If you're looking for a designer who is not only incredibly talented & pours herself into her work,…read morebut will do absolutely anything to make this a stress-free experience, look no further.
I had my heart set on Pocket Invitations since we began planning our wedding 14-months earlier. I searched through hundreds, perhaps thousands, of options online & finally found the one single pocket invitation I'd been searching for all along. It was perfect. I purchased the template for the invitation & all four inserts from an independent Graphic Design Artist online. The templates were easy enough to edit & I sent them off to the printer, months ahead of schedule.
Unfortunately, the files weren't formatted properly for them to use! I contacted the person I had purchased them from and she was no help. A month or two of trying to figure it out ourselves left us hopeless and I was devastated. Our printing company reached out to Christine at TAG Design, a professional colleague, for help & she was able to get our Invitations and Inserts properly formatted to print! We were over-the-moon.
Fast forward another month... I had been emailing the woman I purchased the Invitation Template from for a few days, asking her if she could update the colors on existing Programs and Seating Cards she advertised online to the Wine & Gold for me to purchase (which she told me she could do before I made the initial purchase). I waited & waited for a reply. Nothing.
We're now 10 days before our wedding & we are still without Programs or Seating Cards. Working with Christine previously, she had offered to help us with anything else we needed. A bit frantically, we emailed Christine & told her our situation. We knew this was a tall order & even told her we could go without the Programs... we just really needed the Seating Cards.
We chatted on the phone for about two hours & emailed her a few different Etsy formats we liked. She asked us to send her the Invitation again and she quickly designed two options for both Programs and Seating Cards for us to review. I'm talking quickly like within hours. These designs were EXACTLY what we were hoping for & we actually preferred them to the templates I had my heart set on originally. And Christine got to work!
We're now 6 days before the wedding. The Priest we hired for our ceremony experienced an unforeseen and unfortunate medical issue - he was no longer able to perform our ceremony. (Yes, he's ok!). His name, however, was being printed on 150 Wedding Programs. Frantically, again (Christine, why do I only contact you frantically?), I texted Christine to STOP THE PRESS! She was about 1/3 of the way through our Programs, so I asked her to remove the Priest's name from the remainder of them. (I really really REALLY didn't want his name on any of the Programs, but Christine was doing us a huge favor by getting these done, and in record time, I wasn't going to create more work for her.)
We spent the rest of the weekend searching for a new Officiant and by late Sunday evening, we had a new Priest. Christine reached out to me Monday morning about 7:30am to see if we had a new Officiant's name, which I provided her with. I also told her that he rearranged our ceremony and the Order of Events on the Program was also now updated. Again, I told her to not worry about what had already printed and just to update the remainder of the order with the new information.
Christine reached out to us two days later to let us know that all 200 Seating Cards and 150 Programs were ready to be picked up. Unbelievable. We headed to her home to pick them up and we were floored when we got there and saw the love she put into our wedding. She went a million miles past the "extra mile" to not only do what we asked, but exceed every expectation we had of her. Christine went out of her way to reprint ALL of the Programs that had the previous Officiant's name & Order of Events on them and also created several options of "Mr. and Mrs." Seating cards for our Sweetheart Table. I cried at her studio. And a lot more when we got home. What should have been an incredibly stressful experience - and trust me, I was ready to be let down - wasn't. Even writing this review, I'm crying again. We are so appreciative.
We continue to receive so many compliments on our Invitations, Programs and Seating Cards. Many of our guests said the stationary really set the tone for our wedding day and they knew, from the beginning, it was going to be over the top and elegant.
Christine, we have you to thank for all of it. You continually saved the day from the very beginning and all the way to wedding day. You are a gift & a thousand "thank you's" wouldn't adequately express our gratitude.
