Our Wedding Guestbook

Gantt and I are getting married 5 weeks from tomorrow! We absolutely can't wait, but there is still so much to do before the big day! Since I insist on doing everything myself, creating our guestbook was no exception. I found several guestbooks online that were the style I was looking for, but just were a little out of the price range I think is reasonable. So I figured I would do it myself! I started with a guestbook I found on clearance...

I filled to hole so that the top would be even

Covered the front with cardstock

I used silk duiponi in champagne for the cover. I measured out the size

Marked where the monogram would need to be

Folding the sides

Filled the binding

Added black moire ribbon

Covered the inside and backside covers with light blue shimmer cardsotck

Added the pearl and rhinestone broach and TADA! Our Guestbook...

Here you can see the shimmer in the moire

And here it is! Our wedding guestbook.

I'm so happy with the way it turned out! I can't wait to use it during my showers and of course at the wedding! I recently picked up some other "ugly" guestbooks on clearance, so contact me if you are interested in purchasing your own custom guestbook.

And We're Back...

Hello World! We're back! I'm so embarrassed to admit that it's been a month since my last post, but in all fairness Gantt and I were pretty much removed from society for about 9 weeks while we were studying for the bar. But now the bar is OVER and we have been reintroduced into world!!! It sure has been a whirlwind the past week! Right after the bar, we headed to Nashville for Gantt's Cousin, Graham's, Wedding. From Nashville back to Montgomery and Gantt to Dothan where he started work! My sister and I went to market is Atlanta then came back to Montgomery where I had to pack both mine and Gantt's houses. That weekend is where the real fun began...Gantt and I moved to Dothan! We have officially moved all of our stuff into one household. Now we just have to wait for the wedding to get here!

Now that I'm not stuck in a chair all day reading, I have been super busy with tons of DIY projects all of which I can't wait to share! But first I have to find my camera USB somewhere in all the boxes. So check back in a couple of days.

One idea I have been trying to generate is what am I going to do for Gantt's birthday on August 21st?!? With this thought process, I wanted to share the birthday cake I made him last year...

Here is a little background on the cake: Gantt and I LOVE New Orleans. We go every year and had even discussed possibly getting married there. The culture, the food, the atmosphere, EVERYTHING about the Crescent City always leaves us wanting more. Gantt also grew up in New Orleans so needless to say it is a very special place to him. One thing that Gantt always has to have when we go to Nola is crawfish. He is the crawfish king! Gantt can take down the contents of a crawfish/shrimp  boil in record time. No joke...if I ever find a crawfish boil eating competition like they have those hotdog competitions, Gantt has to enter. It was all these reasons that I decided to make this the surprise theme of Gantt's cake. When I asked him what flavor he wanted his cake to be, he said one layer strawberry, one chocolate, and one vanilla. I know...that's kind of strange, but he said he couldn't decide which flavor of my homemade cakes that he liked the most. I decided to go with it...Here is Gantt's Crawfish Boil/ Mardi Gras Birthday Cake! It's going to be tough to top this one...