Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Old Westbury, New York

Most people ordering buttons as party favours are working from a guest list they already have in front of them: a milestone birthday with a set table count, an anniversary where the photograph on the button matters more than anything else on the table, or a planner handling several events at once who needs the favour line item settled so the rest of the checklist can move. The order is simple in shape and specific in the details: one design, sometimes several, a count that tracks the guest list, and a size chosen to sit on a place setting without dominating it. If that is the order you are pulling together for a party in Old Westbury, here are the sizes, the published rate for each band per button, the shipping tiers and the details worth getting right.

## The name that catches people out on the address line

The town shares its name root with Westbury, 2.4 miles away, one of several places nearby that we also cover. The others are East Hills at 1.4 miles, Roslyn Heights at 2.0 miles, and New Cassel and Albertson at 2.7 miles each. All are in Nassau County, and all are close enough together that a half written address can land in the wrong place.

The practical advice is dull but it works. Write the town name out in full on the shipping address rather than shortening it, and pair it with the ZIP code, 11568. Between the two there is no ambiguity left for anyone to resolve. If a venue, a caterer or a family member is receiving the box on your behalf, give them both pieces rather than one. It is the one thing most worth double checking on an order headed to Old Westbury.

## Five sizes, and what each one does on a table

There are five round pin back sizes and nothing else: 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch. All five are full colour and printed from artwork you upload. Under those are the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69, both pin-backed and full colour like the rest.

The 1.5 inch is the favour size. It sits on a napkin or a place card without being the thing everyone looks at first, and it is where most party orders land when the count is large. The 2.25 inch is the one to pick when there is a face on the design, because a photograph at 1.5 inch loses detail a guest has to squint at. The 3 inch is a statement piece, used for the guest of honour, for the couple at an anniversary, or as a handful of larger buttons alongside a run of small ones.

Mixing sizes on one order is normal: a handful of the 3 inch for the head table alongside a large run of the 1.5 inch for everyone else.

## What four hundred favours comes to

Here is a worked example, because the arithmetic is the part people want first. Four hundred of the 1.5 inch button at $1.42 each, the 250 to 499 band, earned by that size's own count, is $568.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $19.99. The order comes to $587.99 before tax.

The per button figure is set by the size and by how many of that size you order. Look up the rate for your count of that size, multiply once, and add the single shipping charge.

## Where the shipping tier turns over

Shipping is the only part of the total that steps rather than scales, and it is charged as a flat amount based on the total number of buttons on the order: $9.99 up to 100, $14.99 up to 250, $19.99 up to 500 and $24.99 up to 1000.

Because it steps, there are counts where a small change matters. An order of 400 sits inside the up to 500 band at $19.99, and so does any count above 250, which means a party that creeps past 250 pays the same shipping as a party of 500. If your guest list is hovering just above 250 and you have been trimming it back down, the trimming saves you the per button price on whatever you cut and nothing else, because shipping is already set at $19.99 either way. The same logic runs at the 100 and 500 marks. It is the one place on the order where the total is not simply the count times the price.

## Getting the artwork ready for a favour

Party favour artwork tends to be one of three things: a photograph, a name and date set in type, or a small motif built around the theme of the event. All five print full colour, so a photograph with a busy background works the same as flat colour artwork.

Two things help on a round button. Keep anything that has to be readable, a name, a date, a set of initials, away from the outer edge, because the edge of the artwork wraps around the curve of the shell and is not seen flat on. And check how a face crops inside a circle before committing to the 1 inch, since a group photograph that reads well on a phone can end up as a row of very small heads at 1.5 inch.

Each design is its own artwork upload. Splitting a count across several designs does not change the per button price, and the shipping tier is worked out on the total buttons on the order rather than per design.

## Collecting in person, or having the box sent

Old Westbury lies 12.4 miles south west of us in a straight line, so both options are genuinely on the table. Some hosts prefer to collect, particularly when the box is going into a car with the rest of the party supplies. Others would rather it arrive at the door and never think about it again. The flat tiers above apply if you have it sent, and collecting in person means no shipping charge at all.

## Who tends to place this order

If you are a professional party planner, the useful thing here is that pricing is arithmetic rather than negotiation. The thresholds are 100, 250 and 500 of one size, and they are the only places the rate moves.

If you are a parent putting together a milestone birthday, the 1.5 inch at $1.89 is where most of these orders land. A photograph of the guest of honour, or a simple name and number, covers most of what people want.

If you are a couple marking an anniversary, the 2.25 inch usually serves the design better, because these orders almost always involve a photograph and the extra width keeps the faces readable.

If you are the person who inherited the favours because nobody else volunteered, work from the tier table. Pick the size, multiply by the count, see which shipping band the count falls into, and you have the whole number.

## Questions that come up on these orders

**We are ordering favours for a party in Old Westbury. Is the price per button lower on a large count than a small one?** No. Each size climbs its own ladder, and 100 is the first rung. A growing count moves the rate band for that size first and the shipping tier second.

**Our invitations went out with an Old Westbury address. What should we put on the shipping address so the box does not end up in the similarly named town nearby?** Write the town name in full and include the ZIP code, 11568. Those two together remove any ambiguity, even though the two names overlap.

**Which size works best as a favour for an Old Westbury party?**

The 1.5 inch is the usual favour size and the one most large counts use. Move up to the 2.25 inch if the design is built around a photograph, and use the 3 inch sparingly, for the guest of honour or the head table.

**Can we collect the order in person rather than have it shipped to

Old Westbury?** Yes, at the straight line distance given above, and there is no shipping charge when you do. If you would rather have it sent, the flat tiers apply.

**Our Old Westbury guest count keeps moving between 250 and 500. How should we budget for that?** Budget the buttons at the printed rate ladder times the final count, and budget shipping at $19.99, because every count above 250 and up to 500 sits in the same band. Only a drop back under 250 changes the shipping figure.