Programs for the wedding… it is one of those little details that many brides could take it or leave it, and then again – others find it to be as necessary as the invitations…
I didn’t really mind whether or not I had them until a very unfortunate reason came up. In November, one of our dearest friends, and Groomsman, passed away – and, immediately, we felt that we had to do something to remember him during our wedding.
We did the simplest thing that I could think of – leaving a space between two of the Groomsmen where he would have stood during the wedding. But, I knew that it was one of those things that our guests would not “get” unless we told them why there was a deliberate gap in the wedding party. Hence, I knew that we needed programs.
I was able to pull off our programs as late as the day before the wedding, believe it or not! You can too, if you have Photoshop, and a local Kinko’s – easy as pie!
This was the final design – about as simple as it gets as far as information is concerned:
You can see at the bottom where we explained the absence of our friend – the rest of it was simply a rundown of the wedding party, etc.
I designed this in about an hour, and emailed it off to my Dad – who then took it to Kinko’s to be printed. But, there are a few things about this design that made it even more easy than usual…
- I didn’t use a “booklet” type program – instead, I designed a full 8.5 x11 sheet that could easily be printed on single sheets of card stock.
- Not only did this make the printing easy, but there was not work involved with binding, or even folding, etc. Once it was printed – it was ready to be handed out by my ushers at the church!
So, if you decide to use a wedding program – it is completely do-able. Just match it up with your other “paper” items – such as table cards, invites, etc. and no one will be the wiser! (I will show my table cards in an upcoming post!)
June 20, 2008 at 11:30 pm
A few years ago I was in a wedding and one of the laterations the seamstress mentioned was to replace the zipper. I asked her why and she said almost all bridal gowns and brisdesmaid dresses these days have very cheap zippers. Even on the “better” designers. She had seen too many brides who really did fit in their dress properly go and break the zipper during a try-on so she made it part of her standard alterations to replace the zipper with a better one.
It was worth all of the $15 I paid for it. My dress was tight, but that zipper held like a vice.
June 21, 2008 at 3:14 pm
That is a smart seamstress!
It’s just so insane, isn’t it? That you could throw down that kind of money for a dress worn once – and you just have to deal with a broken zipper?
Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
Abby