Wedding Wishes and Butter Dishes!

After spending ¾ of our engagement obsessing over the perfect guest book, I finally came across this post on Wedding Bee. BINGO! I was in love. You write out various “starters” on 4x6 cardstock and let your guests fill in the rest of the sentence. Here are some that we’ll be using.

1. For a long and loving marriage…
2. My wedding wish for you…
3. May you have…
4. Always remember…
5. Always make sure to…
6. Marriage is like…
7. Always say…
8. Don’t forget to…
9. Never say….
10. Love means….
11. Marriage means….
12. Never underestimate….
13. One advantage of marriage is…
14. Marriage requires…
15. A good marriage is based on….
16. To prepare for marriage, one should….
17. The formula for a successful marriage is…
18. On your 1st anniversary don’t forget to…
19. After the reception remember to…
20. The most important thing to do on your wedding night is…

And after we’ll put them in a photo album, like THIS one that my mom bought me for all of my bridal shower photos.

I’m sure we’ll get some hilarious answers… and maybe some sweet ones. And I’ll include a few “We danced at your wedding! From____________” for people that don’t want to have to think of something clever and witty!

So my decision was made.

Now on to the next conundrum, how do I display these in a conspicuous enough place for guests to be willing to fill them out? Somewhere that wouldn’t cause congestion at the place where the guest book would normally be. I thought the tables would be nice, but I was hesitant to clutter up our beautiful tablescapes.

And then I was strolling through the Dollar Tree one day and came upon a huge display of butter dishes. I took one and flipped it upside down, used double sided tape to tape ribbon around it and voila! A Wedding Wishes container was born! I’ll use the part where the butter normally sits for the pens. And put the cards in the upsidedown lid! Perfect! And how fitting that J and J Butterton repurposed BUTTER DISHES for our wedding! Hehe!