So you’ve made the guest list, picked out your bridal gown, and have just about everything else ready to go. Now where do you go to find printed programs that you’ll want to have as keepsakes long after the wedding day has come and gone?
A wedding program allows your guests to follow along during the ceremony. It helps them to identify the participants in the wedding party, and of course, it serves as a treasured memoir for your guests as well as for yourself.
Decide What You Want
When choosing a program, first determine what you need. Programs differ greatly in the quantities of text that they can contain in addition to all the different designs and layouts. The amount of detail you want to include depends on you. Does each and every song need to be listed or only the “main” song? How big of a wedding party to you plan on having?
Will it include extended family such as step-parents, relations further than immediate family like cousins, great-aunts/great-uncles, etc.? Will you want to include histories of certain ceremonies you’ve incorporated into your wedding? If so, keep in mind larger programs will be necessary or that you will need to allow for inserted cards or other additional pages to your program.
Here are a few places online you can take a look at for printed programs that just might fill the bill in every respect. Take a few minutes to browse around them and see what you think. …
Printed Expressions
The folks at Printed Expressions (www.PrintedExpression.com) specialize in Christian and photo wedding invitations, but they also provide an excellent source for printed programs. This online wedding supplier features eight pages of wedding program selections including many in the form of fans and other charming shapes, plus a number of very elegant programs. One of our favorites is the classic-looking French folded program offered with a border in your choice of pearl filigree or embossed silver.
Antonia Rose
Antonia Rose (www.AntoniaRose.com) offers more than 70 styles of professionally printed wedding programs. They can even incorporate you own original text into a design and layout of your choice. If you want to write your own text and are having trouble with what you want to express, they also offer a page of useful wedding program tips that includes everything you need to know. Fans, scrolls, and traditional folded-card programs come offered in a huge selection of the most sought-after fonts, inks, designs, monograms, and other stylish accents.
Pre-Wedding Boutique
The Pre-Wedding Boutique at www.PreWedding.com features a wealth of professionally printed programs in addition to special rush orders for those who’ve waited ‘til the last minute! They also offer fine program paper if you want to do the entire thing yourself while still using the best-quality supplies.
The Pre-Wedding people offer eight classic designs that include Precious Memories, a lovely Cross & Doves motif, as well as a Linen Textured program that would do the most formal wedding event proud.
These three sites offer some of the best services in the way of printed wedding programs you’ll find on the Web, but many others are available. Just type in your search terms in your favorite search engine and – wow!
You’ll find yourself inundated with possibly more sites offering whatever you desire in the way of printed wedding programs than you can ever imagine actually visiting. So go to it! And have fun shopping!