Wedding Program: Order of Ceremony

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Coordinate your program to match your invitation! If your ceremony has a lot of traditions, consider a folded option to inform your guests!
If you opt for a flat program, use both sides for the ceremony order and the wedding party.
If your ceremony is shorter, or your bridal party is small, you can incorporate more design details from your wedding invitation!
Try a folded square option with a vintage monogram for your cerermony program!
Continue your motif from the wedding invitation to the wedding program for a lovely suite!
A trifold program is great for a traditional wedding!
5×7 Folded programs are always a great choice for space and elegant accessibility.

 

All of your wedding plans and preparations culminate when you say “I do.” So, one of the most important items on your “to do” list is planning the order of ceremony itself!

You’ll want to make your ceremony a unique and meaningful joining of two lives. There are cultural traditions to observe, your faith and family heritage to honor, legal requirements to satisfy and your own personal style and values to consider.

That said there is a standard order of events in a wedding ceremony that will help you be sure that you have included everything that’s important to the two of you.

  • Prelude
  • The Procession
  • Opening Remarks or Call to Worship
  • Prayer
  • Declaration of Intent
  • Declaration of Support
  • Musical Selection
  • Reading
  • Message or Sermon
  • Music
  • The Charge to the Couple
  • The Exchange of Vows
  • The Exchange of Rings
  • The Pronouncement of Marriage
  • The Kiss
  • The Closing Remarks or Blessing
  • The Recessional

Follow this format, personalize it with the things that matter to you the most, and celebrate your union in your own unique way!

12 Tips for Writing Wedding Thank You Notes

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Pretty new copper foil and letterpress wedding invitation suite designs, available now in stores! Each suite has a matching Thank You Note!
Include your life partner’s name and your name, plus the motif that you used on your wedding invitation for a super pretty thank you note!
Custom vintage monogram are the ticket to the most classically beautiful wedding thank you note!
Pink and Blue Beach Themed Wedding Invitation, created with Shindig Paperie
New 2016 Wedding Invitation Designs, complete with matching thank you note!
We love the touch of foil in the motif on this letterpress wedding thank you note! So
Die-cut Thank you notes for Happy Newly Wed Couples. Available for purchase now on www.pagestationery.com! Mr and Mrs, Mrs and Mrs, and Mr and Mr styles all available!

Your nearest and dearest showered you with love and celebration, and most likely a few gifts. Here are some tips for writing thank you notes equal to the generosity of your friends and family:

  1. Write your note promptly (within three months of receipt of the gift.) Expressing the emotion you felt when you received the gift will be easier if you write a thank you soon after opening it.
  2. Write from the heart, as though you were speaking to the giver in person.
  3. A thank you note should always be hand written. Show off your newlywed name or your new monogram with beautiful personal stationery.
  4. Discipline yourself to write 3-4 notes each day. (You’ll thank us for this tip later. We promise.)
  5. Share the responsibility of writing the notes with your new spouse. And, whether you or your spouse wrote the note, sign both of your names to a note as a couple.
  6. Save the updated guest list from the wedding, with the correct addresses! This will be terrific for your holiday card list later!
  7. Refer to the giver and the gift. Erica and I are looking forward to your next visit when we can make pancakes for you on our new griddle.
  8. Describe how you will use the gift. Seth and I are saving for a new home and thanks to you, we’ll be shopping for our dream house very soon.
  9. Mention what you like best about the gift. The down comforter set is incredibly comfortable and stylish!
  10. Always write “thank you,” and avoid “I want to thank you.” Thank you so much for the sterling silver platter.
  11. Begin a sentence with the word “you;” and not the word “I.” You have made our set of crystal wine goblets complete!
  12. Tell a story or paint a picture. Imagine how beautiful the asparagus looked on your silver platter at Philip’s birthday dinner last week.

Need to order your custom thank you notes or wedding invitations? Find a retail partner near you! Looking for a quick thank you note? Peruse our online Boxed Stationery Collection!

 

4 Style Tips for 2016 Wedding Invitations

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We just can’t believe that it’s September! Congratulations to the happy couples who were married in August! Looking back on a few of our favorite wedding invitations, there was so much love – and style, thanks to our amazing retail partners! A few cool trends we noticed in these wedding invitations:

  1. Think Pink! Pink is a popular and fun accent color for wedding invitations! Pair a peachy shade with ocean blue for a playful vibe, or try bright fuschia and black for a really modern take. OR go for the gold and choose gold foil wedding invitations with an accent of a custom pink edge paint! We absolutely love the endless combinations you can make with the happy color pink!
  2. A Touch of Shimmer. Shimmer backers or envelope liners add real glamor to any wedding invitation – whether they’re letterpress, foil or digitally printed!
  3. Monogram Magic. Personalize your wedding invitations with a monogram of you and your partners initials, because: a.) you’re joining your lives and a monogram is the perfect symbol of your union and, b.) monograms are just plain awesome. Go for a minimally chic block monogram OR really play up the romance with an ornate, vintage monogram!
  4.  Refined Blind Impression. Blind impressions are so beautiful on letterpress wedding invitations — especially as chic wood grain pattern for a rustic yet refined wedding.
Pink and Blue Beach Themed Wedding Invitation, created with Shindig Paperie
Chic summer soiree! Wedding Invitation created with If It’s Paper!
Letterpress gold ink paired with a golf leaf backer – for the most elegant wedding. Add a monogram and your set to impress!
Try a deckle edge letterpress wedding invitation for an extra touch of romance!
Traditionally beautiful vintage monogram is made even more regal on a square wedding invitation!
Silver Letterpress ink with silver backers make for the most stunning wedding invitaiton!
Really go for the gold, with gorgeous gold foil and custom pink edge paint, this wedding invitation sets a fun tone!
Gold foil + pink edge paint are a slam dunk combination for this gorgeous wedding invitation!
Chose a letterpress ink color that speaks to you! Ocean ink is a pretty surprise on a wedding invitation.
A refined Blind impression of wood grain is so sophisticated on this letterpress wedding invitation!

Thank you to our talented + creative retail partners:

  • Pink + Blue Beach Wedding Invitations created with Shindig Paperie
  • Fuschia + Black Modern Wedding Invitations created with If It’s Paper
  • Gold Foil Wedding Invitation with custom pink edge paint created with Letter Perfect
  • Romantic Deckle Edge Wedding Invitation, with Quartz Envelope Liner created with Rugg Road Paper
  • Stunning Silver Letterpress Wedding Invitation with Silver Backer created with Innovative Invitations
  • Gold Letterpress Invitation with Gold Leaf Backer and modern monogram created with Terra Rosa
  • Letterpress Vintage Monogram Wedding Invitation created with All She Wrote
  • Modern Letterpress Wedding Invitations with blind wood grain impression created with Etcetera
  • Pretty Ocean Blue Letterpress Square Wedding Invitation created with Tabula Rasa

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7 Wedding Party Gifts That They’ll Love

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Wedding Party Gifts are such a wonderful way to thank your bridal party for all their hard work and help on your wedding day! When looking for a gift, they’ll love any thing that’s sincere, fun, and functional. Here are a few ideas that we’ve rounded up for easy gift giving.

Thoughtful Gifts for Bridesmaids:

Say merci beaucoup! Thank you notes have never been so posh.
Great bridesmaid gift for the friend who sketches or writes!
Choose a style and personalize it to fit each bridesmaid for the perfect bridal party gift!
Give your bridesmaid who likes to host dinner parties some cute letterpress coasters with Pink Palm Tree notes! Don’t forget a nice bottle of wine!

Cool Gifts for Groomsmen:

Choose a motif that fits your groomsman’s interests — then personalize the stationery with their name or monogram!
Your groomsmen will love a clever set of letterpress coasters from The Art of Manliness Collection!
If your groomsman is a businessman, personalized stationery always comes in handy for correspondence.
Get an assorted pack or a single motif of The Art of Manliness boxed notes for the outdoorsy groomsman.

Don’t Forget the Final Touch! Choose from our playful pattern gift wrap to complete your Wedding Party presents!

All Occasion Pattern Gift Wrap

Pattern Gift Wrap for Your Wedding Party Presents!

Back To School Sale! 10% Off Custom Stationery!

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With summer fading away, it’s time to do some Back-to-School shopping! We’re offering 10% Off All Custom Stationery all month! Shop our designs and create your own notes:

Use promo code BACKTOSCHOOL to receive the discount! Offer expires Labor Day, September 5th, 2016.

Need help designing your stationery? View this simple guide!

Save 10% Off Custom Stationery for Back To School! Use promo code BACKTOSCHOOL to redeem! Offer valid until September 5. 2016.
Use the BACKTOSCHOOL promo on any custom stationery order — even gifts for Baby Showers of Bridal Showers! Give custom stationery to the bride or expecting parents! Also great bridal party gifts!
Fresh + bohemian chevron stationery is the perfect college student send off gift!
A wood-grain pattern stationery is manly enough for the University bound student.
Customize the stationery with their name, monogram, font choice, font color, and back pattern!
Cool trains or airplanes are always a big hit for custom stationery for boys!

 

5 Helpful Hints for Smart + Stylish Wedding Accessories

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Fall Wedding season is just around the corner! Here are 5 helpful hints to planning and designing wedding day-of paper:

  1. Coordinate – Keep your wedding accessory colors, fonts, and motifs consistent with your wedding invitation suite. Your guests will enjoy all the details and time you put into coordinating your pieces!
  2. Function + Form – Folded or flat, square or long and skinny — Be open with your stationer about wedding accessory formats that you do like, but be flexible! Don’t forget the purpose of wedding accessories is to inform your guests. If a size or format does not fit all of your text, making the text too small will make it hard for your guests to read. If you’re running out of space for your text on, say a program or itinerary, try a folded option. Also, editing the text is a great way to make your wedding accessories more legible without compromising your design.
  3. Paper Choices – For letterpress, we offer white and soft white stock options. In digitally printed options, we offer a selection of white, soft white, shimmer, and a new diamond shimmer. We also offer navy, urban gray, and black paper with white digitally printed ink. Consider mixing it up for your wedding accessories to really make a statement!
  4. Finishing Details – Fun details like rounded or inverted corners, shimmer backers, and custom edge paint add personality to any day-of wedding paper. We offer hole punching for favor tags or programs so you can easily tie them with ribbon. We also offer variable printing for guests names and table numbers on digital escort cards, place cards, and menus!
  5. Custom Monograms – Consider two different monograms for an extra special touch:
    • Monogram 1 – just you and your fiancee’s first name initials – to be printed on items that will be used before the wedding – ie Weekend Itinerary, Welcome Card + Favor Tags etc
    • Monogram 2 – a variation of monogram 1, with your newly married last name initial introduced! This is a great monogram to use on the Ceremony Program, Reception Menus, Escort Cards, and table numbers! Plus you can purchase your monogram to personalize other items like embroidered towels, or use it to make a monogram door decorator.
Continue your wedding theme! Use colors + fonts from your invitation on your wedding accessories.
Consider the function of the accessories, and what format would work best for the text. This couple chose a letterpress ceremony program with a digitally printed text weight insert.
Paper Choices are really key in creating unique day-of wedding accessories.
Finishing Details like rounded corners or edge paint are an extra special touch.
Favor tags are a great touch for a welcome bag. Order tags with the hole already punched for quick assembly!
Letterpress Menu with matching escort cards.
Digital Menu on Navy stock with white ink + coordinating escort cards.

 

Get free checklist of Day-Of Wedding Stationery here! Need to make an appointment for Wedding Stationery? Find a store near you!

3 Tips to Writing Post Interview Thank You Notes

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In the job hunting process, it is critical to follow a job interview with a Thank You Note. Taking the time to write a thoughtful, signed and mailed thank you note leaves a lasting impression.

So, what do you write in the post interview thank you note? There are three simple things that you need to include:

  1. Firstly, you must thank the interviewer for taking the time to meet with you. Thanking them for the opportunity to learn more about the job and company is ESSENTIAL.
  2. In the discussion during the interview, you inevitably learned something. Outline something you learned or something you found interesting in the conversation with the interviewer. This will jog the interviewers memory about your interaction, and will show off your great listening skills.
  3. Voice your interest in the position again! Mentioning how your strengths would contribute to the growth of the company is always a good strategy, but also don’t forget to re-iterate your DRIVE for the job. Why do you want the job? Think about the team you would be working with, the Company mission statement, or the position responsibilities that get you excited about the job and express that in your thank you note. David Frost said, “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

Hiring managers are extremely busy, so the thank you note can serve as a physical reminder of your connection at the interview. Let your Stationery say something about your personal style – in a subtle way. Personal Stationery shows a level of sophistication and dedication to the handwritten note. It makes a statement on its own. Shop Women’s Custom Stationery | Shop Men’s Custom Stationery

A brightly colored back pattern says “I’m happy and confident.” Don’t be afraid to show some personality in your post-interview thank you note!
Stationery printed with a back pattern map are a smart post-interview thank you note.
This particular design comes from our Custom Kids Stationery line, but is a beautiful design for all ages!
We love this touch of color on the monogram combined with a classic black and white herringbone in this smart personalized stationery,
Try two different styles, so you can mix your notes up according to who you are writing.
Conservative colors with a minimalist type face makes for a smart post-interview thank you note.
Show your school spiriti on your custom stationery — or just choose contrasting colors for a pop! Interviewers will be awed by your sense of style.
Outdoorsy motifs and back patterns are handsomely classic on personalized men’s stationery.

 

Here are a few more helpful articles on the subject of post-interview thank you notes  –
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/02/22/send-the-perfect-post-interview-thank-you-note/#74aabd485a3a
http://www.fastcompany.com/3047121/know-it-all/the-right-way-to-say-thanks-after-an-interview
http://www.fastcompany.com/3057431/hit-the-ground-running/heres-what-to-write-in-your-thank-you-note-after-a-job-interview