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Summer is all about relaxation and getting away from the stresses of the real world, so of course it’s a popular time for couples to gather friends and family to watch them tie the knot. As you start planning your big day, prepare for your vision boards to be flooded with potential wedding colors and fabric swatches. One thing you’ll have no trouble sourcing is the perfect wedding day stationery. These summer wedding programs have been hand-picked to showcase the best aspects of the season so you can welcome guests to your ceremony with a program that’s perfectly on brand.
1. Delightful Wreath
The artful arrangement of leaves and flowers that gives Delightful Wreath its vintage charm could technically work for a wedding in any season, but the hints of pink and yellow are especially pretty for summertime I dos. The watercolor splash making up the program’s background only adds to the whimsy, creating stationery that will look just as good tucked into an envelope as it will framed and displayed on your living room wall for years to come.
2. Boho Blooms
Marry your love of the ’70s and a desire for a summer wedding, and you get Boho Blooms, a design with undeniable retro appeal. Organic clusters of faded flowers and a matching arch create the frame for your wedding program. All you need now is an updated take on a leisure suit or a flowing empire waist dress and flowers in your hair and you’ll be ready for a delightfully hippie-influenced version of holy matrimony.
3. Sunflower Bliss
The quintessential summer flower has arrived, and it’s determined to make you and your guests happy. That’s an easy mission to accomplish when your mere presence is like a botanical version of sunshine. Sunflower Bliss is everything the name suggests — bunches of yellow blooms that make your wedding program feel fresh, bright, and downright blissful. It's the perfect way to start such a special day.
4. Dark Blooms
With its black overlay and river of abstract, boldly colored florals, Dark Blooms stands in stark contrast to the pale flowers and ocean-inspired details often associated with a summer wedding. If you want a design that’s luxe and even a touch hedonistic, you’ll appreciate the way large splashes of pink and green play off the curvy script that spells out the names of you and your sweetheart.
5. Joyful Medley
Joyful Medley is a celebration of summer, with a grouping of watercolor flowers separated by the names of the happy couple and two borders featuring strings of dots. It’s a fun interplay between soft and modern, and the use of a looping script for the wedding details only adds to the design’s interest. The back of the program is a clean, pristine white, with just the dots making a subtle but notable reappearance. For further customization, switch out the steel coloring for a hue that matches your wedding palette.
6. Fireflies & Mason Jars
Recapture the magic of childhood with Fireflies & Mason Jars, a design suite that uses an inky sky and wave of twinkling “bugs” to spur a wave of nostalgia. Use these programs as part of an intimate backyard wedding and you’ll have every guest reminiscing about the best parts of summer, even as you add your big day to that list.
7. Sophisticated Succulents
Succulents are as on-trend as a plant can get, but these hardy little cacti are also timeless. Sophisticated Succulents makes the most of a colorful array of desert foliage with a design that pushes your wedding details to the forefront while allowing a border of green and purple leaves to peek around the sides of the text box. The text and reverse side of the program are both kept clean and modern, though you can switch up the font if you’d prefer something a bit more rustic.
8. Floral Watercolor
Look out world — Floral Watercolor is here, and it’s bringing a burst of color that won’t be ignored. Imagine all your guests using this program fan to chase away the summer humidity as you swear to love and cherish your sweetheart for the rest of your days. The design uses a bold font on one side to list your names and a big white text box on the other to spell out the wedding ceremony. Magnifique!
9. Antique Hydrangea
Hydrangeas are fascinating flowers. They bud in summer but don’t tend to fully bloom until the following year, when they’re transformed into a fluttering bundle of petals. Summer too hot? No worries, the hydrangeas will hold off on their transformation until temperatures drop. In other words, they’re in it for the long haul, and that’s just the message you want to send at your wedding. Antique Hydrangea leads off with a cluster of pink, light blue, and white flowers, then leads into a dream color block featuring your wedding-day details. The fact that this is a program fan only adds to the allure.
10. Diamond Garden
Art Deco gets a summer makeover with Diamond Garden. The geometric frame provides a hard border keeping the wild roses and other garden dwellers from creeping over your wedding-day details and ceremony list. The diamond patterning is even more prevalent in the folded version of the program, which also uses the fun-filled title “Guys & Dolls” to reference your bridal party. This design would work brilliantly for a warm-weather wedding with 1920’s styling.
11. Playful Parasols
Playful Parasols is all about the whimsical side of summer. Neon abounds, with bright pinks, yellow, and blue making up the font and vibrant parasol graphics. Inside, the parasols march across the top of the program, with pretty text below and a triple layer of waves lapping at the bottom of the page. The same beach-inspired motif continues onto the program’s back, ensuring there’s not an inch of this exuberant stationery that’s anything less than lively.
12. Simple Gardens
Not all flowery wedding programs have to be full of bold colors or softened by feathery paint strokes. Simple Gardens uses bold lines to create an elegant array of monochrome flowers. Rather than filling each petal with a different hue, the designer has left them open to reveal the background color; it’s a neutral champagne now, but you can change it to whatever strikes your fancy. Flip this flat wedding program over and you get a color reversal, with flowers outlined in stark white making a marked contrast to the black background. It’s contemporary, it’s eye-catching, and it’s wonderfully elegant.
13. Candlelit Mason Jar
Summer is the perfect time for alfresco dining. If you dream of saying “I do” outdoors at dusk, you may fall in love with Candlelit Mason Jar just like we did. From the faux woodgrain barely concealing a carefully constructed heart to the treat of mason jars holding lit votives, this design is an homage to rustic nuptials full of friends, family, and whatever woodland creatures happen to show up in support.
14. Garden Laurel
It’s back to basics with Garden Laurel, but don’t confuse basic with a lack of beauty, because this suite is stunning in its simplicity. The star is a single flower dangling from the top of the program. It defaults to a gorgeous dark-hued bloom, but you can change the petals to match your favorite color, the flowers in your wedding bouquet, or other aspects of your summery wedding décor. Two more flowers on the back of the program round things out, leaving ample room for you to announce your choices for readings and music as well as your wedding party’s names.
15. Antique Lemon
Summer and citrus go hand in hand, which is probably why Antique Lemon seems like such a perfect pick for summer I dos. The fruit is so vibrant that you can practically smell its sweet-meets-sour zest, while the image itself leans slightly retro. Elegant scripting completes the sophisticated design, which offers up plenty of space for ceremony details and a laundry list of bridesmaids, groomsmen, and beyond.
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