Wedding Day Stationery Advice and Tips

Wed­ding Day Sta­tionery Tips

Sum­mer is upon us and now is the time that the largest con­cen­tra­tion of wed­dings hap­pens across the year.  Get­ting wed­ding day sta­tionery spot on can be tricky: if you have a wed­ding plan­ner they will help you with your sta­tionery.  Most peo­ple don’t though and this advice arti­cle will help you decide what you need on the day.

Wed­ding sign from the Capri bespoke sta­tionery collection

Bud­get (espe­cially if tight)

If your money is tight (or even if you have plenty!) the main thing about wed­ding sta­tionery is that it per­forms a job for you and your wed­ding guests.  An afford­able alter­na­tive is per­fectly all right if it per­forms the role that is needed.  Of course wed­ding sta­tionery can have the added bonus of look­ing good and help the styling of the wedding.

Gen­eral Sta­tionery Advice

• Leave plenty of time if mak­ing your sta­tionery.  Plan to fin­ish your sta­tionery a week or so in advance.  There will be plenty of tasks to keep you busy in the final week.  If you are buy­ing your wed­ding day sta­tionery also leave your­self spare time as deliv­er­ies can be eas­ily dam­aged or missed.  Things can hap­pen that are no one’s fault like bad weather stop­ping deliv­er­ies etc.
• Signs point­ing the way to your wed­ding venue are a good idea and reas­sur­ing for your guests espe­cially if it’s a hard to find loca­tion.  These could be made your­self, but just remem­ber they may need to cope with get­ting wet.  Also get some­one to remove them after­wards, to avoid get­ting in any trou­ble with local authorities.
• Wel­come signs can be a bit of a lux­ury but iden­ti­fy­ing where your wed­ding is can be help­ful in large venues that host mul­ti­ple wed­dings.  Guests who don’t know too many other guests could spend quite a while in another wed­ding before real­is­ing they’re not in the right one.

Advice for the:

Wed­ding Ceremony

• An Order of Ser­vice for a reli­gious ser­vice could also have a pro­gram for the day inside.  Or any­thing you want, no need to just stop at the ceremony.
• If you’re look­ing to save money and your wed­ding is being held at a church you could enquire whether the church’s own hymn books etc could be used instead of pro­duc­ing your own Order of Service.
• Orders of Ser­vice are not needed at civil cer­e­monies, as they most often give guests details of hymns and read­ings.  But you could have a pro­gram giv­ing details of the cer­e­mony and day.
• Orders of Ser­vice must be approved by the per­son con­duct­ing the cer­e­mony due to copy­right issues around hymns and readings.

Order of the Day sheet giv­ing pro­gram of the day and bridal party details

Wed­ding Meal/Breakfast/Banquet

Table name from the Modeno bespoke sta­tionery collection

• Table names offer a chance to put more of your own per­son­al­i­ties into the pro­ceed­ings but num­bers are quicker to do.
• Table name/number tents are a lower pro­file choice for iden­ti­fy­ing your tables and a good choice if you don’t want your table cen­tres obscured.
• A wed­ding with assigned seat­ing means you will need some way to let guests know where to go to sit down.  This can be done with table plans, seat­ing charts or escort cards.

Can­vas table plan adapted from the Modeno bespoke sta­tionery collection

• It can be hard to change table plans or seat­ing charts if things change, for instance guests can­celling and some­one else being invited.  This can be quite likely with larger wed­dings.  Escort cards have the advan­tage that changes can be made right up until the last minute.
• Print­ing the guests’ names on place names can be a good idea.  Our place names include name print­ing as stan­dard.  Hav­ing them printed saves you lots of time neatly writ­ing the names on (and not every­one has neat hand­writ­ing!)  You shouldn’t have to order more due to mis­takes and the con­sis­tency and qual­ity is eas­ily maintained.

Place name from the Tri­este bespoke sta­tionery collection

• If you’re watch­ing your bud­get, favour tags can be a nice touch but are far from essen­tial items unless you have to warn guests about some­thing (e.g. peanut allergy if the favour is edi­ble).  Sim­i­larly sweet and dessert tables can ben­e­fit from labels or tags to iden­tify what’s on offer but if it’s obvi­ous you could get away with­out them.
• Menus can be unnec­es­sary if you’re watch­ing your bud­get unless you have a choice for your guests on the day.  How­ever it can be handy to let peo­ple know what they will be served.  If your guests made choices in advance it can be good to remind peo­ple what the food was.  You could also put their choices on some­where like the back of the place names using a code like M: Ch mean­ing Main: Chicken so guests can see what they chose.

Sheet Menu in three lan­guages from the Capri bespoke sta­tionery collection

I really hope this advice has been of some use.  If any­thing has been missed please com­ment below – as I would love to hear and be able to give bet­ter advice in future.  I have been mak­ing bespoke wed­ding invi­ta­tions and sta­tionery for 4 years.   A lot of knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence of wed­ding day sta­tionery has gone into this arti­cle but I am always learn­ing and find­ing new ways to do things.

For more wed­ding sta­tionery tips like wed­ding table name ideas and DIY sta­tionery advice visit the Artemis Sta­tionery wed­ding sta­tionery blog AS Invites.

Bespoke wed­ding sta­tionery fea­tured in this article:

• Capri bespoke sta­tionery collection
• Modeno bespoke sta­tionery collection
• Naples bespoke sta­tionery collection
• Tri­este bespoke sta­tionery collection