Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Medford, New York

Five names within a short radius

If our event is in Medford but the guest list is spread across the small places all around it, does that change anything about how we order favour buttons? No, it does not. One artwork file, one count, one order, and the buttons are identical whether the people holding them at the end of the night live on the same street or came in from five different directions. A scattered guest list changes exactly one thing on the order, and that is the number you finally commit to, because the count is what sets the shipping charge.

Here are the places nearest to you that we also write pages for: Holtsville at 2.4 miles, Farmingville at 2.7 miles, Gordon Heights at 3.1 miles, Yaphank at 3.1 miles and North Bellport at 3.2 miles. All five sit inside a 3.2 mile radius. That tight cluster matters more than it sounds for favour orders, because a shower thrown in one of them for a couple living in another, with the parents of both sides somewhere in between, is an entirely ordinary arrangement.

In practice you are rarely ordering for a single household. You are ordering for a small ring of them, and the right instinct is to treat the whole ring as one job: one count, one design, one order. Splitting the same favour into four smaller orders because four people are hosting four parts of the celebration is the most common way a budget quietly grows, and the reason is postage.

How far apart we are on a map

Medford is 21.7 miles east of us. That is a straight line on a map rather than a route, and we quote it only so that anyone working with an 11763 ZIP knows where they sit relative to us. Suffolk County is wide, and a customer 21.7 miles out and a customer two miles out buy precisely the same button at precisely the same price. Distance never touches the price per button.

Five sizes, each with its own rate ladder

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. The two to know about at the small end are the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69.

Those arepublished band rate. Each size climbs its own ladder, and 100 is the first rung. The arithmetic is still one multiplication. You read the rate off the band your count lands in first.

Choosing between the sizes is mostly about what the button has to hold. The 1.5 inch takes a monogram, a pair of initials, a date. The 2.25 inch is the usual middle choice and carries two names and a date without crowding. The 3 inch is what people reach for when there is a photograph or an illustration involved, or a line of text that has to be read across a table rather than at arm's length.

A favour order costed end to end

Take a realistic one. One hundred and one of the 3 inch button, at $1.99 each, 20 percent off because the count clears 100, is $200.99 in buttons. Flat shipping on an order of that size is $14.99. The order comes to $215.98 before tax.

Nothing in that total is negotiable, but ordering more of one size does move it: the bands are printed and they apply by the count. Ninety of the 3 inch is $2.49 each and a hundred of the same size is $1.99 each, because 100 lands in the 100 to 249 band. What does move is the shipping line, and it moves in steps rather than smoothly.

The number that decides your postage

Shipping is a flat charge set by the total number of buttons on the order, counted across every size on it. 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.

Look again at that worked example. One hundred and one buttons is a single button over the first boundary, and that single button carries the whole order up into the $14.99 tier. Ordering 100 instead of 101 keeps it at $9.99 and saves $5.00 on postage. This is not a discount for buying more, and it is not a penalty for buying more either. It is a step in a shipping table, and we point it out only because a guest list of 101 is an easy place to land by accident. If your count is sitting one or two over a boundary, look again before you submit.

Artwork, and what it has to carry

Buttons print full colour from the file you upload, so the design is entirely yours. For favours the practical advice is short. Keep the important element well inside the circle, because the edge of a round button curves away from the viewer and anything pushed to the rim is harder to read. Dark text on a light field reads better at 1.5 inch than the reverse. If there is a date on the design, that is usually what people most want to read from across a room, so give it space.

If you plan weddings for a living

You are running several events at once and you want the favour line predictable rather than clever. It is: a size, a published per button rate, and a shipping table keyed to a single number. You can quote a client a favour cost before you have their final head count and be wrong only by the amount the head count moves.

If you are assembling the favours yourself

The buttons arrive as buttons, so the assembly work left to you is the fun part: the bags, the tags, the ribbon, the table plan. Decide the size early, because the size drives everything you buy to go around it. A 3 inch button does not sit inside packaging bought for a 2.25 inch one.

If you are hosting a shower on a fixed budget

Work backwards. Your button line is the head count times one of five numbers, and your shipping is one of four numbers. There is no fifth variable hiding in the total, so you can set a ceiling and then pick the size that fits under it rather than the other way round.

If the celebration is split across two households

Order once, not twice. Since the shipping charge is set by the count on each individual order, splitting a hundred buttons into two lots of fifty costs more in postage than sending a hundred in one go, with no change at all to what each button costs.

Questions we get asked

Our shower is in Medford and we want one button per guest. Is the price per button any different if we order 40 rather than 400? It does. 40 of the 2.25 inch is $1.99 each and 400 of it is $1.49 each, because 400 reaches the 250 to 499 band. A hundred of a size earns 20 percent, and the saving applies to all hundred. Forty of the 2.25 inch costs $1.99 each, and four hundred of the 2.25 inch costs $1.49 each.

Our Medford guest list has come out at exactly 101. Is there anything we should know about that number? Yes, and it is worth a minute. At 101 buttons the order falls into the $14.99 shipping tier. At 100 it sits in the $9.99 tier, a $5.00 difference on postage alone. The figure listed is what 1 to 99 of that size costs each.

We have one event in Medford and a second one in Holtsville. Can both sets of favour buttons go on a single order? They can, and it is usually the sensible move. Shipping is charged on the total number of buttons across the whole order, so two sets on one order pay one shipping charge rather than two.

Can a Medford order use the same artwork across all five sizes? Yes. The same file can be printed at 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch. Just check that any small text still reads at the 1 inch you have chosen, since the artwork is reduced to fit.

Our Medford head count is still moving. Should we order part of it now and the rest afterwards? You can, but understand the cost of it. Each order carries its own flat shipping charge based on its own button count, so two orders means two shipping charges. The price per button is unaffected either way. If the count is likely to settle, one order is the cheaper route.