Om Sai Shadi Card Enterprises

Our shop, Om Sai Shadi Card Enterprises, is right in the middle of the Sabji Mandi in Bewar. As you can imagine, it gets very loud and busy here, especially early in the mornings when the vegetables are coming in. We’ve been making wedding cards here for quite some time. The shop is filled with different types of paper, envelopes, and sample designs. There’s always a bit of ink smell in the air. We have a small printing press in the back that we use. Sometimes it jams and we have to spend an hour fixing it, which can be frustrating. People come in to pick out designs for their kids' weddings. We sit down with them and show them what we have. It’s a lot of manual work, checking the spellings and making sure the colors look right. The floor is usually covered in paper scraps by the end of the day. We don’t have a website or anything; people just walk in because they know we are here in the Bewar Sabji Mandi. It’s a simple setup. We like the energy of the market. Even though it’s crowded, it feels like home to us. We’ve printed cards for almost every family in this area at some point. It’s a lot of responsibility because weddings are a big deal, but we just take it one order at a time. We stay open until the market quietens down in the evening. That's usually when we get the most work done on the press.