Considering the assortment of options couples-to-be now have to create gorgeous wedding programs, it's no wonder you want to customize yours to match the theme and style of your Oregon wedding. Use this guide to express your inner Oregonian with programs inspired by the state's rugged coastline, vast mountain ranges or even the peaceful serenity of Oregon's high desert.
Pre-printed Custom Wedding Programs
If you want to take the guesswork out of your wedding program order, consider the huge number of online program makers that will use their templates to replace pertinent information (like your names), then print out the personalized programs you've ordered and ship them to you, complete with envelopes and R.S.V.P. cards. For example,
The Wedding Cottage, a wedding invitations and stationary boutique in Portland, has a wide selection of programs to choose from in styles that may work for your wedding theme, such as beach wedding programs with pastel shades and starfish images. Make sure to proof your program first to avoid any embarrassing mistakes, in addition to ordering your programs well ahead of time.
While many of these online program companies have great selections of programs to choose from, they cannot be customized, only personalized with your wedding day information, so the creative aspect is nixed. In addition, the cost of having these high-graphic, pre-made programs printed on quality card stocks and fine tissue papers can get expensive quickly. If you're hoping to add some Oregon imagery to your programs, or at least reduce their cost, then doing a bit of the creative labor yourself may be more rewarding (and less expensive) than you'd expected.
Print 'em Yourself Wedding Programs
Wouldn't it be great to print out your chosen wedding programs on your own color printer in the comfort of your own home or down the street at your local print and copy store? For less than thirty dollars,
WeddingClipart.com will give you a year's worth of downloading, from programs to stationary to invitations. Or, for one week you can use their
free trial to search wedding program templates and print one or two to see how you like them. They've got programs to represent your Oregon wedding style, such as
autumn wedding programs, programs featuring
coastal ferns, programs showing wild
love birds, or even a
rose wedding program to represent Oregon's famous rose gardens. If you don't find just the right template, but you've fallen in love with some of the borders, accents, or clipart found at the site, then mix and match your preferences with their online
wedding program design center, where you can create and print your entire wedding stationary set with programs and invitations included! Shop around at your local stationary store or print and copy center to find just the right paper to complement your program design, and get even more coordinated when you match your ink colors to the hues of your chosen paper.
Handcrafted Wedding Program Features
Wedding programs don't have to be exactly the same as your chosen template. For example, if you've ordered or printed a beach wedding program, consider foraging the Oregon coast for a sack of seashells that you can fasten onto the cover of your program with a glue gun. Or, in the independent Oregonian spirit, spend some time at your local fabric store and craft shop where you can easily create fabric covers, add bows, attach buttons, insert seed packets, or punch holes to thread ribbons through the fold of your program's classy binding. One wedding program creator simply printed her program, then bought some cheap
taffeta fabric for program covers and a wheel of ribbon for tying them closed. Launch from this idea and you may find that ribbons, bows, fabrics, fancy buttons, funky-edged scissors, hole punches and many more crafty ideas will only serve to enhance the look of your program. Putting the time and energy into your wedding programs may be more rewarding than just putting your money into them, so consider getting crafty and creating a hand-held memory that everyone will want to keep and display.
