Santa Barbara & the Central Coast, California

Stationery & Invitations

In Santa Barbara & the Central Coast: Five businesses across four towns is a thin local market, and the honest reading is that most stationery work is now bought online and shipped rather than through a storefront. That is less a problem than a reason to start earlier and to expect proofs by email rather than across a counter. The regional point is the calendar: a great many of your guests will be traveling and staying overnight, because this is not a region with a dense local population to draw on, so save-the-dates want to go out at the early end with lodging information attached. Day-of signage earns its keep at sites spread across a lawn and an indoor room. Expect $500 to $3,200, and weigh a finished invitation before you buy stamps.

4 listings · checked August 2026

• Burdine Printing — Arroyo Grande · burdineprinting.com · (805) 489-4910
• Moshpit Digital Inc — San Luis Obispo · moshpitdigital.com · (805) 704-9226
• Stationery Collection — Santa Barbara · stationerycollection.com · (805) 969-3414
• Viking Press — Solvang · vikingpressprinting.com · (805) 688-5219

Bringing your own design to a commercial printer

These are commercial and trade printers, not wedding stationers. None of them designs an invitation suite, and none of them lists weddings as work they do — they are here because they will print a design you already own, usually well and usually for a fraction of a stationer's price. That makes them a real option if you have bought a template, hired a designer separately, or are printing menus, programs, table numbers and signage rather than the invitations themselves. Send a PDF and ask for a paper sample first: weight, finish and color vary far more between printers than price does.

• Lupdom Printing — Oxnard · lupdom.com · (805) 751-0181

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