Heidi Reimer-Epp

General Manager, Botanical PaperWorks

A love of handmade paper lead the mother-daughter team of Mary Reimer and Heidi Reimer-Epp to found Botanical PaperWorks in 1996. Today, Botanical PaperWorks is a full-service papermaking and wedding invitation company with a team of dedicated papermakers, design artists and assemblers.

Heidi and Mary are skilled at promoting their products which are now in demand by an international client base. Botanical PaperWorks ads appear regularly in Martha Stewart Weddings and In Style Weddings and the company’s Classic Cotton paper found its way into Richard Gere’s hands in the Winnipeg-filmed movie "Shall We Dance". They have also trademarked their very popular Garden Greetings™ "plantable" seed paper that grows wildflowers.

In addition to selling papers, stationery and invitations through www.botanicalpaperworks.com, Botanical PaperWorks designs and produces products for the wholesale stationery and contract manufacturing markets. Mary and Heidi are noted papermaking and bookbinding authors, having written "300 Papermaking Recipes" (Martingale), "The Encyclopedia of Papermaking and Bookbinding" (Running Press) and "Papermaking" (D&S Books). In 2004, they were finalists at the Manitoba Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

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