Wedding Program Wording

I am sure all of us will agree that for a wedding to proceed smoothly, you ought to have impeccable planning and detailed organization. Most of us cannot afford the luxury of hiring wedding planners to do everything for us. We greatly have to rely upon a team of trusted friends and family to ensure everything goes as per planning. We take great pains to choose the venue, menu and the decoration for the wedding day. We also pay a great deal of attention to wedding invitation cards and come up with creative wording for wedding invitations. However, what often slips our minds is designing a wedding program. A wedding program is an effective way of acquainting your guests to the theme and proceedings of your wedding. In this article, we have listed a few wedding program wording ideas along with a template of wording for wedding programs.

Wedding Program Wording Ideas

The purpose of wedding program idea is to notify the guests regarding the schedule of the wedding ceremony. It also introduces them to the wedding party. The cover of program includes full names of bride, groom, location and date of wedding. The order of events is to be listed on the left of the program while the names of the wedding party should be printed on the right. Usually, you include the events, wedding party, names of musicians and sacred messages in the wedding program. You can keep it small and informal with lots of personal messages and quotes special to couple.

Some people even make them into a mini-brochures with photographs, memories and messages about the couple. Although, such programs indeed make good items for keepsake, they are appropriate for formal and lavish weddings. Unlike wording for wedding reception invitations, you need not have to be formal while composing a wedding program wording. You can use some really funny wedding invitation wording for your program.

If you are planning to have a really small wedding ceremony with few programs, you may not even need a wedding program. Nonetheless, it is always better to have one, since it will relieve the members of your wedding party from introducing themselves again and again. A program helps the guests to relate with your wedding in a better way.

Wedding Program Template

There are no etiquette as such, while designing a wedding program. Yet, we follow certain guidelines to ensure proper wording for wedding programs.

Cover Page
Descriptive Phrase
Bride's Name
Day and Date
Time
Ceremony Location
City and State

Left Side of Inside Page
Program Title
Order of Service

Right Side of the Inner Page
Acknowledgment of Participants
Messages and Notations

Sample Wedding Program Wording

The Wedding Ceremony of Chloe Ann Wilson and Mark William Roberts
Saturday, July 5th 2009
4.30 p.m
St. Mary's Church
Memphis, Tennessee

Order of Events
The Wedding Ceremony
Processional Jesu of Mans Desiring, Beethoven
Declaration of Intention
Nuptial Prayer
Exchange of Vows
Blessing and Exchange of Rings
Pronouncement of Marriage
Salutation
Presentation of Couple
Recessional Minuet in G, Chopin

The Wedding Party
Officiant: Rev. Fredrick Reynold's

Parents:

• Mrs. Joan Wilson
• Mr. John Wilson
• Mrs. Martha Roberts
• Mr. William Roberts

Maid of Honor: Laura McDermott

Best Man: Robert Emanuel

Groomsmen:

• Mr. Joe Collingwood
• Mr. Jamie Carter

Flower Girl: Miss Jessica Turner

Ring Bearer: Mr. Matthew Clark

Ushers:

• Mr. Tom Barlow
• Mr. Harry Witherspoon

Organist: Mrs. Jennie Brown

Harpist: Charlie Hopkins

You can find several printable formats for wedding program wording on websites dealing in wedding invitations. You can take a clue from them and create your own wedding program. If you have all the events planned, then designing a program shouldn't be a complicated task for you.