An audio guestbook lets your wedding guests leave you a voice message
Guests pick up their phone and talk. You hear the story in their voice, the laughter halfway through and the person beside them correcting every second detail.
What is an audio guestbook?
Guests might tell a story, share a memory, give marriage advice or leave a message for the couple to hear after the day. People can record alone, but some of the best messages come from couples, families and groups of friends talking together.
Give people a good question
“Leave a message for the happy couple” can make even a talkative person forget every word they know.
A question gives guests somewhere to start. It can be warm, funny or specific to the people getting married.
Try:
- What advice would you give us for married life?
- When did you know we were right for each other?
- What is your favourite memory of us?
- What should we do on our tenth anniversary?
- What is one thing we should never stop doing?
- Where do you think we will be in twenty years?
Marriage advice is better in the person’s own voice
You hear how they say it.
Your uncle pauses before he says something tender. Your parents argue about how long they’ve been married. An old friend starts with a sensible answer and gives up on it halfway through.
A message might sound like this:
Our advice is to keep laughing, especially when one of you has clearly lost the argument but hasn’t noticed yet. Say yes to the daft plans. Make the tea before you’re asked. And never try to assemble furniture together after nine at night.
We’ve been married thirty-two years and we still make each other laugh, usually when we shouldn’t. That has carried us through more than any grand bit of wisdom ever could.
To the two of you, may your home be noisy, your rows be short and your good days far too many to count.
Add the photos that belong with the stories
With Chorus, guests can add photos alongside their recording. It might be a picture taken at the wedding, an old photograph of the couple or the moment a group of friends tried to record one message without talking over each other.
Guests who can’t make the day can still record
An audio guestbook can include a grandparent recording from home, a friend living abroad or somebody sending their message the following morning after deciding what they wanted to say.
With Chorus, guests open a link and record in the browser on their phone.
Some guests will happily record in the middle of the celebrations. Others will say more when they’re somewhere quiet.
Something to hear, read and hold
After the wedding, Chorus brings every recording, photograph and written message together into one book.
What questions should you ask guests to record?
Ask them something about the two of you that they can answer with a story.
Can guests record if they cannot come to the wedding?
Yes, they can record right up to the day the book closes.
Can guests add photos with their message?
Yes, and they can add more than one.