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Light brown wedding guest book on coffee table

How do Wedding Guest Books work?

How do Wedding Guest Books actually work? We get asked this a lot and it's a fair question. Wedding Guest Books work in all manner of ways but their basic function is to record the event from your Guests' point of view. It's a chance for your family and friends to a) tell you what an amazing day they've had b) how happy they are for you and c) give you bits of advice they have on the monumental promise that you have just made to each other!

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Yellow wedding dress

How do you feel about the colour yellow? Would you feature yellow at your wedding?

Yellow is such a divisive colour, and I am one of those people who just can't quite cope with it. I can fully appreciate what it symbolises ( warmth, optimism, sunshine, freshness...) but I just don't think I like it. We have three materials with which we make all our photo albums and guest books and over forty different colours to choose from, and whereas we have nine different blues, eight greens, eight pinks - we have only one yellow. And we're not being mean ( well maybe a bit ) its just quite simply supply and demand. Nobody ever...

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Dark Green Photo Album with the words "Party Time" Embossed in green letters on the front

Your Last Minute Panic Sorted

The party is this weekend! The Birthday is tomorrow! We're getting married on Saturday! Many of the emails we receive start with one of these panicky lines and our first response is always, 'we can get something to you'. Admittedly most of our photo albums and guest books are very bespoke in their nature and so involve us getting a printing stamp designed, a specific book made but there are always short cuts if need be. We have created a new section on our website called Last Minute Solutions https://www.begolden.co.uk/collections/last-minute-solutions and here you'll find all the guest books and photo...

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Beautiful rose gold wedding guest book

Do we need a wedding guest book?

'Do we need a wedding guest book?' Well, here's the thing, it sort of is essential. It is a crucial tool when it comes to prolonging the day. All the other items you choose to buy will be gone, or at best put away to maybe look at again 10 years down the line.

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