Tips & Ideas When Making An Order Of Service

Making an Order of Service, is a very easily achieved. It does play a very important part of you day. Most traditional Church Weddings will normally need some structure, to help your guests organise themselves throughout the service. An order of service, contains vital information, including; hymns, prayers, when to stand, and when to sit, etc. So when making yours, you really do need to plan this carefully.

Here are some tips and techniques, when making an Order of Service;

1) You need to gather as much information about the ceremony,
2) Work out the best way to make your booklet. It might be worth, asking your priest or vicar, if they have examples of order of servie for previous weddings held in your church. This will give you a good idea of the how the ceremony will run.
3) Decide how many you will need to make, you can either allow 1 per guest, or 1 per couple. Depending on your budget of course.
4) Type a rough plan of the order of service, and run it by your viar/priest, to check that the order is correct.
5) Decide if you want to add further information, you can add family member names, bridesmaids and pageboys etc..Or you may want to say a special thanks to guests for their attendance.
6) When printing, you need to decide if you want to use coordinating printables, or whether you are going to embark on the layout youself.
7) You can achieve great result, by using our Free Template, to help with you layout.
8) We advise on using a nice substantial weight card, between 250gsm-300gsm. This will be much nicer to work with and will look much more professional.
9) The most popular size of card used for an order of service, is A4 folded to A5.