A book of wishes for a wedding: what is it for and how to do it?

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

The wedding book of wishes has become almost a must. Usually it is placed in the so-called welcome zone. So that, when the newlyweds have not yet arrived, the guests already gathering in the banquet hall will immediately pay attention to the book. Welkom zones are designed in different ways, but most often the book of wishes lies separately on the table in a conspicuous place.

It's always nice to look at your old photos and remember the events saved on them. If we print photos and put them in an album, we usually sign the dates and names of the moments in which they were taken. Sometimes these photos are accompanied by various funny comments. For similar purposes, a book of wishes is also needed. In order to be able to remember.

Of course, there is a photographer at the wedding, with the professionalism of which the photographs will be of excellent quality with original productions. There is also a videographer who is able to shoot and edit a stunningly beautiful film about the wedding day.But how great it is to pick up a book full of various wishes, and after many years read parting words from relatives and congratulations from friends. Moreover, you need technical means to watch the video, and the book is available almost at any time. Everyone who is present can write in it, so you can also ask everyone who created a unique celebration to leave their wishes.

From the other side, this book is a wonderful gift. Especially if done by hand. Just do not forget to warn the young that you are going to present exactly this. Otherwise, it may turn out that they also decide to make a book for themselves as a keepsake for the guests' signatures, then your gift will be superfluous.

Many ideas, from the simplest to the incredibly creative, can be found on the Internet, as well as come up with yourself. They come across 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, pick two colors. One will personify the bride, the other - the groom. You can proceed from the characters of the young. The passionate and temperamental bride is red, the courageous and brutal groom is blue. Or a gentle and sophisticated bride is the color of ivory, and a calm and thoughtful man is green. The variety of the color palette knows no boundaries. You can also choose a color based not on the qualities of the young people, but on the color scheme of the wedding, which the young people will most likely inform when they send out invitations.

The cover will be divided into two parts with the selected colors, 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. You don't have to do the edging, the most important thing is already clear.

This option is especially suitable if the wedding takes place in a certain style. Nowadays, rustic, vintage, provence, boho and others are especially popular. Take, for example, rustic style, which is sustainable design filled with natural attributes. If this is chosen, then the book cover itself can be sheathed with burlap and filled with hay inside. The work is painstaking, but the result will be amazing. Also, on top of the cover, attach the date or the initials of the newlyweds, carved from wood or laid out from cereals.

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

The book consists of more than just a beautiful cover. Pages also need to be given attention. Moreover, the most important thing will be inside, namely, future wishes. Let's consider how you can beautifully design the pages of our book.

• You need to select the paper weight. The durability of the book will depend on this. Whether you take standard office paper or cardboard, the look will be different.
• It is necessary to decide on the color of the sheets. The paper can be plain or with a gradient. Metallized coating is possible. A very original version is 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 wishes are written on them, they will immediately acquire a real zest.
• Plain pages can also be decorated with glitter and feathers, or made on each element from a book cover in a reduced size.The original idea is to attach a small candy to the sheets so that the congratulators take them for themselves as a small reward.

An unusual version of the book of wishes is a photo album. A long time ago, Polaroid cameras entered our life. They took instant photos, which appeared a minute after they were taken. If someone still has such a device, they can get an excellent improvisation in retro design, perhaps even a joke one.

You don't need a professional photographer for this. It will be necessary to take pictures of guests writing wishes, and in the future it will be possible not only to remember the wedding parting words, but also to see those who wrote them. The design of the book will take place directly during the filling process; for this, corners for photographs can be glued onto the pages in advance. Photos can be attached randomly and take up space not one by one on the 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 now been invented that replace it, but are still carriers of the words of congratulations. The most popular is the wish tree. For example, a beautiful tree is drawn on a piece of Whatman paper or on a canvas. Nearby are attached, for example, stamps of different colors. Guests leave colorful fingerprints on the branches and write mini-wishes on top. The best-most can leave an imprint of a whole palm.

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

A non-standard option is a globe. Wishes are written with a marker, as long as it is indelible. Alternatively, you can replace the large-caliber ball with a more easy-to-carry card that can simply be folded into a tube.

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

For work you will need:

• paper - the basis for a book of the desired density and size;
• clippings from magazines and newspapers;
• prepared and printed in advance drawings;
• eyelets, curly buttons, chains and other decorations;
• pens, markers, pencils;
• curly hole punches, a set for embossing paper;
• glue, needle and thread.

To ensure that the result meets your expectations, adhere to the following guidelines.

• It is assumed that your future album will be on eyelets; to insert them, make holes on the desired number of sheets.
• Then we move on 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 main ones and in the middle a strip of the selected size for the binding of our book.
• Now we glue this cardboard to the base. It can be felt, fleece, linen and other fairly dense fabrics. Instead of gluing, you can sew on the material. The cover base is ready.
• The inner side of the cover can be decorated with kraft paper. We glue the middle with beautiful, but not thick paper, and on the sides we cover our spread for greater neatness with paper with an original drawing.

• We take the sheets and put them on the unfolded cover. Insert a needle into each hole from the hole punch and press down. This will determine the location of the eyelets. Their installation will not be difficult, we turn the cover upside down and fasten it.
• Then we put the future book cover down again and attach the sheets. We sew with a beautiful thread or stretch the ribbon and tie it well.
• Now let's get into the design. The background of the cover can be decorated with buttons prepared in advance by sewing them onto a lurex thread. Let's not forget about the theme of the wedding.Perhaps the cover turned out in a nautical style, then a drawing of a ship will do, 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 pretty embossed image. What it will be depends on the stamps in the set.
• The edges of the pages can be framed with pictures, which will be punched out with curly punches.

The book of wishes is almost ready. Adding decorative elements is always your right, which is limited only by your imagination. You can check out a couple of samples online, or take inspiration from the examples below.

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

To learn how to make a book of wishes for a wedding, see the video below.