One of the things I love about my work is the custom wedding stationery consult. Specifically: I love chatting with couples who aren’t afraid of their own questions.
Online noise is a never-ending tsunami — which makes it shockingly easy to feel like there’s something wrong if you’re not an overnight expert in any given topic that grabs your attention.
Pair this with the high-stakes and emotions of wedding planning, and you’ve got yourself an instant lead-in to shoulding yourself.
As if you should know all the ins and outs of custom wedding invitation design. As if you should get it right. Immediately. (Like, “yesterday is too late”-level immediately.)
No wonder the mood is more “joy-killer” than “joy” when people in your orbit, upon hearing you’re engaged, flood you with unsolicited suggestions. (Usually cloaked as questions — let’s be real.)
And no wonder this morphs into spiral-mode as you prepare to inquire with wedding vendors. As if you need to consider every possible preference and contingency before you even dial into a Zoom meeting.
Custom wedding invitation design doesn’t need to be this way.
When you have a consult with me about your custom wedding stationery — from save the dates, to full invitation suites, to menus, place cards, escort cards, and signage — I have precisely zero interest in grilling you with questions and terms you likely haven’t heard before.
Personalized wedding invitations can only be personal if I get to know you.
Getting to know you comes first. Always. Because I’ve built in time for the stationery specifics later.
But if it’s important to you that, in our first conversation, you have the space and support to ask me questions like:
“Calligraphy isn’t made with a regular pen?”
“Wait. What’s a nib?”
“It look so cool, but what actually is letterpress?”
“What do you mean by ‘stock’?”
“A suite? . . . what?”
“I don’t really care about a monogram but everyone else has one — will it be weird somehow if we don’t have one?”
There’s time for those questions in my wedding stationery consult, too! They’re also personal and let me know that you’re particularly excited about a highly collaborative process.
Custom wedding invitations are the result of a truly personalized experience.
It matters that you feel actual trust, ease, and confidence in your wedding stationery design process.
Put together, they create the path we walk towards a meaningful translation of your vision into a gorgeous custom wedding invitation. The kind that touches people. That brings back the joy, in full swing. Because they’re unmistakably yours.
