Custom Die-Cut Stickers for West Sayville, New York

How much does a full table of wedding favors actually come to once you have picked a size?

For a favor order headed to West Sayville, that has a direct answer: pick one of the five sizes, multiply by how many you want, then add one flat shipping charge. The breaks in the rate are published rather than negotiated. Those counts sit in different bands: forty at the listed rate, four hundred at 25 percent under the listed rate. The count moves two numbers, the rate band for that size and the shipping tier for the order.

Two names, one word apart

The hamlet shares its name root with Sayville, which sits 1.5 miles away, and that closeness is worth a second of attention when you fill in an order. The two names are not interchangeable on a shipping label. If the boxes are going to a house in West Sayville, the address line and the ZIP, 11796, need to say so, because an order typed with the shorter name and the 11796 ZIP is a mismatch that a carrier has to resolve on its own. Wedding and shower orders make this more likely than most, since the planner, the host and the venue are often three different addresses in three different parts of Suffolk County. Put the shipping address in as the shipping address, not the address of the event, and the rest follows.

Five sizes, and what each one does on a table

There are five round pin-back sizes and nothing else.

The 1.5 inch is the tidy option at $1.89. At favor scale it works pinned to a place card, tucked into a favor box, or set at each seat as part of a setting rather than as the centerpiece of it. The detail you can fit is limited, so a monogram, two initials, a date or a single line of type reads better than a full illustration.

The 2.25 inch is the usual badge size. It holds a photo, a name and a date at once without crowding. It is the size used in the worked example further down.

The 3 inch is the large one. It carries a face, a full illustration or a longer line of text, and it reads from across a room. At a shower it tends to get used for the guest of honour, the table markers or a small group rather than for every seat.

Nothing stops you ordering more than one size, but each size carries its own price per button, so work them out separately and add the totals.

A worked example, four hundred at the middle size

Take four hundred of the 2.25 inch button. At $1.49 each, the 250 to 499 rate, 25 percent off, that is $596.00 in buttons. An order of that size falls in the shipping tier that costs $19.99, so the order comes to $615.99 before tax.

Worth reading that against the 1 to 99 rate for the other four sizes: $1.49 for the 1 inch, $1.69 for the 1.25 inch, $1.89 for the 1.5 inch and $2.49 for the 3 inch. Those are the 1 to 99 figures. At four hundred of a size they become $1.42 and $1.87. The ladder has four rungs per size and the lowest online one is 500 to 999.

Where the shipping tiers fall

Shipping is flat and set by the total number of 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

The useful thing to know is that the boundaries are hard. An order of exactly 250 pays $14.99. The rate band and the shipping tier both step, and they are counted from different totals. If your guest count is hovering just above a boundary, that is the one place where trimming or padding the quantity has any effect on the bill at all.

Eighteen miles on the map

In a straight line, West Sayville is 18.4 miles south east of the shop. That is a line on a map and not a route, but it puts the order in the same corner of Suffolk County as several other places covered here: Oakdale at 1.6 miles, Bohemia at 2.9 miles, Bayport at 3.1 miles and North Great River at 3.8 miles. Events that pull guests from several of those at once are ordinary, and none of it changes the price per button or the shipping tier, which are set by size and quantity alone.

Artwork

Buttons are printed in full color from artwork you upload. A photo, a monogram, a drawn illustration and flat type all print the same way. If a design was built for a save the date or an invitation suite, it usually needs to be recentered for a circle, since anything sitting near an edge will wrap around the curve of the button.

Four people who order these

The planner running more than one event. You are pricing favors for several clients at once and you need a number you can quote without a phone call. The unit price is the unit price, so a quote is size times count plus one shipping tier, and it stays accurate whether the client's guest list grows or shrinks.

The couple doing their own favors. You are not ordering at planner volume and you do not have to. The table is published, so your own total and ours come from the same two numbers.

The shower host. You are working to a room count, not a guest list, and the mix tends to matter more than the total. One 3 inch for the guest of honour and 1.5 inch buttons for everyone else is a normal shape for an order, priced as two separate lines.

The venue coordinator. You are the shipping address but not the buyer. Make sure whoever places the order puts your address in the shipping field rather than the billing field, and that the ZIP matches the street.

Questions that come up

Can one West Sayville order cover two different showers? Yes. Nothing about the pricing splits by event. Total the buttons you need for both, apply the size price to each line, and the shipping tier is set by the combined count on the order.

The invitations say West Sayville but the venue is in the next village over, which address should the order use? The one the boxes should go to. The billing address and the event address can be anything you like, but the shipping address is what the carrier reads, and it needs the matching ZIP.

If a West Sayville order goes a little past 250 buttons, does the price per button change? Yes, within a single size. 250 of one size earns 25 percent off, and it comes off every button of that size rather than only the ones above the line. There is a discount at 100 of a size, a better one at 250 and the best online one at 500. What changes past 250 is the flat shipping charge, which moves from $14.99 to $19.99.

Which of the five sizes suits a West Sayville shower favor? It depends on what goes on the face. Initials and a date fit the 1.5 inch. A photo with a name and a date fits the 2.25 inch. A face or an illustration meant to be seen across the room fits the 3 inch.

Do you cover the places around West Sayville too? Yes. Sayville, Oakdale, Bohemia, Bayport and North Great River are all covered, and an order to any of them is priced exactly the same way as one going to 11796.