Program Help??

maryemoo

Do you need to have a program? What exactly do you put on it? Who do you have hand it out, ushers?

katieg520

No, you don't need a program. I am still debating on whether or not I will have one.

I think what usually goes on them is: Bridal party, order of ceremony and who is officiating.

You can have ushers hand them out or have them on the seats prior to people arriving.

manateehugger

No, you don't have to have programs. I personally like them, however, if you're having a unique or church wedding (e.g. Catholic wedding but 90% of your guests are Baptist) where some explanation is helpful/interests. 

Typically a program lists the members of the wedding party and the order of events (Seating of the grandparents, seating of the mothers, processional, entrance of the bride, opening prayer, etc) and the songs or whatever during those events. You can google up tons of templates. There's also usually a small thank you note and/or in memoriam note. 

You don't really need anyone to pass them out (please don't make this a job for anyone), just place them on seats or have them in a basket next to where people walk in. 

Jen4948

Wedding programs aren't necessary, but they can be useful in the following situations:

1) You have deceased loved ones you wish to remember
2) The ceremony is not "mainstream" (that is, there will be rituals and traditions observed that a significant percentage of the guests will not be familiar with)
3) Any part of the ceremony is in a foreign language (translations are provided in a program)

southernbelle0915

We had programs and it's one of my favorite "memory pieces" from the wedding now that it's all over. 

We had the introduction page "welcome to the wedding of...", a poem that meant a lot to us, the order of the ceremony, the names of people involved (yes, we included our ushers) and family, our readings (we printed them so people could follow along if they wanted to), and on the back page a "thanks for coming/celebrating" message.

We used these (link) from Michael's and printed them ourselves. We swapped out the ribbon with one that matched our wedding colors (navy). 

Iloveshanej

We're not having them because our ceremony is outside and it is pretty short and laid back. We will announce everyone as they enter the reception which is on site.