Save the Date Cards for Your Wedding: A Six-Step Guide
Once a save the date is in the mail, you can't take back the date you printed or the guest you sent it to.
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Wedding stationery and planning guides
Guides to the paper for your wedding: what to write, when to send it, how to print it and what it costs. They cover save the dates, invitations, signs and thank-you cards, plus planning lists and games. Every guide lists its sources.
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Wedding RSVP Cards: Wording and Reply-By Dates
Every guest who doesn't reply is a seat and a meal you have to guess.
How to Print Wedding Invitations: Home, Copy Shop or Online
The invitations are written and the date is close, and the worry now is a run of fifty sheets that comes out faded, too small or crooked.
Wedding Invitations on a Budget: What 100 Really Cost
The cards look cheap until stamps, envelopes and ink land on top of them.
Wedding Menu Cards: What to Write on Them
Guests with a nut allergy, and everyone who loves food, want to know what's coming before the plates do.
Wedding Place Cards vs Escort Cards: Which You Need
Nobody wants a guest walking the room with a drink in hand, looking for a seat.
Wedding Bar Sign: Six Ideas by Bar Type
Guests want to know what they can order before they reach the bartender, and a slow, confused line is the last thing you want at cocktail hour.
Binder for Wedding Planning: Six Sections to Set Up
Wedding papers pile up fast, and the signed contract you need is never where you left it.
Wedding Details Card: What to Include
A crowded invitation is hard to read, and a bare one leaves guests texting you about hotels and parking.
Wedding Favor Tags: Seven Wording Ideas by Favor
You want every guest to know the little jar or seed packet is a thank-you from the two of you.
DIY Wedding Invitations: A Step-by-Step Guide
Making your own invitations saves money, but the fear is that they end up looking homemade or that a typo reaches 100 guests.
Wedding Table Seating Chart: How to Seat Every Guest
Seating your guests is the job most couples put off, because one forgotten name or one bad pairing is what people remember.
Save the Date vs Wedding Invitations: Do You Need Both?
Two cards, two mailings and two rounds of stamps can feel like one job too many when the list is already long.
Checklist for Planning a Wedding: Month by Month
Most couples start planning with a long list and a nagging fear of forgetting something that matters.
Wedding Budget: A Step-by-Step Guide
Most couples fear the same thing about money, that the bills will add up to more than they have and nobody will notice until it's too late.
Wedding Welcome Sign Ideas: Nine Wordings to Copy
Your welcome sign is the first thing guests read, and it has to tell them they've found the right wedding before they've even reached the door.
Ideas for the Seating Chart at Your Wedding: Eight Displays
The seating plan is done, and now it has to stand somewhere guests will actually see it while a crowd arrives at once.
Wedding Signs: 11 to Use or Skip
Signs are one more list on top of everything else, and it's easy to forget the one that stops guests wandering around looking for their table.
When to Send a Save the Date for Your Wedding
The worry is simple: send too late and the guests you most want there may already have plans.
When to Send Wedding Invitations: Local and Destination
Mail them too late and guests have made other plans, or your caterer needs a count before the replies are back.
Wedding Welcome Sign Size: Pick It by Distance
You only find out on the day whether guests can read your welcome sign from the door, when it's too late to reprint.
Wedding Officiant Script: A Full Sample in Order
When a friend asks you to officiate, the scariest part is standing up with nothing written down.
Unique Table Numbers: Nine Ideas Guests Can Read
You want table numbers that feel like the two of you, but every guest still has to find a seat without asking for help.
Wedding Invitation Wording: Seven Examples by Host
A wrong name or host line on 100 printed cards is an expensive mistake to fix.
Wedding Guest Book Alternative: Eight Ideas by Cost
A classic guest book often ends up as a list of names and little else.
Wedding Timeline: Sample Hour-by-Hour Schedule
Most couples worry that one late start on the wedding day will push everything else off schedule.
Wedding Vendor Checklist: Who to Book and When
Booking a dozen vendors means a dozen contracts, deposits and due dates, and the worry is that one payment or one booking slips through.
Wedding Day Checklist: Packing Lists and Hand-Offs
On the wedding morning, the fear is that the rings, the license or the tip envelopes are still sitting at home.
Wedding Shoe Game Questions: 42 Ideas by Kind
You get one shot at the shoe game, with every guest watching and a microphone in someone's hand.
Wedding Thank You Card Wording: Eight Examples by Gift
After the wedding, a pile of gifts and a long guest list can make every thank-you note feel like the same sentence written sixty times.
Wedding Shot List: Nine Moments Not to Miss
Most couples worry less about the pretty pictures than about the one family photo nobody remembered to take.
Wedding Reception Games: Nine Ideas by Moment
You want guests mixing and laughing, but you don't want a game to stall dinner or hold up the dance floor.