Creating a Schedule of Events for Your Invitation: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this video we're going to add the schedule of events for our invitation. To do this let's hit W on our keyboard so we can go back to normal mode and we'll be utilizing our type tool.

From here let's simply drag out some type from our guide in the center and we'll drag it all the way to the edge of the margin. We'll then change our text and we'll be typing in Chivo and let's select bold. From here we're going to type out the first event which will be guided tours through property.

Let's leave our font at 12 points right now and we'll hit CTRL + ALT + C to minimize the frame from top to bottom for our text. Next let's work on our time. To do this we're going to create an additional text frame and we'll simply click and drag until we're the same height and for this let's type 4 p.m. For the text here let's highlight it and we'll again select Chivo but this time let's select light italic.

We'll again leave the font at 12 points and utilizing our selection tool let's now center it holding ALT as we drag down so this text right here is now in line with the center of the text on the right hand side. As one additional element let's create a line and for this line let's drag from the top right here lining up with the top of our text on the right hand side and holding shift go all the way to the margin. With a straight line across now let's hit V on the keyboard and we're going to drag it to the left hand side so that it lines up roughly with the end of 4 p.m. And release.

And if we hit W on the keyboard we can see what this looks like. Currently we have a bit of separation between this left hand side and our actual details so let's hit W again and let's create a guide for where these times will be on the left hand side. To do this we'll drag from the left ruler and let's drag over to the right hand side and we'll line it up right at half an inch over and release.

And for the right hand text let's create another guide dragging from the left and for this text let's release right at one and a half inch and release. From here we'll select our text on the right hand side and drag over holding shift so we drag only horizontally and we'll release here. Let's select both the text and the guide holding shift and we're going to now group these together right-clicking and going down to group.

This way when we move this object they'll move together. We'll now select the group of both the line and text and while holding shift we'll drag it over. If we hit W on the keyboard we can see what this now looks like and I think it looks a little awkward now with the line being at the top and the text being below.

So let's line it up appropriately selecting the group of 4pm and the line. We'll drag it below just a bit so it's in line with the text on the right. If we hit W again we can see the preview of this and this looks much better.

Let's hit W one more time. I think we need a little more space between our left hand times and the right. So to do this we're going to move our guide over holding shift and dragging it to 1 3 quarters inch.

We'll hold shift as we drag the text to the right. Remember that page layout and design is all about trial and error and as we continue to finesse these works don't get discouraged if your first idea doesn't work. Continue to work through it and you'll get an image that looks great.

Let's now drag this text to the right hand side and hit W and I think this looks much better. Now we're ready to add the additional schedule elements. We'll hit W on the keyboard and let's select this left hand group and holding shift let's also select the right hand group of text.

From here we're going to create an additional group so we'll right click and select group. Now within this group we have our text and then we have an additional subgroup of the text and line. To edit any of these we can double click and we'll select the text or we can select any of the additional elements.

We'll click outside and if we now select this group we'll hold ALT and we'll just drag it below. For this text here we're going to change our next one from 4 p.m. Double clicking and double clicking until we can edit just the text of the time. We're going to change this to 4 30 p.m. On the right hand side we'll change this text to welcome ceremony.

Let's move the word ceremony to the second line hitting backspace and enter so it's consistent with the top. We'll then hit CTRL + Shift + A to deselect and utilizing our selection tool V on the keyboard let's create an additional copy. We'll hold ALT and in this case we'll create two additional copies holding ALT.

For our third one let's double click double click and double click and we'll change this from 4 30 to 5 p.m. And for the bottom here we'll change this from 4 30 to 5 10 p.m. On the right hand side we'll be changing welcome ceremony on the third line to ceremonial ribbon-cutting and on the bottom here we'll change welcome ceremony hitting CTRL + A to cocktail hour and socializing. Move in socializing to the second line. When we finish this we can hit CTRL + Shift + A to deselect and if we hit W on the keyboard we'll see that all of these elements are a little bit out of line.

If we hit W again and hit V on the keyboard for a selection tool we could drag these in line as we feel is best and line them up appropriately or if we drag the top one where we'd prefer it in this case I'll have it start right about here and for a bottom element let's move it down so that's right about centered on the 5 inch line. From here we can now center them all holding shift and selecting all four groups of text and times and in our alignment options within our control bar we can select distribute vertical centers. If we hit W on our keyboard and click outside we can see what this now looks like.

Let's now hit CTRL + S on our keyboard to save our work and in the next video we'll begin adding our final text options. See you there!