Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Amity Harbor, New York

The person placing this order is usually organising somebody else's celebration: a fortieth birthday, a twenty-fifth anniversary, a surprise party for a parent who insists on no fuss. They arrive with one image already chosen, a photograph from a year that matters, a nickname set in a typeface the family will recognise, a private joke the guest list will get and nobody else will. What they want is a way for every guest to carry a piece of that image home from the table. Party planners ordering favours for events in Amity Harbor land on round pin-back buttons for the same practical reasons every time: a button pins to a lapel or a bag, it costs a known amount per head, and it is small enough that nobody has to work out what to do with it on the way out.

Five sizes, and what each one actually does

There are five round sizes and nothing else. The 1.5 inch button is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. Up to 99 of a size the rate is the one listed, and at 100 of that size it comes down 20 percent. One pays the listed rate. A thousand of one size is past the ceiling, so that one is quoted rather than priced automatically. The 1 inch is the smallest at $1.49 each, and the 1.25 inch sits just above it at $1.69.

Size choice is mostly about how much is in the artwork. The 1.5 inch works when the design is one strong element: a monogram, a single face cropped tight, a two word phrase. The 2.25 inch is the usual middle choice for a party favour because it holds a face and a line of text without the text going small. The 3 inch is what people pick when the button carries a date and a name and a photograph together.

What a five hundred button order comes to

A worked example, because favour budgets tend to be decided by the total and not the unit. Five hundred of the 3 inch button at $1.74 each, the 500 to 999 rate for that size, is $870.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $19.99, so the order comes to $889.99 before tax.

Shipping is a flat tier based on the total number of buttons on the order. Up to 100 buttons is $9.99, up to 250 is $14.99, up to 500 is $19.99, and up to 1000 is $24.99. Five hundred sits exactly at the top of the $19.99 tier. Going from 500 to 510 does not change the price per button by a cent, but it does move the order into the $24.99 tier. If your guest count is bouncing around that number, it is the only place in the whole calculation where it matters.

Two harbours, one name root, and the mix-ups that follow

Amity Harbor and Copiague Harbor sit six tenths of a mile apart and share a piece of their names, which is enough to cause real confusion on an order form. Copiague itself is seven tenths of a mile out, and Amityville, which shares the other half of the name, is a mile and a half away. Three place names, two of which end in the same word and two of which start with the same syllable, all inside a mile and a half of each other.

In practice this shows up in two ways. Delivery details get autocompleted to the neighbour and nobody notices until the box is in the wrong hands. And artwork gets proofed with the wrong place name printed on it, which is the worse problem, because a button with the wrong town on it is a button you cannot hand to anyone. If the design has a place name in it, read that line of the proof twice before you approve it.

Where this sits relative to the shop

Straight line, it is 15.1 miles south of the shop. That is a straight line measurement and not a route. The same coverage extends to Lindenhurst, 2.1 miles away, and East Massapequa, 2.2 miles away, along with Copiague, Copiague Harbor and Amityville.

Getting a photograph to read once it is round

Most favour artwork starts as a rectangle: a phone photo, a scan of an old print, a graphic laid out in a document. A button is a circle, and the edge of that circle wraps around the side where it is only partly visible head on. So anything important, a chin, a date, the last letter of a name, needs to sit well inside the edge rather than near it.

Two things help. Crop tighter than feels natural, because faces at button size want to fill the circle. And keep text to a few words, set large. A caption that reads fine on screen can become a grey smudge at 1.5 inches. If you are set on a longer line of text, that is an argument for the 3 inch.

Running more than one design on the same order

Nothing stops you splitting an order across several designs or across all five sizes. Each size is charged at its own rate, on its own count, and the shipping tier is worked out from the total number of buttons on the order rather than per design. Planners doing a milestone anniversary often use this to make a set: one button per decade, or one per family branch, with guests picking the one that applies to them.

Four people who order these

The planner with several events booked at once. You are working to a per head number that has to hold across all of them. A published per button rate means your favour line is a multiplication and nothing more, and the only variable left is which shipping tier the order lands in.

The family doing a parent's milestone themselves. Nobody in the group is a designer. One good photograph, cropped close, with a first name and a year underneath, is a complete design. Resist adding anything else.

The person organising a surprise. The order is going to an address that is not the honoree's, and the proof cannot be circulated to the usual group chat. Keep the approval to one person and check the place name yourself.

The couple marking an anniversary with a small guest list. Under a hundred buttons keeps you in the $9.99 shipping tier, and at that scale the 2.25 inch tends to be the size people reach for, since it holds both faces and the date.

Questions people ask

Can I get a lower price per button if I order five hundred for an Amity Harbor party instead of fifty?

No. Discounts are worked out per size, and the first one lands at 100 of that size. Five hundred of the 3 inch are $1.74 each, the 500 to 999 rate for that size, and so are five. There are two ladders in play, one on the rate for each size and one on shipping for the whole order.

My Amity Harbor address comes up under ZIP 11701, but I have also seen 11708. Which should I use?

Either is fine. Both ZIPs are associated with this area, so use whichever one your own mail normally uses and put the street line in exactly as you receive post.

Half my guest list is coming from Copiague Harbor and I keep typing the wrong name. How do I make sure my order is set for Amity Harbor?

Check two places. The delivery line, which autocomplete likes to change on you, and the artwork itself if the design has a town name printed in it. Those are the two fields where the similar names cause trouble.

I am planning an Amity Harbor anniversary party and my guest count keeps moving. What does changing the quantity do to my total?

The button cost is a straight multiplication, the count times the rate its band earns. The only step change is the shipping tier, at 100, 250, 500 and 1000 buttons.

Can one Amity Harbor order include all five sizes and several different designs?

Yes. Each size is billed at its own band, set by its own count, and the shipping tier is calculated from the total number of buttons across the whole order, not per size or per design.