Life at the Mortis'

Well Hayley and Mark are officially on a budget diet! We've SAID we were on a budget diet for oh about a year now but this time we mean business! (I feel writing about it will make it so!) Mark and I have big plans for this upcoming year and if we ever want to be home dwellers instead of renters then major changes have to be made! And that means cutting out .... McDonald's. It's going to be hard but it must be done. :(

Not only our bank account but our waist's will thank us in the end.

Get with the program

In honor of my friend who's wedding is right around the corner, today's topic is going to be a money-saving tip for wedding programs. This would also work for any event where a program is needed.

For my wedding in Nov. 2006, I wanted these super cute programs from this really adorable (shall remain nameless) stationary shop. I was told that I could order these super cute programs a month before the wedding. (My wedding was Thanksgiving weekend) So a month before the wedding I went to order said programs. The stationary shop girl laughed at me. I was beyond unhappy.

After going home and having a 'freak-out' to my fiance, we decided to try to make programs ourself. I gathered all the information I wanted my program to include. (Attendents, music, parents, memorial to family members) I typed up all the information and then played with the fonts. I included our initials at the top of the program. We opted for our programs to be lengthwise on a normal sheet of paper. So for each piece of paper we got two programs. Our programs were front and back. On the front was the service information and on the back was all extra info.

Then once we had everything how we wanted it, we took our sample to Kinko's. At Kinko's we picked out a nice heavy paper and they printed and cut all the programs for us. The grand total was $35. This was by far the cheapest wedding purchase we made. And they were perfect. I would suggest designing and printing your own programs to all brides.