The Book...

We're attempting to keep our wedding cost low, but I totally splurged on a guest book. Sounds like a silly thing to splurge on, but we have plans for a photo guest book. We'll have each family or group get their photo taken and then stick it on a page in the book where they can sign and write their well wishes around it. I heard of this idea somewhere and thought it was perfect for us. I love pictures and I'm not really a fan of the traditional guest book. Besides what better way to capture photos of everyone who attends our wedding. I'm not really a girlie girl, so I didn't want to go the white book with a ribbon on front route. Through some random searching on etsy.com I came across this woman who designs custom leather books. She goes by the name crearting on etsy (I recommend checking out her other work). I fell in love with them and with Jesse's approval made my first expensive purchase. It took some time for our book to arrive as it was being hand crafted and coming all the way from Latvia, but it arrived here today (5 days earlier than expected actually). Today exactly 364 days before our wedding, but who's counting right? I am so excited about how perfect it turned out. It's a combination of molded leather, hand painting, and branding work. It's a beautiful quality book and the pictures don't do it justice. Of course I couldn't wait to show it off to all of you though, so I snapped several photos to share. Enjoy!

I am so pleased with how this turned out that I will definitely purchase from her again. I'm thinking about buying one of her photo albums in a similar style to hold photos of our wedding as well. They're beautiful keepsakes that we will treasure forever, even more so when they are filled with pictures of our family and friends smiling faces as we celebrate our big day. It's beginning to feel really real now.