• Wedding shower signature photo mats become keepsakes.signature framed mat serving as guest book image by Paul Retherford from <a href='http://www.fotolia.com'>Fotolia.com</a>
  
  Brides want to remember every detail of their bridal showers, wedding luncheons and the big day. A wedding shower guest book lets the bride and groom reminisce about the friends and family that gathered to celebrate the impending wedding. Whether the guest book sits on a coffee table or hangs on the wall, all guest books share one commonality--signatures and well wishes for the bride and groom.
  
  

Photo Album

• A bound wedding shower guest book becomes a treasured keepsake when photos liven up the pages. Wedding planning site The Knot suggests asking one of the wedding shower hostesses to snap a few digital pictures of guests as they arrive for the party. Before the festivities begin, the picture-taker can download the digital media card to a home computer and printer and send the photos to print. During a break in the festivities--between appetizers and the gift opening--have someone use a glue stick or glue dots to paste the photos in the guest book. Passing the guest book around at the end of the shower allows all guests to sign the book while admiring photos of the attendees.
  
  

Keepsake Platter

• For sentimental brides, a keepsake wedding shower platter becomes a beautiful display piece in her dining room or kitchen. Wedding shower guests use a special pen designed to write on porcelain when inscribing signatures and messages to the happy couple. A picture of the bride and groom, an icon signifying marriage such as a wedding cake, bells or church, or the couple's monogram adds personality to the wedding guest book platter. If the couple has more than one wedding shower planned, have the shower date printed on the platter, or add the date manually with the porcelain marking pen before guests sign the keepsake. After the shower, the signature-filled platter bakes in an oven to set the signatures.
  
  

Frame and Mat

• Wedding shower hostesses who have access to an informal 5-by-7-inch picture of the wedding couple can make a wedding shower signature photo mat. As guests arrive for the wedding shower, they sign around a photograph lightly secured to the center of a photo mat. Offering acid-free, fine-tip markers in the wedding colors makes the guest book mat even more specialized. After the wedding, the couple can exchange the first photo with a picture from the wedding, insert the mat into a frame, add protective glass and display the framed piece of artwork in their home.