Stationery Scoop: the blog by paper company CEO Heidi Reimer-Epp

Seal and Send Wedding Invitations - a personal project

I'm so happy about the collection of Seal and Send Wedding Invitations that my company has created this year. It's funny how it goes with a new product idea. We'd been wanting to create this style of invitation for a while but it was only once it captured the imagination of one of our designers that it actually happened. Despite a few false starts with figuring our postal requirements in Canada and the US, we launched first with three special designs.

Over the last months, we've been adding more and designs. Many of the designs are also available in single panel format, like the Romantic Lace Seal and Send Wedding Invitations.

And what's awesome about this style is that it combines the invitation and reply card into one all in one wedding invitation. There's no mailing envelope, so you save the waste and expense of the envelopes. And the piece is so fun to receive - open it up and the design unfolded panel by panel.

Check out all of the designs of Seal and Send Wedding Invitations here and let me know what you think! 

New Seal and Send Wedding Invitations

I am very excited about the launch of these new Seal and Send Wedding invitations over at Botanical PaperWorks. It's a new format that combines an invitation + respond card into one. By folding up into a neat package, there's no envelope needed. And because it's printed on seed paper, there's no waste. Simply plant the invite and wildflowers grow.

The tree design is definitely my favorite. Our design team is quite amazing, and they've chosen five color combinations that suit all four seasons - Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer.

Go ahead and check them out now!

Wedding Planning Tools - DIY favors and planning checklists

As many of you know, besides writing Stationery Scoop (which I totally love doing!), I also head up a stationery company called Botanical PaperWorks. Over at the Botanical PaperWorks blog, we've been writing this week about wedding planning and I wanted to let you know about it in case you're in the process of planning a wedding for yourself or a loved one.

DIY Wedding Favor Ideas - we've chosen three easy and interesting favors that you can make yourself. The projects come from Martha Stewart Weddings, a source of wedding inspiration for as long as Botanical PaperWorks has been alive! Check out the images and the downloadable project sheets. Many of the projects would be perfect with seed paper, especially the candy cones. After the guest are finished enjoying the candy, they can plant the paper and grow a pot of flowers from the plantable paper.

Wedding Planning Checklists - local wedding planner Jess Ehlers has created some useful and helpful Wedding Planning Checklists. Her company is With A Flourish and they specialize in eco-friendly events. Our Botanical PaperWorks blogger Laura reviewed the planning checklists (she was married just this Winter, so the experience is fresh in her memory). Check out what she has to say here: Wedding Planning Checklists

We'll be posting more wedding-related content over the next weeks so please connect with us in whichever way your prefer: Blog, Facebook or Twitter.

P.S. Don't forget that Father's Day is THIS SUNDAY! Need a last-minute idea? Check out Free Printable Wall Art for Father's Day.

Botanical PaperWorks, newly chosen for Style Me Pretty's Little Back Book

At Botanical PaperWorks, we are proud to be members of Style Me Pretty's Little Black Book, a gathering place of recommended bridal vendors. Style Me Pretty writes this amazing bridal blog and works closely with Martha Stewart magazine. Here's what they say about the Little Black Book vendors:

Style Me Pretty’s Little Black Book is a highly edited collection of wedding service providers – from mom and pop boutiques to A-Listers. Bottom line, these vendors are the best of the best.

If you're wondering how we were chosen, you can read the selection criteria here. Thank you Style Me Pretty for including Botanical PaperWorks and our plantable, eco-friendly wedding invitations and favors!

Two weddings, two plantable favors

A couple weekends ago I was at a wedding that incorporated Botanical PaperWorks' plantable favors into the theme. That same weekend, a Botanical PaperWorks employee spotted our dragonfly plantable favors at another wedding! See the images below to see how these two different pieces helped contribute to the overall wedding theme and table decor.

Have you seen any plantable favors at any recent weddings? If you have photos, we'd love to see them--and even post them!