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Printable Wedding Program
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Printable Wedding Program — Free PDF, Print-Ready at Any Size
A printable wedding program is a high-resolution file you can take to any printer — your home printer, a local copy shop, or an online card service. Our tool exports a clean PDF with the right resolution, bleed and crop marks already set, so what you see is exactly what prints.
This page covers print production — sizes, resolution, file specs, home-vs-shop and how many to print. For changing the look, see the program template; for what to write, see program wording. (This is the guest card, not your planning timeline.)

Your names and date come from your project, so the file is correct before you ever hit export — no typos discovered after printing a hundred cards.
The same export settings apply to your menus and other stationery, so every printed piece comes off the printer at matching quality.
Want it on a stick for an outdoor ceremony instead of a flat card? See the program fan guide — it starts from the same file.
PLANNING . WEDDING — is easy to remember and even easier to use.
How to Get Your Print-Ready File
From finished design to a file your printer will accept takes about a minute.
- Finish the design — layout, fonts, colors and your order of the day.
- Choose your size — 5×7, 4×9, A5 or a custom dimension.
- Export the PDF — high resolution, with bleed and crop marks included.
- Print at home or send to a shop — the same file works for both.
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Wedding Program Sizes
Single-card programs are small enough to set at a place setting but big enough to read at arm’s length. The common options:
- 5×7 in — the most popular single-card size; fits a place setting and standard frames.
- 4×9 in — a tall, slim card; also the natural shape for a program fan.
- A5 (5.8×8.3 in) — a touch larger; good for a fuller schedule or a folded booklet.
- Custom — match an existing stand, tray or envelope exactly.

Print at Home vs Print Shop
Both work from the same PDF — it’s a question of quantity, stock and finish.
- Home printer — fine for small counts on heavier cardstock; print two-up on letter or A4 and trim.
- Local copy / print shop — fast and affordable for larger counts on quality stock, cut to size.
- Online card service — for premium finishes (cotton stock, edge painting, vellum) delivered ready to set out.
File Specs That Print Cleanly
You don’t have to think about any of this — the export handles it — but for the curious:
- Resolution — output stays 300 DPI at your chosen size, sharp even for fine serif type.
- Bleed & crop marks — included by default so trimming never clips your text.
- Color — clean, high-contrast values that hold up in both RGB previews and CMYK print.
How Many Programs to Print
If you’re setting a card at every seat, print one per attending guest plus 10–15% extra for keepsakes and mistakes. If guests share, a common rule is one per couple, or roughly one for every two guests.
Because the program is generated from your project, you can re-export and print a few more in minutes if your count grows — no re-buying or re-editing a template.

Why Our Printable Program Is Free and Foolproof
No sign-up, no watermark, no per-size upsell — one design exports to any size you need, as many times as you need.
Because the file is generated from your project, it’s always current and correct. Fix a detail and re-export in seconds; there’s never a stale version sitting in your downloads folder.
Explore the rest of the wedding program cluster
Each sub-page below covers a narrow slice of the wedding program — the order-of-the-day card guests follow through the celebration — across editable templates, wording examples, design ideas, print specs, and the program fan. All built with the same free Wedding Planning Assistant project.
Explore the rest of your wedding day-of stationery suite
Each item below pulls live from your seating chart on Wedding Planning Assistant, so a single update to your guest list flows through every printed piece — no copying names from one template to the next.














