Wedding day stationery can be a lot to wrap your head around. There are a lot of options, and it’s not like an invitation, where there are necessary components. For example, you don’t NEED a welcome sign, but you definitely need a way to let your guests know where and when your wedding is.

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Your wedding day stationery offerings will vary from stationer to stationer, but we offer a few standard things:

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Favors and customized items (so like cocktail napkins, bottle huggers, and matchbooks, for a few examples), printed signage (either paper, mounted on foamcore, printed on acrylic, or engraved on acrylic or wood), and printed paper goods (programs, menus, printed escort cards, etc).

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The best time to really dig into your wedding day stationery is right after the invitation design is complete. As you go through the planning process and finalize with your caterer and venue, your needs will change. While I’m happy to give general quotes, it saves a lot of back and forth if we wait until a bit further along in the process.

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10 weeks out from your wedding is the best time to order your wedding day stationery, with proof approval four weeks before your wedding date. While you may need to wait to finalize your numbers until all the replies come back, in the meantime we can have the wording finalized, the designs complete, and a pretty good idea of how many pieces you will need. Your wedding day stationery can take between 2 and 3 weeks to produce, and I aim to have clients picking up their stationery at least a week before their wedding. I don’t want to add anything to your plate the week of your wedding

And that about covers wedding day stationery. Is there anything I missed? Shoot me an email with your questions!

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