One of the biggest items that I was SO excited to check off our list was the ceremony programs. Originally I figured we did not need a program. We could save time, money and effort by just skipping them all together. Then I realized we had a pretty sizable contingent of non-Catholics who would be attending. It would only be polite to include some kind of instruction for all of the standing, sitting and kneeling.
Mr. Aardvark and I used the ceremony planning worksheet our priest gave us to come up with the content. a bit of fiddling around and we figured out how to print half sheets front to back. After a quick trip to Staples, the easy part was done. We had 100 copies of our 7 page (half page) programs. Being the crazy person I am, I decided these would be SO much cuter if we used the same corner punch we did for the invitations... I now realize that meant 2,800 corners to punch....The result of which was:
This was about 1/3 of the confetti we made. After all of the corners were prettied up we punched holes in the sides for binding. Honestly, after the all of this punching I was feeling the March madness, and it had nothing to do with basketball!
Mr. Aardvark stepped in right when I thought I was going to go bonkers if I had to punch one more hole in anything. If it hadn't been for him intervening the programs would be in a crumpled (possibly burned) mess and the hole punch would be buried deep it the woods somewhere.
There are so many cool ways to bind programs, but by the time we were ready for that, I was ready to be done. We figured a simple bow would be cute, easy and fast. We were right. With Mr. Aardvark cutting and me tying, we were done in no time.
I was so glad to cross these off our to-do list. I was also really happy to see our wedding colors in action again! Yay color!
Are you doing programs? Was it a project you dreaded? How excited were you to get done?
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