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When planning your wedding, one of the keepsakes you'll design is your wedding program. This is something your families and friends can keep as a reminder of your special day. Certainly those family and friends who participate in the ceremony will enjoy this memento of the special day they shared with you. Wedding programs can be special ordered, or you can do it yourself. There are templates available online, or with a good eye, you can create one in most any image editing software package.
Wedding Programs
At Office Online, you can download a wedding program template that will help with layout and design.
Since a wedding program is often straightforward text, you can make your own using any image editing software, such as Photoshop. Simply open a new file, oriented on its side, or landscape orientation. This is so it can be folded in half with writing on both halves. You'll make two of these files. One will be the front and back of the program, while the other file will contain the inside pages.
When looking at the program unfolded, the right side will be the front half while the left side will be the back. Decide what information you want presented on each half. Look at other wedding programs for ideas, but essentially, you'll need the basic wedding announcement on the front: who is getting married and when and where. For the back, you might have a photo of the bride and groom, along with a few meaningful and relevant quotes about their new lives together. The back is another place to add in additional thanks to parties not mentioned in the program.
The inside pages typically repeat the announcement information, centered. Underneath, using a neat two-columned format, list the bridal party members along with a reference, and list any songs that will be performed in the wedding. As with a play program, list in order of occurrence or importance. You might section the program into two parts: The Wedding Ceremony and The Wedding Party. So you might list under the ceremony the names of your organist (or pianist or violinist, etc). In the first column, say "Organist" and then in the second column, print the name. You can connect these two with a row of dots (periods) to make it easier for the eye to read across the lines. Remember, these two columns will go on half of the inside page. The first inside page is the left half, so start there.
In the Wedding Ceremony listing, list any singers, as well. You might even list the name of the song being sung. So you could write "Solo" on a line. Just under it, slightly indented, list the song title, then connect across with periods and list the name of the singer performing the solo. At some point you'll list the order of events. For listing these, you might change your text font to all caps. These entries will not necessarily have names in the second column as the participants will be listed in the Wedding Party section. Your events may be Processional, Greetings, Marriage Vows, and Exchange of Rings. After this, you may even have another song and singer listed. Perhaps you are Lighting a Unity Candle or have some other recitation. Generally, there will be a Prayer, then a Pronouncement, Announcing the New Couple, and a Recessional.
Where you place much of the information is a personal choice. Some might list the seating of the mothers, listing the bride's and groom's mothers' names as part of the ceremony. In other programs, the names of the parents is listed after the ceremony. Others place the names of the family in the Wedding Party section.
In the Wedding Party section, you will typically list the name of the minister and of any other participant, such as a flower girl, a ring bearer, maid of honor, best man, bride's maids and groomsmen. Some programs list all singers and musicians in this section as well, rather than list them in the Ceremony portion.
There is no absolute way in which you must present the information. Organize it how it looks and feels best to you. The point of the program is to deliver the information so the guests know who everyone is while establishing expectations as to what the ceremony will be like.
In creating your own templates, all you have to do is open text boxes on your file. In that box you can type in whatever text you want in whatever font (and color) you want. Typically, though, wedding programs are printed in black. You can center a line of text, if you wish. Type in the words as you want them to appear. Use separate text boxes for each section of your program. That way you can later shift and move the whole box to balance out the use of space. Edit the information in the boxes until it says what you want, how you want. Once you have your pages (the two files) finished, you can print. You'll have to print one file then reload the paper (typically a cardstock paper) back into the printer for it to print on the reverse side.
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