About Our Designs
Custom Designs: All of our designs can be changed to suit your tastes. We can custom design for you, but it is easies to start with a design that is already made and change it from there. That way we are on the same page.
Proofing: We give you up to 5 free emailed proofs. What does that mean? We don't just print it without you seeing and approving the invitations first. We email you an electronic image of the design that you can approve or have anything changed. If you request changes, we make them and then email you another proof. We find that 99% of all our customers can nail down their dream invitation in just 5 proofs.
We have that limit because if we had unlimited proofs, our brides would be less careful looking over each proof. With a limit of 5 they make sure each one counts, and they look it over more thoroughly before requesting changes. So this limit benefits us and the brides because they spot more mistakes this way. Extra proofs beyond the first 5 are $5 each.
Using Other's Designs: We cannot outright copy another company's copyrighted design. But what we can do is make anything you describe for us. Simply describe what you like (about their design) and we'll make it. Only it will be customized even more for you as we go through the designing process.
Designs For Different Sized Cards: Any design in our catalog can be adapted for your cards, regardless of it's original size. If you like a 3.5x5" 2-sided Save the Date card design that you want adapted to be a 5x7" Folding Wedding Invitation, we can do that. They obviously won't look exactly the same in the end (for one, the new card will have your photos and words on it), but we can take the elements you like and use them.
Differences Due to Accomodations: The final design is based off of your photos, words, and additional input. Design layout may have to change in order to accomodate what you give us. For example, if you like a layout that has 2 vertical photos, and you send in 2 horizontal ones, the layout will most likely have to change to accomodate your non-conforming photos. Wording is also a big factor. Some designs fit a couple short lines, others work better with multiple lines.
Deposit/ Final Payment: When you order your invitations, you are not really making a final order. Instead you are comissioning the design. This means that you are not paying for them until you have approved a final proof (emailed or hard copy -- See "How This Works" to learn more about proofs) and have your final count. Instead, you pay a $30 deposit (regardless of final qty.) to comission the design.
The deposit does go toward your final balance. It, however, is not-refundable once we start working on your design. If you change your mind and cancel the order, the $30 stays a design commission and pays for the work already done on the design.
However, the beauty of this "deposit/ design comission" is that you do not have to come up with your final count until we are done proofing -and- you are ready to lock in a final count. This means you can have us start working out the design long before you are sure on your guest list. And you aren't forced to pay for a final count until you are sure you like it (you have approved a final proof). This gives you the time and flexability to start the designing early, make sure you like the design, and then order when you are ready to lock in your numbers.