Fun fact: Pipkin Paper Co. got its start because of expensive wedding invitations. When my husband and I were planning our wedding reception, I longingly poured over those beautiful custom invitations you see online. But even though we didn’t have a ton of guests coming, it was still too expensive to buy the invitations we really wanted, so I decided to make them myself (after spending hours and hours on Google). And today I’m going to show you how to make wedding invitations for your own shindig, too.

When you run an invitation company, one of the most common questions you get asked is, “what’s the best paper for wedding invitations?”. And quite frankly I love this question because there are few things I love talking about more than cardstock (give me all the cardstock!).

But with this question comes both good and bad news. Sadly, there is no easy one-size-fits-all answer to the cardstock question. Since printers, ink and template designs vary so much, there is no ideal cardstock to use at all times. What looks great on one printer might look splotchy and washed-out on another.

But now the good news: choosing cardstock is easy and fun if you know what you’re doing. Selecting the right wedding invitation paper involves a bit of trial and error. But rather than fixating on finding the perfect wedding cardstock, simply find the one that’s the right for your printer.

Lucky for you there are some tried-and-true tricks that make finding the right paper for wedding invitations a little easier. Read on and I’ll tell you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about cardstock so you can pick the best paper for your wedding invitations, enclosures and day-of paper goods.

Ready? Let’s do this.