About Elaine Barker & Paper Potpourri

Surround Yourself with Quiet Elegance
Paper Potpourri is the product of Elaine Barker's patience and perseverance. Born in her living room, alongside her children's toys and bottles in 1977, the business has grown to six beautiful showrooms and is an institution in Elaine's home city of Haverhill, Massachusetts.

A Room for Every Occasion
Specializing in unique and custom designed wedding invitations, Elaine has provided top quality products and superior service to brides for over 25 years. She also offers a full range of stationery, invitations, and holiday cards from over 40 paper companies and features one of the widest selections of paper products in New England, as well as a calligraphy service. Whether your occasion is elegant, contemporary, business, artistic, traditional, humorous or festive, Elaine will help you select the right products for your special event.

Each room in her beautiful store showcases a theme.

  • The Circle of Love room has everything for the bride from engagement party and shower invitations to wedding announcements and thank you notes.

  • Les Enfants celebrates all things baby with invitations and favors for expecting moms, new moms and baby's first birthday.

  • The Mazel Tov room provides everything necessary to plan a Bar/Bat Mitzvah that will be remembered for a lifetime.

  • Let's Have a Party serves the needs of party planners coordinating graduations, anniversaries, holiday parties, cookouts, reunions - and all of life's great events.

  • The Personally Yours room features elegant stationery for all your personal correspondence.

  • The Holiday room features festive invitations for all of your holiday needs.

Paper Potpourri provides all the materials required to plan the party of your dreams. Come and see our beautiful invitations!