Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Shirley, New York

Mastic is 1.8 miles away, Moriches is 2.7 miles away and Mastic Beach is 2.8 miles away, which puts three of the places we cover closer to Shirley than a lot of people live from their own post office. Add East Yaphank at 3.7 miles and Yaphank at 4.1 miles and the whole cluster of five neighbours fits inside a single short radius. That matters more than it sounds like it should, because a party favour order is almost never for one household on one street. It is for a guest list, and guest lists in this part of Brookhaven tend to be drawn from all five of those places at once.

Custom pin-back buttons are a favour that scales with a guest list rather than fighting it. Full colour, printed from artwork you upload, in five round sizes and nothing else.

All Five Neighbours Sit Inside 4.1 Miles

The practical effect of that tight cluster is that a favour order placed for a party in the 11967 ZIP rarely stays inside the 11967 ZIP. Aunts in Mastic, cousins in Moriches, a couple of families over in Mastic Beach, someone driving in from Yaphank or East Yaphank. Nobody is coming from far, and nobody needs a separate order.

The artwork makes no difference to the count, but the size does: only matching sizes add up. One order for the whole guest list can cost LESS per button than five smaller ones, because the counts for a size add up to reach a band, and it pays a single flat shipping charge instead of five. So the sensible move is almost always one order, one design, one delivery point, and then hand the rest out at the party.

What Seventy Five Favours Actually Costs

Here is a real worked example rather than a range. Seventy five of the 1.5 inch button at $1.89 each is $141.75 in buttons. An order of that size sits in the first flat shipping tier at $9.99. Total, before tax, $151.74.

That is the whole calculation. There are three quantity thresholds, at 100, 250 and 500 of one size, and the price improves at each of them and never worsens. $1.89 is $1.89 on a small order and $1.89 on a large one.

The five prices are:

• The 1 inch $1.49 each
• The 1.25 inch $1.69 each
• The 1.5 inch $1.89 each
• The 2.25 inch $1.99 each
• The 3 inch $2.49 each

Order the count you actually need, with one exception worth checking: if you are a handful short of 100, 250 or 500 of a single size, the bigger order can come to less than the smaller one.

Where the rate moves, and where it does not

Shipping is flat, and it steps by total buttons on the order:

• up to 100 buttons $9.99
• up to 250 buttons $14.99
• up to 500 buttons $19.99
• up to 1000 buttons $24.99

This is the one place where the number on your order form has a consequence beyond multiplication. A guest list that lands just under 100 and one that lands just over it pay different shipping, even though every single button in both orders costs the same. If your headcount is sitting barely above a boundary, it is worth a second look at the list before you check out. And if it is sitting below one, you have room to add spares at nothing but the published rate for each band.

Party planners tend to over order slightly on purpose, for the guests who bring a plus one and the kids who lose theirs before the cake. Spares are cheap in the sense that they cost the same as everything else. They are only expensive if they push the total over a tier line.

Choosing Between The Five Sizes

The 1.5 inch is the classic favour size. It is the one that reads as a keepsake rather than a statement, it pins to a lapel or a bag strap without pulling the fabric, and at $1.89 it is the lowest per unit of the three, which is why most large guest lists land there.

The 2.25 inch at $1.99 is the size to choose when the artwork has detail that needs room. A photograph of the couple, a date, a monogram with fine lines. It sits a little above the 1.5 inch per button, and since that gap is the same in the 1 to 99 band you can work out what it adds to your own headcount in one multiplication.

The 3 inch at $2.49 is a different object. It is a table piece, a name marker, a thing the guest of honour wears so everyone can find them. Most planners order a handful of these alongside a larger run of the smaller size rather than doing the whole list in 3 inch.

Artwork For A Favour Run

Buttons are printed full colour from a file you upload, so the design decisions are yours. A few things are worth knowing before you build one.

The button is round and it curves over an edge, so anything critical, a name, a date, a face, wants to sit well inside the circle rather than near the rim. Dark backgrounds with light type read strongly at 1.5 inch. Fine serif text at that size does not. If you are putting a photo on a favour, crop tight on faces before you upload rather than trusting the button to do it.

For an anniversary, a single old photograph reproduced on all seventy five is usually stronger than a collage that goes muddy once it is shrunk to an inch and a half.

Distance, And Whether To Post Or Collect

Shirley sits 28.1 miles east of the shop in a straight line. That is far enough that most orders for this part of Suffolk County go out by post and pay the flat shipping tier, and close enough that collecting in person is a genuine option if someone in the party is heading west anyway. Up to 99 of one size there is no discount, and from 100 of it there is. The only difference is whether the flat shipping charge appears on the order at all.

Four Planners, Four Situations

The sweet sixteen. One design, the birthday guest's name and the date, 1.5 inch across the whole list, a few 3 inch for the head table. Order spares for the friends who show up unannounced.

The anniversary party. An old wedding photograph on the 2.25 inch, because the detail deserves the wider face. The couple gets 3 inch versions so the grandchildren can spot them across the hall.

The professional planner running several parties. The printed rate ladder makes quoting simple. You know the unit cost before you know the headcount, and the only variable left is which shipping tier the final number lands in.

The parent doing this for the first time. You do not need a designer. A photo, a name and a date, uploaded, is the entire job, and it is what most favour buttons are.

Questions People Ask

Can one order cover guests from Shirley and Mastic at the same time? Yes, and it is the cheaper way to do it. One order pays one flat shipping charge. Splitting a run across separate orders splits the count that earns the discount, which is the new reason to keep it together.

Does 75 buttons for a Shirley party push the order into a higher shipping tier? No. The first tier covers everything up to 100 buttons at $9.99, so 75 sits comfortably inside it with room for spares.

Our Shirley guest list grew from 90 to 110. What changes on the order? Only the shipping. You move from the $9.99 tier to the $14.99 tier. The per button rate moves at three counts, 100, 250 and 500 of one size, and holds level between them.

If we choose the 3 inch instead of the 1.5 inch for a Shirley anniversary party, does ordering more of them bring the price down? No. The published bands are 1 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499 and 500 to 999, per size. Combine designs at one size and the combined count is what sets the rate.

Can someone collect a Shirley order in person instead of having it posted? Yes. Collection is an option, and an order collected in person does not carry the flat shipping charge. A size's rate is fixed inside its band and steps at the next one.