http://paperpersuasions.com/blog our take on invitations and wedding stationery and everything that goes along with it Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:33:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once again, we have been noimated for the "Best Invitations" category in the Akron/Canton Fox 8 Hotlist. We have won this competition the previous two years...and we need your help NOW more than ever to keep our title! Voting only takes a second...and I PROMISE you, Fox 8 will not spam you. ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/03/17/730/ Jillian and Paul came to us as a referral from The Sheraton Suites. And you know how much we love our Sheraton brides! By the first time we met with Jill she had an all-star lineup of vendors and quite a few unique ideas for her fall wedding (my favorite ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/03/12/real-brides-jill-and-paul/ One rule of wedding etiquette that is now widely accepted AND expected is providing postage for your rsvp envelopes. Not only does it make it as easy as possible for your guests to respond, it seems kinda rude to request a timely response from your guests while expecting them to spend money in order to comply. Most brides we ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/03/10/response-card-etiquette-and-postage-solutions-for-international-guests/ We skipped last weeks recap because 1) we were too busy to do the recap and 2) we didn't really have much product to photograph. Last Saturday we may have even set an all time record for the number of people here at once. At one point, we had 4 groups of ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/02/20/bi-weekly-recap-february-6th-20th/ A common misconception that we encounter is the belief that all professionally printed invitations are expensive. At least once or twice a week we meet with a bride who plans on making her own invitations to save money. Not because she loves to scrapbook or she thinks the project will ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/02/19/introducing-simply-sensible-%e2%80%93-carlson-crafts-budget-invitation-line/   We first met with Emily and her mom Marianne not long after we opened our new studio. It was clear from our first meeting with them that the invitations needed to be classy, formal & traditional while still setting the tone for a somewhat contemporary color scheme of chocolate brown and ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/02/09/real-brides-emily-and-andrew/ Last week the groundhog saw his shadow and 3 days later we got dumped on by 14 inches of snow. And right now '6 more weeks of winter' is sounding pretty darn good because from where I am sitting, I see nothing but 4ft high snow banks all around and it seems ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/02/07/weekly-recap-feb-2010-week-1/ Congrats to Lindsay M - January's referral winner! She selected a $25 Subway giftcard. Thanks to you all we had 11 referrals for the month! Read about our referral program here: http://www.paperpersuasions.com/referral-program http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/02/02/januarys-referral-program-winner/ One of our goals for 2010 was to show some love to our blog. It's not that we don't love blogging, it's just that so many things get in the way (phone calls! walk-in clients! lunch breaks!  production of orders! processing shipments! 50+ emails per day! ) So even though ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/01/27/weekly-recaps-are-back/   Long before Stacy and I ever actually met Janet Capocci, the Event Planning Coordinator at the University Center, we knew who she was. You see, when she was the Wedding Specialist at the Sheraton Suites – Cuyahoga Falls, we shared several mutual clients and nearly every single one told us ... http://paperpersuasions.com/blog/2010/01/26/a-hidden-gem-the-university-center-at-kent-state-stark/