Paperlust Papercast, EP 01

Welcome to the Paperlust Papercast, EP 01. This episodes topics include: * how to address wedding invitations; * when to send out wedding invitations (i.e. when to mail, when to send destination wedding invitations, when to send save the dates); * how much do wedding invitations cost, and we’ll explain a bit about why pricing goes down as you buy more; * some of the places you can buy wedding invitations; * how much people spend on average; * how to make them yourselves using different services, or doing it yourself, or getting a friend to design it; how to assemble them – a lot of wedding invitations come in suites where you can layer them or use liners and belly bands; * what to write on wedding invitations – modern versus traditional, what you can’t leave out, and whose name goes first on wedding invitations; * what size generally are wedding invitations and why you need to consider what size you need before you go big, * and how to save money on wedding invitations. The second part of the podcast we talk about wedding invitation style, typical design styles. We’ll go through all the major source of designs that you’ll commonly see with wedding invitations [https://paperlust.co/wedding-invitations/]. And then we’ll talk about trends in terms of colours, textures, and print types. We’ve got a special guest who’s going to talk about what’s hot and what’s not, and then also some tips on tying a look together – how to make sure that you have a consistent look, different complementary colours, and then as I talked about, how to combine elements using belly bands and other methods. Finally, a bit about us. Paperlust [https://paperlust.co] originally launched in 2015. We’re an online platform for events and wedding stationery. That includes wedding invitations, birthday invitations, bar and bat mitzvahs, birth announcements, thank you cards, on the day stationery such as place cards and menus, and welcome signs. We do a wide variety of print, which we’ll go into more depth in future podcast, but these include digital print, foil stamp, letterpress, white ink and more. Here is a highlight from this Episode’s show where we talk about addressing wedding invitations: JAMES: Alright, so the first thing I want to talk about is how to address wedding invitations. There’s two things here: there’s the envelopes themselves and the link between what’s written on the envelope and what’s on the invitation; and then also the wording that goes on the invitation. Things have changed so much in the last 10-20 years in terms of our society and how that then results in terms of who pays for what and the different types of family groups and how that converts into what you put on the invitation without upsetting everyone – traditionalists and wanting to do your own thing. There’s a bit of complexity to it. Jamie, I want to ask you because you’ve probably seen more wedding invitations than anyone on the planet. On the invites themselves, what’s the important thing to think about in terms of the first line in the invitation? What’s the first line say and what do people do these days in terms of what it says? JAMIE: It really depends on the couple and on the wedding. You have to decide do you want to put your parents’ names first? I think that’s the first thing. Or, normally people do ‘Together with families.’ I find it really depends on your design as well. I will put ‘Together with families’ on a minimal design because the less wording, the simpler and the more minimal your design will look.