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April 25, 2014

How to Use Engagement Photos for a Guest Book

April 25, 2014/ treanab

I knew from the instant that I got our engagement pictures back from Preston that I wanted to use them in as many places as possible in my ~~life~~ wedding. I searched around A TON to find a high quality, hard cover book for our photos that would also allow me to leave space for the guests to write messages- I mean staring at my face is awesome, but being able to write us a message is the whole point of a guest book.

I ended up landing at Blurb. (Link now contains affiliate: see post here). Their books do not dissapoint. I searched for and found a 10% off coupon so the total cost of my book was $60 delivered. I am in love with how easy the software is to use and also how GORGEOUS the full page spreads turned out.

I am obviously going to do the yearly yearbook massive Blurb book after we do our wedding book. Seems like it'll be a fun thing to have our last picture in the books be one of us on each anniversary. Tracking progress and hard earned wrinkles with pretty pics is my jam.

As an aside: I also messaged blurb to ask them what pen our peeps should use to leave their love notes and they responded with a resounding BALL POINT PENS! Well alrighty then. At least if I do a quote book for babies down the line, I'll know that ball point is the way to go!

Check out my full book here.

These are just some of my favorite pages...

This just got me all excited for August 9 and (let's be real) my legit wedding photos so that I can make another freaking awesome book!

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Hey now. I'm Treana...welcome to my little slice of the internet where I get to use exclamation points with abandon!!! We do more here than overuse certain forms of punctuation. Around these parts you'll find DIY projects, budgeting ups and downs and tools, photography fun, food goodness, music loves, and hopefully a little inspiration. We talk about anything and everything here and hope that you'll join us in our mutual weirdness we call life. For more about us, our wedding, and our lives, visit the 'Bout the Bennetts page. (I so wanted to put an exclamation point there).

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Oh well oh well oh well-a. Huh! Those summer nights. #youdownwithlmb

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No justice, no peace. I’ve basically been unable to post or think about much else. Enough is enough. #defundthepolice #endsystemicracism

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She’s my hero. #youdownwithlmb

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A simply excellent weekend with seeing my favorite humans everyday. #youdownwithlmb @lwbranz @adambranz

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Friends and adventures and celebrations this weekend. #joy #youdownwithlmb

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