Les Cartes de Nath

Les Cartes de Nath has been making wedding stationery in Switzerland since 2008, according to the banner running across its own homepage. That tenure shows up less in any origin story (the site tells almost none) and more in the size and consistency of the catalogue: dozens of designs built around watercolour and gouache florals, eucalyptus branches, a Liberty print, wildflowers, all in a soft, botanical palette rather than a formal one. Nearly every wedding design in the "Faire-part Mariage" collection is priced individually and printed to order at CHF 4.95 a piece; only 1, called "Le Bonheur c'est...", breaks that line, at CHF 5.95. This reads as a picked collection you order from rather than a blank commission you wait weeks for a quote on, though a bespoke option exists too. The same navigation also carries a birth-announcement and christening collection alongside the wedding one, so this is a general-purpose stationer running one production line for several life events, not a wedding specialist only.

The base price already covers more than the printed card. Every invitation is a folded, double card measuring 150 x 150 mm, paired with a matching 165 x 165 mm envelope the price includes outright: the About page states plainly that "the price always includes printing and envelopes." The same page says the studio works only with designer papers sourced from sustainably managed, high-quality forests, which it credits for the look and the feel of the finished card as much as the printing itself. What changes between designs is the finishing. Fleurs Gouache and Eucalyptus Aquarelle print flat, so CHF 4.95 is the whole cost, envelope colour included. Liberty and Pochette Eucalyptus add a raised paper element glued to the front, plus a cord or string closure on the right edge, and both carry a separate assembly charge of CHF 1.50 a piece on top of the card price. Buy enough of one design and the per-piece cost drops: 10% off from 100 pieces, 15% off from 200, though the site is specific that both discounts land "hors montage", meaning they apply to the card price only, never to the assembly fee.

What actually carries a minimum order

Nowhere on a wedding invitation's own product page does Les Cartes de Nath publish a minimum order quantity, so there is no floor to report for the core faire-part itself. 2 accessory lines do carry one. The personalised place card, printed to match a couple's invitation design and set with each guest's own first name, has a stated minimum of 20 pieces at CHF 0.95 each. The tealight-wrapped menu, sold as Menu Photophore Aquarelle, needs a minimum of 10 pieces at CHF 2.95, printed on A4 vellum roughly 80 mm across and 210 mm tall. For that one, the couple supplies their own glass tealight holder and a glue roller, because wrapping the printed sheet around the glass is left to them rather than done in the workshop. Worth knowing before ordering it as a set-and-forget item: it doesn't arrive assembled.

The order path: quote, then a PDF, then an optional test print

The studio doesn't sell invitations off a checkout button. Its own order-information page lays out a fixed sequence: get in touch to describe the personalisation you want, and a detailed quote follows "in the best possible timeframe," a phrase the site never attaches a day-count to, so none is claimed here either. If the quote works, you can order a physical sample of the design before committing to anything. Once the order is placed, the studio shows the finished invitation as a PDF first, and only if you ask for one will you also get a printed test run, a "tirage d'essai", before the full batch goes to production. That's a genuine proof-and-revision step, though the site never states how many rounds are included in the price or what an extra one costs, so no figure is given here.

A "sur mesure" door the website barely opens

The main navigation lists SUR MESURE (custom) as its own section, separate from the ready collection, and the site's meta description promises invitations "sur mesure ou à la carte", custom-made or picked from the catalogue. In practice the Sur Mesure page itself carries no text, no pricing and no example gallery beyond that single phrase: whatever a fully bespoke commission costs or how long it takes, a couple would only learn it by writing in. Treat bespoke as a real, named option here, not as a product you can browse.

Design in Blonay, production at Kramer Krieg in Lausanne

Nath, the designer behind the brand, runs her atelier from Blonay, according to the site's own description of her. The actual production work, personalising each order, printing it, finishing it and shipping it, happens at Kramer Krieg, a separate, established print business in Lausanne; the About page is candid that this split is deliberate, done "to fully control quality at every stage." The names signed at the bottom of that page, Nath, Bea and Vasinee, are as close to a team roster as the site gives. Couples can also visit in person, at Kramer Krieg's own premises at Rue Centrale 10 in Lausanne, where the site says you can see a large part of the collection along with a wide range of envelopes and accessories in hand rather than on screen. For anyone weighing whether to correspond in English: the site itself is French only, with no language switcher anywhere, so plan on writing in French, or on asking upfront whether the Lausanne team can handle an English enquiry.

What's priced, and what still needs an email

What Les Cartes de Nath does well is transparency on the numbers it does publish: a flat per-design price that already bundles the envelope, clearly listed volume breaks, and honest minimums on the 2 accessory lines that carry one. What it doesn't do is turn every promise into a figure. Lead time and bespoke pricing both stay unstated, so a couple planning around a fixed wedding date should ask for both in writing at the enquiry stage rather than lean on the "very short" turnaround the studio claims for itself. For a couple happy to order from a ready, botanical-leaning collection, in French, with printing and envelopes already priced in, the process itself, quote, sample, PDF proof, optional test print, reads as careful rather than rushed.