should I use these questions for our guestbook?

So your guests will answer these questions instead of writing a message to you?

Those are good. Honestly though, we had those and NO ONE filled them out.

I skip these type of guestbooks, it leaves people awkwardly standing in a line and you dont have time to give the good answers. if you chose to go this route the questions are good.

I like those questions, but i'm not sure who that will work with the guest book? May cause a long line up too, depending how you set it up?

I agree, as a guest I would skip all the questions because it would take too long lol.

That's a lot! I have seen people out those on the tables, but it would take way too long for the guest book!

I have to be very honest with you...as a guest, I wouldn't spend the time answering those questions. I'd sign it and maybe leave you a short "good wishes" message. Maybe your very close friends will answer a few, but that's probably going to be it.

I think the way they are set up, they choose a couple to answer, like they don't have to do all of them.

She said we should have 8 questions.

I do worry about the length of the guestbook line, but at the same time the guestbook will be out all night so maybe people will do it after dinner or during dancing or something. I can always have the DJ give a few reminders through the night if guests aren't doing it. Is that tacky?

Instead of the guest book maybe you can incorporate those questions elsewhere.

You could always spread out the questions on different high top tables with pen and paper and your guests can fill them out for you to read later.

Maybe for one of them, I could just put something like:

Leave us your well wishes?

or

Write us a short message?

I just don't want the generic wedding advice like "Never go to bed angry"

Don't take anything I say as gospel since I'm atypical, but I would find that tacky yes.

I only had a picture for people to sign and they still didn't...

This seems like a better idea for a shower

But if this is something the photographer includes I don't want to say that it is a bad idea. I don't know if I could ask for just a plain book with our pictures and blank lines or something?

If people do take the time to answer a couple I would love to see the answers, and I am the type that would look back on it.

Ooh yeah, I can totally get it for a shower.

If you would like to see that, you could have a sign next to the guest book with suggested questions that you would want answered. Whenever I see a photo guest book, it's usually blank pages intermixed with engagement pictures.

I agree, use it for a shower or put it on the tables.

Nobody signed our guestbook. You really can't count on people to follow directions lol.

I wouldn't bother doing this for a guest book. I personally wouldn't sign it, and I can see a lot of people skipping it. Like PPs have said, it seems like a better choice for a shower.

Our DJ gave one reminder (not my suggestion, I think my mom must have said something to him) about signing our guest book picture and still no one did. She ended up carrying it around at the end of the night asking for signatures (again, I didn't ask her to) lol We paid like $200 for it when all was said and done so that bitch was GETTING SIGNED.

I really think you are giving your guests way too much credit to want them to 1) sign at all and 2) answer several questions.

A part of me is surprised that nobody's guests signed their guestbooks, but then I think about it and the last wedding I attended they had a photo frame for people to sign and we didn't sign it, even when the MC reminded people. I am a terrible wedding guest, although it wasn't someone I am close to.

Monana, you're not a terrible wedding guest. You were a guest who wasn't particularly close to the bridal couple. That's the problem with these kinds of questions -- there will be plenty of people who have no real first memory of the couple, don't know what movie reminds them of the couple, don't know what he should know about her or what she should know about him (because guests usually have an attachment to either the bride or the groom, rarely both). I've seen couples put out displays asking for marriage advice, and people do tend to fill those out and drop them in a pretty bowl, box, or whatever.