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Sarah Parrott, Rhode Island Vendor: Invitation Designer Website: Parrott Design Studio About Me: I am the designer & printer behind Parrott Design Studio, specializing in custom letterpress and screen printed wedding and event invitations, stationery, and paper goods. With a background in non-profit marketing & art history, I began the studio in 2006 in my small apartment in Providence, RI. Since then I have moved to a studio built my fiancé, acquired a Golding Jobber letterpress, & have been happily printing ever since. I grew up in Portland, Maine, and I have always had an affinity for the ocean, mountains, birds, gardening, & the simple life. When I am not printing, I can be found somewhere outside with my fiancé & playful pup.

Wedding Program Inspiration

November 23rd, 2009 @ 5:25 pm by Sarah @ Parrott Design Studio

Wedding programs, by nature of their contents, are a last minute item. Your ceremony is your wedding. Most people {myself completely included} tend to focus on the reception as the wedding, but the reason you have a reception is to celebrate your ceremony where you committed your lives to each other in front of family and friends. Therefore it is understandable that you are working on the details of your ceremony until the last minute possible because it is so important. By the time you are done planning your ceremony you may be thinking, program? Do I really need a program? In a short word, yes.

You want your guests to feel welcomed and involved with your wedding. The more involved they feel, the better experience they will have. Wedding programs allow your guests to follow the ceremony, understand what is happening and why, and it is a keepsake of the day. Programs come in all shapes and sizes and there is no set format on what your program should look like. It should work for you and your ceremony and reflect you as a couple.

The key “ingredients” for a program include: your full names, wedding date, city, state, and location of the ceremony, the order of the wedding ceremony including musical selections, the composers and performers, the readings, the source or author, and the readers, wedding party names and their relation to you, your officiant's name, a thank you note to your parents and guests, and a brief explanation of traditions, rituals, and ethnic customs for both religious and secular ceremonies. You may also wish to honor those who have passed or could not join you by including a memorial.

Below are a few of my favorite programs I have designed along with a description of why the format was chosen for that particular ceremony.

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Sabrina & Eunice Moyle, San Francisco, CA Vendor: Invitations & Stationery Website: Hello! Lucky About Me: We (sisters Eunice and Sabrina Moyle) started Hello!Lucky in 2003 out of Eunice's garage with a hand-cranked Vandercook printing press. Since then we've created whimsical stationery and greeting card designs for almost every occasion, including wedding invitations, save the dates, thank you notes, and a line of hilarious sock monkey cards! We love crafting, flea marketing, fashion, travel, and all things paper. We're based San Francisco with a studio in London, so we're immersed in design trends from around the world!

Illustrated Programs

October 14th, 2009 @ 8:19 am by Sabrina & Eunice @ Hello! Lucky

How adorable are these illustrated programs from Joanna Goddard's wedding? The artwork was done by the talented Anna Bond, and features a quote from one of our favorite books, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.

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Wiley Valentine, California Vendor: Invitations and Paper Products Website: Wiley Valentine About Me: Wiley Valentine is named for our artistic grandmothers, Mary Wiley and Norma Jean Valentine. Our company is 4 years old and growing strong. We specialize in invitations, stationery, and all sorts of paper delights. We love the forest, vintage books, thunder storms, butterflies, fairy tales and the smell of rain. We strive to think of our environment first when creating our paper products, and only use 100% recycled or 100% cotton papers.

Program Fabulousness

September 2nd, 2009 @ 8:32 am by Wiley Valentine

We recently designed a program for one of our fabulous retailers, Watermark Stationery, in Minnesota. They are always so much fun to work with and this project was no exception. Using the Flagel design from our Luxe album as the inspiration we created this folded 2 sided program. The program was flat printed on 100% cotton paper (tree free). Loving the results!

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Christina Friedrichsen, Winsor, Ontario, Canada Vendor: Wedding Writer Website: Intimate Weddings About Me: Christina Friedrichsen is the author of Intimate Weddings: Planning a Small Wedding that Fits Your Budget and Style and owner of IntimateWeddings.com. She wrote Intimate Weddings after planning her own 50-guest wedding. She wants other brides to feel confident in their decision to have an intimate wedding – even if their ideas buck convention. She wants couples to feel a sense of validation and to hear about all the wonderful things a small wedding can offer them. IntimateWeddings.com provides brides with a slew of planning articles, as well as a place to find small wedding venues. The Intimate Weddings Blog is chock full of fresh ideas for planning a small wedding, as well as real weddings and a slew of creative DIY wedding ideas that cut costs without sacrificing quality.

One Page DIY Wedding Programs: The Scroll

June 15th, 2009 @ 6:31 pm by Christina @ Intimate Weddings

My DIY wedding programs did not fit on one page (I'm a writer!). If I had a one page wedding program, I would have rolled it up and tied it with ribbon. I love the look of scroll DIY wedding programs. You can use any color paper you want, and the choices for ribbon are endless. Wouldn't they look lovely placed inside a wicker basket? An easy and pretty DIY wedding project!

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Sewn DIY Wedding Programs

June 10th, 2009 @ 5:34 pm by Christina @ Intimate Weddings

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I love these sewn DIY wedding programs by Merriment. But I do not sew. I envy people who can sew.

A couple of years ago I went out and bought myself a really cheap sewing machine from Canadian Tire.

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25 DIY Wedding Programs

June 2nd, 2009 @ 3:05 pm by Christina @ Intimate Weddings

Thanks to Martha, I stumbled on a gold mine of ideas for DIY wedding programs. Martha has photos of 25 DIY wedding programs, many with complete tutorials and templates. Here are a couple of my faves:

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Laura Hooper, Northridge, CA Vendor: Calligraphy Website: Laura Hooper Calligraphy About Me: I've been practicing the art of calligraphy since the age of 12 and nothing gives me more pleasure than waking up each morning knowing I get to do what I do each day. I love having the ability to infuse my own personal style into each of my bride's special day. When I'm not working, I enjoy traveling, hiking, reading and painting; but most of the time I don't consider calligraphy to be work at all!

A Tropical Vintage Wedding

February 11th, 2009 @ 10:56 am by Laura @ Laura Hooper Calligraphy

When one of my clients, Sarah, emailed me about ordering custom invitations, she had a very good idea in her mind about what she wanted. She was going for a vintage invitation that incorporated a palm tree. Though she did have a budget in mind, she definitely knew she wanted letterpress. What we pulled together was this square-style invitation set, using a RSVP postcard {which incidentally I am recommending to every client these days as it saves paper, postage, and money on the envelopes}, as well as a rehearsal dinner card. We incorporated a beautiful vintage palm tree motif into all the pieces and then letterpressed them in dark chocolate brown ink for the wording, and sage green for the palm trees. Read more…

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Flush Designs, Pasadena Vendor: Invitations, Event & Floral Design, Photography Website: Flush Designs About Me: Flush Designs is run and owned by me, Courtney C. Keefe de Jauregui. It is all encompassing, from the custom & handmade invitations seen at my website, to full exploration in event styling and design, to flower arranging, to playing sidekick and second shooter to my husband's wedding photography. I am working on becoming a wedding "One stop shop". :) I am a graduate in fine art painting, but a self taught graphic designer. As I still needed to get my hands dirty, I started taking letterpress classes, thus becoming my new love. When I am not busy working (usually still in my pajamas) and telling myself to remember to buy a new chair (this one hurts), I am singing to my 3 cats and enjoying a cold pint with my husband at our favorite local Irish pub. Maybe it's in the reverse order. :)

Ceremony Program… A Collage of Our Love Notes!

January 26th, 2009 @ 1:39 pm by Courtney @ Flush Designs

These are quick photos of my wedding programs. I had made 4 versions of different collages of notes, drawings, journal entries and fun items {The Giving Tree} that we gave each other from our 10 years of dating. Some of them were in my husband's wallet for 10 years so they were folded and dirty, but it made it more fun. I printed the ceremony program on the back with a poem that I wrote in place of the “order of service” and I made up names for all involved. It was so fun to watch people trying to collect all 4 versions.

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Wax is Great for Programs and Favors Too!

December 22nd, 2008 @ 6:25 pm by Courtney @ Flush Designs

Here is a fun way to use a wax seal. The favor is a letterpress art piece that goes with the invite suite. We used burgundy wax throughout the suite, but I chose to use a white wax on the artwork to make it stand out and give it a modern flair.