Our Polaroid Wedding Guestbook

I realized I’d never really shared photos of our polaroid wedding guestbook – so today I’m correcting that oversight!

We set up our guest book with a stack of polaroid film and two cameras near the front lawn, where our ceremony took place.  The sign in the bottom photo provided brief instructions to our guests, including a note letting them know they could use the fabric backdrop that we’d hung up nearby or find a pretty spot anywhere around the grounds.

We used a lilac + lavender letterpress coptic-stitch guest book from Brooklyn Bookbinder, and words cannot describe how much I adore our guest book.  Here are a couple of detail shots of the front cover and stitching:

After the wedding, we added all the rsvps and wedding cards that we’d received from our guests.  It now has a permanent home on my nightstand, just so I can pull it out any time I feel like it.

{top two photos by Punam Bean, bottom two photos by Brooklyn Bookbinder}

Handbound Envelope Books – Bird Dog Press

Allison from Bird Dog Press has partnered with her mother, a bookbinder, to develop a wonderful new form of scrapbook and keepsake-holder – these absolutely adorable handbound envelope books:

Allison and her mom created these handbound, coptic stitched books with letterpress signatures and envelopes enclosed inside.  Allison wrote on her blog that she and her mom love these books for their clever ability to hold not just photos or
the written word, but also nearly any sort of keepsake neatly tucked
away – allowing a creative and organized way of keeping all of your
memorabilia in one place.  I couldn't agree more!

There are tons more photos over on Allison's flickr page – and you can visit Allison over at her blog and design studio, Bird Dog Press.

{images via Bird Dog Press on flickr}

Color by Numbers

I'm a huge fan of the alphabet prints by Sycamore Street Press – and I absolutely love their new batch of matching number posters:

Designed by Stephanie Lynne Ford for Sycamore Street Press, these 11" x 14" prints are available in several color combinations (I'm kind of partial to the graphite/tangerine combo).  Check them all out right here!

{photos via Sycamore Street Press}