14 Unique Wedding Guest Book Alternatives For Creative Couples

By Kirkbrae Wedding Venue

Purple and white ribbon decorated wedding guest book

Some wedding traditions make your day feel timeless. Others were made to be broken. So, if a standard wedding guest book feels too boring or old-fashioned for your taste, you’re in luck. Plenty of fun wedding guest book alternatives can help you gather well-wishes from your guests and give you a unique souvenir that suits your style.

Below, find 14 alternative wedding guest book ideas to help you remember your special day, courtesy of Rhode Island wedding planners.

14 Alternative Wedding Guest Book Ideas

Artistic Signatures

Instead of asking your guests to sign something, ask them to leave small drawing instead! Offer your guests a canvas or sketchbook, art supplies like colored pencils and pens, and encourage them to leave a signed doodle

This alternative wedding guest book idea is perfect if your friends and family are on the artistic side. And even if they aren’t, you can still admire basic smiley-faces and flowers drawn straight from the heart

Voicemail Guest Book

Ask your friends and family to leave an audio note on a wedding audio guest book rather than signing their names! Services like After The Tone and All The Beep give you a cute retro-style telephone that records messages from your guests. After the ceremony, you can preserve the messages digitally and listen to them whenever you want to remember your day

Polaroid Guest Book

If you prefer visual keepsakes, set up an instant camera and ask your guests to snap photos of themselves with a polaroi camera. You can use the pictures in a scrapbook, pin them to a memory board, or make a framed collage. Plus, if you leave some Sharpies by the camera, guests can sign the backs of the photos like a traditional guest book!

Messages In A Bottle

Rather than signing a book, ask your guess to contribute to a message in a bottle! Options like this personalized glass bottle from Callie come with paper scrolls and twine for guests to write on and customized bottle to put them in.

You don’t need to worry about retrieving your messages, either! The glass bottle top detaches from a wooden bottom, giving you easy access to all your well wishes.

Wedding guest book standing on a wedding table with a pen and floral arrangement next to it

Custom Postcards

If you love to travel, ask your guests to sign postcards of your favorite destinaitons. These could be your honeymoon, the state or country of a destination wedding, or your favorite vacation spot. To go the extra mile, you can also create custom prints with your names, photos, or wedding dates. It’s a fun, cute guest book alternative for globe-trotting couples.

Autographed Globe

Speaking of globe trotting, why not ask your guests to sign a model globe? They can sign near their home states or countries, their favorite destinaitons, or a place they’ve always wanted to go. It gives you a fun way to look back on your wedding day and provides destination ideas for your next adventure

Dictionary Guest Book

Instead of a traditional guest book, grab a dictionary and some paper bookmarks. Ask your guests to sign the bookmarks and place them near words that remind them of you. Just have tissues on stand-by when you read the bookmarks later.

Jenga Wedding Guest Book

Decorations are nice, but if you prefer a wedding guest book you’ll actually use, consider asking your guests to sign wooden Jenga blocks. When you play the game later, every block you remove from the tower will reveal a message of support from your friends and family. You’ll remember the joy of your wedding on every game night.

Wedding Guest Book Puzzle

For another game-fiied guest book idea, your guests to sign pieces of a blank puzzle. After the ceremony, you and your partner can put the puzzle together and read everyone’s well wishes. You’ll make a new memory together while discovering new messages from your family and friends.

Fingerprint Guest Book

For this alternative guest book idea, star by printing an illustration from a site like Zazzle. Then, set up a station with washable finger print ink and pens. Encourage your guests to stamp their thumb print on the illustration to make a fingerprint guest book. Together, their prints will complete the illustration, such as creating a bunch of balloons or leaves on a tree. It makes for an especially striking visual!

Just be sure you have some pens on standby for guests to sign their prints, and plenty of wet wipes to prevent stained formalwear.

Guest Log

If you and your partner share a punny sense of humor, have your guests sign a wooden board – AKA, a “guest log.” The board could be a rounded wood slice or a wooden panel with your names and wedding dates. This guest book alternative is especially appropriate if you and your partner have a rustic-themed wedding or enjoy rustic home decor.

Signed Guitar

If you or your partner are musically inclined, ask yor guests to autograph an instrument, like a guitar! You’ll get a wedding guest book alternative that you’ll actually use, and it doubles as a customized decoration

Wine Bottles

For a wedding guest book idea that’ll give you nostalgia years after the fact, ask your guests to sign a bottle of your favorite wine. When you and your open the bottle on a milestone anniversary, you can savor both the wine and heartfelt messages.

Vinyl Record Guest Book

For another way to combine your guest book with music, ask your guests to sign a vinyl record. The record could be one of your favorite albums, a copy of your first dance song, or a totally customized tracklist of your personal greatest hits.

And if you don’t want to damage the actual vinyl, you can always ask guests to sign a customized jacket or record cover. This way, you can still play your record and relive the key memories of your wedding day through music!

A Rhode Island Wedding Venue That Tells Your Story

If you want a wedding day that gets every detail right, from the catering menu to your wedding guest book, let Kirkbrae Country Club guide your special day.

Not only was our wedding and reception venue voted one of the best in Rhode Island, but our on-staff wedding planners can help you plan a day that reflects your unique love from beginning to end. All you have to do is show up and celebrate with your guests!