Getch Yer Programs!
October 14th, 2008 @ 3:01 pm by Mrs. Pineapple
When it came to the programs, I wanted to keep it simple, but still keep it in line with the rest of our paper goodies. We decided on a vertical half-sheet for the layout and to open with a little blurb about our first wedding, written by Mr. Pineapple:
“On September 20, 2008, we were married in a ceremony with only our parents in attendance. The ceremony was planned to ensure that our families, the people who have loved and supported us for entire lives, could see us commit the rest of our lives to each other as husband and wife. We are thankful to them for everything, including sharing that special moment with us. We are honored to have our friends and families here to join us as we celebrate our new life together.”
Our Ceremony Programs!!
October 10th, 2008 @ 11:58 am by Miss Candy Corn
In addition to designing and making our invites, the lovely Cindi from BrassPaperClip whipped together our programs in a matter of days! She is the sweetest Etsy seller I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, and I would highly recommend her to anyone who is in need of custom creations! Our program design was heavily borrowed from Mrs. Lily (whose hubby designed their ultra fab programs), while remaining true to our theme and aesthetic.
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Rockstar Programs!
October 8th, 2008 @ 1:00 pm by Miss Coconut
For Kate and Aaron’s wedding, I offered to make their wedding programs as part of my role as a bridesmaid. Kate really loved Mrs. Penguin’s program design, so I basically stole her idea (thanks, Pengy!) and went to work! Kate shipped the paper of her choice and I spent some quality time with my Gocco. Any Gocco time I missed out on with our decision to order invitations, I made up for with this project.
The program was eight pages, which meant that I used 16 lamps! In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have used the Gocco for this project, but I think the silver ink looked amazing on Kate’s purple paper, so what’s done is done!
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.
We Have a Kitchen Table?!
September 29th, 2008 @ 8:34 am by Miss Pinot Noir
Many people ask me what the hardest part of planning a destination wedding is. They guess it is choosing venues, restaurants or table linens. The fact is, the hardest part about planning a destination wedding is figuring out how to get everything to the destination! Every planning and decor decision makes me think about how we will get the item to the other side of the country. Can we ship it? Pack it in our checked baggage? Do we have to carry it on the plane with us? Our luggage will include all our wedding week clothing, rings, parent/wedding party gifts, my dress, Mr. PN’s kilt, honeymoon clothes, etc., so we decided it would be best to send along some items in advance.
Our amazing florist graciously accepted to receive a few packages and take them to our venue on the morning of the wedding. So, we have spent the last couple weeks finishing our wedding programs, table names, escort cards, menu cards, and cake table photos.
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The Final Push!
September 19th, 2008 @ 9:29 am by Mrs. Cookie
It’s crunch time, and here are just a few more DIY projects to squeeze in before the big day. Welcome to my hodgepodge of last-minute project mania.
First up, we have our programs!
I Goccoed the programs using the same screen I used for our invites. I was going to Gocco the whole program, but I have run out of lamps and there seems to be a lamp shortage.
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DIY Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Programs
September 18th, 2008 @ 6:29 pm by Mrs. Margarita
Our programs were a labor of love. All in all they took us literally weeks to complete! The reason it took us so long was because I didn’t plan out the supplies very well, and since we started with only a few weeks from the wedding, I was just over it. That said, I’m SO glad we put so much effort into making them because they were a huge hit at the wedding.
Here’s the result of our weeks of work (excuse the bad quality picture - my camera is on the fritz):
The Fate of the Programs
September 5th, 2008 @ 3:15 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
As you may recall, I was about a quarter of the way through our programs when I accidentally jammed my sewing machine and production STOPPED. You may also recall that our solution to this problem was to have a cobbler sew the rest of them, but that they were sewn with the wrong color of thread, prompting my major wedding meltdown (even though it really wasn’t that big of a deal).
Well, my friends, I realized this morning that I never showed you the final product! So here they are! This is a programs as they were supposed to be: zig-zag stitch with black thread:
Mango DIY #1: Assembling the Ceremony Program
September 2nd, 2008 @ 4:39 pm by Mr. Mango
As mentioned before, our Nikkah ceremony was last week, and I had been running around like a “chicken without a head” (<-how did that phrase ever come about). Anyhow, I guess I’d share one of the simpler, yet last minute, DIY projects that I undertook.
For the Nikkah reception, I wanted to create a small ceremony program that guests could refer to for questions about the night’s events, instead of them having to ask the waiters what time dinner would be served. Hmm… well, I guess that would be a reception, not a ceremony program, wouldn’t it ? Nonetheless, since our Nikkah started out with an official ceremony in a mosque, followed by a reception in a nearby restaurant, one option we were considering was giving out programs before the ceremony. However, we figured it might not be a good idea because people tend to lose things when moving between sites/venues.
So, we have decided to keep a simple, and straight-forward program tucked into the napkins on the tables at the reception, along with the wedding favors and silverware. Easy enough, right? Nope! We seem to have very eclectic guests who are either poets, singers, speakers, or just simply lovers of the limelight and feel the need to embrace it. Hence, we were told that there needed to be some cultural element to our ceremony program. Some of the things that we felt should be included in our programs were:
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Program Basket
August 8th, 2008 @ 4:15 pm by Mrs. Sundae
I am officially entering the “tying up loose ends” phase of the planning process, and there are a lot of ends to be tied! I went on a mad dash around town last weekend to find a basket for our programs, and while I was at World Market I came across this:
