Unique Ideas for your Wedding Programs

If you are considering programs for your wedding, then here are a few design ideas to give you inspiration: Booklets are a nice idea and make wonderful keepsakes, more so than most There is no requirement to have wedding programs, but they are a nice idea to help your guests stay in tune with what is happening during the ceremony. At the other end of the scale, brides are choosing very simple programs, such as custom made fan style programs, printed on two sides, which are perfect for hot, summer weddings taking place outdoors. Whilst the traditional style of programs will continue for many weddings, particularly those that are ultra traditional, or simply because the wedding budget would not stretch to anything more; there is a rising trend to make programs several pages long including stories of how the couple met, photographs, a list of the members of the wedding party and poems, songs or prose. It is this trend that has led to programs becoming far more elaborate and inclusive than ever before.

Whilst programs help to keep you guests aware of what will happen during the ceremony, many brides have become aware of how many of their guests will keep them as keepsakes of the day. These days however, wedding programs have taken a whole new lease of life, even becoming mini booklets covering more than just the ceremony. Traditionally wedding programs would be a simple folded card, with the couple's names and wedding date to the front, with perhaps the ceremony location and the program printed inside. Essentially they are a schedule of your wedding ceremony, that is a time ordered list of every element of your ceremony, from the opening speech by the officiant to the readings and hymns. If you are at all confused as to what wedding programs are, then let me enlighten you.