When it comes to choosing the flowers a couple wants to have on their wedding day, Janet Dunn of Blooming Crazy Flowers and Gifts in Boardman says many women will bring in a picture of an idea they saw on Pinterest and ask her to make it for them. And the company works with other businesses involved in the day, such as the florist. Beyond preparing and serving the food, Chrystal Catering can provide tents, tables, chairs, linens and plate rentals. Recent wedding menus Chrystal prepared were for a seafood bar and a wedding with both an Indian-food buffet and a Western-food buffet. “Everything is so custom that we don’t do a lot of the same items.” “We can do pasta but the pasta can vary 12 ways, from the sauce we use to the noodles,” he says. The menus Chrystal prepares are “as unique as the couples who are using us.

“Now we have a meeting with the bride and groom and find out their likes and dislikes.” “When I first started in the industry 38 years ago, it was pretty cookie-cutter at that time,” he says. The type of menu served at a wedding has changed over the years, he says, as more couples want to customize what they’re serving. “It’s once in a lifetime.”įor 2019, Jeffrey Chrystal, chef at Jeffrey Chrystal Catering in Youngstown, says he has a record number of weddings booked and is already booking into 2020. “We want the customer to have peace of mind in what they’re ordering,” Maffei says. No matter what a couple is ordering to be printed, Boardman Printing always sends a proof to the couple beforehand. Some newer requests Boardman Printing has received include printing signs for a bride and groom’s hashtag of their last name for social media purposes and signs asking guests to stay off their phones. “There’s a perforated piece of paper at the bottom that is the RSVP card and it sends as a postcard, so all you put on there is the return postcard postage,” Maffei says. “Whether they want to keep it on the low end or they really want to make a statement.”Īmong the more popular invitations are one-sided, 5-by-7-inch cards and seal-and-send cards, where all the information is on one piece of paper that, when folded, creates the envelope itself.

“We have invitations for every bride’s budget,” she says. Wedding invitations should be sent out three months before the wedding and the cost of an invitation varies, “as much as the cost of a sweater,” Maffei says. The store designs and prints the wedding shower invitations, save-the-date cards and invitations, as well as the ceremony programs, seating charts, printed napkins, favor tags, accessories, banners and canvas prints.īoardman Printing offers hundreds of invitations to choose from with 75 signature design cards printed on its laser printer or digital press in-store and more that can be ordered from Carlson Craft in Minnesota. Overall, 75% of its business is made up of providing services for a wedding, Maffei says. The wedding season at Boardman Printing begins in January and doesn’t slow until May. Magnets in lieu of traditional save-the-date cards are becoming more popular because guests can easily place them on their refrigerator without worrying about them getting lost. “If you’re in that six-month time frame it really isn’t worth it to send it out.” “Anywhere from six months to a year before the date,” she says. Once a couple is engaged and chooses the venue and the date of their wedding, Janet Maffei, customer service and sales at Boardman Printing, says they should send out their save-the-date cards. The Knot reports the national average cost of a wedding in 2017 was $33,391, excluding the honeymoon, with the average cost per guest reaching an all-time high of $268.įrom the wedding invitations to the flowers and décor, the bride’s appearance, the music, dancing and food served at the reception – numerous businesses are involved in creating the ambiance of the big day.

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