Why this matters
The designs arrive already written — your names, your date, your venue,
from what the planner already knows — so the first thing you see is your card
rather than somebody else’s sample. And your day-of paper is built from the
seating chart, which means nobody types a hundred names twice.
Do this
- Choose a design
Every piece in a design is drawn from the same artwork, so an invitation and a menu from the same style match without you arranging it.
- Edit it
Click a piece of text to change the words, the size, the colour or the typeface — including the faces the artwork itself is set in, so a line you add looks like it belongs.
- Add a photograph
Drop one in, drag it where you want it, and choose whether it fills the frame or fits inside it. If it is too small to print well at that size, the editor says so before you order.
- Download the PDF
300 DPI with bleed, which is what a commercial printer asks for. The warning about text near the edge is worth heeding: printers trim slightly differently every time.
You’ll know it worked when
You have a PDF that opens at the right physical size — a 5×7 is 5.25×7.25 with its bleed.
If it doesn’t go to plan
Place cards, escort cards and table numbers come from your
seating chart, so seat people first
and they arrive already written.
More in Paper, music and gifts
- Your music — The must-plays, the do-not-plays, and a list your DJ actually reads.
- Your registry — One page for gifts, wherever they are actually sold.
- Planning from your phone — Your budget, your vendors, your music and your website — in your hand.
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