After several failed attempts, we finally followed through
our plan to go to Star Paper Corporation! Star Paper supplies a wide variety of
paper products, some of which will surely meet our needs for our pocketfold DIY
wedding invitations.
I forgot how (but definitely not surprised that) Tine got
to know this place. Initially, we weren’t sure if we can buy papers directly
from them as they don’t have a retail store. Fortunately, two of our
officemates know the owner of Star Paper! From this point, I’ll refer to the owner as Mr. T. One of our officemates is a barkada of Mr. T while our other officemate
is a cousin of Mr. T’s wife. Talk about powerful connections! Haha. Through them, we were able to get a contact person in Star Paper and let's call him Sir
A.
When we reached Star Paper, the guard questioned us on who we were visiting
there. We told him that we'll be meeting Sir A and even dropped Mr T’s
name. Haha. After getting my ID, he let
us in and gave directions on how to reach Sir A’s office. We drove inside the Star Paper compound and got to Sir A’s
office. When we finally met him, he asked if we were friends with Mr T. We
told him that we were just actually officemates of Mr. T’s barkada. Sir
A accompanied us to another office where the specialty papers are sourced. We
learned that Sir A is part of the printing arm of Star Paper and that there is
another company under Star Paper which actually markets their specialty papers.
Sir A even advertised that we can contact him if we want Star Paper to print
our wedding invitations. =)
Once we
reached the specialty paper’s office, Sir A asked for a Ms. L (yes, another
code name). He told her that we were acquaintances with Mr. T, and that we're looking for specialty papers so he then asked
for the paper swatches. Ms. L (who was then eating pansit) gave around 5 booklets to Sir A which he in turn handed to us. He told us that he needs go
back to his office and that Ms. L will assist us. We thanked Sir A and bade him
goodbye. Ms. L had a meeting too to attend, so she asked another lady to assist us.
We got about 5 sets of swatches, each one representing a
“line” or "collection" of their specialty papers. Although there are a lot of options, it didn't take Tine and I a lot of time to decide on which papers to get. We already have
a fairly good idea on how we want our invites to look like.
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| Lapislazuli for the pocketfold cover (sorry for the crappy photo) |
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| Ivory for the print outs and inserts (again, sorry for the crappy photo) |
After deciding which papers to get, we needed to determine how many sheets we’re going to buy. Armed with our wedding invite (super rough) prototype, we made calculations on how many we’ll need to get to end up with our estimated 60 invites. We ended up buying 15 sheets of paper for each kind, which will actually produce us 90 invites. We wanted to play it safe to ensure that we won’t run out of paper. =) It takes some time for them to prepare the paper so we agreed to just have the sheets delivered. After thanking the ladies who assisted us and getting Ms. L’s calling card, we bade Star Paper goodbye. Tine and I were very happy with our day’s accomplishment. =)
Just after 3 days, the papers were delivered to my house!
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| Look how big these papers are. :) |
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| And that thick for just 15 sheets. :) |
Will keep you posted on our progress for this DIY. Watch out for it. =)
Cheers!
Hi Adrin. You wedding posts are very inspirational to me. Soon to be bride here who would like to do some DIY-ing to :) Would you know where can i buy kraft board/paper for invitation? Thanks so much for your help.
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