Are you still required to provide programs at the ceremony?

Whether you are required will depend on your Church (I think some actually do require it).

We did not have to but chose to as a lot of people who attended our ceremony were not of our faith so unfamiliar with when to stand/sit etc.

I attended 4 weddings last year and received an order of service for all but one of them. The ones that I received them were for weddings in churches, the one that I didn't receive one was for a garden wedding.

So I'd say yes, people still do use them. Whether its a requirement or not is another matter.

If you google Order of service you will find plenty of examples. Also if you're havig a church wedding the church can provide an example booklet.

We got married in 2010 and we provided one - for the same reasons as Puggie, we were having a religious service and a lot of the people we invited were not of the same faith as us and so did not know when to sit / stand / respond etc. It was an easy way of helping them through the service as well.

It is completely up to you how much you put in it, and how detailed it is.

Good luck

We got married in 2010 and we had them. We had a garden wedding, so it wasn't required but we wanted to do it. I like the idea, and I had been to a couple of weddings (both garden and church) where lots of people couldn't hear the vows etc and there were no programs so I was disappointed at not knowing what was being said (I love hearing the vows ).

In ours we had everything that was said including the thank you's and vows, as well as the order of things and the reading. Probably too much, but it is a nice keepsake for us to look back on!

Our's isn't a religious ceremony, it's a garden ceremony if the weather permits, if not it will be in the chapel. I like the idea of having the vows in writing for people to read and being able to keep them as a memento too, but i really don't want to spend alot of money on them because I don't think that many people would actually keep it?

I'll google and and see what comes up.

Thanks ladies

It's a great way to put in a personal message of thanks too - I always love reading them.

If you have a decent bubble jet printer at home, you can do it at very little cost. We had a nice cover (you could have metallic paper or even just a nice coloured paper to go with your theme), and then plain white paper in the middle with a nice print. It looked smart.

There was very little cost involved. Probably only $20 or so (we already had the printer and ink).

I adore OOS booklets and always keep them - I have quite the collection It's a perfect momento of the day. I know lots of people who collect them too...I am not the only freak

Just don't do too many if you do them - one per couple attending would be fine because I don't know many blokes who are keen on keeping them and every wedding I have ever been to that uses an OOS always has heaps leftover.

I love it when the OOS includes a list naming all the bridal party and a personal thank you from the bride and groom - so special

I agree with everything you have mentioned! We have tons left over (I can't bring myself to throw them away )

We listed the names of the bridal party too and the first page was a thank you from DH and I as well as a little "story" at the start about how we met. I pull it out quite often and have a little read

Like AnA we printed ours ourselves on the home printer, we just got some black card for the covers and holepunched with some white ribbon to tie the pages together. We had a ton of RSVP cards left over because DH ordered a few hundred The back of our RSVP cards had our names and the wedding date on them so they looked quite pretty stuck on the front of the black card and it cost us about $20 too!

So far I have found it is mostly the church weddings I have been to where they have handed out an OOS. I think it is really an individual choice whether you do it or not. We didn't, although our service was religious, there were no aspects of it where an OOS would have been useful, no hymns or sitting/standing etc. I never keep the OOS from other peoples events, just not a keepsake sort of person, so I had no real attachment to the concept of handing them out at our ceremony.

I don't think they're necessary for non-religious ceremonies, but they're great for religious ones. We are atheists having a civil ceremony, and so we will not be providing them. However, our celebrant says that she will print and bind a copy of our entire ceremony that we can leave on the guestbook table for people to flick through if they want to, which I think is a great idea.

In fact I think she even said that there will be a guest message section at the back of it, so no need for us to buy an overpriced guestbook that people might not even write in.

I love getting OOS at weddings (religious or not). They are a really special memento of the day.

I got mine printed at 0fficew0rks and from memory they weren't too expensive, and I only had about 10 left over?

We primarily wanted them because we had two chorus' (modern hymns) during the service and didn't have a projector to display the words.

We had a service in a small chapel but not really a religious one, no hyms just readings.

Our colours were red and silver and we designed them and printed them ourselves at home. Ours gave just a basic run down of who, what and when so it ace our guests an idea of who people were. Our families had never met until the big day.

The funny thing was that we went to all this effort of producing them only fr DH to leave thn sitting on he bed in our hotel room. So we included one with all the thank you cards we sent out.

I think there migh be a pic in my photos link n my sig.

Soon to be 7 year anniversary!

Pete

All good suggestion so thank you. I think i might just do a recycled paper A4 double sided sheet with the oos with a story of how we met, bridal party, parents, readings and vowels, then ill roll them up into cylenders and tie it with some black ribbon