Get your programs!

I took it upon myself to also create our programs. To create the "guts" of the program, I opted to use Adobe InDesign with the same fonts that have been consistent with all of our wedding things. I waited to complete these until the week before the wedding, after we had the coordinators review it and the Priest as well.

For the cover, we used black 8.5x11 cardstock that I folded with the bone folder in half.
To spruce it up a bit, I created a white sheet, about half the size, and put our information on the front and our monogram on the back.

I purchased a long stapler from Office Depot for $20 and Mr. H set out to help me create 150 of these babies. I'm not much of a ribbon person, so I opted to go with the stapling route.
About 20 programs into the job, Mr. H realized that I suck at stapling, so I was left to fold everything while he stapled them together.

Talk about a time consuming and tedious job! I'm so happy that we did them though; they are exactly what I wanted. Since the cover paper and the "guts" were all the same size, some of the white pages stuck out. Since I happen to work for a printing company, they let me bring them in and they cut them all to be exactly the same size!

Did anyone else find the programs to be as much, if not a bigger pain, then putting together the invitations?!?