Blank Wedding Programs

With all the wedding planning you have to do before the big day, know when to send save the date cards, wedding invitations, thank you cards, etc. can be a huge problem. Here's a handy guide to fill the time, what and how to respond to all your stationery needs.

Save the date
Usually up to six months in advance of the wedding, these cards can be a fun way to start your engagement and wedding plans. If you are planning a destination wedding, these cards are vital heads-up notice for customers who will need some time to make travel plans. The look of these cards may indicate the style and formality of marriage to come or not is up to you.

wedding invitation
A wedding invitation is often not only a card in an envelope, but a small suite of cards, envelopes and envelopes. The idea behind this strategy more, do more is twofold. First, the more information you are invited to help make their experience a wonderful wedding day, the better their chances of having a great time. Secondly, these little extras (the inner envelope, the corresponding boxes) to help create it-is-this-very-special feeling.

A traditional wedding invitation includes

• Invitation
• An inner lining for the invitation
• enclosure cards - It may be the invitation to your wedding reception, a notice of parking, a bank card (for guests, some who you have booked reserved seating), etc. If you have a destination wedding, use these cards to invite other pre-and post-wedding gatherings, too.
• The reply card - This is the RSVP for your guests to complete and return to you. This map should be sealed with an envelope pre-printed with your address and postage. Note: do not mark the reply card envelopes will customers living outside the United States.
• Map Map - These useful maps can be printed on the same paper as your invitation with the same ink to match the invitation.
• The outer envelope - This must be printed with your return address. Then you write by hand, the addresses of your customers or hire a calligrapher to do it for you.

Informal Note
Many stationers offer informal notes essentially extra cards the same style and size as the map of the response of your wedding invitation with matching envelopes. These blank cards on hand can be used for thank you notes, gift wrap, and especially for individuals handwritten notes to special guests. You can join one of these cards in the invitations that you send to your parents and future parents-and everyone in the wedding, for example.

At home cards
These cards bear the address of your new home and when you are moving in. They can be attached to your wedding invitations.

programs for the wedding ceremony
Shaped like a large map, a booklet or brochure, these programs are distributed to guests at the wedding ceremony. A wedding program usually contains a schedule of the ceremony, but may also include special notes on members of the wedding and other information that could help make the experience of the ceremony your guests all the better. If your ceremony will take place in a language that is not familiar with all your guests, consider adding a translation of important documents. The wedding program does not match the look of your wedding invitation, but it must reflect the same formality and theme.

Place cards and menu cards for the reception
These cards allow you to add a flourish of style to each place setting at the reception. Again, these cards do not have t.