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Could you make them on your own to save $? Programs are a nice way of making guests feel included in your ceremony and honoring important people like parents, grandparents, the wedding party, etc. At least, that's how I feel about them. :)
We're not doing it. We are having a very short ceremony (like 10 minutes) and there's only six in our entire bridal party. I just didn't see a point to wasting the paper on programs.
@Gemstone: We are printing our own Invites, but I just see no point in a program for a 30 min ceremony. Everyone knows our parents. And the Bridal Party will be introduced at the reception. The Officiant will keep everyone involved in what's going on. :)
We didn't do them and I'm glad we didn't. First of all, most people either knew who everyone was, or they could figure it out based on previous conversations with either myself, my husband or our families. It was an expense and a project I has always thought I'd have, but when it came closer to the day I just said- screw it! Don't worry about it if you don't wanna do it, they're not a necessity!
I am conflicted on this. I don't want to do them, but then I think I should... I'm tagging along on this thread to see what others have to say!
@jennifer_espos: That's pretty much how I feel about it. Too much extra work too. lol
We had a Jewish ceremony and a mostly non-Jewish guest list, so we needed the programs to explain what was going on. People really liked them, it turned out, but they were a time and $ consuming DIY.
@OttawaBride2011:Can you elaborate on why you think that you should?
@charismaclassic: Well, in your situation, it was pretty neccessary for everyone's understanding to have them. How thoughtful of you!
i've been struggling with this as well. i get the point of them - to let everyone know who your bridal party is, etc. but our ceremony will be very short as well, and the cocktail hour/reception is in the same location immediately following. i just know that everyone would look at it for like 5 minutes and then throw it away. is it worth it, then, to spend the time to make them and the money to print them if no one really cares? i'm still undecided, but i answered no in the poll.
We're doing them. I got a box of the print your own kind from Michael's with a 50% off coupon. The main reason we decided to go forward with them was because we're having a few untraditional elements in our ceremony (the wine box ceremony) and because our reception is at a compltely different location and we wanted the directions to the reception site to be available to our guests.
I really like ceremony programs. I like to know who is in the wedding party and how the bride and groom know them. I like to have explanations for any special symbols or less familiar customs, and I like to have something to read while I'm waiting for the ceremony to start. (And I know I'm in the minority here, but I do save them and put them into a scrapbook.)
They can be super simple though. Ours were a tri-folded piece of heavier paper, laid out in Word with a couple of nice graphics. They were frustrating (since I had a major fight with the printer), but they cost less than $40, and that's only because I ended up buying two reams of paper because the printer wasn't cooperating.
I'm doing them because they're fans, games on the back, and programs. Plus, i want everyone to know the names of the people in the wedding party.
@meggyo:I agree. Our cocktail hour and reception are int he same place alaso.
@PrncssDva: I understand your thoughts about the time and materials needed to make them. May I ask what kind of ceremony it is? (Religious or no?)
We're on the fence about this one too! We're having a Jewish ceremony, with a handful of non-Jewish guests, though it's important to me that my family (I converted) and our non-Jewish guests feel included. Since I have oodles of time and not too much to do wedding-wise (I'm pretty much done planning!), I just worked up a DIY program idea yesterday. After I do a prototype, I think we'll decide from there. But I totally understand why people don't want them! My FI thinks I'm nuts!
@PrncssDva: I guess I just feel like programs are a part of weddings. Like people might be annoyed to not have one... I don't know how to explain it lol.
Our ceremony is incorporating some Jewish traditions that my family have never seen or heard of before (my FI is Jewish), so we are doing them as a way of pointing out and explaining the significance of the different aspects of the ceremony.
@OttawaBride2011: LOL...well, I think that they'll be fine. I wasn't annoyed when weddings that I went to didn't have them.
@PrncssDva: I'm not at all saying you have to agree with me, but I think that religious ceremonies, especially, include a lot of symbolic rituals that are worth mentioning.
I don't think it's a huge deal to not have them, but in answering your question—I'm a yes for programs.
I've been to much shorter ceremonies (10-15 min) that did have programs. Just thought I'd throw that out there. :)
@Gemstone:Ok thanks. I just really wanted to see what people's opinoins were. Our ceremony will be Christian and everyone that we know is familiar with what will be going on. The only thing that might be new to some people is the Sand Ceremony ( I don't trust myself with candles...lol) and the Officiant will expalin it as it's happening.
@SanDiegoAli:Thanks for the link. So you write the letters during the ceremony?
I think I'm going to do them as inexpensively as possible. Besides the who's who, I also wanted a space to acknowledge mine and FI's deceased grandparents. I suppose I could find some other way to honor them, but I also like having something to read before the ceremony starts, so I figured I'd just do programs.
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I have decided that I don't want programs. I don't really feel like adding that to my to-do list and people throw them away anyway. I feel like it's an unnecessary cost. Are you having them? Why or why not?