Wedding Booklet Template with the LaTeX Songs Package

Hey there 👋

It’s been quite a while since I last spoke about my template for easy professional-looking wedding booklets built with the songs package.

The template

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The template is out and available right here. Some missing refinements remain though, such as creating an English sample, but I don’t have time to do it right now so if someone’s willing to send a merge request I’ll gladly accept it (same for a Latin mass (in Extraordinary Form) or other languages).

Usage

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This usage for now assumes that you know how to configure pdflatex or lualatex and the associated packages or are using overleaf, I may do a specific tutorial on how to install this on Ubuntu/Fedora (any contribution is welcome !)

• Open the p1.svg Change the names, date, name of the church/parish

  • Export it to p1.pdf

• Open the main.tex file and change the main variables line 22 :

  \def\names{
      ... % Ex : Eve \& Adam
  }
  
  \def\date{
      ... % Ex : 01 Juin 2025
  }
  

• Then in the same file search for every Eve & Adam and replace them with you own beautiful names

• Then still in the .tex file Replace the songs as follows :

  • The heading :

       \beginsong{<TITLE OF THE SONG>}[
                 by={<AUTHOR OF THE SONG>},
                 sr={<REFERENCE OF THE SONG>} % For instance the book of the bible the text comes from
             ]
    

    • Every beginsong should have a matching \endsong
    • make sure every [ and { is closed ;)
  • If you want to add a little note you can put it in :

    \textnote{<YOUR TEXT HERE>}
    

  • Verses and choruses are as follows respectedly :

    \beginverse
        ...
    \endverse
    
    \beginchorus
        ...
    \endchorus 
    

  • If you want to add picture you can base yourself of off the sample image insertions (and reuse those for your own wedding if you want)
  • There are a lot of settings we fine-tuned. Check out the settings part starting on line 35
  • If you want to do something else (and have a little bit of LaTeX knowledge) go check the official documentation for the songs package