Digital Calligraphy

Nothing can really replace the beauty of hand calligraphy. The slight imperfections of the strokes and the beautiful flourishes are just a perfect finish for your invitations. Because it's done by hand, you can imagine how much time it can take and therefore, the correlating price. So I encounter a lot of brides asking me for alternatives if they do not want to write their guest list by hand or do sticky labels.

The alternative is something stationers call digital calligraphy or computer calligraphy. Simply put, it just means that we will help print your envelopes for you with our printers. If your stationer offers this, it can be a great saver for your hand! Not to mention, the prices are more affordable than hand calligraphy. There are several options that we offer at Papeterie. 1) Black ink with a font of choice (Picture 1 is in a script font that I love to recommend for digital calligraphy) 2) Colored ink with a script font and 3) Colored ink with a motif! (Shown in pics 2,3, and 4).

Using a motif as part of addressing unifies the invitation set. If the motif has been repeated too many times in your other stationery, sometimes it's good to use just a part of it (picture 2 is a good example of this)

Stay tuned as I will be posting more on different ways to dress up your mailing envelope!

Photo Program Book

Have you ever sat at a wedding reading the program and trying to match faces to the names of the bridesmaids and groomsmen? In a long list of diy projects the year that I got married, programs were definitely on the list. I wanted a program that would have pictures of our wedding party since they were such a big part of the wedding, but mainly being practical, I also wanted our guests to know who these special people were.

So here is how they looked like.

The program was made up of nine panels. The first being the cover and a panel each for the other categories (Parents of the Bride, Parents of the Groom, etc.) Warning: Do not attempt this project alone! This is a great project for your wedding party to help out.































This program became quite a popular item at Papeterie! Here's a variation that we designed for one couple.

Font Obsessed

For many of us in the industry, October would be the start of our low peak season. A lot of exciting things have been happening and please do check back as we are planning new things for the upcoming year.

I have many real weddings to catch up on but for now, I would like to introduce a new font that I've been obsessed with! We recently purchased this about two weeks ago. Rachel Zoe collects vintage dresses. I am obsessed with collecting fonts and graphics (fortunately for our customers, fonts and graphics get used for new designs!). Once I'm obsessed with a font, nothing seems to compare! Here are some items that we recently designed with the new font (it would be the script).




This font is so lovely and beautiful to me because it mimics hand calligraphy. For our flat printed collection, you can add guest address printing in this font for $1.25 per envelope.

Inside Weddings Summer 2008

Hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth of July! The heat has definitely announced that summer is here and another one of our custom beach invitations were featured in a magazine. We've done many variations of this invitation but this particular one featured in the Summer Issue of Inside Weddings is our popular papyrus wrap with the blue and white invitation mounted inside. For a touch of softness, the wrap was finished in a navy satin bow instead of a our usual tag or some embellishment.

The Shower Invitation

After weeks of delay, I finally designed the invitation for my brother in law's baby shower. The difficult thing about being a stationer is that a) people expect a fabulous invitation so there's that pressure and b) you can't just do an evite or buy generic ones and neither do you want to!

Here's the invitation!

New Look!

We have redesigned the website and we hope you like the new look! Besides the aesthetic change, we had started this project more for navigation improvements. Now you will notice that we have separated our wedding items between flat printing and letterpress printing so that there is no need for that extra click. Another new feature is that you can directly order samples of the invitation designs right on the product page instead of going to a whole separate category for ordering.

Yes, of course we are working online proofing...stay tuned.

Real Wedding - Jean Min and Hubert Chan

Jean and Hubert got married on March 1, 2008 at the Burbank Equestrian Center. Their wedding invitations were pressed in pear and pinecone and their wedding decor included bursts of apricot and red. Here are some pictures of their wedding stationery that we also designed. I love the cookie station that they had (top right)

Photography by Evoke Photography,
Event Design by Kelley Lee Gin of Picture Perfect Events