Thursday, February 16, 2006

Wedding Programs, not the fan kind

We have been receiving so much traffic from the wedding fan programs that I decided to see how it goes with regular format wedding programs, and I added around 70 to the site over the past few days. I especially like the photo wedding programs and the ones tied with ribbons.

Tiffany wedding programs photo Holly wedding programs
I also got delivery of some sample wedding fan programs I ordered so I could give them out as samples. I think the mocha ink on the pink paper is lovely. I've already sent out 9 samples of the pink fan programs.

pink ceremony fan program sample

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Signature Line Personalized Post-it Notes


We have a new category of Post-it notes online, our Signature Line personalized Post-it notes. Based on customer orders and my dh's insistence, we are offering post-it notes with a two line quote or saying at the top and your name at the bottom. You could always do this with our Design Your Own Personalized section, but putting them off by themselves helps people find them and get the idea better. I have had several orders a month for these, with people putting their favorite quotations or sayings on them. You hardly get an email anymore that doesn't have a signature quote or saying attached to it. So the time is ripe. Get them while they're hot!

Monday, February 06, 2006

New Wedding Fan Programs, cont.

My dear friend Theresa, owner of www.littlebridalshop.com, scanned the fan wedding programs brochure she got Friday for me, so they are up on the site already! When I get my own brochures today, I will scan them and get better images up, though my internet is down today. (We have cable internet and both TV and internet went out this morning. They are working on it down the street. Thank heavens one of our neighbors has DSL and an unsecured wireless network within range, or I would be panicking about being offline all day.) Here is an image of the colored fans, though the green looks like yellow here, not sage, the red is too brown and the pink is too light. I need to order a set and scan them as samples for my site.

Colored fan wedding programs


Colored stock wedding fan programs in sage, pink and red.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

New Fan Wedding Programs Designs!

wedding fan program brochure
Carlson Craft just came out yesterday with a new fan wedding programs brochure, which I will have in hand on Monday after UPS gets here. So the new designs should be on my site by Monday night! I don't know any more than I can tell from the picture to the left, but that shows a shell-shaped wedding program fan, a full-color picture on a fan, and a light pink stock.

I put together my own pdf wedding fan programs brochure for these fan programs because people keep asking for a brochure on them and the Carlson Craft one (the old ones, two versions actually) do not include all available designs. I anticipate the same problem with this one, as it is the size of the other two so will not have room for all the designs. Between the brochure and free samples I will mail out, my customers should get all the info they need.

This product is really an exciting one for us as it was SOOO popular last spring, the first spring and summer it was available. We anticipate even more sales in this area this year, so we are anxious to offer everything we can. There are not many other people offering these online, although more now than last spring, and most are not discounting as much as we are. Nobody has as many options posted as we do, including all the monograms and motifs, etc. And most are charging extra for a proof (or at least a second proof), colored ink, and so on. Overall we offer the best service and options on these at the lowest price, so we are expecting a booming business in them as the wedding season progresses. We have already sent out hundreds of samples and a few orders are starting to come in.

sample fan wedding program