Your Service Sheets
Order of service
Most couples prepare an order of service, including at least the hymns that will be sung at the wedding. A well designed service card is also an appropriate memento for people to keep.
Many printers offer this and you may choose to get one done professionally, for example, to match your invitations. Increasingly, however, people are producing their own, or asking a friend to do it. Depending on the arrangements and choices about the wedding that you have made with the vicar, there may also be some additional prayers to be included.
Helping by example
We can normally provide you with samples of other people’s service sheets to help you make your decision. These samples are tailor made to particular churches, and to whether you have chosen two or three hymns.
When you meet the priest to talk about the service, he or she will be able to give you a sample of what others have done.
Hints and tips
- The cover normally includes your full names, and the date, time and place of the wedding service
- Hymns (and any prayers) should be printed in a standard (and therefore legible) typeface.
- Hymns and prayers normally have a straight left margin to make them easier for people to read.
- Titles and headings give the main parts of the service, and their order. These may be printed in a fancier script typeface.
- Remember that most wedding congregations include a number of elderly people among the family, whose eyesight may be poor, and that church lighting is usually less bright than the best reading conditions. If in doubt use larger print than normal.
Proof-reading
Before the service sheets are printed, please let the vicar see a proof copy. It is much easier for someone else to spot a mistake than the person who has done the work, and we know from experience exactly what needs to be on the sheet. This is as important for those being professionally printed as it is for ones that you have designed yourself.
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