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Wedding stationery

Custom wedding suites

A custom suite is a small piece of your story, illustrated just for you. Here’s how one comes together, from our first hello to the moment it’s in your guests’ hands.

How it’s made

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Getting to know you & your story!

Every suite begins with a conversation. You tell me about the two of you, the place you’re getting married and the little things you love: a favorite flower, the café where you had your first date, the view from the porch. Some couples arrive with a Pinterest board full of ideas; others simply know how they want it to feel. Either way, I listen for the details that make your day yours.

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Design

Then those details become illustration. Florals, borders, monograms and lettering are created from scratch for your suite, sometimes with pen and paper and often digitally, so nothing you receive is clip art or a stock template. If there’s a venue or a spot that means something to you, I can paint it too!

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Proofs & revisions

Next you’ll see everything come together in proofs, each piece shown front and back and labeled with its size. We review the design, lettering and every word together, and refine it until it feels right.

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Print or digital delivery

Finally, your suite comes to life one of two ways. With print delivery, we’ll work together to choose paper weight and feel, select envelopes and details, and print using local small-businesses. They’ll arrive to you wrapped in a bow and ready to mail. With digital delivery, you receive print-ready files to print wherever you like or share online (which I’m happy to advise on!). From first conversation to finished suite takes about 6-8 weeks.

Timeframe

Custom suites take about 6-8 weeks from the first conversation to a finished suite. Stationery can be delivered in print or as digital files so you can print yourself (support always available!).

Inquire about a stationery suite
“Even better than what I originally had in mind.”
Esther · Custom suite client

Recent suites

A closer look at suites designed for three couples.

Wedding suite

Hannah + Caleb

Pieces
Invitation, details insert, RSVP postcard, monogram crest

Soft watercolor wildflowers in blush, butter yellow and sage, with a painted portrait of the white barn where they married. A custom monogram crest carries through the suite, and the RSVP postcard opens with a characteristic sunset over Chico, California.

How proofs arrive

Every proof shows each piece of the suite front and back, labeled with its size, so you can see exactly what will be printed (at scale!) before anything is finalized.

Wedding suite

Bekah + Sean

Pieces
Invitation (double sided) & addressed envelopes

For this autumn wedding, watercolor peonies in coral, butter yellow and deep red climb around the invitation, and the details card carries a soft watercolor portrait of the Santa Barbara mountain church where they were married.

Wedding suite

Emily + James

Pieces
Invitation, details card, rehearsal dinner invitation, toile envelope liner, café illustration, addressed envelopes

This special suite was done for our own wedding <3 It included flowering branches framing every card and hand-drawn typography. The envelope liner tells our story in toile vignettes: where we met, where we were engaged, and where our ceremony and reception would take place. Our reception took place in the cafe where we first met, so an illustration of this favorite place was included in the design.

Let’s make something you’ll keep

Share your date, your venue and a little about the two of you, and I’ll reply personally.