Customised Guest Books

Whether you are planning a wedding, hosting a corporate event, celebrating your 21st birthday or opening a quaint new bed & breakfast, we can craft  the perfect guest book to suit your needs, style and budget.

Logos and monograms can be added to the cover or your choice of a title including names, dates or venues.  

Wedding guest book with customised stamping.

A block can be created with a company logo or monogram

In addition to the stamping on the cover, there are lots of options to choose from.  Some options to consider are printed or plain pages, the book size, cover material, colour and whether you want a hard or a soft wrap-style binding.  You can even opt to have a matching box created to house your guest book.

Stuck for ideas? We can help with the design process, ensuring that your guest book will be perfect for your special occasion or event.

If your need something fast, you can buy and personalise from our online collection.  Your guest book will be handcrafted and delivered to you within the week. (excluding those requiring custom blocks)

Visit our wedding guest book page for further inspiration and information for planning your perfect wedding guest book.

Want more ideas?  You can view our custom binding gallery to see examples of all types of customised books or follow the link below to view and personalise something from our online collection.

5 Ideas for Personalising your Wedding Guest Book

As your wedding day approaches it can be the little details that make a big difference.  Your wedding guest book is a little detail that can be easily overlooked, but it's not just for collecting names and well wishes from your guests. The guest book is usually one of the few items from your actual wedding day that may be kept and treasured by you and your family beyond.  

Much more than just a place for names.  You can ask your guests to share stories, marriage advice, or even take and attach pictures of the wedding festivities.  

We love making guest books that are perfectly suited to the people who will own them.  So today we have compiled some great ideas for personalising your wedding guest book so it's a perfect reflection of you.

1.  Match Your Wedding Guest Book to your Invitations

This can be as simple as matching the cover to the overall colour scheme of your wedding, or you can have monograms or pictures created to match the invitation like the example shown below.

This wedding guest book was crafted to match the gorgeous image on the letter press invitation.  The guest book featured navy leather spine and corners with a deckled-edged printed paper on the cover.  

2. Pen a Love Letter in Calligraphy

Write a letter, dedication or tribute together or to each other inside the front cover of your guest book.  You could hand write it or print it on the computer, but as it is a truly special day why not go for something really special like the glorious penmanship of calligraphy.  

An example of a calligraphy tribute in the front cover of a custom binding.  This example was actually a tribute written by parents to their son on his 21st birthday.

3. Personalise your Wedding Guest Book with your Names

No one wants their guest book to look 'stock standard'.  Add your name, the wedding date or the year to the cover of your book.  We can emboss on the leather or book cloth parts of your wedding guest book.

Half Leather Signature Book in Provence Red design with gold embossing.

Another popular trend is to include Est. and the year of your wedding, rather than putting the full date.

Wedding guest books in leather wrap style.  

For a more traditional style guest book, include your names and the date on a full leather binding.  More information about our personalisation service can be found here.

Full Leather Wedding Guest Book with Silver Embossing

4.  Add Pictures to your Guest Book

By adding pictures to your wedding guest book, you can make it more of a coffee table book or album. Some people opt to have blank pages for writing alternated with full photo pages of themselves taken throughout their relationship.

With the popularity of photo booths & Polaroid cameras to take snapshots during the wedding reception, another great option for making your guest book really personal is allowing for photos to be added throughout the reception.  A guest book can be created with heavier card stock and guests can add their photos then write their message next to it.

Choose from black or cream card stock to have your guest book custom made such as the large full leather book above.

5.  Choose a Quote or Poem to put on the Front Cover

It could even be a line from a favourite movie or song.  If your guest book is a full leather binding you can literally 'cover' the front cover with words like in the example shown below.  You can select the font and colour of the embossing.  Monograms, family emblems or logos can also be featured on the front cover.  

This custom binding featured a list of descriptive words embossed over the entire front of the full leather binding

You are really only limited by your imagination and we would love to help you with your ideas.  You can get in touch with us or find out more about making a custom wedding guest book by following the link.

If you would like to personalise a wedding signature book from our collection you can shop and personalise one from our online store.

How would you or did you make your wedding guest book personal?  We'd love to hear from you in the comments section.  Any other questions or comments?  We'd love to hear those too!  

Hope this gives you some ideas for making your guest book perfect for your big day,

Getting Married? We have the Perfect Wedding Guest Book

Planning a wedding?  Want a gorgeous and unique wedding guest book? 

Here are 3 great reasons that you should come and see us before your big day:

1. Design your own - With a huge range of leather, book cloth and paper designs to choose from, you can select the perfect colour, style and size to suit your big day.  If too much choice is a problem, we have lots of examples and friendly advice to help you make the perfect selection.

2. Personalise It- Once the cover and pages are chosen you have the option of adding your names, the date, a quote or the reception venue to the cover. 

3. Handcrafted from the finest materials - We use only the finest materials to hand craft every book using traditional bookbinding techniques and equipment.  Your book will be totally unique and something that can become a lasting keepsake of your wedding day.

And we don't just stop at guest books.  We can craft an album for the snaps from your honeymoon or wedding reception, a journal to record your life together, or even an Italian feathered quill or glass dip pen to use to sign the marriage register.  

For more information don't hesitate to contact us by using our online form, browse our guest book collection online or come in store and see us.

Turquoise Leather Journals

Full and half leather guest books with personalisation

Display at Wedding expo

Italian feather quill and glass dip pen

Personalised signature book and full leather portrait album

Signature book in Provence Red Design with textured cream blank pages.

Full leather album has 30 black dry mount leaves.

Landscape quarter leather albums

Red leather with Japanese Cherry Blossom & Black leather with Japanese Grey Books designs.

Leather wrap style signature books with personalisation

Albums and Journals on display

Collection of hand tools used to finish leather books