March 2012 Weddings

Programs - part 2

So, all this program talk made me wonder - how many programs will you make? One for every adult guest, one per family, or what? Our guest list is almost 200. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Re: Programs - part 2

  • Lisa - No. A lot of people skip the ideas of programs. It's actually pretty common to go to a wedding without one. If you don't care to have them I wouldn't do it if I were you.


    I ordered enough paper to make about 175-ish programs. It's pre-perferated "fans." We invited almost 500 people, but it's a DW so we're not expecting anymore than about 250-300.
  • OK, TK needs to fix this board... FAST!  It's so hard to read a post in reverse!

    We are not doing programs because our ceremony is very simple and short (without any songs so people don't need lyrics) and our wedding party is tiny and we're only having about 10 guests so I don't really need to introduce my wedding party or anything.  

    And I'd say you don't really need them.  50% of the weddings I've attended in the past year didn't have them (keeping in mind I went to about 20 weddings this last year!).
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  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_march-2012-weddings_programs-part-2?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:955e4823-0be1-44ef-9ee7-99a63794e103Discussion:70ddef20-373d-499a-8176-2be6d3ccf547Post:094c337a-ac6b-4da5-9db3-50f2214b5448">Re: Programs - part 2</a>:
    [QUOTE]Lisa - No. A lot of people skip the ideas of programs. It's actually pretty common to go to a wedding without one. If you don't care to have them I wouldn't do it if I were you. I ordered enough paper to make about 175-ish programs. It's pre-perferated "fans." We invited almost 500 people, but it's a DW so we're not expecting anymore than about 250-300.
    Posted by kamarks08[/QUOTE]

    Where did you get the pre-perferated fans?!
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    [QUOTE]<strong>OK, TK needs to fix this board... FAST!  It's so hard to read a post in reverse</strong>! We are not doing programs because our ceremony is very simple and short (without any songs so people don't need lyrics) and our wedding party is tiny and we're only having about 10 guests so I don't really need to introduce my wedding party or anything.   And I'd say you don't really need them.  50% of the weddings I've attended in the past year didn't have them (keeping in mind I went to about 20 weddings this last year!).
    Posted by JCWhitey[/QUOTE]

    <div>THIS!! I'm not even sure what the original question was here. The number of programs> I'm planning to put them on the chairs so we'll probably have one per guest.</div>
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  • I'm considering it one for every person. Better to have too many than not enough...sometimes the men like to keep themselves busy by flipping through them. However If I was expecting 200 people  I think we said we'd only make like 175 or around there.

  • I really never even thought about programs...is it super bad not to have them? I don't really have a wedding party...just a BM and MOH...
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  • I was only thinking around 50 for my guests...We have around 200 people, but like, at LEAST 100 are kids. (Yikes, I know!) Besides, mine are plain ol' boring programs, so I don't think anyone will really be missing out lol!
  • Lisa, don't worry. To be honest, most weddings I've been to, even the classiest nicest of ceremonies, didn't have programs. I've only seen them done a couple of times. I just wanted to do them. If I can't find a relatively cheap and simple, yet pretty way to do them, I may end up backing out. We'll see.. :)
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