Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Sayville, New York

Seven hundred and fifty of the 1.5 inch button at $1.32 each, the 500 to 999 rate for that size, is $990.00, and the flat shipping on an order that size is $24.99, so the whole thing comes to $1014.99 before tax. That is the entire calculation. There is no setup line, no artwork line and no second page of extras waiting underneath it. A shower or a wedding with a guest count in that range can be budgeted down to the dollar before anyone uploads a file, which is usually the first thing a planner working in Sayville wants to know.

How the number is built

There are five sizes of round pin-back button and nothing else. The 1 inch is $1.49 each, the 1.25 inch is $1.69 each, the 1.5 inch is $1.89 each, the 2.25 inch is $1.99 each, and the 3 inch is $2.49 each. The break applies to the whole run of that size, not only the buttons above the line. One button costs what the seven hundred and fiftieth button costs. Three counts are worth a second look before you commit: 100, 250 and 500 of a single size. Everywhere else, order what you need. If you are pricing a favour run, you can multiply in your head and trust the answer.

All five sizes are printed in full colour from artwork you upload, so a monogram with a gradient behind it costs the same per button as a flat two colour crest. You do not have to ask for the discount, because the count applies it.

The one line that does move

Two figures move as the count grows: the rate band for each size, and the shipping tier for the order as a whole. Up to 100 buttons it is $9.99. Up to 250 it is $14.99. Up to 500 it is $19.99. Up to 1000 it is $24.99.

The breaks are not a negotiation. They are four bands with the boundaries written down. An order that has just crept past 500 pays $24.99, and so does an order of 750, and so does an order that runs all the way to 1000. If your guest list is hovering a little above 500 and you are thinking about a handful of spares for the gift table, the shipping line does not notice them. The buttons themselves are $1.32 each at 500 and at 750 alike, because both counts sit in the 500 to 999 band, and the delivery charge has already been paid for the whole band.

Two names that sit next to each other

The one genuinely local thing worth getting right on an order form is the name. West Sayville sits 1.5 miles away and shares the same name root, which means an address written in a hurry, read aloud over the phone, or copied from a venue confirmation can land in the wrong column. The ZIP code is what actually separates them on a label, so 11782 is the field to check twice.

This matters more for favours than for most orders, because favours are so often shipped to a third party. The box goes to a venue, a parent's house, a planner's office or whoever has the garage space, and none of those people are the person who typed the address. If the delivery address and the event address are different, the ZIP on the order is the one that decides where the carton goes.

Where you are relative to us

The town is 18.6 miles from the shop, south east, measured in a straight line. We cover the places around it on the same terms: West Sayville at 1.5 miles, Bayport at 1.9 miles, Bohemia at 2.4 miles, Oakdale at 2.5 miles and Blue Point at 3.0 miles. Nothing about the pricing changes across those, which is worth saying out loud when a wedding party is scattered across several of them and the favours are going to one address in Suffolk County while the bridal shower gifts go to another.

Picking a size for a favour

The five sizes read very differently on a table. The 1.5 inch at $1.89 is the one that behaves like a favour: small enough to sit on a place card or in a gift bag without dominating it, and small enough that a monogram, two names and a date fill the face without crowding. The 2.25 inch at $1.99 gives you room for a photograph or an illustration that needs to be recognisable from arm's length. The 3 inch at $2.49 is a display piece more than a favour, and it tends to show up as a bridal party button, a parents' button or a sign-in table novelty rather than as the thing every guest takes home.

Very little separates the first two sizes on price, so it is worth doing the multiplication both ways before deciding. The gap across a full favour run is often smaller than people expect it to be.

Splitting one order into several designs

Favour runs are rarely one design. A shower might want the bride's monogram on most of the run and something different for the hosts. A wedding might want one face for the ceremony and another for the reception, or separate art for each side of the family. Different artwork on the same order does not change the per button price, and the shipping tier still counts the order as a single pile of buttons rather than as separate runs. Two designs split evenly across a run of 750 is still a 750 button order, priced and shipped as one.

Four people who order this way

The planner running several events at once. You are pricing favours as a line item in a proposal, not as a purchase, and you need a figure that will still be true when the client signs. The per button rate you can look up means the quote you write for a large wedding does not need a footnote about minimums or breaks.

The couple doing it themselves. You have a spreadsheet, a guest list that keeps moving and a budget that has already been spent twice on paper. Buttons are one of the few lines you can recalculate in a single multiplication every time the count changes.

The maid of honour with a shower to fund. You are collecting from a group and you need a number to tell them. Total buttons times the size price, plus one shipping figure for the whole order, and that is the ask.

The venue or catering coordinator. You are receiving the box rather than ordering it, and what you care about is that the label matches the property. The ZIP is the part to confirm with whoever places the order.

Common questions

We are planning a bridal shower in Sayville and want 750 of the 1.5 inch button. What is the total? $990.00 for the buttons at $1.32 each, the 500 to 999 rate for that size, plus $24.99 flat shipping for an order of that size, which is $1014.99 before tax.

If our Sayville order grew from 750 buttons to 1000, would the price per button come down? Yes, and it is worth knowing where the steps are. 750 of one size pays 30 percent under the listed rate, and 1000 of one size is a quote rather than an automatic price. It is $1.32 each at 750, and a thousand of one size is a quote rather than an automatic price. The shipping also stays at $24.99, because both counts fall inside the same tier.

Can one Sayville order mix the 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch buttons? Yes. Each size is charged at its own count and so its own rate, $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 and $2.49, and the shipping tier is worked out from the total number of buttons on the order rather than from each size separately.

Our Sayville favour count has just gone over 500. What happens to the shipping charge? It moves to $24.99. Under 500 it would have been $19.99. Once you are in the higher band, the charge is the same whether the order is just past 500 or all the way at 1000.

Do we need to put anything particular on a Sayville order so the box does not go to the village next door? Include the ZIP code, 11782, and make sure the delivery address on the order is the address that will actually receive the carton rather than the address of the event. The ZIP is what distinguishes the two names.