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The Wedding Newspaper

Bespoke wedding newspapers

Your wedding, reported as front‑page news

I interview you both, write your story and design it as a real newspaper. It is printed on newsprint and delivered to your door, ready for your guests to read on the day.

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From £555 for 20 copies, with writing, design, printing and UK delivery included.

Saturday 14 AugustWedding editionFree to guests
The Marsden Mercury
Marsden and Whitfield to wed after nine years, two flats and one disputed first date
Bride insists it began at the pub quiz. Groom maintains it was the chip shop afterwards.
Your photograph

Amy Marsden and Joe Whitfield will marry at two o'clock this afternoon, ending a courtship that friends describe as "thorough". The pair met in 2017, when a tie-break question about the Tyne Bridge went Amy's way.

Today's running order

  • 2.00Ceremony
  • 2.45Drinks on the lawn
  • 4.30Wedding breakfast
  • 6.00Speeches
  • 8.00First dance

Inside

  • The proposal, in full p3
  • Who's who at the top table p4
  • The crossword p7

A sample front page with an invented couple. Yours is written from your own interview.

A wedding guest holding up a printed wedding newspaper, reading the front page
A guest reading the paper at our own wedding.

What goes in the paper

Every page is about the two of you

Nothing is filled in from a template. Each story comes out of the interview, so the paper sounds like you and tells guests things they did not know.

  • The front pageHow you met and how you got here, written as the lead story with a proper headline.
  • The big interviewBoth of you in your own words, on the proposal, the planning and each other.
  • Order of the dayTimings, the menu, the drinks and anything guests need to know.
  • Who's whoThe wedding party introduced, so table eight knows who the best man is before he speaks.
  • The photo spreadYour pictures across the centre pages, captioned like a picture desk would.
  • Crossword and puzzlesClues drawn from your story, which gets tables talking to each other.
  • Notices and small adsThank-yous, absent friends, the hashtag and the taxi number.
  • The back pageSport, weather or horoscopes, rewritten for the day.

How it works

One conversation with you, then I do the rest

  1. Book your slotTell me your date. Half of the fee holds your place in the diary.
  2. The interviewAn hour on a video call with both of you. It is the enjoyable part.
  3. Send your photosShare your pictures and the practical details in one folder.
  4. Read your proofYou see the whole paper as a PDF and get one full round of changes.
  5. Printed and deliveredYour copies arrive by courier about two weeks before the wedding.

Read the full process and timings

Prices

A fee for my time, plus printing at cost

You pay one fee for the interview, writing and design. Printing and delivery are added at the printer's price with no mark-up, so extra copies stay cheap. A 12-page Sunday Edition with 70 copies comes to £894 in total.

8 pages

Morning Edition

£495 writing and design

The essentials: your story on the front, the day's running order inside.

  • One joint interview, up to an hour
  • Front-page story and a full interview feature
  • Order of the day and who's who
  • A crossword written from your answers
  • Up to 15 photographs

12 pages

Sunday Edition

£695 writing and design

The one most couples will want, with room for a photo spread and other voices.

  • Everything in the Morning Edition
  • Centre-spread photo feature
  • The proposal, told as its own story
  • Messages from family and friends, gathered by email
  • Menu, drinks list and notices
  • Up to 30 photographs

16 pages

Souvenir Edition

£895 writing and design

A full paper with extra interviews, built to be kept.

  • Everything in the Sunday Edition
  • Up to three short phone interviews with family or friends
  • A timeline of your years together
  • Extra puzzles, a spoof weather forecast and small ads
  • Table plan or guest directory
  • Up to 45 photographs

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On the day

Where the papers go

  • On ceremony chairsGuests have something to read while they wait, and it doubles as the order of service.
  • On the tablesOne between two at the wedding breakfast, folded at each place setting.
  • In welcome bagsLeft in hotel rooms for guests who have travelled the night before.
  • In the post afterwardsSent with thank-you cards to people who could not be there.
A stack of printed wedding newspapers on the welcome table beside the cards
Papers waiting on the welcome table at our wedding.

Dates are limited because every paper is written by hand

I take a small number of weddings each month. Send your date and I will tell you within two working days whether it is free.

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