A great way to make use of your favorite wedding photograph is with your annual holiday greeting card. It’s a sensible way to capture the thrill of your wedding day and share those experiences again with your family and friends. It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate photograph to celebrate your first year as a couple.
Newly married couples have found that their favorite wedding photograph performs double-duty when printed digitally on a holiday greeting card or attached to a photo card with an eye-catching border to showcase your photo.
If your wedding photo has been taken with a professional photographer, you will probably need to get permission from your photographer to reproduce the image digitally on a photo card. Alternatively, have your photos commercially developed and mount them on holiday photo greeting cards using adhesive tape that’s usually already placed on the photo card.
While it’s definitely more convenient to print your holiday card digitally, the print resolution of commercially produced photos is normally far superior. If you plan to use a photomount holiday cards, 4”x 6” photographs usually work best. Most photo cards are made to accept pictures in both a vertical or landscape orientation.
Potential buyers have the choice of selecting a greeting from several recommended by the printing company. With a lot of the better known printing firms, you may even supply your own personal customized greeting. When adding your names, it’s always customary for the woman’s name to go first. In the case of a wedding photograph, it’s considered proper to include the date of the wedding.
If you are planning to use your wedding photograph this Christmas season, there are quite a few design and printing companies you may want to take into account. Definitely, Crane & Co. and William Arthur offer both photomount and digitally printed photo cards and also the Stationers Guild affiliate program with Printswell offers some economical alternatives to imprint your wedding holiday photo card.
Sheila May is the owner of Therese Saint Clair and writes frequently about wedding invitations and holiday photo cards.
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