WEDDINGS
The Wedding Paper Suite
Your wedding collection suite tells a story - from the save the date announcements proclaiming your good news to the menu cards that complete each place setting at the reception, each moment showcases your personal style and sets the tone for one of the best days of your life.
I’ll work with you to build your custom wedding suite with each piece needed to tell your story.
Or your semi custom - the choice is up to you, we’re just here to bring your vision to life.
Let’s Get Designing
Whether you found my page through Instagram, a recommendation from a friend or maybe you’ve bought a print before, I am so honored that you are interested in Paper Eliza helping you with something as special as your custom wedding paper.
I suggest to all of my brides to check out the website first and play around with paper types and quantity amounts to get a feel for which products work best with your budget and your overall vision for the big day. Have any questions? Shoot me an email. This is a great chance to talk through the difference between paper types, what you want to include on your details card, and answer any additional questions that you may have before you pull the trigger on placing your order and beginning the design process.
Once you’ve placed your order on my website, I want to hear how you met, the engagement story, and special moments or elements that you would want to include to make your wedding paper YOU.
STEp-BY-STEP
The Paper Eliza Custom Process
Regarding custom wedding paper, placing an order on the site kickstarts our design process.
Gather Inspiration
Once I receive the order confirmation, I will shoot you an email asking for the exact text you want to use and maybe some inspirational photos that you are loving. I encourage my brides to put together a Pinterest board of design elements, colors, fonts, and illustrations to help me create the perfect first round of proofs. The Paper Eliza instagram is great first place to start ;)
Get Designing
I use the specific elements that you love (think a font from one photo placed within a layout of another with an illustration of your wedding venue) to bring it all together in the design process. Afterwards, I will send over several proofs for you to pick and choose from.
Refine & Perfect
We mix and match, tweak, and perfect it until we land on the perfect product! This process can take a couple of days to a few weeks, depending on how many proofs we create together, while always keeping your timeline at the forefront of our process. We suggest placing your order four weeks from when you want your paper in hand to allow plenty of time for the design, printing and shipping processes. 5 rounds of proofing is included in each product.
Semi Custom Wedding Paper
Our semi-custom save the dates, 3 and 4 piece invitation suites have a slightly different process.
Each of the 10 layouts (with fixed fonts) is offered with 16 different ink color options. When adding that product into your cart, you will be prompted to answer several questions requesting the necessary information to help me build out your proofs for you. You are not allowed to change the formatting or other specific text other than the custom information like names, date, location, wedding website, etc. With the invitation suites, we are able to adjust the wording from “Mr. and Mrs. Father’s First Middle Last” to “Together with our families” or another variation of that phrasing. All other text, layout, illustration, or border changes are considered fully custom. If you are looking for a custom border to complement your custom crest, you will want to order a fully custom invitation or save the date product.
We also offer add ons like belly bands, invitation gatefolds and envelope liners in our semi custom offering, but all of these extras could also be paired with your fully custom invitation suite. Feel free to mix and match semi custom and fully custom products to create your perfect wedding paper package.
I will send the proof over to you via email for you to approve or tweak and once approved, it will be sent off to the printers. Text and line border layouts are included within the price of the products, but you are also able to add on crests, venue illustrations, front of envelope guest address printing and envelope liners. You will have to add those individual products to your cart, in addition to the original products. Both semi custom and fully custom products have five rounds of proofing included.
READY TO GET STARTED?
Let’s build your custom wedding suite!
Whether you are ordering custom or semi custom paper, I suggest ordering in three increments: first - your save the dates, then - invitations, and finally - all day of paper.
Custom Wedding Paper
Frequently Asked Questions
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The custom paper process begins when you place your order on my site. I point my potential brides first to my site to play around with quantities, paper types, extras (like a custom crest or guest addressing) you may want to add, to figure out what products best fit your budget and overall vision.
If you are looking to get your hands on the paper itself, we offer sample boxes that include both paper types, save the dates, invitations, rsvp and additional cards, and their respective envelopes. You can purchase them here. They provide more insight into the products themselves. While the products (the paper types and sizes) remain consistent, the designs are always unique and one of a kind.
One thing to note though, is to make sure that you have your card count finalized before ordering your paper quantity. If you need to add additional paper throughout the process, you will have to start a new order with a minimum quantity of 50 cards and envelopes, so it is always better to err on the safe side and order more paper than necessary to avoid getting stuck with an excessive number of extras.
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Once the product is ordered, I’ll follow up with you on the exact text needed to begin to build out the proofs. You'll also send me any fonts, colors, and maybe layouts that you are loving and I will use those elements to build out your custom proofs. I'll send them back your way to either approve or tweak.
When we have finalized the proofs, I will send the digital files to my contracted printers, who do an incredible job, and will send the finished product onto you within a matter of days.
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Your product price includes five rounds of proofing. Please make sure that you send over colors, flowers, specific illustrations and as much information as you can provide before the design process to help us nail the vision within those five rounds. Every additional round of proofing past the five will incur a $55.00 charge.
Once your paper is approved and finalized (we get your written approval via email), you will be responsible for all changes that you would like made past that proof and will have to repurchase the paper product that you want to make changes on.
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Yes! We will request specific pieces of information and use text like name, location, date, etc. to build out your custom proofs for you. Paper Eliza tends to use traditional language when building out invitation suite proofs, but save the dates have more leniency when it comes to tradition and have room for more creativity. As always, we work closely with our clients to make sure that text, design, and layout is what they are envisioning. If you have questions about specific parts of an invitation and what is traditionally and accurately used, just ask! We’ve been doing this for a while, ha!
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We suggest placing your custom paper order about a month out from when you want it in hand. The biggest factor in time to completion in the custom paper process is in the design and proofing stage.
The more exact your wedding paper vision, the quicker the design process will take because we will be able to quickly execute proofs that are according to what you want. Every round of poofs adds more time to when you can expect to have your paper in hand.