Programs

I had no idea how much time went into blogs when I came up with the idea to start this one (not that I envisioned posting daily, but more frequently than I do). 

Anywho...on to Programs...

When I come up with a theme, I tend to go a little over-board. Enter my programs...I wanted them to look like a book, so this is what I came up with.

Of course I had to include my pugs.

I added some footnotes to give the guests a couple of facts throughout the program.

After this "title page," I had the sections "Introduction", "The Ceremony", and "Epilogue". In the Introduction section, I listed out the participants (officiant, singer, musician, parents, bridal party, etc.). The Ceremony section is self-explanatory (order of events, who the readers are, yada, yada, yada). I added the Epilogue section pretty much because I needed another page. That section basically said where the reception was and to bring your dancing shoes! All together it was about 8 pages. We had free parking for our guests and they needed a placard to park there, so we included that on the back cover of the program (turns out they had to turn in the placard to park there, instead of placing it on the dashboard, so that plan backfired).

My sister is always making custom labels for gifts and other designy/crafty things like that and she told me that she uses PowerPoint to make her projects (go figure!). I decided to try it for my programs and signs that I put up around the wedding, and absolutely loved it! I don't know how to use Photoshop and found PowerPoint so easy to use. It's easy to move the textboxes around to where I wanted them. It's even easy using pictures, like the pugs I used for the "publishing" logo.

The hubs and I printed these out ourselves and the hubs put them together. We used 32lb ivory paper for the inner pages since we were printing on both sides of the paper, so it wouldn't show through on the other side. For the cover we used a 90lb ivory cardstock, so it was a little thicker and sturdier. Then we used a long reach stapler to put the programs together. I absolutely loved the way they came out!