Wedding Music CD Favours?

CuppaCocoa

Don't know if that's what you call them? Friends of mine are getting married and want me to burn a cd with their favourite music tracks as gifts for the guests. That's not a problem. I want to customise the covers and face of the discs but don't want to print them myself. Anyone know of any company that will do this for me if I provide the artwork? I'll need about 80. Thanks

Sleepy

Are they planning to pay the royalties to the artists whose music they're including on these CD's?

It's a nice idea but I'd suggest a legal home-made favour instead tbh

CuppaCocoa

Sleepy wrote: »

Are they planning to pay the royalties to the artists whose music they're including on these CD's?

It's a nice idea but I'd suggest a legal home-made favour instead tbh

Thanks, but my query is about the cover printing! :rolleyes:

Sleepy

Any of the companies that print CD covers are hardly likely to help you in piracy since their business depends on the legitimate business they get from the music industry.

TBH, the more I think on it, the more awful an idea it sounds as a favour anyway. Put 80 people in a room and you're going to have 80 different tastes in music. Almost guarantee'd the CD's will end up in the bin / left on the table without even being listened to.

Look, we've all done the whole making a mix tape/CD for a girlfriend thing but that's someone you know intimately and who's taste in music you have a good grasp on. Very, very difficult to do that for a large number of people.

Acoshla

People really need to realise that wedding guests just don't care enough to keep every silly favour that they receive, personalised candles, keyrings with photos of the couple, cd's of their wedding music is a new one but no less bizarre. Your friends are wasting their and your time doing these cd's, they will be binned by 90% of the guests, once a wedding is over it's still only a big deal to those most closely involved, 80 people aren't going to ever play the cd to "reminisce" about the day. So even besides the copyright issues this is a terrible idea.

Penny Dreadful

Acoshla wrote: »

People really need to realise that wedding guests just don't care enough to keep every silly favour that they receive, personalised candles, keyrings with photos of the couple, cd's of their wedding music is a new one but no less bizarre. Your friends are wasting their and your time doing these cd's, they will be binned by 90% of the guests, once a wedding is over it's still only a big deal to those most closely involved, 80 people aren't going to ever play the cd to "reminisce" about the day. So even besides the copyright issues this is a terrible idea.

Which is exactly why I've decided not to have any favours at my wedding this year.
I've never once kept anything that I got at any wedding I was at so why bother spending the money on something that will be totally wasted.

Cathmandooo

I'd agree they'd be a complete waste. If I got such a wedding favour I doubt it would even make it home. Do people listen to CD's these days? I can't remember the last time I played a CD

silly

Op, sorry I don't know of a company that do it.
Might I suggest that you ring some local printers that might have an idea?

To the rest of ye.... Get off your high horses... The op wants to know about cd printing. She is not getting married, her friends are.
You don't like favours..... Fair enough, start your own thread about it. Although I'm sure there are loads there already.

CuppaCocoa

silly wrote: »

Op, sorry I don't know of a company that do it.
Might I suggest that you ring some local printers that might have an idea?

To the rest of ye.... Get off your high horses... The op wants to know about cd printing. She is not getting married, her friends are.
You don't like favours..... Fair enough, start your own thread about it. Although I'm sure there are loads there already.

Thanks! I'm only doing a favour for my friends, I didn't think of the idea

I found a company that will print them for me so mods you can close this thread!

silly

P.s. I doubt there are any legal implications here anyway unless they are intending on selling and making money from the cd's and they are not downloaded illegally.

Sleepy

silly, you clearly know very little about copyright law so. This is distribution of another's intellectual property without any compensation going to the owner of that property. It's most certainly a breach of copyright law.

I'm not against favours in the slightest, sure we'll be doing some form of them at our wedding, probably something like cookies / chocolates to go with the coffee or a charity pen / donation to a charity that means something to us. Acoshla is right though, much of what are considered "favours" at weddings are just meaningless tat to anyone but the bride in question...

clint_silver

On the copyright issues, if theyre copyrighted songs, they just can not be legally distributed like that without the express permission of the copyright owner. Whether the bride and groom or any guest would care about that is another matter so park that one as thats not what this post is about.

Maybe the songs are not copyrighted. Lets assume for the sake of the topic to progress, theyre not copyrighted.

Giving CDs: As mentioned, very few people play CDs any more, some do before people reply, but most dont, everyones on mp3 players these days.

Taste: I DJ at weddings, I dont mind getting a subsection of songs from a couple to play but I cringe when I get a full playlist of the couples favorite songs but am then told to keep the floor filled by only playing their songs. And its my fault if the songs dont work. If I went to a wedding, I would appreciate a favour of any type, but trust me, as mentioned above, the CDs will go in the bin. A REALLY bad idea for me.

If youre determined to go through with giving people your taste in music, there may be easier and better ways, why not publish your itunes playlist to friends, or you can get bulk personalised USB keys made up from most printers, now everyone has a USB key ring which just happens to have some songs on it. If youre ABSOLUTELY determined to get CDs printed with your own logos/images on it,
1. find a printer to do it, thats their business.
2. Do it yourself, get a CD label printer, buy it second hand on ebay, sell it afterwards.
3. Do it online at somewhere like vistaprint
http://www.vistaprint.co.uk/multi-purpose-labels.aspx
where you can upload your image, print the labels and get the labels sent out to you. Buy 100 blank discs for 25 euro in your local shop and just spend a few nights burning and sticking the labels on.

Id really REALLY suggest not doing it though but best of luck whatever way the couple go.

silly

clint_silver wrote: »

On the copyright issues, if theyre copyrighted songs, they just can not be legally distributed like that without the express permission of the copyright owner. Whether the bride and groom or any guest would care about that is another matter so park that one as thats not what this post is about.

Maybe the songs are not copyrighted. Lets assume for the sake of the topic to progress, theyre not copyrighted.

Giving CDs: As mentioned, very few people play CDs any more, some do before people reply, but most dont, everyones on mp3 players these days.

Taste: I DJ at weddings, I dont mind getting a subsection of songs from a couple to play but I cringe when I get a full playlist of the couples favorite songs but am then told to keep the floor filled by only playing their songs. And its my fault if the songs dont work. If I went to a wedding, I would appreciate a favour of any type, but trust me, as mentioned above, the CDs will go in the bin. A REALLY bad idea for me.

If youre determined to go through with giving people your taste in music, there may be easier and better ways, why not publish your itunes playlist to friends, or you can get bulk personalised USB keys made up from most printers, now everyone has a USB key ring which just happens to have some songs on it. If youre ABSOLUTELY determined to get CDs printed with your own logos/images on it,
1. find a printer to do it, thats their business.
2. Do it yourself, get a CD label printer, buy it second hand on ebay, sell it afterwards.
3. Do it online at somewhere like vistaprint
http://www.vistaprint.co.uk/multi-purpose-labels.aspx
where you can upload your image, print the labels and get the labels sent out to you. Buy 100 blank discs for 25 euro in your local shop and just spend a few nights burning and sticking the labels on.

Id really REALLY suggest not doing it though but best of luck whatever way the couple go.

Did you not read op's last post?
She found a printer.

sarkozy

I was shocked to hear about this 'party favours' thing, as if you need to bribe people to come to your wedding. I'd love to know the historical origins of this. I'm recently entwined and we resisted all this kind of pressure to spend more cash to keep the wedding industry alive.

Anyway, I think it's a sweet idea to give people a CD with the wedding soundtrack on it, but I wouldn't bother going overboard. A cheaper alternative might be to put the mix on Soundcloud or on a web server or something and let people choose to download it if they wish. On a server, you can keep it discrete and avoid any copyright infringement problems. At the wedding, perhaps you can circulate some little A6 card (printed on a photocopier) with the web-link to the 'Wedding Soundtrack'.

One thing in the 'favour' category that seems important to me is 'Thank You' cards handwritten and posted out to everyone who gave a gift to us. That's something we're certainly personalising and printing on Moo.com.

clint_silver

Did you not read op's last post?
She found a printer.

I read the first line of that post but not the last one.