The Made in SK Wedding Show

Here’s the Cole’s notes from the video:

Our experience with our friend’s wedding:

• Destination wedding was great because it got a bunch of friends together for a week long holiday and celebration
• Turns the wedding into a week long event where no one has to worry about working
• Ceremony on the beach was beautiful
• Pictures could be held close on the beach
• Resort made a lounge available exclusively for wedding guests between ceremony and reception
• Gets everyone an extra a la carte meal during the week, which was a nice change from the buffet (although we missed the beach bbq, but that wasn’t an issue for anyone).
• The couple stayed for an extra week, which we would recommend for sure because they spent the first week visiting with everyone and trying to get everything in place for the wedding.

In Episode 3 of The Made In SK Wedding Show we talk about wedding programs.  We made our own wedding programs using Microsoft Word and just got them printed at Staples.  After each page was printed it was just a matter of folding them together, hole punching them, and binding them with some ribbon.

One idea that we stole from some friends of ours was to include a story of how we know each member of our wedding party and why we chose them to be part of our day.  It gave people something to read before the ceremony and it let people know a little bit more about who everyone was and why they were there.

We’ve uploaded a condensed sample version of our wedding program at http://www.skweddingwebsite.com/f/programideas.doc.  Feel free to download it and use it as a cheat sheet or guide.

Here’s some pictures of the finished product as well:

Some other things that you might want to include in your wedding programs include:

• Who is participating in the wedding ceremony – ushers, organist, music, readings, pastor/priest, family of the bride/groom, etc.
• Order of events
• Thank you messages
• Readings
• Poems
• Note when/if flash photography or any photography is allowed

What are we missing?  What did you do or are thinking about doing for your wedding programs?