Remember this beautiful book, created by a bride, documenting her amazing honeymoon in Paris? Well, it served as inspiration enough for me to start creating my own version using the same fabulous publishing service, Blurb.
And, today, Blurb has graciously offered to give away 5 gift certificates worth $54.95 to 5 lucky CB readers! Blurb books make perfect guest books, engagement photo albums, wedding albums and more! Even better, Blurb introduced Premium Paper last fall. The 100-pound silk-finish paper is 35% heavier than Blurb’s standard 80-pound paper, and features improved opacity and superior print quality.
To enter the contest, please comment below with a link to the image you’d use on the cover of your book. Also, please use a valid e-mail so that we will be able to contact you. You have until midnight CST this Friday to enter. The winners' names & photos will be posted this Saturday.
love it!
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thanks!
Oh my gosh this is what I plan to do for our wedding guestbook!
ReplyDeleteI would probably use this one: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=37397368&id=27400004
well - I'll probably put a picture of our honeymoon on the cover.
ReplyDeleteBut, here's a picture of our engagement photos that would be fun for an engagement photo book.
http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff50/andreacrosswhite/?action=view¤t=db_07.jpg
I would love to win ! :D
ReplyDeleteThis would be my cover picture:
http://flickr.com/photos/bellinha-/2907816269/
we haven't taken engagement photos yet, but we would probably use this photo (link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=657016&id=608927591) from our first trip together. We traveled to Morocco after only dating for two months (needless to say, our parents were surprised). We finally ended up at the Roman ruins of Volubilis, the southernmost outpost of the Roman Empire, by taking a ride with an illegal taxi from Fez.
ReplyDeleteWe're using travel and historical architecture as themes for our wedding, since these things brought us to fall in love with one another, beginning with this impulsive trip.
I have been wanting to create a Blurb book as our guestbook for our wedding!
ReplyDeleteI would use this photo as the cover:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=1326771&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=2026295&id=5995519078
What a great present!! I have to admit, I'm a new fiance, so we don't have a lot of pictures to choose from yet! But here are probably a couple we could use:
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=32449102&l=bee92&id=25103938
I've been wanting to make a blub book for our guestbook! The cover would definitely be this pic:
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Bright and lush, perfect for our summer wedding : )
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ReplyDeleteoopps, sorry - I posted the wrong picture. I would use a picture similar to this: http://www.kodakgallery.com/PhotoView.jsp?&collid=11387299511.618232867111.1233016273534&photoid=369212867111&folderid=0&view=1&page=2&sort_order=1&albumsperpage=&navfolderid=2008
ReplyDeleteWe haven't been on our honeymoon yet, but we're off to Aruba and I'm sure I'll capture a ton of "island" view shots like this from my trip to Belize to use for the cover :) What a great giveaway!
Gasp! This is stunning! I'd never even heard of Blurb before, but you bet I've been all over the site now! I got engaged in a hot air balloon, and I have an amazing photo of us in the air that I'd have to use!
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I would use this photo from our trip to Europe:
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We took soo many pictures in Rome and I've been meaning to make a blurb book of our trip!
I'd love to make a wedding album!!!
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My beau and I adore pugs, and we'll be using them to add some humor to our wedding. I'd love to use this photo for the cover of our guest book!
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http://picasaweb.google.com/jgenius29/ChristiTrevorWeddingFormal#5235761367296370130
ReplyDeleteThis would save me the trouble of scrapbooking all of our photos, and probably ruining them!
ooh, this is a fabulous contest! I'm dying to make a book of my trip to Africa.
ReplyDeleteThis picture was taken on a game reserve in Pilanesberg, South Africa
Here's the link!
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v317/ironicallybrunet/Africa%20trip/?action=view¤t=IMG_3180.jpg
How awesome! We've been thinking about doing a blurb book! I'd probably use this photo: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=32963654&id=5612005#/photo.php?pid=32963652&id=5612005 for a number of reasons. First, it's a picture that is very representative of London where my fiance and I first lived together. Second, it was one of the most fun times in our life together (travelling and studying abroad!). Third, our class took a fantastic field trip to parliament (we're law students) that was a blast! So many great memories wrapped into one little picture...
ReplyDeletei'm using blurb to make my wedding album!
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the one at the start of my photographer's blogshow
http://www.kmphotographystudio.com/SHOLLBLOGSHOW/
I'm have a very intimate wedding filled with glowing candles, close family and lots of love. Every detail no matter how large or small will be meaningful.
ReplyDeleteThis creatively designed book would be perfect as our guest book. What a great way to include photos of our favorite things, our favorite places and our loving family and friends.
Please enjoy this photo of me and my fiance that we would like to use as the cover of our book.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34774173@N02/3229641129/in/photostream/
This is great! I'm planning to make both a wedding album and honeymoon album using blurb!
ReplyDeleteFor our album cover, I plan to use this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nole_and_andy_wedding/2594680320/in/set-72157605585654033/
WOW! What a beautiful book! We had our engagement pictures taken this past Saturday and they turned out great! I would love to put my favorite one on the cover because it is super romantic and the color really pops!
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I work with a photographer at my job and she uses Blurb for all her freelance projects and I get to 'ooh and ahh' at all her fantastic books. It'd be nice to finally get one of my own. I'd choose either this one
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or
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We haven't taken engagement photos (and I'm not sure if we will - more money that we probably shouldn't be spending!). Even if we did, I don't know if anything will ever replace this - http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ZCj0kRvQqbk/SWyFBABDexI/AAAAAAAAHgs/GLsvgvFl67Q/roopa%20matt%20photobooth%20silly%20face.JPG - as my favorite photo of the two of us.
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Oh, this is such a neat idea! I would love to make a book for my grandparents of the Alaskan cruise vacation my family took in August 08. It was the first time that my grandparents (who live in upstate NY) had ever been to the East Coast and it was in celebration of their 50th anniversary. It is an amazing memory to have of the two of them as we all continue to inevitably age. I appreciate them more and more the older I get, and the week we all had together (with my parents and sister) was precious. It would be so lovely to immortalize it in book form!
ReplyDeleteHere is a shot from the deck of the boat. Alaska is beautiful!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HVZcYQrVBxE/SUM_OD-aaOI/AAAAAAAAATc/4K8C7Lz5hUI/s1600-h/IMG_2220.JPG
What an awesome give-away?
ReplyDeleteMy husband's wedding gift to me is a Blurb book of our story as told in my blog. (What an awesome gift?) We haven't got round to it yet, but it's on the to-do list for this year. I'd use this picture from our wedding day: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/joEpbi34E0WMa8aL4GBTBQ?authkey=cfp5ka-ZT-o&feat=directlink
Ooo I really want to use a Blurb book as our guestbook. I would use this photo http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30343645&id=49900179 as the cover, I took while we were out hiking last fall at one of our favorite places. I plan to fill the book with pictures from the day we met through our engagement photos.
ReplyDeleteI love blurb!! I would use this one from our engagement pictures
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Blurb books are so great! I'd use this picture:
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What a great giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteI would use this photo as the cover of my book:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c108/jen8150/3218129802_5af57afe85.jpg
YAY....what an awesome giveaway!! I am planning to put one of these together for all of our non-professional pics....bridal shower, rehearsal dinner and groom getting ready pics. With the challenging year I've had (planning my fab wedding unemployed!!), it would be great to win this giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteI planned on using one of these for my wedding guestbook also! I would use this image for the cover:
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I'd love to try out their service! Here's the picture I would use on the cover!
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oooh i would LOVE to make one of these!!!
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i'd go with that pic :)
I love Blurb books. I would probably make one for my brothers wedding using this pic
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Thanks for the chance.
Since we got engaged at Disney World and we're having a Disney themed wedding, I would have to use this picture for the front cover
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David proposed during those fireworks, and then our table was decorated, so I would use this for the back cover
http://family.webshots.com/photo/2035955940080512238fymTRE
christyanddavid09 @ yahoo.com
I am obsessed with our wedding photos and fear I may never get enough of Blurb! There are so many themes, ideas and beautiful ways to present our wedding. I can't wait to create another book. So far this photo (4th one down in the post) happens to be my favorite for a cover: http://perfectbound.blogspot.com/2008/12/just-lucky.html
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ReplyDeleteWe got married a year and a half ago and now we're pregnant. If I don't do this now it will NEVER get done!!!
I would choose this pic for the cover: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/r9GUnNpRzFI_sytnERuhUQ?feat=directlink
Oh wow. That's hard.
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(the view from the top of the mountain where my fiance proposed)
I love this place. This will forever remain my happy place. I'm making a custom coffee table scrapbook/guestbook anyway. It was the image I had planned to use.
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Fun! I've been wanting to try out Blurb also. I'd love to create a book of portraits of my husband and I - from our engagement, wedding, and honeymoon. I LOVE this photo and think it would make a beautiful cover.
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This is such a fun giveaway! It's really hard to pick a favorite photograph but I would love to use this for my cover :) -
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Thanks for hosting this giveaway too!
Amazing contest..
ReplyDeleteJust spent an hour on MS paint to create the perfect image for the cover! :)
I'd LOVE one of these!!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/chelsizzler/chelseajared.jpg
I definitely want to make a guestbook for our wedding using Blurb. We haven't recevied all of our engagement photos yet, but this is everyone's favorite and probably the one we'd use for the cover.
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I've been wanting to make a Blurb book for our guestbook! We've been dating for almost 8 years so I want to put all the little movie ticket stubs and old pictures as well as the pictures of our recent engagement in a book with plenty of space for notes from friends and family!
ReplyDeleteI would probably use this picture for the cover:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathrynandericwedding/3188304111/in/photostream/
The fireworks look like a heart and he proposed right after this on New Year's Eve on a cruise around the Bay!
e-mail: leite@charter.net
Love this idea! I would love to make a Blurb book to showcase all of the photos from our upcoming wedding. As for the cover I would use this pic
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It was taken the day we found our wedding venue. I love to think that in a few months we will be standing in front for that pool saying I DO!!
What an awesome giveaway! I'm planning to use a Blurb book as the guestbook for our upcoming October wedding.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably use this image for the cover:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bBN-RWH450Y/SRcT4iK-cSI/AAAAAAAAANM/rI1VC2zK6fc/s1600-h/-151+small.jpg
Its so us.
wow!
ReplyDeletei'd use this picture...it's very special to me because it's the first vacation my fiance and i took together. he had no idea i took it and it is very special to us now...we are in st. martin, and a year later we came back and he proposed :)
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1967312&l=2ca49&id=771553326
I would go with this:
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Its the mountain where we got engaged :)
I would love to have Blurb book for our engagement photos! We had the best time having them made, and there is no way I want them in some stuffy, typical "engagement picture album!" i would LOVE a beautiful blurb book! i would put this picture on the front - as we took our pictures right before the big election. We obviously have different political views & thought it would be fun to lighten the mood about it! i feel like this picture sums us up!
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What a fantastic contest! I'd use this photo on the cover:
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A friend took some photos of us with an old film camera in a quaint Seattle neighborhood after we became engaged. We didn't know it, but the camera battery was dying. All of the photos ended up with sort of a lovely vintage-looking fuzziness.
Love blurb! Possibly this picture:
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What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteWe recently took engagement photos and our photographer sent us three teasers until the rest are ready. I love this one and it would be a great possibility for a cover!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photojj/3226359564/
What a great giveaway! Here is the photo I would use for my cover...
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I would use this photo on the front of our book-
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It's from our engagement session at the university we both attended, but didn't know one another while we were there. We actually met at an alumni event after we had both left the campus!
Count me in! I've been wanting to make a blurb book for some time now. What a great giveaway. ;)
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I would select a picture of our reception venue for the cover. http://picasaweb.google.com/ahs.riverfarm/Spring#5157636358910700642
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I'm going to break the rules and not post a picture, because I want the picture of our first dance to be on the cover... and we still a few months to go!
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Ooh, what fun! We're planning on creating a Blurb book for our polaroid guest book!
ReplyDeleteWe'd probably use this picture from our engagement shoot for the cover -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/divinecalm/2880718189/in/set-72157606210373102/
Great contest!
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I'd use this engagement photo, I really like the spacial effect of the tree. Blurb books are perfect for us to share our photos with our families.
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email: hamilee09@gmail.com
I would this photo from our wedding... http://www.chrisbickford.com/clients/christina+chris-061607/favorites/source/0136.html
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ReplyDeleteOh I realllllllly want to win this one!!! I would use this photo from our E-Session:
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This is so stunning and something you'd want to have in your home forvever, I looooove it. I'd use this picture:
ReplyDeleteObvi: "Love through the Years," starting out with this photo of us in Colonial American dress.
ReplyDeleteYou can't start a marriage off wrong in accurate period dress and powdered wigs!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=34020399&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=2600722&id=2601313
I would love to make a Blurb wedding album after my April wedding. The cover image would be like this:
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We're having a destination wedding in Charleston, South Carolina, and this would be a wonderful way to capture the long weekend we'll be spending with friends and family celebrating our wedding. It's difficult to choose just one, but I keep coming back to the image of the beautiful church we'll be married in for the cover (click on Pictures if it's not the first to come up, but it's the first pic on that page!):
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this is so nice!
ReplyDeleteI would probably use this photo for the cover:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3433/3237903024_e56ccf1af1.jpg?v=0
or this
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3454/3184448124_b999e41d6e.jpg?v=0
Wow, what a great giveaway! I would love to make a book of our trip to Bali, Indonesia right before we got engaged!
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http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74/osillyme/bali.jpg
Thank you!
I would have so much fun designing a photobook to show our wedding adventures.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to a picture of us that I would like to use as the cover:
http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc0031fx0.jpg
We had our reception in a vintage law library, so I'd title our wedding book, "Our Storybook Wedding" and use one of our "loving in the stacks" photos on the cover:
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Thanks!
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wow! what a popular contest!! :) i have been meaning to create a couple blurb books with our wedding pictures. One for us, 2 for the parents and a couple for my bridesmaids. This is just the little kick in the butt that I need to get started!
ReplyDeleteBelow is the link to the picture taht I would love to use on our front cover. It was taken after our first look and wedding party photos when we just took a minute to talk and look forward to the ceremony to come. It is such a vivid beautiful memory and I think about that wonderful moment everytime I see this picture.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3365/3238146150_8323027426.jpg
wow! i would love, love, love to win one of the blurb books. i plan to make one of our honeymoon and possibly one of all the fun stuff leading up to our wedding i.e. showers, bachelorette parties, rehearsal dinner. love your blog! tons of great inspiration.
ReplyDeletei love blurb and would like to make a guest book of photos of my fiance and myself as kids and up until now. for the cover i may use this photo, from the day he proposed:
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it would be amazing to have a gift certificate and the ability to use blurb's new paper!
i would love to win this...i never win anything! what a special memory book!!!
ReplyDeleteI love our photographer and what he was able to capture at our engagement shoot through downtown Philadelphia. This picture is the essence of who we are and is what I hope we can carry, through the tone and vibe we set on our wedding day, for our guests to share in the celebrations of our new life together.....http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31621163&l=b1aea&id=21200940
ReplyDeleteI'd love to use this as a guest book at the wedding! Cover picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34884272@N03/3239591048/
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Thanks for the opportunity!
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How fun!! Can't wait to see the winners! Thanks, Sarah!
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First off, I just wanted to say how much I love your blog - I've been reading it ever since I got engaged in May. I actually just started a blog myself - about design, invitations, jewelry, weddings and more - www.kegdesign.com - check it out! I'd love to create my wedding guest book through Blurb. Here's my entry...thanks for hosting such a great contest!
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Email: kelly@kegdesign.com
I just learned about Blurb and it seems like and absoutely amazing website, i'm currently making a book for my friend kindof like a scrap book. But i'm defintely using this website to create a wedding album for myself, and as a wedding planner =)
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