We recommend getting started early, particularly if you’re planning save the dates or invitations. As a general guide, save the dates are sent around 9-12 months before your wedding, invitations around 6-9 months before, and your day-of stationery design begins around 6-8 weeks before the wedding.

If you’re not ready to finalise everything yet, you can also secure your place in our production schedule with a booking deposit.

Yes. You don’t need to have every detail figured out before booking. A booking deposit allows you to secure your place, and you can work through your stationery selections and details with us as your wedding plans come together.

Our $200 booking deposit secures your place in our production schedule for your wedding month. The deposit is then deducted from your final stationery invoice.

The deposit is non-refundable if you cancel, but can be transferred if your wedding date is postpone

Once you’ve booked, your personal Paper Darling Portal becomes your home for the stationery process. You’ll use it to share your wedding details, make your selections, review your items and provide the information we need to begin designing.

When your design period approaches, we’ll create your proofs and send them to you for review.

For all on-the-day items our design process begins around 6-8 weeks before your wedding date. This allows us to work through your selections, create your proofs and make any final refinements before your stationery goes into production.

For save the dates, invitations and thank you cards, our design process begins as soon as your details are confirmed.

Two rounds of proofing and refinements are included. This gives you the opportunity to review your designs, make changes and make sure everything feels right before you approve your stationery for print.

Absolutely. Our collections are designed to give you a cohesive starting point, but you can personalise the details to suit your wedding.

Through your Paper Darling Portal, you can choose your colours, fonts, shapes, wording and individual stationery pieces. You can keep everything consistent across your suite or make small changes between pieces.

Not necessarily. Your collection gives you an overall visual direction, but individual pieces can be customised to suit what you need. We’ll help make sure everything still feels cohesive across your stationery.

Yes. Your wording is personalised to you and your wedding. You’ll provide your details through your Portal, and we’ll use these when creating your designs.

Your Paper Darling Portal is your personal online space for managing your stationery. It keeps your details, selections, proofs and order together in one place, so you don't have to keep track of everything yourself.

We'll guide you through each step. Depending on your order, you'll use your Portal to provide your wedding details, choose colours and fonts, confirm your stationery items, provide wording and review your proofs.

We offer a range of papers in white, off-white, and cream, as well as our premium range of curated colours. All papers are 270–300gsm. The paper options available will depend on the stationery you're ordering.

Paper Darling is part of The Big Picture, a New Zealand-owned print and signage business with an established production studio in Wellington. Our stationery is designed and produced here, with our print and production teams working closely together.

Yes. We can deliver your stationery throughout New Zealand.

We are unable to ship to P.O. Boxes.

Due to the fragile and time-sensitive nature of our work, we currently only ship within New Zealand.

While we aim to have everything delivered 1-2 weeks prior to your wedding, your exact delivery timing will depend on your order and wedding date. We'll keep you updated throughout the process, and your Portal will give you visibility of what's happening with your order.