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

By Sheila May


A terrific way to utilize your favorite wedding picture is with your annual holiday greeting card. It’s a sensible way to capture the thrill of the big day and share those experiences again with your close friends. It is difficult to visualize a much more appropriate picture to commemorate your first year as a husband and wife.

Happily married couples are discovering that their desired wedding photo works double-duty when printed digitally on a Christmas card or attached to a Christmas photo card using an eye-catching frame to highlight your photograph.

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

While it is certainly more practical to imprint your holiday card digitally, the print quality of commercially developed photographs is generally superior. If you plan to use a photomount holiday cards, 4”x 6” photographs tend to work best. Most photo cards are designed to accept photographs in either a vertical or horizontal orientation.

Potential buyers usually have the choice of choosing a greeting between several suggested by the printer. With a number of the higher quality printing companies, you can even supply your own personal personalized greeting. When you are adding your family names, it's always traditional for the woman’s name to be shown first. In the use of a wedding photograph, it's perceived as correct to provide the date of your wedding.

If you plan to use your wedding photo this holiday season, there are a number design and printing companies you may wish to consider. Certainly, Crane & Co. and William Arthur offer both photomount and digitally imprinted cards and the Stationers Guild affiliate program with Printswell provides some economical alternatives to print your wedding holiday photo card.




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