Publisher is my friend, Part II

Last time I shared with you how I designed my wedding programs in my post "Publisher is my friend." Mr. Onion and I were very busy bees over the weekend printing, cutting and folding our wedding programs and menus.

I wanted to share pictures of the final product before we leave for Vermont tomorrow! The program is printed off center to the pattern (that appeared in our invitations) shows on the right when it's closed, then when you open the program the design element is still there. I present to you our finished wedding program:


Cover

The monogram on the cover is from Creative Montage -- such a great deal -- 5 monograms for $15! You can use them for any of your DIY printing projects or provide them to whoever is designing your printed materials. It just "dressed" everything up.


Inside Spread

Inside Left

Inside Right

Back

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One of my bridesmaids came over last night to see my dress (oh yeah, I picked up my dress yesterday and Mr. Onion is being SOOO good and not looking). Anyway, I showed her the program and she said "who made these?" I proudly said "I did!" She was so impressed. And if SHE thought they were professional, everyone else will too :) Score!

Publisher is my friend

Microsoft Publisher is my new friend! I designed our wedding menus using publisher and, with a little help from Mr. Onion for the text box layout, I just finished the design of our wedding program (and the crowd goes wild)! Ok, so I'm a little more excited about having one more thing checked off than you are, but thought I'd share my joy with you anyway.

I only did a test print which is not on our lovely card stock yet because I need to wait to hear back from our minister to finalize the order/details of the ceremony and we haven't picked a recessional song yet -- also waiting to hear back from our guitarist, Brenden Burns on that. Here are some pictures of the test print (I've blurred out personal information for every one's privacy):







Click any of the images to see them larger. It is offset so when you fold it over the left is shorter than the right and our brocade patter that appeared on the save-the-dates, invitations, thank you notes, table numbers and OOT welcome booklet will be peaking out. I couldn't make it print flush so we'll just have to trim the excess white off to get the look I want, but still so much better than paying someone else to design this last minute project.

On the back are the lyrics to the two songs that will be musical interludes during our ceremony so people can feel more involved. The Jack Johnson song will be played on solo guitar and not sung so I wanted people to understand why we picked it, and the other song will be sung and I wanted people to really understand how perfect the lyrics are!

I got the idea of the shorter fold from a recent issue of Brides Magazine that had some creative program ideas. I'll be sure to post pictures when the actual programs are printed.

In the mean time -- any thoughts while it's still in the "design" stage? I used the same colors and fonts as I used on the menu -- I'm all about consistency. Oh, and I got another use out of one of our great monograms that I choose from Creative Montage on the cover. Hooray for 5 monograms for $15 -- totally worth it! Thanks in advance for your feedback.