On the one hand, online shopping has always scared me—you can’t try anything on, you can’t feel the quality of the products you are considering and you certainly can’t talk to a salesperson to make sure you get your needs met. But, on the other, online shopping offers more flexibility, a wider selection and often lower prices—particularly when companies like Wedding Paper Divas combine great products with superior customer service.

To help shoppers who share my minor fear of online shopping, Wedding Paper Divas recently launched a fabulous new product review feature that gives site visitors access to benefit from the experiences of customers who have previously purchased a specific design. Their first-hand experience can translate into meaningful information for future shoppers, from customization advice to thoughts on the quality of our cards, photos and designs.

Wedding Paper Divas won’t ever omit negative reviews, so you can be sure to read open and honest feedback about all of your favorite designs. Here are a few excerpts from the reviews of one of our most popular wedding invitations:

“The printed color was better quality than I ever expected, and the paper was the best we found for the price we were looking for – very heavy and high quality.” —MrsKMC, Virginia

“In the original design, not all of the information we wished to provide our guests fit on the invitation, but it was not enough information to warrant the purchase of enclosure cards. We used the on-line chat help feature, and the friendly assistant suggested that we add special instructions to our submission that spelled out what we wanted. Within 3 days of our original submission, we were shown a design that perfectly matched our request.” —Phil, Michigan

“I was in love with this invitation and had to have it for my wedding. I changed the meadow color to a personalized color, canary, and it was so easy! The final product was gorgeous, and I received many comments on how elegant and simple my invitations were!” —AshleyT, Nebraska

We hope these reviews make your stationery shopping experience even more fun! Happy shopping, divas!

Well my wedding day came and went. Just like that it was over in a flash! After 14 months of planning, it’s a little weird that it’s finally over. I know a lot of people didn’t tell me how weddings truly are and I had been won over by the millions of magazines I had read up until this point where weddings are a perfect and flawless affair. I wanted to dedicate this post to all of you brides out there to learn the truth of one bride’s real wedding.

I don’t know how your wedding went or is going to be like, but I can say for my own the entire week before the wedding and a few days after was filled with emotional highs and lows. From rehearsal dinner to the after wedding breakfast, I felt like I was a walking zombie filled with anticipation and nerves. I did not sleep a wink the whole week before the wedding nor could I eat the day of. Talk about needing to relax-I should have listened to my own advice I wrote about in a previous post! Everything I said I needed to do and swore I would like eat throughout the whole day and really get some rest was thwarted by nerves. And forget about trying to be perfect or having a perfect wedding, my wedding I like to say was “perfectly imperfect.”

The wedding itself was filled with things that didn’t go as planned-caterers were late, food wasn’t what we ordered, I was 20 minutes late myself. But with that being said, I could not have imagined a more sincere and simple display of my new husband and I. Everyone commented that they knew they were at our wedding because from our unique ceremony to our first dance and all of our songs, everything was so us!

One thing I learned is that it was the things I hadn’t planned for that was the best most memorable moments for me. My dad giving a brief toast saying I was the best daughter and my husband was “cool,” hanging out with friends I hadn’t seen in years and just the feeling that everyone was there for us. That’s why though I wish it wasn’t as windy or the caterers weren’t late or that I had eaten a little, when I think back to that Friday I know I wouldn’t have wanted anything different than what it was, “perfectly imperfect.”