Love Story Wedding Stationery is really about listening.
I fully believe that my work as an artist and a designer is not just about creating pretty things - but pretty things that are also deeply personal, playful and meaningful. I’m a hopeful romantic - it’s no wonder I ended up in wedding stationery! - and so weaving in sentimental touches to your stationery is super important to me.
And what that means in the design process is I start out by doing a lot of listening. To your love story and how you met and what you love about each other. To the colors you like and don’t like. To everything you share on your questionnaire - and everything you don’t. And then, it’s about taking all of these seemingly disparate threads (hiking and cooking and the color blue) and weaving them all together into something that feels like YOU. It’s about hearing your ideas and listening so deeply that I can hear beyond them - for something greater than what you might even be able to articulate, but that ties the whole design together.
The end result is art that you get to send straight to your guests, your love story illustrated and on display on your wedding day, and a process that hopefully helped you and your partner’s relationship deepen along the way.
Want to get in on the creative journey? I’m booking into 2026 and can’t wait to listen to your love story!
Warmly,
Sage
Stationery Sets the Tone 💌
How Designing Custom Wedding Stationery Can Help You Enjoy the Journey of Planning Your Wedding 💌
Thinking about designing your wedding stationery might just feel like another item on your never-ending wedding planning to-do list. It might seem easier to simply download a template off Minted, or even forgo them altogether. But, as with most things in life, you get out what you put in, and designing custom wedding stationery can become something that really supports and connects you and your partner throughout the planning process, if you let it!
I’ve seen it firsthand - on design calls with clients, the collaboration that comes through as you navigate different preferences, interests and aesthetics together; in questionnaires, each partner holding and savoring different parts of your story; and in the design process, as we weave together all these different parts in a way that feels super personal - how taking the time to really create something one-of-a-kind connects couples, and really becomes an opportunity to reflect on the journey you’ve gone on as a couple to get to this stage - as well as the experience you want your guests to have on and leading up to your wedding day.
A lot of people talk about how stationery sets the tone, and I think that’s true - but it sets the tone not only for your guests, but also for you. Getting to go on this creative journey together, with myself or another designer as your creative partner, is an opportunity to step away from the planning spreadsheets for a moment, and towards the colorful, magical and romantic world of your love, for a little bit. It’s a process that is meant to reconnect you and your partner to what this whole wedding this is all about, it’s a process that will help anchor you during inevitable moments of stress, and it’s a process that I hope you’ll enjoy as much as the stationery itself.
Your love story. It’s like no one else’s. So let’s create stationery that celebrates that, and reminds you to - as best you can - enjoy the journey of coming together along the way.
Wishing you all the best, wherever you’re at in your planning process.
Sage
Making Wedding Stationery FUN again 💌
When I first started designing wedding stationery, a lot of the feedback I got was that my work was “fun.” At the time, I felt ashamed by that - thinking that the compliment I should be receiving was “beautiful” or “flawless” or “timeless.” And while my work has certainly evolved since then, I have come to wear that compliment of “fun” as a badge of honor.
We want our weddings to be fun. We want our guests to enjoy themselves, dance all night, laugh at the speeches and savor the passed apps. And yet, somehow we think the invitations and artwork welcoming everyone in to this experience need to contain the formality of our grandmothers’ era. But no more.
Because I believe wedding stationery can be fun while being elevated. Bold while being beautiful. Playful while being polished. And so I am celebrating that my work is seen as fun - because that’s the experience I want for my clients, for their guests and their vendor team. While stress cannot be avoided in wedding planning, I’m here to bring as much color, playfulness and * hopeful * romanticism into the process as humanly possible. Not just in the designs we create together, but in the way I walk you through the process, every step of the way. Your wedding is not just one day - it’s the whole journey leading up to it - so why not make it FUN, together?
Want in on the fun? Inquire today, or download my free wedding stationery timeline, designed to help you and your partner enjoy the planning process while staying on track along the way.
How I Can Help Tell Your Love Story Through Your Wedding Stationery 💌
Your wedding stationery is more than just a pretty piece of paper.
It’s an expression of your relationship, your passions, your history and your future. In my signature Love Story Wedding Stationery packages, I help my clients tell their love stories through their wedding stationery - using playful illustrations and poetic word choice. But what does that mean exactly? Let’s dive in.
First and foremost, I start this process by listening and learning about my clients. I want to know how you met, what you love about each other, what you love doing together and what your favorite artwork looks like. I have a detailed questionnaire that I send out to my clients at the beginning of our onboarding that helps answer these questions and more. We talk this through in an initial design call where I share my ideas and get to hear yours! It’s such a fun process.
I include nods to your relationship throughout - meaning portraits of your favorite places are turned into table numbers, shared hobbies and interests become design themes, and ‘uniquely you’ details are woven throughout.
I weave words that speak to your relationship and the journey you’ve been on - reaching beyond the stuffy and overly traditional language you’re used to seeing on wedding stationery. We’re creating something that not only looks but also sounds like you and your love.
Ready to create a keepsake of your love story together? Book a free discovery call to get the conversation started.
What a Chocolate Bar Can Tell You About Your Wedding Invitations
I recently opened a Raspberry Dark Chocolate bar of Chocolove. Aside from being fair trade, organic and just generally delicious, these bars also all come with a love poem tucked into the wrapper - a sentimental treat for you to discover upon opening. And as I sat there, savoring my chocolate bar and chewing on this poem, it had me thinking about its parallels with wedding stationery.
There is of course the surprise and delight factor - something I have practiced for years in customer service. The element of the unexpected woven into the packaging, something that catches your eye, slows you down, invites you to savor. It transforms something ordinary and every day, like opening a chocolate bar or a wedding invitation, into a magical experience for the senses. And who doesn’t want that?
But beyond the surprise and delight element, including a poem inside a chocolate bar (or inside your wedding invitation) taps into something deeper in us. It reaches beyond the taste and sensibility of a bar of chocolate - tasting good and coming from a just origin - and it touches our heartstrings. That human part inside of us that is hungry to connect, make meaning, and tell stories. I also believe that this is the part of us that makes memories, and is why I always reach for this brand every time I am hungry for rich chocolatey indulgence. Any bar of chocolate can taste good and have good ingredients, but does it include a special something that is going to stop me in the middle of my day and make me feel something? Only Chocolove can do that.
Similarly, any wedding invitation can be both beautiful and informative. But can it reach that third thing? Can it touch your guests’ heart strings? Can it communicate a personal detail, a shared memory, or a heartfelt sentiment? Can it make people feel something? That is the kind of wedding stationery I strive to create with my clients.
So, consider this your invitation, to reimagine what your wedding invitations - and your wedding itself! - can be. Reaching beyond beauty and information, let’s touch the heartstrings of your guests through personal illustrations and poetic wording. Let’s invite them to slow down, savor your love story, and feel something.
5 Reasons You Should Invest in Wedding Invitations (in the Age of Digital E-vites and Minted.com)
My therapist recently asked me, with nothing but good intentions, why I would be starting a business designing wedding invitations when so many people are opting to send digital invites. While it caught me off guard at first, upon further consideration, it is a valid question in this digital world, and I’m sure you’re considering this yourself. Why spend a decent chunk of your precious wedding budget on personalized paper invitations when you could just send them online, or design one yourself from a template? Well, here’s my two cents, as a wedding stationery designer, snail mail enthusiast and thank you note writer extraordinaire.
Wedding invitations, aside from being a timeless tradition in the history of people getting married, serve as a physical reminder to your guests. To RSVP. To get that flight booked. To check the wedding website. To book the hotel. And with so many emails these days filling up our inbox, a digitally sent invitation could simply get lost in the mix, or filed into the folder in our brains that says “I’ll deal with this later.” But a paper invitation sent straight to your door? That you can hold in your hands? And put on your fridge? That reminder simply has a whole different weight to it, that a digital invite simply can’t compete with.
Designing your invites with an artist/stationer helps you think about the design and vibe you want to create for your wedding day. Since invitations often get mailed out way before you start thinking about your floral design, what rental items you are going to order, or what color palette you want your bridesmaids to wear, a lot of the design work you do with your wedding stationer can feed into the rest of these elements. The moodboard, inspiration photos and color palette you create together can be sent to your other vendors, getting incorporated into the day’s design so that everything aligns.
Wedding invites give your guests a feel for the vibe of your wedding - and your love. They get your guests excited, help them envision what to wear and what to bring, and basically make them feel like an exclusive member of your “love club.” Hint - they are!
It’s an opportunity to add a personal, heartfelt touch - weaving in elements from your unique love story and personal history so that people can really feel who you are as a couple. This, in my opinion, is what weddings are all about!
Wedding invitations are an emblem of a time-honored tradition - the love letter. While traditional wedding stationery in your mind might evoke an image of boring calligraphy and black borders, I like to think of it as a love letter sent out to all of your favorite people, echoing of a time when we could only communicate via the mail, sending our love across oceans sealed in envelopes. There is something ancient about it, something analogue and tactile, that speaks to the romantic in us all. It’s a way, upon opening the envelope, to literally open the hearts of your guests, inviting them in to the look and feel of your unique love.