Wow studio

Avenue de la Gare 34, 1950 Sion

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Wow Studio's own list of services never separates paper from anything else. "Créations personnalisées selon vos désirs sur tous supports" (personalised creations on any medium, to your wishes) sits at the top of it, followed in the same unbroken list by T-shirts personnalisés, Stickers personnalisés pour meubles, murs, décorations diverses (personalised stickers for furniture, walls and other decor), and only then Vente enveloppes, papiers, cartes (envelopes, paper and cards for sale). A couple looking for wedding stationery here is walking into a workshop that treats a save-the-date card, a hen-party T-shirt and a nursery wall sticker as the same kind of job: something printed or cut to a chosen design, on whichever surface the client picked.

The studio runs from Avenue de la Gare 34 in Sion, reachable by phone or by "Hello@wowstudio.ch." Its front door on the web is a little unsettled right now. The assigned address, tourbillondebonheur.ch, is the studio's old domain name and now serves a 301 redirect to wowstudio.ch, still live, still answering. The page title already carries the new name ("Wow studio ! La réalisation des faire-part devient enfin agréable"), and so does the address block in the footer, but the paragraph selling the core faire-part service is still written in the old brand's voice: "Tourbillon de bonheur vous permet de personnaliser vos faire-part. C'est vous qui choisissez le format, la police, les couleurs, le thème etc." (Tourbillon de bonheur lets you personalise your announcements. You choose the format, the font, the colours, the theme.) That's a rebrand mid-sentence, not a business winding down: a redirect, a new logo on the header and a paragraph nobody has gone back to fix yet.

Wedding sits inside 2 separate product lines rather than owning either one. Under "faire-part invitation," Mariage is one of 7 occasions on offer, next to Naissance, Save the Date, Remerciements, Cartes de voeux, Baptême and Deuil, birth, thank-yous, holiday cards, baptism and mourning cards sharing the same design process. Under "Impression sur textile," Mariage gets its own subpage again, alongside the studio's general textile-printing catalogue of T-shirts, bodies, aprons, beanies, tote bags, pouches and pencil cases. Neither wedding page tells you much once you land on it. The faire-part wedding page carries the heading "Faire-part mariage & papeterie" and one line of intro copy borrowed almost verbatim from the birth-announcement page, then a photo gallery. The textile wedding page carries its own heading and a single sentence inviting you to personalise your textiles with your own words and themes. Checked twice, once for a direct quote and once for the complete literal text of each page, neither one names a print process, a minimum order, a price or a lead time.

What the site is specific about is what a wedding order can grow into. Its own "déclinaison" pitch promises to carry a couple's theme across the rest of the paper goods and decor: "nous pouvons décliner votre thème sur toute votre papeterie et décorations (menus, décorations de table, étiquettes de vin, marque-places, panneau bienvenue, livrets de messes etc.)", extending the theme across the whole of your stationery and decor, menus, table decorations, wine labels, place cards, a welcome sign, mass booklets. That's a genuinely broad on-the-day range for a small studio to list by name, wider than a save-the-date-and-invitation-only shop would offer, and it lines up with the "Nos services" list's promise that the same design gets carried onto whichever support the couple picks.

One T-shirt in a shop of 63, and no faire-part card at all

Wow Studio also runs an online shop, and it is the clearest read on where the business actually spends its output. 2 separate passes at the product listing, one asking for a quote and one for the complete literal text, agreed on every price checked: 63 numbered products, mostly birth and baby items (an "Affiche Naissance" at CHF 25, a "Box naissance Rainbow" at CHF 50, 6 named "livre de naissance" keepsake books at CHF 55 each), plus Christmas cards at CHF 4, backpacks, beach bags and personalised mugs. Exactly one product is wedding-adjacent: a "T-shirt EVJF," a bachelorette-party T-shirt, at CHF 25. Not one faire-part de mariage, save-the-date or wedding thank-you card is stocked for sale. The shop's own baby-shower prediction cards do carry a stated batch size, 10 cards for CHF 12, which shows the studio is willing to publish a minimum where a product is genuinely fixed. No such figure exists anywhere for a wedding item, because none of the wedding line is sold off a shelf. It's ordered.

A heading, a gallery, and an email address for the rest

That "ordered, not sold" shape explains why so little sits on the wedding pages themselves. The site's own words for the process, quoted from the homepage rather than either wedding page, are: "C'est vous qui choisissez le format, la police, les couleurs, le thème etc. Imaginez votre faire-part et nous nous occupons de la création" (you choose the format, the font, the colours, the theme; picture your announcement and we handle the creation). That's a client-directed, one-off design job rather than a fixed collection with named suites, and it lines up with the studio's other line, "Un mail ou un téléphone pour nous communiquer ce que vous désirez et nous vous conseillerons volontiers de la marche à suivre" (an email or a call to tell us what you want, and we'll advise on how to proceed). Nothing here states a minimum order, a proof-and-revision policy, a lead time or a technique. The homepage does note that its general personalisation services, for parties, babies, children and adults, run "dès 1 pièce," from a single piece, but that line sits on the studio-wide services list rather than on the wedding page itself, so it's reported here as a floor for the business generally, not a confirmed minimum for a faire-part order. The papeterie page adds one more honest gap: "En attendant la boutique en ligne, vous pouvez commander ces cartes pour toutes les occasions par téléphone ou mail" (while waiting for the online shop, you can order these cards for any occasion by phone or email), meaning the card range the shop will eventually sell direct isn't live yet either.

Written in French, for now

Every page checked here, home, both wedding pages, the shop and the contact page, is in French, with no language switcher and no English version found anywhere in the navigation. For a couple planning from outside Switzerland, that means the first email describing a wedding theme, a guest count or a delivery date needs to go out in French, or with an explicit question about whether the studio can run the brief in English. Nothing on the site answers that question either way, so it's worth settling before committing to anything, not assuming.

Robots.txt on the studio's domain names no agent and blocks nothing, which is a small point in favour of a studio with little else published: there's no gate stopping a couple from reading everything it does have before writing in. What that reading turns up is a personalisation workshop first and a wedding stationery source second, one that will carry a couple's theme from the invitation through to the wine labels and the welcome sign if asked, but that keeps almost every number, price, quantity and timeline for a private conversation rather than a page. A couple who wants a fixed collection to browse and a published price before they call should look elsewhere in this category. A couple who already has a theme in mind and wants one workshop to put it on the invitation, the T-shirts for the hen party and the table decor alike has a real reason to write that email.

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