This couple wanted to use a beautiful photo of the stone chapel where they were getting married on the front cover of their guest book (photo was taken by the groom-to-be).  They wanted a matching (in color and style) guest book and photo album set.  However, they needed the guest book for the wedding and would not have the photo for the album cover until after the ceremony was over.  In cases like this, it is VERY important to make both books at the same time.  This is because the color, look, and finish of leather can vary from batch to batch.  If I try to order the same leather used on one book to create a matching book at a later date, it may not be an exact match.  As you can see in the photo at the bottom of this page, the photo album was made at the same time as the guest book with an empty recess for the photo.  I held onto the photo album until after the wedding when the couple could send me their photo to add to the front.

This couple wanted a very woodsy feel to their guest book and photo album.  The cover is dark brown goatskin leather with a recessed area for the photo on both books.  All lettering and the pine bough decoration were blind stamped to keep the look subtle.  The pine bough is a design that I still have and it is available for use on future orders. 

The guest book has 40 pages of lined 7"x8.5" off-white paper.  The photograph is the main focus of the cover with the couple's names and wedding date stamped on the spine.  The photo album has 40 pages with landscape-format 8.5"x11" paper.  The album was made with room to mount photos on one side of every page only so that each of the 40 photos that would go in the album would be main focus on each double-page spread.  The couple's names were added to the front cover and the spine matched the guest book.  Both books has a very "woodsy" sage green endpapers with a stone texture (playing off the stone chapel on the front of the guest book) and the guest book also had a printed title page.  A red ribbon page marker gave the guest book a touch of color and played off the red door of the chapel in the cover photo.

Even though these books are not an exact match in terms of size, it is obvious they are a set.  They were done this way partly because I have only two sizes of lined paper available and the couple wanted lined paper in their guest book.  Making the books the same height, but different widths, allowed for more leeway in the size of photos that would be mounted on the pages of the album.

A book like this guest book would cost around $240.  A book like this album would cost around $290.

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