Card Box

Weddings have become international now because of the internet and so many new traditions are made when brides from all over the world come together with their massive amount of creative ideas. I particularly like the Offbeatbride.com because it embraces untraditional brides from all cultures.
Anyway the new thing is to make boxes for the cards that the guests always bring along with the presents, and I like the idea. Obviously it got me thinking about what a medieval wedding would use as a card box when a fellow medieval bride showed her wonderful cardbox, this cool wooden chest that her fianceé brought home:

It made me think that I actually have a little wooden shrine of my own that I got at a flea market with red velvet fabric inside. Right now it's holding my crystals - yay sooo shiny :-P but they can get another home while it acts cardbox at the wedding.

Finally - I don't remember where I got this photo, but I think it's kind of cute, and probably more in line with a medieval peasents' wedding cardbox would look like (not that they had cardboxes in medieval times!):

If you like the idea as well, just go searching for wooden trunks and chests :-)

Wedding tree guestbook

I have seen this idea on most blogs by now, but I want to publish it here as well because I actually think it could fit a medieval wedding really well.
The concept is that you draw a tree on a big piece of paper, then you find different colored ink pads that the guests can press their fingers in and then leave a gren/yellow/red finger print on the tree as a leaf. Underneath they can write their name if they want to.
The reason I love this idea, is that many medieval people could not read or write and what better way to leave a mark on the wedding that this?

Guestbook

It's always nice to be able to open the guest book years after the wedding and to read the warm well wishes of those who participated in your special day. There's plenty of possibilities to make the guest book fit the theme and give the guests an experience along the way.

An obvious idea is to make people write with a feather quill and ink. You can get a lot of different color feather pens if you have a color scheme to stick to.

As for the book, the leather bound journals look just right. You can get these books designed after you own wishes in several shops. The motifs on these books should of course be medieval, or you can get your names engraved in the leather.

 

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In the end I want to show you my guest book, which I bought at a museum store in Denmark. I haven't unwrapped it yet, but it is beautifully red and with a crouching lion on the cover.

You can also buy different shades of ink so you really can make the guest book fun and medieval-ish. :)