Guest Book

I love clever packaging!


Our MyPublisher photo book arrived a bit ago, and I was really pleased with how it turned out.



We'll be using it for the guest book at our wedding, so we left lots of white space inside to give people room to sign.

We did the classic hardcover, which starts at $29.80. We liked the linen cover with the photo cut-out better than the bookcover, so that saved us money as the bookcover costs an extra $4.95 (I also didn't want the edges of the bookcover to get all bent up). We didn't add any pages, either, so our book cost us $29.80 + tax + shipping. I think it would be easy to spend quite a bit on these books, just adding a page costs $0.99, which adds up fast!

I was super impressed with their customer service. After we put the book together and previewing it, we noticed that the pictures that were crooked on the page (they were like that intentionally, we chose a layout that had the pictures haphazardly arranged on the page) were fuzzy while all of the other pictures were crystal clear. We e-mailed their customer service that night (it was a Saturday) and got a reply an hour later telling us that the pictures wouldn't be fuzzy when we got it.

I got another e-mail when they finished putting the book together, and then another when they shipped it. I love being updated like that! The book arrived maybe 4 days later, so it was very quick.

We also had a buy one get one free coupon, so we got 2 identical books. The shipping was $12, which I thought was kind of steep, but to be fair, they were shipping 2 books instead of just one.

The books were skinnier than I thought they would be, but that's just me not being able to visualize how thick 20 pages are. We didn't upgrade the paper or anything, and I am happy with the thickness of the pages and with the clarity of the pictures. We chose black for the linen cover, and I'm glad we ordered 2 books, because you can see fingerprints on the cloth already. The next time I'll order a different color.

Overall, I was really impressed by MyPublisher! I definitely will be using them again.

Did you use MyPublisher or Blurb to make a book? What did you think?

Another Good One

Ryan came up with a new face for pictures, and every time I look at this picture I die laughing.



This definitely needs to go into our photo guest book, don't you think?

Guest Bookin' It

Ryan was the best man in a wedding recently, and they had a photo guest book using their engagement pictures.

Ryan loved the guest book idea, so that takes care of our guest book dilemma. Not that it was really a dilemma, but now we know what we're doing!

Source

With regular pricing, depending on if we get a book jacket and exactly how many pages we'll end up with, this should cost us at the most $50 and at the least $30. Plus, they constantly send me coupons, so I'm sure we can do it for even cheaper than that.

I think it's a great price, and we'll leave lots of blank space for signatures and well wishes. At the wedding where we saw this, they had lots and lots of pages, so I think ours will be shorter.

Some decisions are so easy and just fall in to place.

What are you doing for your guest book? Does anyone have any experience with My Publisher or Blurb, I'd love to know which one is better.