Hello again and I hope everything in your world is bright and beautiful at the moment. Today, I have the pleasure of sharing another of the wedding world’s fabulous stories with you. It’s a tale of a talented designer & maker who’s doing what she loves and making lots of couples very happy at the same time. Let’s take a look at the wedding stationery and wedding invitations from norma&dorothy…
norma&dorothy’s founder, Grace Sheriff has been making and designing lovely things since she was a little girl and her love of design took her to university where she studied fashion design. However, soon after graduating, Grace found the attraction of paper pretty just too strong to resist:
“I started an Etsy shop, selling cards as a hobby and I found that my real passion was designing paper products. The shop soon became too busy for me to manage alongside a full time job so I took the plunge and left my day job as a knitwear designer to work on norma&dorothy full time.”
“In just 18 months, norma&dorothy has grown and now, we’re a team of eleven working on wedding invitations and stationery in the heart of Manchester’s city centre.”
I have to admit that my country girl’s heart is made very happy by norma&dorothy’s laid back, rustic style. The colour combinations and the use of really relaxed, almost informal fonts are really rather charming. I also love the use of texture in the wedding stationery collections. The variety of paper types and accents including twine, metallic stitching and hand-applied pearls all bring a lovely tactile quality to the designs – these are wedding invitations that your guests will adore from the moment they open the envelope.
“Our products tend to excite most couples as we offer wedding invitations and stationery that ticks a lot of their boxes,” explains Grace. “Our wedding invitations suit everyone looking for a rustic style that’s coupled with high quality materials and a super pretty design! Our customers often tell us that they spent a long time trying to find the right stationery to reflect their wedding before they found norma&dorothy and that makes us very happy!”
If you take a look at the norma&dorothy website, you’ll be able to get a sneak peek into their whimsical world and you’ll see just how much love and care the team pour into every stationery set. From working closely with your when you order to make sure that you love your wedding invitations and stationery before your design is sent to print to hand finishing each and every item in-house, the whole process is all about care and craftsmanship.
There’s also a lot to love in terms of design too. norma&dorothy’s range of products include wedding invitations (I love the stripe designs in mint and blush), save the dates, evening invitations and on the day stationery not to mention those all important thank you cards. I’m also a fan of the ‘will you be my…?’ cards – a perfectly delightful way to ask your chosen friends to be part of your day.
It’s easy to understand why norma&dorothy has been so wonderfully successful – great design, great products and so much passion for paper. It’s just all kinds of awesome.
Wedding invitations and wedding stationery from norma&dorothy are printed and handcrafted in England. There’s free UK shopping on orders over £25 (worldwide delivery is also available) and you can also request your free sample pack. Pricing is clearly displayed on the website and buying online is simple and safe.
For more information on norma&dorothy, just visit their website (and it’s as pretty as you imagine it will be!). Do take some time to view the film showing how their stationery is made and if you’ve got any questions, do contact the team or check out their great FAQs.
You’ll also find norma&dorothy on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram if you’d like a regular dose of paper-based brilliance.
Love Tamryn x
Tamryn Settle View all Tamryn's articles
Self-confessed wedding addict Tamryn spends her days in her Berkshire studio writing about all things beautiful and romantic with her black Labrador for company.
