Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Cedarhurst, New York

So how many favour buttons should one order actually cover, when the wedding is in Cedarhurst and half the guest list has not replied yet? Order to the number of seats you are setting, not the number of invitations you sent. Four hundred is the cheaper of the two per button, at 25 percent under the listed rate against the listed rate for forty. That removes the usual guessing game, where you talk yourself into a bigger number to chase a better rate. There is no better rate waiting at a higher quantity. You order what you will hand out, and the arithmetic stays simple no matter which way the count moves.

A half mile of separation

The nearest place we also cover is Lawrence, and it is half a mile away. That is closer than most people expect a neighbouring name to sit. For a favour order it matters in one practical way: a shower at one address and a reception at another can easily straddle that line, and planners often end up describing the same event with two different place names depending on who they are talking to. Woodmere is a mile off. Inwood is 1.4 miles. Hewlett is 2.1 miles, and South Valley Stream is 2.3 miles. Five named places inside a radius you could walk across in an afternoon. When you are placing an order, none of that changes the price of a button. It changes how you label things.

What a real favour order comes to

Here is a worked example rather than a range. Forty of the 2.25 inch button at $1.99 each is $79.60 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $9.99. The order comes to $89.59 before tax. That is the whole calculation. The five prices are $1.89 each for the 1.5 inch, $1.99 each for the 2.25 inch and $2.49 each for the 3 inch, and each of those numbers is the rate from 1 to 99 of that size. If you double the order you more than double nothing: the button line roughly doubles, the shipping tier may step once, and the rate band may step down and take the increase back.

Where the shipping tiers actually bite

Shipping is flat and it is set by 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. Up to 1000 is $24.99. The only place this is worth a second of thought is when your count sits a few buttons over a boundary. An order of 104 pays $14.99 in shipping, the same as an order of 250. If you are at 104 because you rounded up out of caution, and you are genuinely only setting 96 places, trimming back to 100 keeps you in the $9.99 tier. If you actually need 104, take the tier and stop thinking about it: 100 and 104 both sit in the 100 to 249 band, so the whole difference is five dollars of postage.

Picking between the five sizes

Five sizes, all round. The 1.5 inch sits in the middle of the range and reads as a lapel piece or something pinned to a favour bag. The 2.25 inch is the size most people picture when they hear button, and it is the one the worked example above uses, because it gives artwork enough room for two names and a date without crowding. The 3 inch is a display size. Text that would be tight at 1.5 inch is comfortable at 3 inch, and a photograph that would be a squint at the small size actually works. If you cannot decide, the deciding factor is usually how much text you are putting on it, not how it looks on a table. The 1 inch, at $1.49, is the smallest we make, and the 1.25 inch at $1.69 is a step up from it.

Artwork that survives the shrink

Buttons are printed full colour from artwork you upload. The one thing that catches people out is that a circle crops harder than they expect. Part of the outer edge wraps around the curve of the button, so anything sitting right on the rim of your design sits on the shoulder rather than on the face. Keep names, dates and monograms pulled in toward the centre. Backgrounds and patterns can run right off the edge, and in fact they should, because a background that stops short leaves a pale ring. If your design is a photograph, look at what is at the corners, because the corners are the part that goes away.

One order, several drop points

Favour orders often serve more than one gathering. A shower, a rehearsal dinner and the reception can each want a slightly different button, and the sensible way to handle that is one order with separate artwork per size or per batch, rather than three orders placed on three different evenings. The shipping tier is set by the total button count on the order, so consolidating is also the cheaper arrangement. Keep a written note of which artwork belongs to which event, because forty of one design and forty of another look very similar in a box once they are stacked.

Four people who order these

The wedding planner. You are running several events at once and you need a per head number you can put in a spreadsheet without footnotes. The listed figure is the 1 to 99 rate, and it improves at three points above that. Nothing in that line depends on how big the order is.

The couple doing it themselves. You have a photograph you like and a date. The 2.25 inch is the safe default, and you should order to the seat count rather than the invitation count.

The shower host. You are ordering a smaller run, often under a hundred, and you want to know whether a small run is worth placing at all. It is. A run under a hundred pays the listed rate, which is the rate a small run is meant to pay, with no minimum to clear first.

The venue coordinator. You are handling favours on behalf of a client and the artwork is coming from someone else. Ask for it with a little breathing room at the edges, and ask which size before you ask for the file.

Questions we get asked

Our wedding is in Cedarhurst but the shower is in Lawrence, can that be one order? Yes. Put every button on one order regardless of how many events or addresses the batches are ultimately going to serve. The shipping tier is calculated on the total count, so one order of 180 sits in the $14.99 tier rather than paying two separate shipping charges.

We need 40 of the 2.25 inch button for a Cedarhurst reception, what is the total? Forty at $1.99 each is $79.60. Shipping at that size is $9.99. The order is $89.59 before tax.

Does the price per button drop if a Cedarhurst order goes from 40 up to 400? Yes, within a single size. 40 of one size pays the listed rate and 400 of it pays 25 percent under the listed rate. It is $1.99 each at 40 and $1.49 each at 400. There are two ladders in play, one on the rate for each size and one on shipping for the whole order.

Our Cedarhurst guest count came in at 104 buttons, is that a problem? Not a problem, just worth knowing. 104 is over the 100 button boundary, so shipping is $14.99 instead of $9.99. If your real requirement is 100 or fewer, trimming to 100 keeps the lower tier.

How far is Cedarhurst from the shop? It is 24.8 miles in a straight line, to the south west, and it is in Nassau County.