K and I have been planning our actual ceremony, and we're thinking of not having a printed program that we hand out at the ceremony. This is for many reasons - it's something that we don't want to do ourselves in the last few weeks before the ceremony, and we probably won't have it prepared in time to have the printers do it...but also, when we think about it, usually at weddings we use them to figure out how long it will be until it's over (depending on the service of course - i'm referring the most recent wedding we attended, which included a full mass and recitations that we had to follow along with), or to repeat text with a priest / minister... We're hoping that no one at our ceremony will be hoping that it will all be over soon...but what do you think? Did you / Will you have a printed program? What would you think at a wedding if you didn't receive one?
What did you guys end up doing in this regard? Our ceremony will be no more than 30 mins long, and the reception will be on site - I kind of see no point in handing out programs. It's going to be a very simple ceremony.
Tony, your wedding will be on the beach, right? This summer, friends of our had an outdoor wedding and wanted something to keep their guests comfortable, so they printed their programs on (flat) paper fans, each with a small handle, so that guests could keep cool. It worked out really well because their ceremony was pretty simple and so they didn't need a lot of space on the programs, and they got to do something a little different. Good luck! -Kate-
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Wow that is a fantastic idea - I really have to tap into my creativity gene lol.
Actually, no our ceremony is inside, in the same building as the reception. We live in Florida but are getting married in NJ, Berkeley Heights, it's about 15 minutes west of Newark Airport.
I love the idea of a program, but I've found the traditional ones rather boring.
I'm thinking of personalizing ours by incorporating some touches you'd see in a theatre program, primarily a short snippet on each of the wedding attendants, who they are, how we met, etc. This way everyone knows who these folks are and why they're important to me and my beloved.
