the wedding, which the young will most likely tell when sending invitations.

The cover will be divided into two parts with selected flowers, and the date of the wedding will be simply written in the middle. On both sides the color will be opposite. This will create a mirror effect. Edging can not do, the most important thing is already clear.

This option is especially suitable if the wedding takes place in a particular style. Rustic, vintage, Provence, boho and others are now particularly popular. Take, for example, the rustic style, it is an eco-friendly design, filled with natural attributes. If this is chosen, then the book cover itself can be sheathed with sacking and filled inside with hay. The work is painstaking, but the result will be amazing. Also, on top of the cover, attach the date or initials of the newlyweds, carved from wood or laid out from cereals.

You can make a book using additional materials and if the wedding does not have a certain style. There are many techniques in which you can perform such a thing, for example, decoupage, scrapbooking, quilling, furoshiki and much more. It is difficult to learn everything at a time, but you can take a more interesting one for yourself and try to make a simple design.

The book consists not only of a beautiful cover. Pages also need to pay attention. Moreover, the most important thing will be inside, namely, future wishes. Consider how you can beautifully design the pages of our book.

• Need to choose the density of the paper. From this will depend on the longevity of the book. You take a standard office paper or cardboard, the view will be different.
• It is necessary to determine the color sheets. The paper may be plain or have a gradient. Perhaps metallized coating. Very original version - engraving sheets. Only then, instead of the usual pen for writing wishes, a special pen with an iron tip should be attached. Such sheets will initially be black, but as soon as the wishes are written, they will immediately find a real "highlight".
• Monochrome pages can also be decorated with sparkles and feathers or made on each element from the book cover in a reduced size. The original idea is to attach a small candy to the sheets, so that the congratulators take them as a small reward.

An unusual version of the book of wishes is a photo album. Long ago, Polaroid cameras came into our lives. They shot instant photos that appeared a minute after they were taken. If someone has preserved such a device, it may turn out to be a great improvisation in retro design, perhaps even a joke.

For this professional photographer is not required. It will be necessary to remove guests writing wishes, and in the future it will be possible not only to remember the wedding farewell, but also to see those who wrote them. The design of the book will take place directly in the process of filling, for this you can pre-paste the corners for photos on the pages. Photos can be mounted randomly and take place not one per page, but two or three. It all depends on the size of the book.

In addition to the book of wishes, many interesting things have been thought up now that replace it, but still they are carriers of the words of congratulations. The most popular is the wish tree. For example, on a sheet of drawing paper or on a canvas they paint a beautiful tree. Next are attached, for example, printing in different colors. Guests leave colorful prints of their fingers on the branches, and write mini wishes on top. The very best can leave an imprint of the whole palm.

A very interesting way for wishes is wooden hearts. They are most often made to order. Small wooden hearts are attached either to a large wooden heart, or your fantasy allows.

Non-standard option - the globe. Wishes are written with a marker, as long as it is indelible. Or you can replace a large-caliber ball with a more convenient to carry map, which can simply be rolled up into a tube.

We offer an uncomplicated master class for creating a book of wishes in one of the most popular techniques - scrapbooking.

For work you will need:

• paper is the basis for a book of desired density and size;
• clippings from magazines and newspapers;
• prepared and printed drawings;
• Eyelets, curly buttons, chains and other decorations;
• pens, markers, pencils;
• figured punches, paper embossing kit;
• glue, needle and thread.

To meet your expectations, follow these guidelines.

• It is assumed that your future album will be on the grommets, to insert them, make a hole on the desired number of sheets.
• Then go to the cover. It should be harder than pages, so we take cardboard, which is two and a half times wider than one sheet of the future album, and cut it to the right and left of the middle by a couple of centimeters. As a result, we will have three parts - two basic and in the middle a strip of the chosen size for binding our book.
• Now we paste this cardboard onto the base. It can be felt, fleece, flax and other rather dense fabrics. Instead of gluing, you can sew material. The base cover is ready.
• The inside of the cover can be decorated with craft paper. We glue the middle one with a beautiful, but not thick paper, but on the sides of our turn, for greater neatness, close the paper with the original pattern.

• Take the sheets and put them on the expanded cover. Insert a needle into each hole from the hole punch and press down. This will determine the location of the grommets. Their installation will not work, turn the cover upside down and fasten.
• After we put the future book again with the cover down and put the sheets. Sew a beautiful thread or stretch the ribbon and tie it well.
• Now let's do the design. The background of the cover can be decorated with buttons prepared in advance, stitching them onto a Lurex thread. Do not forget about the subject of the wedding. Perhaps the cover turned out to be in a nautical style, then a ship’s drawing would be suitable, and perhaps in a vintage theme, then we select clippings from old yellowed newspapers.
• On each page, using a special embossing machine, you can make a nice convex picture. What it will be depends on the stamps in the set.
• The edges of the pages can be framed with pictures that will be embossed curly hole punch.

The book of wishes is almost ready. Adding decorative elements always remains your right, which is limited only by imagination. You can watch a couple of samples on the Internet, or be inspired by the examples below.

A wish book will definitely be marked at the wedding. If it is presented as a gift to the bride and groom, then the presenter is simply obliged to announce this publicly. If the book was made by young people for their happy event, then all the more guests should know what a needlewoman the bride is.

How to make a wish book for the wedding, see the video below.