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Super awesome, brightly colored, interactive program wheels

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Elizabeth Jancewicz keeps supplying us with super colorful and creative wedding ideas. Here’s another one to compete with her rainbow communion bread and origami candy boxes — colorful interactive program wheels. She was also kind enough to give us the low-down on how these babies were made.

Elizabeth Jancewicz keeps supplying us with both colorful and creative wedding ideas. Here’s another one that’s gonna inspire you and your eyeballs.

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My husband and I hand-made all our programs and I’m super excited about them. And so ladies (and some gentlemen) I present you with our super awesome, ultimate, colourful interactive programs:

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So how about some more pictures and a little explanation of how we made them?

program wheels MG 3604Here’s my beautiful future husband, showing them off. We put them together so that no two programs match in colour schemes.

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So what we did with these programs is, of course, have our names and wedding date on the very front, and then the wheel tells who all is in the wedding; turn the wheel towards “Ordained Minister” and the window shows “Jimmy ‘Yes, he went to seminary’ Dutton.” We gave everyone in the wedding awesome inside joke nicknames. We had a blast coming up with all of them, and I’m guessing lots of guests will enjoy going through them (though especially those actually in the wedding).

Then on the back we printed up pockets with the actual “Schedule of Festivities.”

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Then inside each pocket is a square sheet of paper, instructing our guests to use the blank side to write us a message, and we’ll use that in place of a guestbook! Not bad, hmm? To be honest, I am very proud.

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To make our programs I designed this top wheel with a window in it.

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I also designed this slightly larger wheel. They’ll connect in the middle with a brad, and guests will then get to turn the wheel to see who will be our flower girls, etc.

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After we attach the wheels, we glued this pocket to the back of the whole thing, with the actual schedule of the ceremony.

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Then, we stuffed one of these square slips of paper into that pocket (two printed on a page).

I printed out enough to make about 200 of these in bright colourful paper, and then my family and I all sat around one evening watching The Lion King (awesome movie, am I right?!) and cut them out.

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27 responses to “Super awesome, brightly colored, interactive program wheels”

  1. donteatmenooo Avatar
    donteatmenooo

    What a really wonderful idea! Fun, and they give all the information AND help with the guest book! Perfect!

  2. Vinita Avatar
    Vinita

    Those are amazing 🙂

  3. Laura Avatar

    Wow! They are so cool! I bet your guests loved them. I certainly do! Nice job! Very creative!

  4. Bryna Bagley Avatar
    Bryna Bagley

    i LOVE these! would you mind if i used the idea for my programs? I’m having my ceremony in a movie theater and i could make those into a movie reel! love these!! =]

    1. Elizabeth Avatar

      Of course! Please feel free. We already had another friend use the idea for her business cards! http://astronauthead.tumblr.com/post/10526700478/my-first-small-creative-project-post-moving-to

  5. Cassie Avatar
    Cassie

    These are SO great! I think they’d really make the guests feel like they know more about the bridal party too (and therefore the couple/wedding). Thank you for sharing!

  6. Jessica Avatar
    Jessica

    love-love-love…
    I may also ‘borrow’ this idea for my programs… Shocked and amazed by it!!!

  7. Rachel Avatar
    Rachel

    This is so awesome!!! I just might have to do this!!!

  8. Alayna Avatar

    These are absolutely amazing! I may have to “borrow” this idea for my own ceremony. Inspiring!

  9. Leah Avatar

    Is it okay if I use these as inspiration for our programs too???

    1. Elizabeth Avatar

      Please feel free, I’m glad I could inspire you!

  10. Alayna Avatar

    Thank you! 🙂

  11. Jada Avatar
    Jada

    Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I am going to try this. We are getting married in Vegas and these would be super cute as poker chips!

  12. Chloe Avatar
    Chloe

    Thanks for such a great idea! I think we may borrow this idea as well for our wedding in a few months. Thank you!

  13. Brittany Avatar
    Brittany

    This is amazing! I’m just wondering what program you used to make them?

    1. Elizabeth Avatar

      Program? I didn’t use any program.

  14. Chloe Avatar
    Chloe

    @Elizabeth, did you draw a master copy and then copy/print onto different colored paper? That’s what the process looks like to me. You have great handwriting!

    1. Elizabeth Avatar

      Yes, that’s exactly what I did. And thank you!

  15. Amy Beckley Avatar
    Amy Beckley

    By any chance since you’re letting people use this isea- do you have a template?

    =)

  16. Sassy Avatar
    Sassy

    thank you for sharing, I plan to make wheel invitations for my sons 2nd birthday party. He loves cars, but really just anything that has wheels or moves in a circular motion i.e. helicopters, bikes…been looking for a unique invitation idea that I could make myself

  17. regina Avatar
    regina

    how did you cut the circles perfectly?

  18. Corinne Avatar
    Corinne

    These are AMAZING! Thank you for sharing! 🙂

  19. raraluvseric Avatar
    raraluvseric

    These are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.

  20. Maggie Avatar
    Maggie

    These are amazing !!! I think we have finally found our program inspiration. ( bonus, they remind me a little of the hilarious “Things to do instead of doing It” wheels that were used for sex ed that my friends and I always got a good laugh out of. Though I bet your wedding programs are a lot more useful.)

  21. Susanne Avatar
    Susanne

    These are absolutely fabulous. Do you mind if I use them as well? I think our guests would really get a kick out of this if we themed them just right!

  22. Cassi Avatar
    Cassi

    I’m curious about how you designed these. Did you draw everything by hand or do it on the computer? I’m very interested in using this for my wedding in May! 🙂

  23. elizabeth dyer Avatar
    elizabeth dyer

    good morning!
    these are so festive!!
    would you mind sharing the type of paper you used? i would love to replicate these for my daughter’s wedding but don’t want to use flimsy paper.
    thanks so much for sharing your creativity.
    liz

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