That cake in the freezer will serve as a reminder of your wedding day, as will the no-doubt gorgeous photographs taken that day. While these are important mementos to keep, I think that the very best keepsake from your big day is your guestbook. Your guestbook is sure to be filled with words of congratulation, encouragement, and love. It’s like a high school yearbook but without the painful memories associated with high school (hello, braces!).
Gillian of Dew Drop Designs creates stunning stationery and dazzling bound books. Really, her wedding guestbooks are out of this world. Dew Drop Designs’ high-quality guestbooks provide the perfect place for friends and family to write down their favorite memories of the happy couple.
Win: A personalized leather guest book from Dew Drop Designs with your choice of art from Gillian’s collection.
To Enter: Back to those high school yearbooks that I mentioned earlier! Tell us what high school style you took part in that make you cringe now. While my high school years aren’t very far behind me, I distinctly remember slap bracelets and crimped hair in middle school. Scary.
This contest will end on Monday, May 3 at midnight. Good luck!
Animal-print pants…stretchy ones…absolutely heinous.
80’s bangs! Curled under! I could name many more…
In most aspects of my life I am actually pretty conservative, but for some reason in highschool I always insisted on having my midriff showing. I am so embarrassed looking back :)
Slap bracelets, crimped hair, the giant poof bangs, neon colors and the list goes on!! so sad!
I’m so ashamed to say it, but my "look" in high school consisted of me going to sleep with my hair wet, and waking up and running a brush through my tangled hair so I got a less-than-beautiful wavy look. Couple that with braces and an American Eagle graphic tee, and I was out the door! Thank goodness those days are over!
Overalls and clogs in 5th and 6th grade. Yuck!
Oh the return of bell bottoms! I remember standing at the bus stop in the queen of bell bottoms, the lampshade pants. (tight up the your knee, then a skirt of material around each calf). I could have hidden children under those things. Gross.
Matching sweatpant/hoodie sets from Aeropostale. Head to toe lavender, anyone?
Nothing is worse than the fact that in high school my sister and I used to go through my dad’s closet for his vintage sweaters and flannels (during the short-lived fashion phase of wearing big, grungy clothing). I used to wear this one pair of navy, bell-bottom cords of his all of the time. Did I mention that my dad is 6’2"? They were probably so skin tight on him when he wore them during his hippie years, cringe!
Great giveaway!!! I definitely wore short shorts in junior high and high school. I had the legs to do it, but still there is no excuse for that lol. :)
"Pleather" pants…. wow.
I had shoulder length curly hair that I had yet to learn how to tame. My yearbook messages started with "Puff the MAgic Dragon" and "BeeHive". Insert white tapered leg jeans and my saxaphone case and I was one cool kid!
I went to a Catholic high school where the uniform was a school-branded polo shirt (available only in men’s sizes) and khaki pants. In order to make our shirts more fitted, us gals would use Goody ponytail elastics to gather up the excess fabric at the small of our backs and make a little ponytail, which we’d then tuck into our pants or tuck under the rest of the shirt. Logically, it wouldn’t stay tucked anywhere and you’d see all these girls walking around with little tails. Our teachers were none too happy!
Where do I even start?! I remember when I spent many minutes each morning before school doing the following: I would start by separating my blonde bangs and curling the top part up in a tight curling iron curl. I would spray it with lots of hairspray and then remove the iron. Then, I would take a comb and run it through the top layer so it frayed upward like a peacock. More hairspray. Then, I would roll the bottom layer of bangs under so there was a defined line between each layer of bangs. CRINGE!!!!
Disco-Ball Eye Shadow…the really sparkly, white/silver stuff. <gag>
Grunge! I was all about the thermals and the flannel shirts a la Eddie Vedder (swoon!) – along with my ripped jeans and converse all stars.
Oh, high school! Those were the days! I don’t know about y’all, but my friends and I thought we were so cool and mature, practically independent grown-ups, but yet we still depended on so much. I definitely depended on my friends for my coolness factor. It was like we couldn’t do anything alone. We walked together to class, carpooled to pretty much everything, called boys together, double-dated to the movies, went shopping together… well you get my point; however, looking back now, it wasn’t only because we were inseparable best friends, it was because we needed the extra boost of confidence, the reassurance that you would not be the odd-ball. Well, long story short, the worst style my friends and I took place in was wearing matching outfits, usually once a week! Really? Why did we think this was cool? Not kidding, we would call each other the night before school and plan matching outfits, and the next day 5-10 girls would show up head-to-toe wearing matching outfits… oh, we felt so cool! Now, I would hate to show up to a party with the same dress on as one of my best friends, but some how in high school, it was the coolest thing to do!
Spandex….lots and lots of spandex with lace on some I might add!
I was a total butt-rocker in high school. Enormous metal shirts, long baggy shorts, wallet chains (yes, multiple), spiked bracelets, collars, and mens sneakers. I even shaved my head when I was 14, and dyed it a million different colors (I have long luscious locks these days). The SHAME.
Really horrible bangs…that I eventually just started cutting myself, I can’t even stand to look back at pictures!
i would have to say that my oversized argyle sweater vests, clunky sketchers boots, and slicked back ponytail (absolutely no bumps on top of my head!!!!)
Putting "sun in" in my brown hair during the summer until it turned a brassy orange…Also the choker I made out of soda can tabs that I "painted" different colors with glitter nail polish & strung together with clear fishing line… awesome.
There was an unforgivable perm in middle school. And a terrible, terrible six months after I jumped up straight into a light fixture that gave me a reverse mohawk along my part. I’m so glad high school is over.
My boyfriend’s baseball shirts, jersey, sweatshirt….anything BOYFRIEND and OVERSIZED! I’m surprised that my boyfriend even kept dating me underneath of all these baggy pieces of clothing!
Hippie! Ripped up jeans, no bra, birkenstocks . . . I looked like hell!
I tried on those black and white stripey arm warmers, a white "The Osbournes" t-shirt, and Chuck Taylors on the first day of my sophomore year of high school school to see if being Hot Topic-chic suited me. People made fun of me immediately, and I panicked, so I thought fast and told them all that it was strictly ironic and humorous, like a one-day costume or a prank I was playing on everyone.Needless to say I did not wear those again….http://www.discountdance.com/spframe_set.php3?mf=/dancewear/style_2017.html&camp=Froogle_2017&utm_source=Froogle&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=2017&utm_campaign=Spring+2009Oy.
Definitely the animal prints of the 90’s…so not what they are doing (right) now! What was I thinking?
In middle school I wore stirup pants with multiple pairs of colored of socks scrunched down….. ew. I also had this hideous windbreaker jacket that had rope knots and flowers all over it….. Thank God I got some fashion sense.
Haha, funny entries! I used to wear "Roxy" t-shirts and other tacky clothing that didn’t fit me well (I’m 5"10). Good thing I didn’t meet my fiance until after high school :)
I was in high school in the late 90’s and early 2000’s so I can’t remember anything that was too outdated, well, except for my shortalls, yes, short overalls! I would love to win one of these guest books! The shell design would be perfect for our seaside wedding!
I’m from a small town so our trends were small town trends and should have never made it to the big time. I remember wearing addidas tennis shoes and white socks up to my knees, and I wasn’t even a tomboy but somehow it was cool.
Since my 10 year HS reunion is coming up this summer, the high school years are on my mind! I was never the fashionable girl in school – quite the opposite actually. I took only 5 minutes to get ready. Baggy jeans. X-large t-shirts my dad got from work. No make-up. While I am glad that I wasn’t one of the girls who spent 2 hours getting ready for school, I think I could have put in a little more effort into looking decent! A lot has changed since then!
I’ll do my top three:1. Super flares! Those that covers up your whole shoes. Yuck, what were we thinking? Thank God for skinny jeans!2. Scrunchies, the big poofy ones. As if bad hair styles back needed any more help.3. Wearing lipsticks that were obviously too dark and tacky for someone at that age.I’m glad those awkward years are gone :)
Flannel shirts for that super "cool" grunge style. My mom used to go through the laundry to donate them to Goodwill. One of those moments where your mom was actually right.
I wore fun fur pants. Yep, that’s right, FAKE FUR! In ridiculously bright colors! I also had a blow-up bubble purse and platform space boots. I assure you, I thought I was cool at the time! Oh, and thank you Facebook friends for sharing pictures just to embarrass me!
Oh gosh middle school… where do I start? Ugly bangs, always wearing this oversized black jacket, and baggy pants. I looked a lot better in high school thank goodness
I did theater throughout high school, so it had a major influence on my makeup and fashion choices. I often borrowed clothing from the drama closet, mixing and matching them in an awful way! And since I learned how to put on makeup for the stage, I was frightfully overdone in that department too!!
oh my, I wore t-shirts, a flannel, and -sizes too big jeans. Very grunge all through high school. I’m glad I go over that, I love a great skirt. ~leela
these huge oversized pants called "UFOS" they can fit at least 5times my leg width!
The Doc Marten open toed sandals with socks… I rocked those everyday with a choker hemp, beaded necklace.
High school wasn’t too bad, except for the grungy flannel shirts. Middle school had the awesome tall, teased bangs with a can of hairspray. :)
Tunnel bangs. You know the ones, 1 inch curling iron, perfect roll down to the eye brows, hair spray and you have an instant tunnel! Heaven forbid one hair get out of place! LOL
Two words: Doc Martens…how were those shoes ever cool!!!
These designs will be perfect for a wedding stationary. I love it.
Umbro shorts and adidas sneakers in elementary school. Horrible!
I’m almost too ashamed to say this…but if it’s for the wedding, why not?In the middle of January, I wore hollister mini-skirts, with wool leg warmers and clogs. And I spray-tanned myself a nice shade of Oompa-Loompa orange.
If it was sold at American Eagle I probably owned it. I remember lots of "perfectly" ripped jeans (purchased this way mind you), layered polo shirts with both colors popped (ewww…), tons of graphic tees with lots of "cute" sayings, and flip flops year round. I’m glad I didn’t meet my finance until later in college because he may not have looked twice if I was still dressed like that! :)
part straight down the middle of my frizzy hair with baggy jeans and big shirts because I was super self-conscious.
Slap bracelets and stirrup pants! what a great giveaway?! thank you!
grunge! huge flannel shirts, baggy jeans or overalls and sandals with socks. terrible!
I too did the return of the bell bottoms and the baggy pants. Also, it was cool at the time to wear whatever sports team you were on sweats, head to toe. Sweatshirts, sweatpants, & flip-flops with our name and the schools name on all three. Ugh!
In High School I had this Tom Boy thing going on during Freshman and Sophomore Year, where I would dress like a ‘surfer/skater’ with long ‘board shorts’ and surfer/skater brand name t-shirts. (Billabong, Hurley) I also had my hair cut just above my ears! Believe it or not even had the skater sneakers to match! Picture a female Tony Hawk…Oh the horror! What was I thinking!?!? :))
I was rocking bangs with a terrible cowlick right on my forehead. I had braces for years and years and wore baggy clothes to cover up how skinny I was….. Bad bad bad looks!!!
Royal Blue Letterman Jacket with White "leather" sleeves!! with everything!! I still have my jacket!
Unfortunately i was into the GLITTER. Glitter on my eyes, lips, nails, even my jeans and shirts! I do not know why i thought that was a good idea, but at the time I had a lot of fun with it!
I became obsessed with the band U2 in high school… obsessed (I still love them, and will be seeing them live for the third time this summer)! For some reason, I got it in my head that whomever that perfect guy in the world was for me, he would most certainly be just like Bono and would dress like him, and would only want to be with a girl that equally looked like a rock star. Thus started the collection of colored sunglasses, leather, lots of black, and a whole lot of boots and heels. Looking back… I was a disaster! But sure enough, that perfect guy for me, whom I marrying next month, has the complete opposite style of Bono, and I thank the lord that I have successfully moved out of my rock star phase.
I chopped my hair really short right before high school started. Then, I picked out a black tank top with a metal-studded eagle across the chest with jeans and a studded black belt. I was only 14, and while I made my own choices, I blame my Mom for letting me make those choices, haha! Also, looking back I’ve realized that when it came to formals, the dresses that were my Mom’s picks…yeah, those were the ones I always fell in love with. I figure that won’t change when it comes time for my wedding dress! And, I couldn’t be more happy about it!
Pleather snake skin pants with a matching jacket. It not only looked awful but the material made awful noises when i would walk. I even brought it to college as a joke for someone to maybe wear for Halloween, needless to say it was still way to ugly for even that!
Teased up hair, UGH!!!!
The high school trend that makes me cringe is the way I wore my hair my freshman yr, in weird twists held up with butterfly clips. OH! AND! The pink tinited denim I wore senior year! Eek!
Tan…Dyed Bleach Blonde Hair….heavy makeup…..my nickname was hollywood. Not good :)
Black and red clothes were about all I wore, with all kinds of jewelry you’d find only at places like Spencers… and the dog choke-chains that I wore as necklaces… yeah, and all the metal going through various parts of my skin… and the terrible hair…
Oversized sweaters, denim shirt and jeans, and wearing men’s ties. We seemed to know nothing about dressing like a lady!
In highschool I insisted that my mom take me shopping to wet seal for the low cut bell bottoms because that was the in thing to do. Years later as I was going down memory lane looking at all the photographs I look so silly because as it is I’m already short so I looked like a broom stick.
bright purple, stirrup stretch pants and a purple/gree polked-dotted shirt (with a pocket). yup – ugly and on picture day naturally, at least it was middle school.
I wore my letter jacket with everything. It was black and yellow so I looked like an enormous bumble bee. Not a very cool winter jacket.
Even though I am still in high school, I could not resist from entering this contest! Those guest books are so pretty. Freshman year, the big thing was to ditch the smiling and make it so you had a kissing face. You would squeeze your lips together and push them out. We all thought that we were the coolest… little did we know!
I grew up in a small town so ‘style’ is kind of stretching it a bit. My ‘cool’ jr. high days were plagued with big t-shirts and ankle jeans. I’m pretty sure my friends and I were the leading fashionista’s in my public school class of around 30, but into high school we simply ventured into what we thought were ‘wide-leg’ jeans that today are simply straight leg. Ha! Sadly enough I don’t feel like the 90’s really had style to follow, it was kind of anything goes kind of era.