Seven Paper

Seven Paper's main navigation carries 8 top-level departments, and Mariage is only one of them. Faire-part naissance, birth announcements, gets its own separate entry rather than sitting inside the broader Grossesse & naissance section next to it, which itself covers pregnancy books, milestone cards and baby shower games. Then come Carterie (everyday greeting cards, notepads, scratch-card kits), Papeterie (organisational stationery and posters), Coffrets (gift boxes), Fête (birthdays and baptisms), and Graphisme, a business-branding line selling logos, business cards and flyers to local companies, credited on its own portfolio page to a "Graphiste indépendante basée à Lausanne" (independent graphic designer based in Lausanne). A couple planning a wedding is one customer among several this shop is built to serve, and the site's own menu says so before a single wedding page loads.

Inside Mariage, the offer splits 2 ways. Papeterie de mariage is the semi-custom path, named collections such as Modern Love, Blue Minerals, Olive Green, Morocco and an autumn set that a couple personalises rather than briefs from a blank page. Papeterie sur-mesure is the fully bespoke path, and a third link, Cartes témoins / demoiselle d'honneur, covers wedding-party role cards, an on-the-day extra several rival Vaud faire-part studios don't list at all. What Mariage's own dropdown doesn't carry is a process page. The FAQ that actually answers how quantities, corrections and turnaround work is filed under Faire-part naissance in the main menu instead, not under Mariage. It happens to answer the questions a wedding couple has too. Finding it just means clicking on birth announcements first.

The FAQ is direct about the working method behind both departments. "Contrairement aux plateformes automatisées, je ne propose pas d'éditeur en ligne" (unlike automated platforms, I don't offer an online editor), it states: a couple sends their wording and photos, and the studio's founder lays the design out by hand rather than handing over a drag-and-drop template. A fully bespoke brief is also on offer. Asked outright whether a 100 percent custom design is possible, the FAQ answers, "C'est possible. Chaque projet est étudié selon vos envies et votre budget" (it's possible, each project is assessed against what you want and your budget), which reads as a case-by-case yes rather than a standard service with its own price band.

No exact headcount, only steps of 20

The FAQ answers a pointed hypothetical directly: can a couple order an exact number of pieces, 37 for example? No. "Les quantités sont proposées par paliers (20, 40, 60, etc.) pour des raisons techniques d'impression" (quantities are offered in steps of 20, 40, 60 and so on, for technical printing reasons), so that couple would order 40 rather than 37. Nowhere does the site call 20 a minimum order policy; it is simply the smallest step in that sequence, which comes out to the same practical floor.

2 rounds included, then CHF 10 a version

Corrections are bounded and priced in the same breath. "Deux aller-retours de correction sont inclus après l'envoi de la maquette" (2 rounds of correction are included after the mock-up is sent), aimed at refining details until the design is right. Past that: "Chaque version supplémentaire est facturée CHF 10" (each further version is billed at CHF 10). The order-and-delivery page adds the sharper edge: proofread the mock-up carefully before final sign-off, because once an order is printed, an error found afterward means a reprint billed to the customer, at print cost only rather than a full remake fee. Delivered products carry no exchange and no refund.

A 2-week clock with 4 stages

The timeline the FAQ publishes runs to roughly 2 weeks on average, broken into 4 named stages: a mock-up sent within 2 working days of ordering, then validation and any corrections with no fixed length given, then production and printing at 3 to 12 working days, then delivery inside Switzerland at 2 to 3 working days. Order processing itself can add up to 2 working days before any of that starts. For a couple ordering from outside the country, the separate order-and-delivery page carries the figures that matter more: parcels into the rest of Europe take 2 to 5 working days, and outside Europe 5 to 8 working days, stacked on top of whatever the production stage takes. Shipping is free from CHF 30 of purchases, digital items excluded.

A named paper, an unnamed press

What's missing across every page checked, the about page, the FAQ, the paper page, the wedding collections page and the Modern Love collection itself, is any named printing technique. No letterpress, no foil stamping, no offset, no digital print, no laser cutting, no hand calligraphy. The paper stock is named in real detail: a textured, uncoated sheet at 300g, a 100 percent recycled sheet also at 300g, and a smoother matte white at 270g, described as carrying no glossy or satin surface film and a slightly ink-absorbing finish. What actually marks the sheet is never stated. A couple who cares whether their invitation is letterpress-debossed or a flat digital print has a real gap to raise directly with the studio before ordering; this write-up can't close it from the site's own words.

French and German, nothing else

The footer's language selector offers exactly 2 options, Français and Deutsch, backed by a genuine German storefront: a parallel /de/ sitemap and a standalone Deutsch landing page covering Grusskarte, Schwangerschaft verkünden, Hochzeit and Glückslose. No English toggle turned up on any page checked, and nothing on the site states whether the founder can run a design brief or a booking conversation in English. For weddingswitzerland's own readers, mostly foreign or destination couples working in English, that means writing in French, or German if that's easier, without a confirmed answer either way on the language of the conversation itself.

What the Modern Love collection actually costs

Fixed pricing does appear, just one named collection at a time rather than a wedding-wide list. On Modern Love, the site prices a save the date from CHF 120, a wedding invitation (faire-part de mariage) from CHF 130, a menu from CHF 80, and a wax seal at CHF 1.65 each. Every one of those is a "dès" figure, a floor rather than a fixed total, and it belongs to Modern Love specifically. Nothing on the site states whether Blue Minerals, Olive Green, Morocco or the autumn collection price the same. Treat it as a real example rather than a guaranteed number for whichever design actually gets chosen.

One founder since 2019, with a second client base

The about page names the person behind all of it: Lindsay, a graphic designer and, in her own words, mother of a young boy, who writes plainly that "Seven Paper naît en juin 2019" (Seven Paper is born in June 2019). Everything is made, in the site's own phrase, "par nos soins dans notre atelier à Mex (Vaud)" (by our own hands in our atelier in Mex, Vaud), the small commune the legal notice pins to Lugny-lès-Charolles 7, 1031 Mex, not far from Lausanne, the city the homepage's own title tag claims as its base. The Graphisme department isn't a sideline in name only either: its portfolio page shows real work for named local clients, Pur Thé, Beauty Escale, Self-Défense Praille, none of them weddings. A solo operator running a life-events stationer and a small design practice from one address is worth knowing before assuming Seven Paper is staffed like a dedicated bridal studio. On the social side, an on-site reviews widget currently shows a score built from 467 reviews, and the homepage claims more than 13,000 Instagram followers, both signs of an active shop that people are actually ordering from rather than a template store nobody visits.

None of that settles the one question a bespoke stationery client usually asks first: what press actually makes the piece. Everything around that question is published in plain figures rather than left to an enquiry email: the paper stock, the quantity steps, the correction allowance, the timeline, the shipping windows and the cancellation terms. The technique itself isn't, so ask directly if that's what decides the booking. For a couple happy to trust a named paper stock and a studio that names its founder, its founding year and its Vaud atelier address rather than hiding behind a brand, Seven Paper is the widest single catalogue in its cluster, and the wedding line inside it reads as a genuinely developed product, not an afterthought bolted onto birth cards.