How Does The Wedding Chronicle™ Process Work?

As you can imagine, creating a personalized newsletter is a multi-step process. Experience shows it’s best to allow 14 to 16 weeks or more from start to finish. Here’s how it works:

First, call or write for a sample issue. If you decide Wedding Chronicles™ will enhance your special day, you might want to reserve time on the schedule to ensure your newsletter receives top priority.

As soon as we process your deposit, you will receive two copies of the Wedding Chronicles™ questionnaire — one each for the Bride and Groom. The questionnaire is available electronically, or, if you prefer via snail mail.

Do try to answer all the questions. Don’t worry about proper sentences, paragraphs, grammar or even spelling (except for proper names, of course). Just send the facts. We’ll capture the emotion and other details during follow-up telephone interviews.

As soon as we receive and process your completed questionnaire, the hard part begins — fitting all those wonderful mini-stories into your Wedding Chronicle™ and inserting graphics. In less than a month, you will receive the first draft of your Wedding Chronicle™ to review for comments, corrections, questions and suggestions, as well as general tone and style. Together the Bride, Groom and newsletter staff will select the stories that will be included in your Wedding Chronicle,™ then discuss illustrations and paper choices.

The balance of your invoice is due four weeks before the wedding. As soon as your check arrives, we’ll take the camera-ready pages to the printer, then deliver the finished newsletters to the address you provide.

How Do I Distribute Wedding Chronicles™?

Most Brides and Grooms use Wedding Chronicles™ as favors. The newlyweds arrange for the personalized newsletters to be at each place setting or station tables at the reception.

Experience shows that one newsletter per person — as opposed to one per couple — works best. It is easy to mail the personalized newsletters to folks that could not attend the ceremony. In fact, some couples, especially those that elope, use Wedding Chronicles™ in place of a formal announcement.

Brides and Grooms use the newsletters to introduce the Bride’s family to the Groom’s. Wedding Chronicles™ are a unique activity to fill the awkward moments when guests have arrived at the reception, but the Bridal Party is off at a formal photo session. After the wedding, they become treasured keepsakes.

Why Don’t You Use Pictures?

All Wedding Chronicles™ feature black and white graphics — line drawings, cartoons and silhouettes — to illustrate newsletter articles. If you simply love photographs, we recommend creating a photo collage or two of the Bride and Groom at various stages of life and pictured with many of their guests to display at the reception. Some couples work with a professional videographer to create a video collage, complete with music, that is shown at the reception.

HELPFUL HINT: To save endless repetition during the reception, and time after the ceremony, include church readings, vows, song lyrics, newlyweds’ address and phone number . . . anything guests might ask you to send them later.