Weddingbee Blog

After ordering paper sample after paper sample, testing things out on my printer, and doing a million and one mock-ups, I finally committed to my invitation design and placed an order online for all the paper for my wedding—STDs, invitations, programs, and thank you notes. Even though I won’t need much of it for quite some time, I decided to order everything together to save money on shipping. I’m just thrifty that way!

Everything just arrived, and I am thrilled to pieces. Wanna see?

Sorry about the glare. I don’t want to unwrap it all yet!

Can’t you just imagine how all that paper might make something fabulous?!? After much research and comparison shopping, I ordered from two places—Paper and More and Cards and Pockets.
From Paper and More, I bought the bulk of the paper—dark blue metallic paper, pocketfolds, and envelopes for the invitation; pearl metallic paper and card stock for invitation inserts, STDs, and programs; and smaller-sized metallic envelopes for thank you notes and STDs. I love the shimmer of the metallic paper, and the card stock is really weighty but still goes through my printer. The one concession I had to make was that the envelopes have a square flap, instead of a pointy, triangular flap; but I love the color, and they were less expensive than other similarly colored, pointy-flap envelopes I found. To me, it wasn’t a huge deal, and if I can save a few bucks, I’m all for it.

After searching a ton of places for patterned paper that would work well with my invitation vision, I found Cards and Pockets, which has several patterns to choose from and will print them in any color you want. You just have to tell them the CMYK code. I chose the tile design printed on pearl metallic paper, so it matches everything perfectly. I ordered 4.75″ x 6.75″ patterned paper for the backing of the pocketfolds (how great is it that it comes in just the perfect size?!) and the belly bands and 12″ x 12″ paper for making envelope liners. They have pre-cut envelope liners on the site, but only for the pointy envelopes, so I will be DIY’ing those. One of my favorite things about Cards and Pockets is that it has a small business feel. I e-mailed a couple of questions before placing my order that were answered really quickly, and my order arrived with a personally signed note thanking me for my business. I know that seems so trivial, but small touches like that are so rare nowadays.

I’m so excited that everything arrived safely, not to mention that I LOVE it! It’s kind of overwhelming when you see it all just sitting there waiting to be made into something beautiful, but it’s exciting all at the same time. How did you feel when your paper arrived?