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New Introductions
to our Blank
Wedding Programs
Up until recently, we
have simply resold
blank wedding programs that have been printed by
commercial printers. We must confess, we felt that there might
be room for some improvement in the available designs, as lovely as
most of them are. The first area of improvement is the weight
of the programs, many of which were used for covers, and the second
area is the designs themselves.
Most of the covers we've
seen and are still selling weigh between 24 lbs. and 28 lbs. at
most, and we felt that they should be a little more substantial at
32 lbs, particularly if the bride is planning to punch two holes at
the center and thread ribbon through. We didn't want anything
heavier than that because most covers are booklet style and will
have to be bent in the middle.
In addition, wedding
programs are usually stacked together and placed at or near the
entrance to the church, and if the paper were too thick there would
be difficulty making a neat stack, especially if there were a large
number of programs.
The next area we felt
could improve were the designs of the covers themselves. We've
seen some lovely covers, but they didn't seem to take into account
the colors of a wedding, or the theme of a wedding if there was one.
Some of the loveliest had religious sayings on the front, which
excluded those who might be of another religion than Christian, or
who were planning a civil ceremony.
We have never done
commercial printing at ThinkWedding, so before we could implement
our ideas there was the issue of equipment, expertise, and supply.
We spent some time locating two suppliers of the covers we wanted,
at the price we knew we had to have if we were to keep our covers
reasonable. Then we had to locate the printing equipment that
would accurately print the colors we wanted, as fast as we needed,
and again at the price that would keep us competitive.
Then, we had to develop
the designs, and learn to run the printing equipment so that it
would produce the high quality we knew we had to have to sell the
blank wedding programs to our brides. Well, it took us a year,
but we now have some initial designs, and we have acquired the
equipment, expertise, and suppliers--and we're ready to go! We
were a little amazed at the response, though. We haven't had
our line of blank wedding programs on our website for more than
about a week, and we've already had several orders for them, so we
believe that we're on the right track.
Here are are very first
designs. All are 8.5" x 11" bifolds; the design is on the
front cover. We would certainly welcome your opinion; we're
new to this. More information about these designs are
available on our page
here.
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Pink Rose Border |
Pink Calla Lilies |
Lavender Roses |
Lavender, Blue or
Pink Lace Border |
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Periwinkle Roses |
Blue Flower Border |
We're particularly proud
of our lavender roses and periwinkle roses programs. We had a
great deal of difficulty getting the colors right. Periwinkle
is a popular color for weddings, but there doesn't seem to be much
out there in the way of stationery, programs or wrappers in that
color.
We have a number of other
designs in the works right now, including beach theme and western
theme programs, as well as religious themes, and we expect to have
them up on our website by next Monday, March 21st.
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