Ceremony Programs ?

Q: I know this has been hashed and re-hashed and silly me for not reading the posts. I am trying to figure out how to make our wedding programs. I have a good idea what goes in it and how I will print it out, I just have no idea what it might or should look like. I've only ever seen one, to hold in my hands and look at, and I didn't really like it. If anyone knows of any sites were I could find any kind of visual information I would be forever thankful.

A:I would put a floral design on the front cover to give it a wedding feel. I would also use a floral picture rather than clip art. That is if you have one of those nice color ink jets like the Epson Photo Ex that does 1400 dpi. They are raving about this printer at the Computer/Print Artist bb on Prodigy these days. Wish I had one myself. I have a Cannon BJC-610 and it does photos beautiful, too. I produce my own brochures from it. Even though, as a printing dealer, I can get them wholesale, I prefer to do them myself and use my own artwork. I put a piece of clip art on the front of us. It's of 2 doves holding wedding rings, with them meeting together where the wedding rings are with a circle round them. It doesn't look as tacky as a lot of weddding clipart, in fact it doesn't look tacky at all and has worked really well. It took me hours to find it though through all the clip art archives I could find. So if you put the time into looking then it is possible to find something amoungst the clip art. First is the single sheet, usually folded in thirds like a brochure. It can be on plain parchment or colored paper, or on a "designed" brochure with pictures of rings, flowers, whatever. Specialty paper is available at stationery stores, paper catalogs (Paper Direct is the best known -- they've a website which I think is, logically enough, paperdirect.com), and through wedding invitation catalogs. It has the bride's and groom's names, the wedding date, and maybe a picture of some sort (of bells or flowers, or of the B&G, or of the wedding site) on the front panel. The inside center panel has the order of service (i.e., processional, invocation, sermon, exchange of vows, etc.) with any notes about responses or actions for the guests and the other two inside panels have the names of the wedding party members, possibly including the parents, any readers or other participants, and the officiant if not identified in the order of service, plus the titles and names of composers and performers of all musical selections to be used (if this is only the processional and recessional it can be included in the order of service section), plus any other brief information, dedications, etc. the B&G wish to impart to the guests. I just happen to have a scanner, a snappy and am able to get some great art that way. I'm sure yours is fantastic. I have made floral arrangements and things like that and happen to like to use it this way. It is a hobby of mine. I don't think it would look tacky to use clip art. Some is quite beautiful.

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