Your wedding program is an important resource

The wedding program can sometimes be the redheaded stepchild of wedding celebrations simply because some people tend to forget about the wedding program until the last minute. By that time, people are so swamped that the program ends up just being pounded out at the last minute and is nothing more than a list of the ceremony, some names, and maybe a little wedding poetry. While the ceremony listing is a vital aspect of the program, it should go far beyond this simplistic version.

Ideally, your wedding program should match all of the other paper products you have used for your wedding. Try and coordinate your program with your invitations and RSVP cards, even going so far as to have them printed when you order your invites. If this is impossible, as your stationer to provide you some wedding program sized blank pieces of paper that can be used to print out the program at a later date.

The wedding program can be as simple as listing the order of the ceremony and the names of all involved. In recent years, however, the wedding program became an opportunity for the couple to share their story with the guests at their wedding. A program became almost a little photo album, with couples writing the story of how they met combined with some wedding poetry for everyone’s reading pleasure before the ceremony. Remember, a wedding program is yours alone, and you don’t have to do – or not do – anything anyone else tells you.