Programs at Length
There are many minute details that go into the planning of your wedding. While deciding on the style and length of your program may seem an inconsequential decision, your program, its design, its size and its location all add up to create an element of design that has a very real bearing on the overall look of your wedding.
Tea length, or square, single fold or tri-fold, some ambitious brides and grooms have even gone beyond the basics in program styles available to create their own keepsake booklet that outlines more than just the order of events for the wedding day. In such booklets, brides and grooms will often tell the story of how they met, the stories of their parents meetings, and the stories of how their attendants came to be chosen to be a part of their wedding. In this way, the program becomes a cherished keepsake, and not just an easily discarded one-time use item.
Still for others, the program is a means of laying out the order of the day, so that guests are not left wondering, and in some cases may even contain the evening's dinner menu, or bar menu, so that guests know what is available to them. Programs of this nature, are often designed as tri-folds because of the different needs they fill.
If your short and sweet wedding ceremony is being swiftly followed by your reception, with no location change necessary, you may even feel that a full-sized program is not something you need to provide guests with. Choosing instead an index sized card, listing your wedding details and any additional information you may wish guests to know, that can be attached to your wedding favors and left at each individual's place setting.
If you choose to create a wedding program, but find that the amount of information you have to share is something that can only requires a single sheet, look to irregular shapes to let them stand as additional design elements on your ceremony seats or your reception tables. Tea-length (long and rectangular), over-sized squares, round shapes (perfect for a polka dot theme), oval shapes and even triangular or pyramid shaped programs, while slightly more expensive because of their irregularity, have much more of a visual impact.
You can create even more of a visual impact by adding embellishments, such as ribbons, buttons, or grommets that truly add to the overall design.
In years past, programs were expect to conform to a certain size and protocol - fast forward to today's wedding programs where the only limits come from your imagination creating impactful programs that will be kept for years to come.
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