Abstract: An assembly and method for compiling an advice book include providing printed instruction forms directable to an invitee to a gathering held for an honoree thereof and instructing the invitee to be prepared to provide advice to the honoree and to bring to the gathering a picture which corresponds to the advice or the invitee or the gathering; providing an advice book having a plurality of pages adapted to receive pictures mounted thereon and having a plurality of pages having indicia thereon adapting them for receipt of the corresponding written advice; causing the instruction forms to be delivered to invitees; and then, at the gathering, affixing the pictures and corresponding advice from each invitee on pairs of adjacent facing pages or on the same page so that the two can be viewed simultaneously.