Now through March 28th, buy 75 wedding invitations, rehearsal dinner invitations or wedding stationery and get 25 free during William Arthur’s Wedding Stationery Promotion. During this time of economic difficulty, this exciting new promotion will make your wedding budget dollar stretch longer.
William Arthur, based in West Kennebunkport, ME is one of the leading designers and printers of fine stationery and custom invitations. Known for their outstanding service quality, responsiveness and cutting-edge designs, William Arthur is a most popular choice for save-the-date announcements, wedding invitations, direction card and wedding thank you notes.
If you are a bridal couple looking for high-quality wedding invitations at affordable prices, William Arthur is certainly worth seeing in person. Take advantage of this exciting opportunity to see William Arthur’s beautiful wedding invitation designs and schedule an appointment with a Guild Member store in your neighborhood.
Sheila and I just received an autographed copy of Marjorie Maxfield’s delightful new book entitled The Write Stuff: A Modern Guide to Personal Stationery & Weddings. With accolades from Brian Lawrence of Encore Studios and Nancy Lowell Lashley of Lallie (among others), this short and entertaining book is an educational quick read for those interested in fine stationery and custom wedding invitations. With etiquette and civility often overlooked in today’s wedding planning, The Write Stuff is a useful guide to help bridal couples cope with the demands on their time and sensibilities. The Write Stuff: A Modern Guide to Personal Stationery & Weddings may be purchased online for $19.95. Found below is a recent interview with Marjorie on a Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas.
In The Write Stuff, Marjorie offers some practical and helpful advice with wit and charm to help plan a successful wedding. With over 20 years experience in the stationery business and the former owner of Tanglewood Gifts and Stationery, in Houston, TX, Marjorie’s client list includes Presidents and First Ladies, astronauts, sports and rock legends and celebrities from literally all walks of life. Now a professional guest speaker, Marjorie will be a featured guest speaker at Bridal Showcase productions in Baltimore, Richmond, Washington, D.C. and Denver in the coming months.
The twelve chapter book (excuse me, Twelve “Cantos” which in Latin is cantus and in Sanskrit means chapter) covers such topics as “e-business communiques,” “the art of being remembered,” and “a modern guide to wedding stationery.” One area that was certainly music to my ears was her section on “Stationery Stores are the Brides Best Friend.” ”The staff will listen to your thoughts, understand your timetable, and translate your tastes into something beautiful and within your budget. They will share with you their knowledge of wedding stationery and social etiquette, and basically guide your every choice. The advantages of a stationery store? Priceless. I promise.” Marjorie said it far better than I could: Maybe that is why she is on the speaking tour!
Cover of The Write Stuff
Marjorie is refeshingly hip and deftly moves between the traditional and what’s in vogue in wedding stationery etiquette without losing her balance or sense of humor. Sophisticates from the Northeast might quibble at some of her etiquette suggestions, but The Write Stuff has been put together with grace and elegance and certainly deserves exposure in leading stationery stores throughout the US.
Thank you Marjorie for this precious contribution of “Wed-etiquette.” Bridal couples can save themselves much angst and many wrong turns by purchasing Marjorie Maxfield’s The Write Stuff.
William Arthur, one of the leading custom invitation and fine stationery companies in the United States, has extended its very successful wedding promotion through May 31st, 2009. Order 75 or more William Arthur wedding invitations, rehearsal dinner invitations, wedding programs or wedding stationery and receive 25 more free with the compliments of William Arthur.
Don’t put your wedding on the back-burner, contact an experienced Guild member store in your neighborhood to see William Arthur’s exciting new designs and customization options. Whether you are looking for letterpress invitations or fine wedding stationery, William Arthur is certainly worth a second look.
Few things are more frustrating to an experienced stationer than to see “stationery” consistently misspelled. While I am willing to concede that it is a rather mischievous word that may have originally been spelled with an “a”, I believe that most anyone applying for a professional position should be able to spell business stationery correctly.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there is actually a petition to change the spelling of stationery (as in paper) to stationary. The central argument is that the majority of people conducting an online search for “wedding stationery” or “business stationery” actually spell stationery with an “ary.” I haven’t decided whether this is democracy at work or simply a case of the inmates running the asylum. I am sure that Mr. Webster would not be pleased.
After more research, I suspect that there is a more sinister plot afoot. The culprit or facilitator of this assault on the English language is Google. Rather than suggesting “Did you mean businessstationery” when the user typed “business stationary” in the search bar, Google simply accepts the improper spelling.
Business Stationary
Certainly, it is monetarily convenient for Google to capture their Pay-Per-Click (PPC) fees regardless of how stationery is spelled. Unfortunately, for those of us responsible for mounting the PPC campaigns we must enter all forms of alternative spellings to insure that our ad will be found in a Google search. Furthermore, even fine paper companies find themselves obliged to enter “stationary” in their meta tags and company description to insure that their pages will be indexed for misspellings.
The final straw was listing a stationery store in Google maps. Wendy Joblon, the owner of Folia in Dartmouth, MA was asked to list her store in one of the Google search categories:
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, but I had hoped that Google would allow us to categorize our business with the proper spelling of stationery. Google maps are most important for small businesses and we believe this function could be significantly enhanced if search categories were spelled properly.
