Double Duty: Use your wedding Photograph for your Holiday Photo Card

A great way to make use of your best wedding picture is with your annual holiday greeting card. It’s an effective way to capture the excitement of the wedding ceremony and share those experiences again with your close friends. It is hard to visualize a much more suitable photograph to celebrate your first year as a married couple.

Newly married couples have found that their desired wedding photo performs double-duty when digitally imprinted on a holiday card or attached to a photo greeting card using an attractive frame to showcase your photo.

Should your wedding photograph has been taken using a professional photographer, you will probably need to get permission from your photographer to reproduce the photo digitally on a photo card. Alternatively, have your photos commercially developed and mount them on holiday photo cards using adhesive tape that’s generally already placed on the photo card.

While it is surely more simple to print your holiday greeting card digitally, the print quality of commercially developed photos is generally better. If you intend to use a photomount holiday greeting cards, 4”x 6” photographs tend to work best. Most photo greeting cards are made to accept photos in both a vertical or landscape orientation.

Consumers usually have the option of selecting a greeting between many suggested by the printer. With some of the better known printing firms, you may also supply your own personal personalized greeting. When you are adding your names, it is customary for the woman’s name to be first. In the case of a wedding photo, it’s perceived as proper to provide the date of the wedding.

If you are planning to use your wedding picture this holiday season, there are a number printing and design firms you will want to take into account. Certainly, Crane & Co. and William Arthur provide both photomount and digitally printed cards along with the Stationers Guild affiliate program with Printswell provides some affordable alternatives to print your wedding holiday photo card.

Sheila May is the owner of Therese Saint Clair and writes frequently about holiday photo cards and Christmas photo cards.