We see hundreds of wickedly creative drop-dead gorgeous photo books every day at Inkubook. Lately we’ve noticed by the number of personalized wedding guest books being made that wedding season must be coming soon. One wedding guest book that really caught our attention was one created by the blogger of  Budget Savvy Bride. 

With permission from her talented Franklin, TN-based photographer Evin Photography, the Budget Savvy Bride used several gorgeous photos from her engagement shoot to create a custom-designed wedding guest book on Inkubook. The finished book was amazing. This bride-to-be definitely has style. She opted for a non-lined design allowing her guests to write messages freely throughout the book.  Flip through her Inkubook photo book widget below to get some ideas for your own wedding guest book or pass it along to a friend on Facebook or MySpace who might be getting married this year. Just click the “Get Widget” button and follow the directions.

When I got married a couple of years ago, I did a lot of my research on the Internet. It never once occurred to me, though, to specifically look for wedding blogs. Boy, am I sorry I missed out. I have since become much more familiar with the world of blogs, and I’m constantly impressed and awed by all the good information that turns up. So I decided to highlight a few wedding blogs that have recently come to my attention.

Snippet & Ink

Bear in mind that this collection only scratches the surface of the wedding blogs that are out there. You can pretty much find a wedding blog for any type of wedding you’re planning. Working with a budget of less than $2000? There’s a blog for you. Not interested in the traditional white or ivory and going for a specific theme like goth or all pink? There’s a blog for you, too. As time goes on and we find other interesting wedding blogs, I’ll give them a shout out here.

First is Snippet & Ink, a blog of daily wedding inspiration that’s been around for at least a year. Had I seen this blog with its beautiful inspiration boards and Real Wedding Saturday posts when I was planning my wedding, I probably never would have made it down the aisle. I would have been too conflicted about deciding which gorgeous idea I wanted to pursue. The little birds used in Deanna & Jesse’s wedding are just killing me. I want to have a whole flock.

Brenda’s Wedding Blog

Then there’s Brenda’s Wedding Blog, which is run by the owner of BestWeddingSites, a compendium of wedding-related resources. As on Snippet & Ink, Brenda features photos and details from some real weddings, and she has some fantastic suggestions about planning events. I love her recent series of posts about planning wedding-related events around a cupcake theme. She even has a directory of where to find cupcakeries. It makes me jealous that I wasn’t more imaginative when I was doing my own planning.

The last blog for today is Lucky in Love: Tips from the Wedding Gurus. This is a regional blog for residents of western Washington State (it’s part of banquetevent.com), but it has lots of information that’s not geographically specific. For example, the post from September 19 called “Great Read: Confessions of a Bad Wedding Guest” made me think that perhaps I need to be a little more conscientious about my etiquette when I’m invited to a wedding.

If you follow a particular wedding blog that you’d like to share with others, email ckughen at inkubook dot com to let me know about it.

You should also check out all our wedding-related book ideas. Right now, we’re offering free wedding photo books to new members. If you’re ready to get started on a book about your wedding, go ahead and join us!

When we first launched Inkubook, we started with a pretty basic palette of backgrounds. We had white, of course, but if you wanted to gussy up your pages with a little bit of color or creativity, your choices were limited to a rainbow of pastels or a creation of your own design (done in Photoshop or some other graphics program).

One of our first goals in making improvements to the site was to add a greater variety of backgrounds. We’re proud to say that we now have more than 200 backgrounds to choose from, and we’re working on adding more all the time!

Today we’d like to draw your attention to our collection of wedding-themed backgrounds. This isn’t to say that you couldn’t use any one of our backgrounds in your wedding book. For example, if you’re having a beach wedding you might prefer to use the backgrounds with the sandy white seashells or the festive flip-flops instead of the backgrounds that we’ve deemed “wedding-like.” But if you need a starting place, we have these two background families ready for you.

First is the Classic Wedding collection. When we look at these backgrounds, we think of romantic, traditional weddings that proceed to the accompaniment of string quartets. Have a look.

The Classic Wedding background swatches. (Click the image to make it larger.)

Don’t you feel like you should be watching the bride and her father swirl around the dance floor while you enjoy a few pillow mints with your luscious piece of cake and glass of champagne?

If that’s a little too traditional and staid for your style, we also have a collection that we call Modern Wedding. It’s every bit as pretty as the Classic Wedding collection, but it has a different appeal.

The Modern Wedding background swatches. (Click the image to make it larger.)

Among the backgrounds in both collections you’ll see a page to use for signatures in a guest book. If you’d like some ideas for what you might do when creating your own guest book, check out Inspiration: Make a Customized Guest Book.

A page from a sample wedding book.

It’s a little bit hard to imagine the full effect of the backgrounds from these little swatches, so if you’d like to see them in action on some pages of a wedding book, have a look at this PDF.

We keep a running list of backgrounds we’d like to add in the future, and we’d be very interested to hear what types of wedding backgrounds you’d like to have available for your wedding book. You can use our Feedback form to shoot us an email with your ideas.