Can we use a wedding cookbook as our guest book?

Yes. Put the link or QR code in with your invitations and guests add a recipe and a note when they RSVP - about five minutes, no account needed. If you want everyone to sign it on the day, have it printed before the wedding and leave it open on the guest book table so people can find their own page.

When should guests send their recipes?

If you want the book at the wedding, ask for recipes by your RSVP date or a little before. That leaves time to put it together, approve the proof and allow 7-10 working days for printing and delivery. If you are printing it afterwards there is no rush, and you can add photos from the day.

Can we order copies for our parents and the wedding party?

Yes. Plenty of people order several, and the per-book price comes down the more you order. You approve one proof and every copy is printed from it.

When should we start a wedding cookbook?

Work back from the date: most organizers give contributors 2-4 weeks, and printing and delivery take 7-10 working days once you approve the layout. About six weeks is comfortable; less is possible if people reply quickly.

Can both families contribute to the same book?

Yes, of course. Everyone gets their own link. They add a recipe, a note about why it matters and optionally a photo - no account needed, and it takes about five minutes. You can also add recipes on behalf of anyone who would rather not.

Does a wedding cookbook work as a group gift?

It is one of the most common ways it is used. One person organizes, everyone contributes a recipe and a message, and the cost is shared between them.

How many recipes should a wedding cookbook have?

Most books hold between 20 and 80 recipes and can run to 300 pages. You pick the final selection before it goes to print, so you can trim it or include everything that was sent in.

An open wedding cookbook showing a Victoria sponge recipe beside photos of the family who submitted it

A cookbook written by everyone at the wedding

Use it as your guest book, or give it to the couple as a gift. Every page is a recipe and a note from someone in their life.

Start the wedding book

A wedding cookbook is a printed book of recipes and notes from the people in a couple's life. Couples use it in place of a guest book: the link goes out with the invitations, guests add a recipe when they RSVP, and the finished book can be on the table for everyone to sign on the day. Friends and family make one as a wedding gift, gathering recipes from both sides of the family. Either way, you design it online and we print it professionally.

Two ways to do it

For the couple

As your guest book

Put the link or QR code in with your invitations. Guests add a recipe and a note when they RSVP, and you get a guest book you'll open again, because you cook from it.

How the guest book works ↓ For family & friends

As a wedding gift

Quietly gather recipes from both families and the couple's friends, then hand them the finished book. It works especially well as a group gift.

How the gift works ↓

The cookbook guest book

A guest book where people leave a recipe as well as their name

A normal guest book collects eighty versions of "congratulations, have a wonderful life" and then lives in a drawer. This one collects the lasagne your uncle has brought to every family party since 1994, and why.

1
Add the link to your invitations

Set up the book and you get a link and a QR code to put on the invitation, the RSVP card or your wedding website. Guests scan it with their phone.
2
Guests add a recipe and a note

About five minutes each, and no account needed. The recipe, a line about why it matters, and a photo if they have one. It all lands in one place, so there's nothing to copy out of emails.
3
You turn it into a book

Put the recipes in order, choose a cover, and write your own introduction. You can add recipes yourself for anyone who doesn't do QR codes. Grandparents, mostly.
4
Print it, then sign it

Have it printed in time for the wedding and leave it open on the guest book table so everyone can find their page and sign it. Or print it afterward with photos from the day. Printing and delivery take 7-10 business days once you approve the proof.

Copies for the people who matter

Order extra copies for both sets of parents, the grandparents and the wedding party. Every copy is printed from the same proof, and the price per book comes down the more you order.

Want one at every place setting? See bulk orders

Start your guest book

The wedding gift

A gift from both families at once

Siblings, parents or the wedding party gather recipes from both sides of the family and the couple's friends, then hand over a finished book. Give it on the morning of the wedding, at the rehearsal dinner, or after the honeymoon when they finally have time to sit down and read it.

Why couples love it

One book, two families

Collect recipes from both sides of the family in a single, beautifully bound book ready to gift.

Printed & ready to give

Arrives as a professionally printed book, ready to gift.

Theirs to keep forever

Unlike a card or flowers, a cookbook is something they'll reach for again and again, long after the wedding day.

What goes inside

Recipes from family and friends
Personal notes & messages
Photos & memories
Custom introduction page
Your chosen cover design
Printed index & section dividers

An open wedding cookbook showing a soup recipe beside a full-page photo of the dish laid out for a dinner party

Cover design inspiration

A few directions a cover can take. Every book starts from a professionally designed template, and the colors, fonts and layout are all yours to change.

Botanical
Deco
Patisserie

Common questions

Can we use a wedding cookbook as our guest book?: Yes. Put the link or QR code in with your invitations and guests add a recipe and a note when they RSVP - about five minutes, no account needed. If you want everyone to sign it on the day, have it printed before the wedding and leave it open on the guest book table so people can find their own page.
When should guests send their recipes?: If you want the book at the wedding, ask for recipes by your RSVP date or a little before. That leaves time to put it together, approve the proof and allow 7-10 working days for printing and delivery. If you are printing it afterwards there is no rush, and you can add photos from the day.
Can we order copies for our parents and the wedding party?: Yes. Plenty of people order several, and the per-book price comes down the more you order. You approve one proof and every copy is printed from it.
When should we start a wedding cookbook?: Work back from the date: most organizers give contributors 2-4 weeks, and printing and delivery take 7-10 working days once you approve the layout. About six weeks is comfortable; less is possible if people reply quickly.
Can both families contribute to the same book?: Yes, of course. Everyone gets their own link. They add a recipe, a note about why it matters and optionally a photo - no account needed, and it takes about five minutes. You can also add recipes on behalf of anyone who would rather not.
Does a wedding cookbook work as a group gift?: It is one of the most common ways it is used. One person organizes, everyone contributes a recipe and a message, and the cost is shared between them.
How many recipes should a wedding cookbook have?: Most books hold between 20 and 80 recipes and can run to 300 pages. You pick the final selection before it goes to print, so you can trim it or include everything that was sent in.

"My brother made this recipe book for our wedding gift. Every recipe came with a memory, moments shared with family and friends, along with a heartfelt note about why it matters to them and when they love to cook it. Some made us laugh out loud, others made us cry, even recipes from relatives who are no longer with us. We have no post-wedding blues because we are now going through each recipe making it, listening to the music each person chose to accompany it and enjoying the food as a bonus."

- Rebecca

"We gave this the night before the wedding and the bride cried. Every recipe came with a little handwritten note about why it was special. It was passed around and everyone wanted to see their contribution and what others had added. It was such a personal gift."

- Tanya

Ready to start the book?

Takes minutes to set up · invites sent to contributors automatically

From $49