Get Your Programs!

September 30th, 2008 @ 9:32 am by Mrs. Hydrangea

I took it upon myself to create our programs. To create the “guts” of the program, I opted to use Adobe InDesign with the same fonts that have been consistent with all of our wedding things. I waited to complete these until the week before the wedding, after we had the coordinators and priest review it.

For the cover, we used black 8.5″x11″ cardstock that I folded in half with the bone folder.

To spruce it up a bit, I created a white sheet, about half the size, and put our information on the front and our monogram on the back.

I purchased a long stapler from Office Depot for $20 and Mr. H set out to help me create 150 of these babies. I’m not much of a ribbon person, so we opted to go the stapling route.

About 20 programs into the job, Mr. H realized that I suck at stapling, so I was left to fold everything while he stapled them together.

Talk about a time consuming and tedious job! I’m so happy that we did them though; they are exactly what I wanted. Since the cover paper and the “guts” were all the same size, some of the white pages stuck out. Since I happen to work for a printing company, they let me bring them in and they cut them all to be exactly the same size!

Did anyone else find the programs to be as much, if not a bigger pain, then putting together the invitations?!?

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8 Responses to “Get Your Programs!”

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Linzerella

Agreed. Our programs were so intense - we had to cut the paper by hand because Staples and Office Depot told me they couldn’t guarantee they’d cut it perfectly. So my dear mother had to make 4 cuts per page x 5 pieces of paper per program x 70 programs = nightmare!!!

9/30/08 @ 9:38 am (reply)

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Lena

Those are beautiful! Obviously worth the work!

9/30/08 @ 9:50 am (reply)

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kenziegirl (message) 341 posts, Helper bee

So tell me, what are the guts composed of, like: page 1 - thank you, page 2 - attendants, page 3 - etc.

They are classic cool.

9/30/08 @ 9:56 am (reply)

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Hazel

Very nice! I have not even started on my programs, still looking for inspiration, so thank you for this!

9/30/08 @ 10:14 am (reply)

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ctbride

We drafted the programs on our computer (30 min), then took them to a local copy shop after buying some premium cardstock and pretty colored paper. Copy shop vs. stationary store saved oodles of money ($20 vs. $300). The copy shop even cut them perfectly for free! We hole-punched by hand and tied bows with two different color ribbon on top (1 hour max) and ta-da - they look totally professional! I love them!

9/30/08 @ 10:30 am (reply)

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elizabeth

Hear-flipping-hear, Mrs. H!!! Yours look great and look completely worth the effort, but I am with you on how annoying they are to make. Our programs are the last major project I have to do for the wedding, and last Friday it was like pulling teeth to get me to do the interior (I had designed the cover a year ago…just never got around to do the rest!) on Publisher, and then there was the Sunday debacle of getting it printed (they couldn’t read anything but a JPEG or PDF, so we had to go back to my fiance’s lab to PDF the thing, drop it off AGAIN, then pick it up two hours later). We are also stapling them ourselves as they are meant to have a vintage paperback book-like feel to them and ribbons don’t work for that so well.

@kenziegirl: Not sure what your ceremony is structured to be like, but if it helps I did–cover, then P1 was the bridal party, p2 & 3 were the order of Mass, p4 listed the other attendants (musicians, readers, presenters of gifts), then the back cover had our thank-yous to everyone.

9/30/08 @ 12:35 pm (reply)

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jenniferb (message) 168 posts, Blushing bee

I just wanted to say thank you! I just picked up a shipment at my local Dollar tree that I ordered off of dollartreedirect. I really appreciate the tip!

9/30/08 @ 7:39 pm (reply)

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Mrs X

Yes, I hear you loud and clear on this one. I had high hopes of sending them off to Kinkos and getting them done…not as easy as I thought. They ended up being a far bigger pain that I ever imagined…however, once finished I loved them.

I think maybe it’s the added time crunch that make them seem so much worse than the DIY invites.

10/1/08 @ 11:44 am (reply)