Have you ever found your parents' wedding newspaper with advice on what to do for the new wife and husband? Once upon a time, wedding newspapers were an integral part of the celebration. Wedding newspapers are back in fashion! Its format has gone beyond the usual A4 page size and has become an original collaboration between a graphic designer and journalism. It can be a meaningful couple's love story for the wedding guests and at the same time a gift for the new couple themselves.

Wedding newspaper as a gift for guests

Often the new couple arranges symbolic gifts for their guests. A box of sweets, a jar of homemade jam or some souvenir. It is customary for a wedding newspaper to perform a mainly informative function, including the evening's program, routes, etc.  Pujene Wedding tries to change this perception and has created a non-traditional wedding newspaper, which, due to its quality content and design, claims the status of a gift.

"We sell love in texts.

• We interview a couple,
• we communicate with the wedding guests,
• we ask friends about what we experienced together,
• to call aunts, cousins and godmothers,

to find out as much and more interesting news about the new couple as possible. It's not just a newspaper printed on paper, it's a collection of feelings and memories, which, like a good wine, only gets more valuable with the years," says Pujene Wedding .

Wedding newspaper transformation - poster

The wedding newspaper and its format change - it can be a multi-page material in the size of a notebook or a large-sized magazine on glossy paper.  Pujene Wedding offers wedding newspapers in various formats, as well as a never-before-seen version of a newspaper - large-sized posters printed on foam boards. A large-format poster is equivalent to a newspaper in terms of content.

One set usually includes several posters and each of them is designed as a separate newspaper page with its own theme -

1. the big interview with the couple,
2. guests' wishes,
3. memories,
4. photo collage, etc.

Sometimes couples choose only one individual poster – the couple's dating story combined with pictures. Displayed on easels, they complement the wedding design not only in terms of content, but also visually. In addition, the poster is mobile, you can easily change its location, which is especially important when you need to think of an activity for the entertainment of guests.

As a gift for the new couple

It is usual that the creation of a newspaper is a couple's initiative, but more and more often, friends of the couple choose to order a newspaper or large-format posters as a gift for the new couple.

"A newspaper or poster is a story about a young couple, in which the opinions and emotions experienced together are shared by the couple's friends and family.

A dating story can also be made as a mosaic from fragments of different people's memories and then put together in a single description. In this way, the couple will not suspect a surprise. In the process of gathering information, guests discover touching opinions, quotes and photos that emotionally warm the new couple's big day. In addition, in the creation of posters and newspapers, the opinion of guests who live abroad or who for some reason will not be able to attend the wedding in person, but participation in the content creation will allow them to be present, can be included," Pujene Wedding shares her experience.

Also for those who did not come

We cannot invite everyone we want to the wedding, and not everyone we have invited will manage to come to the wedding. Many friends, relatives and acquaintances live abroad. With an electronic version of a printed newspaper or poster, recorded in 21st century media or sent electronically, it is possible to strengthen the connection with everyone. But for those who have been there, it will be another reason to recall the sweet moments over and over for many years.

"Posters were once ordered by a couple where the bride is from Latvia and the groom is from abroad. We interviewed friends and relatives of the bride and groom and gathered the information we obtained into posters made in two languages - Latvian and English. In this way, the couple's friends learned more about each other. In addition, the couple got married both in Latvia and in the groom's homeland and all they had to do was print the material a second time to introduce the other group of friends to to the bride's friends," says Pujene Wedding .

Newspaper as a constructor

But after all, who said that the newspaper should be printed in advance? The most important things happen right now, on your wedding day. Let the wedding guests themselves become reporters of the hot event and participate in the creation of a newspaper on the spot.

Your task is to prepare raw materials for content creation in advance –

• in writing,
• paper,
• colors,
• scissors, etc.

It is useful to have a polaroid camera in the corner of the improvised editorial office. Then the pictures taken on the wedding day can be pasted in the newspaper and supplemented with quotes. Another guest can do the interview and write it down in the newspaper content. Children will be interested in the process of coloring, drawing, cutting and gluing. The created newspaper will be unique - only in one copy, without the possibility of subscription.

Material online

A wedding with your own unique #hashtag or hashtag is almost as common as ice cream with raisins. Smart technologies and the Internet are an integral part of everyday life. Why can't the newspaper be in an online version? It could! A blog is a common modern communication tool. Easy-to-use blog samples are available on the Internet, which you just need to fill in with original content and the online wedding newspaper is ready. In addition, this type of newspaper is a good helper to plan the wedding in detail, to tell the guests about the wedding, place, time and your wedding story. By integrating live link tools into the blog, it is possible to create live broadcasts from the wedding day, which are automatically published on the website. If the second day is planned for the wedding, then viewing the website together on the big screen will be a morning event full of joy.

Photo: LINDA LAUVA , AGNETA JONELE