Wedding Ceremony Programs

Wedding ceremony programs are just like any other program from the theater, a school play, or some church services. Their purpose is to guide the guests by letting them know when and what is happening or is going to happen.

Programs Serve Two Purposes

The program also fills in who the players in the wedding are: the bride, the groom, the bridesmaids, the best man, etc. This gives everyone at the wedding certain knowledge of just whose wedding they are attending (as if they didn’t know!) plus, which may very well be questionable to some guest, the identities of the “minor” or “supporting” characters.

Programs also should include the minister or officiant’s name, the names of the musicians (if you are having live music) and what instruments they’re playing, the titles of the music pieces played, the singer’s name (if a singer is used), and the title of whatever song she/he sings.

The other use – possibly the more important one – of wedding ceremony programs is that of posterity. You and your future spouse, friends, family, and loved ones all will appreciate this bit of memorabilia that helps commemorate one of the biggest and most important events of you and your intended’s lives together.

Two Ways to Make ‘Em

Any number of Web sites on the Internet offer wedding ceremony programs, or you may prefer to make them yourself. If you can garner the help of any artistic friends, you’ll be that much further ahead with regard to the creation of an engaging design theme.

If you are, indeed, planning on creating your own wedding ceremony programs, one thing to consider is to either have a friend gifted in calligraphy (a Greek word meaning “beautiful writing”) or pay a professional calligrapher to do the text portion of it. You’ll only need one handwritten this way; you can then have that one printed off as many times as necessary to accommodate your guest list.

If you know no artists nor calligraphers and your budget can’t stretch far enough to hire professionals, there are always wedding ceremony software packages available. If your local stationery or computer/office supply store doesn’t offer software to help you create a wedding program that pleases you, you’re sure to find one online with a determined search-engine hunt.

The Finishing Touch

Once you have your wedding ceremony programs printed and folded, use a hole puncher to make holes along the folded edge. Weave an appropriate width of satin or brocade-style ribbon through the holes and finish the ends in a small, sweetly tied bow. Use a hot-glue gun to secure the bow to ensure that it doesn’t come untied.

With a few friends or relatives involved in the making of wedding ceremony programs like these, it shouldn’t take you long at all to have them ready. And not only have you saved a significant amount of money on wedding décor, but you’ve made memories to cherish. In the future, every time you look at the program you’ve saved as a memoir, you’ll remember the fun, close time you had with your loved ones in the making of them.

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