Mon P'tit Chat

Every entry point into Mon P'tit Chat's wedding line carries the same pairing. The shop menu names it "Mariage partenariat enregistré." The category page title reads "Faire-part mariage et partenariat enregistré." Even the order form on a product page like Aquarelle asks for the "Prénoms des marié·e·s / partenaires" (the first names of the spouses or partners, spelled with a gender-neutral median dot) and the "Date du mariage / partenariat," not a fixed bride-and-groom pair of blanks. No other studio in this category writes a registered partnership into its own field labels rather than leaving it as a line in the marketing copy. For anyone reading this listing on behalf of a partnership rather than a marriage, that consistency, not a one-off mention, is the useful fact.

It also says something about proportion. The wedding shelf holds 7 named designs: Airmail, Aquarelle, Botanique, Fanions, Marinière, Pois and Rayures, priced CHF 90 to CHF 312 depending on design and quantity. The birth and adoption shelf holds 14: Confettis, Étoiles, Flocon, Galerie, Hibou (day and night versions), Photomaton, Portrait and the 3 seasonal Saisons cards among them, priced CHF 90 to CHF 358. That is exactly double the design count on the birth side, and the site's own title tag puts the words in that order too: "Faire-part naissance & mariage." Wedding stationery is a real, separately catalogued line here, with its own designs and its own price band, not a token add-on. It just sits second to a birth-announcement business that is the larger half of the shop.

What that price range buys is a semi-custom card, and the site describes the paper rather than naming a print technique. Most faire-part print on an uncoated, natural off-white stock, either 240 g/m2 for a folded double card or 300 g/m2 for a single card, according to the FAQ. The Aquarelle and Hibou designs use a slightly textured 300 g/m2 white paper instead, and Botanique and Étoiles Aquarelle use a lighter, 280 g/m2 stock. Standard paper carries FSC and EU Ecolabel certification; the aquarelle papers carry FSC only. Nowhere does the site name letterpress, foil stamping or a specific press: printing happens off-site, through what the FAQ calls "un partenaire de confiance, à La Chaux-de-Fonds" (a trusted partner in La Chaux-de-Fonds). On the Aquarelle wedding card specifically, the finished piece is a 14 x 14 cm double-sided print ("impression recto / verso"), available in 3 named colourways at the time this was checked: Tropical, Pivoine and Turquoise.

There is a floor, and the FAQ states it directly rather than leaving a reader to work it out from a dropdown: "le nombre minimum d'exemplaires que vous pouvez commander est de 25" (the minimum number of copies you can order is 25), because every order runs through a professional printer. The Aquarelle order form matches exactly, with quantity options at 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 cards, or a printable PDF file with no physical minimum at all. Layout is built by hand for every order, so there is no automated live preview of your own names and date on the design before you buy. What you see beforehand is the blank template; what you see after ordering is a proof.

Colour and layout changes aren't part of the base price either. The FAQ is direct about it: the standard service "ne permet pas d'apporter de modifications au graphisme des modèles proposés" (does not allow changes to the graphic design of the models offered). A couple who wants one anyway can ask, and the studio will say whether it's possible, usually for an extra cost it doesn't quote in advance.

2 mockups included, the third costs CHF 30

Every order includes a Bon à Tirer, a proof sent as a low-resolution PDF so a couple can check names, dates, times and any photo placement before anything goes to a printer. How fast that first proof lands depends on which page is read: the dedicated Commande et livraison page and the legal terms (CGV) both put it at 3 working days after the order, or after a submitted photo, and agree with each other word for word. The FAQ separately claims 5 working days for the same step. The 2 more specific, more legally binding pages agree, so that's the figure to plan around, but the gap between the answers is real, not resolved here, and worth asking about directly if a date is close.

What isn't in dispute is the revision allowance: the price includes 2 mockups total, the original plus a single free retouch. Every mockup after that costs CHF 30. Choosing the paper-proof add-on gets a printed sample by post within a maximum of 6 working days, covering 1 physical BAT to check the real colour and paper. Once a couple approves the digital proof by email, that decision is final: the order page and the CGV both use the word "irréversible." After that point the file goes straight to the printer, and any error found later, including one nobody caught in the proof, means the couple pays for the reprint and the reshipping. The one exception is the self-print PDF route, where a correction after approval is still possible, billed at CHF 50 per request.

6 weeks off the shelf, 4 months for anything bespoke

For the 7-design collection, the site's own advice is to order at least 6 weeks before the date the invitations need to go out, and printed cards typically ship within an average of 10 working days after the proof is approved, longer if the studio's own backlog or its printer's is running behind. A shorter timeline is negotiable, but only if a couple asks before ordering, not after receiving a proof.

Bespoke work runs on a different clock. "Création sur mesure" is a separate service, not a faster or slower version of the shelf collection: a couple gets a design built from scratch, and it can extend to menus, save-the-date cards, response cards and thank-you cards to match, priced through a quote and a contract proposal after a first conversation. The site's own advice here is to make contact at least 4 months before the intended send date, well ahead of the 6-week minimum for a catalogue design. The blog shows what that produces: a maritime-themed set made for a named couple, Benjamin and Noémie.

Priced to ship inside Switzerland, not out of it

Every page checked here is in French, with no language toggle, no hreflang tag in the markup, and no statement anywhere about whether Aline Keller Kühner, the sole proprietor behind the brand, can run an order in English. The order form fields themselves (names, wedding date, back-of-card text, delivery address) are all in French too. For a foreign or destination-wedding reader, that's worth knowing before the first email goes out.

International shipping is the bigger gap. The FAQ says plainly, "nous ne proposons pas de livraison internationale pour l'instant" (we do not offer international delivery for now), and recommends the printable PDF option instead: pay for the design and the personalisation, receive a high-resolution file by email, and have it printed near wherever the couple actually is. Anyone who wants printed cards mailed abroad has to email first and ask whether an exception can be arranged; the site doesn't promise one. Domestic shipping inside Switzerland runs CHF 8 to CHF 12 depending on speed and signature, waived on any order over CHF 320. Payment runs through TWINT, a bank transfer or PayPal, 3 methods that assume a Swiss buyer more than a foreign one, though PayPal works from anywhere. No Swiss VAT is added to any of it.

A wedding line inside a birth-announcement business

Undecided between designs, a sample costs CHF 6.50 for an unpersonalised card in any one style, wedding or birth, and if a full order follows within 1 month, the studio refunds up to 3 samples, shipping excluded, through a one-time discount code. Cancel before a proof is sent and the refund is complete. Cancel after the proof but before final approval, and the studio keeps 50% of the product price for the work already done. Cancel after approval, and there's nothing left to refund.

None of that changes what the numbers above already show. Mon P'tit Chat is, first and by volume, a birth-announcement studio, 14 designs against the wedding line's 7, a homepage title that puts naissance before mariage. What it offers a couple marrying or entering a registered partnership sits inside that bigger business without being an afterthought: its own 7-design shelf, its own price band up to CHF 312, a stated 25-card floor, and wording, in the category name and in the order form itself, that treats a registered partnership as its own occasion rather than a footnote on "wedding." Anyone ordering from outside Switzerland should read the shipping answer before committing to printed cards. Everyone else gets a small operation that states its numbers plainly and asks for a proof signature before it prints a single one.