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Remember to weigh and measure your wedding invitations
Believe it or not, the Royal Mail Pricing in Proportion change for postal charges will have been in force for 3 years this coming August. Previously, postage prices were based upon the weight of the item. The heavier the item, the higher the price. Pricing in Proportion also takes into consideration the physical size and [...]
Free Wedding Invitation samples are back
This site (for those interested) used to be a gallery of wedding invitation designs from various UK wedding stationery suppliers. The concept was simple, suppliers would pay us a monthly fee to be on our site in return they would ship free wedding invitation samples to those customers who requested them. The problem was that many [...]
Perfect Wedding Store under new management
Perfect Wedding Store has been riding the waves at the top of Google for popular wedding search terms such as “Wedding Stationery”, “Wedding Invitations” and the often mispelt “wedding stationary” for as long as I can remember. This surprises me a little because the site has been closed to orders for about 6 months now [...]
bride and groom direct gets a 2009 makeover
The popular Bride and Groom Direct wedding stationery site owned by the same company as CCA Occasions and Fine Impressions has a fresh makeover for the start of 2009. The rather sullen cream and gold theme has been ditched in favour of a fresh lilac theme.
Bargain hunters will be pleased to hear that the changes [...]
Look out for wedding card cloning throughout a range
I was speaking to a mother of the bride last week and she was surprised and disappointed to find out that the style of wedding stationery she had chosen for daughter used the same card across the range. What I mean by this is that the wedding invitation card, evening invitation, menu and order of [...]
Win tickets to the National Wedding Show with Weddingo
We have featured the National Wedding Show on these pages before. There are usually a dozen or so wedding stationery suppliers at these events and they are great to get a hands on feel of the types and quality of invitations available without the trouble and expense of requesting lots of samples.
Our sister site, Weddingo, [...]
Free Samples of Cheap Wedding Invitations
Olivia Samuel have just upped their quantity of free wedding invitations from 2 per household to 4. You do have to pay £1.00 for Post and Packing but the best thing is that they will post them the same day by 1st class post if you request them before 2pm.
You can choose from the full [...]
Fine Impressions and CCA Occasions to consolidate operations
Earlier this year leading wedding stationery supplier, CCA Occasions moved into a shiny new factory in Preston to improve their slick printing outfit for wedding stationery and Corporate Christmas Cards. Well no sooner had they unpacked their bags and rearranged their desks but it looks as though sister company Fine Impressions are joining them after recently announcing [...]
Perfect Wedding Store – Closed Down ?
One of the most popular sites of the wedding stationery world- Perfect Wedding Store - have recently stopped taking orders. I spoke with Matthew Hextall the owner of www.perfectweddingstore.co.uk a couple of years ago and he was a very focused individual with big plans for his website. Since then, the site underwent a couple of redesigns and grew from strength [...]
Wedding Invitation Etiquette – Part 1
This article is the first in a series on wedding stationery etiquette and special thanks goes to The Letter Press of Cirencester for letting us reproduce their guide. All the images in the articles are Letter press of Cirencester designs which are available from their website.
The Etiquette of Wedding Stationery
The etiquette of wedding stationery should [...]