Custom Creations & Invitations

Karen at Custom Creations and Invitations did a beautiful job creating my invitations for my wedding. Going into the whole process was a little overwhelming but Karen was able to capture my vision as to what I wanted within my budget. My guests are commenting on how beautiful our invitations are and how they want to frame them. I highly recommend future brides to go with invitations from Karen's company. She does a fantastic job while delivering top-notch service.

I will start by saying our invitations looked beautiful. However, it was a major nightmare of an experience. We were excited for our invitations to go out, until we learned from our guests that several invitations were missing the response cards; the envelope on the back of the invite never got stuffed. Many people received a return envelop without postage and had to pay for the postage themselves--something we certainly didn't want out guests to have to do. Not only was this embarrassing for us, we felt terrible that our guests were confused as to how they were supposed to RSVP without a response card. Although Karen was apologetic, she was rather defensive about this mishap. She often implied that she thought I was lying about the amount of invitations that were missing cards, so this was both insulting and frustrating as we were trying to rectify this horrible mistake. After many phone calls and debates over this, I thought the reasonable solution would be to re-send enclosure cards to all of the people on the guest list that we had not heard from. Karen did not like this idea as she felt it was a waste of postage, but we were approaching deadlines with out venue that needed a final count. She expressed several times that she had to do this at her own expense, but shouldn't she? I mean we paid for the enclosure cards and the postage the first time around and, unfortunately, our invitations were sent out incomplete. This mistake affected our hotel block deadline, our final count deadline with our venue, among other things. This caused a lot of embarrassment and stress on our behalf, as we felt like we paid for invites and ended up having to do a lot of the leg work in fixing this situation. It was tacky all the way around. Because of this, our guests only had 5 days to rsvp to our wedding, which I know was not appreciated for their planning purposes. Another thing, Karen gave, what she said was a few of our envelopes that we ordered, to another customer, so she gave us some different ones. They were larger, and ended up costing more money in postage. And a few was like 35. Although she did comply to resend out enclosure cards to the guests that we had not heard from yet (possible because their invites were lacking these), she was not happy to do this and included a note in the envelope that put the blame on my husband and me for the mistake (she thought this would make light of the situation). We also ordered our seating chart from Karen (which was very nice looking), and when I proposed to her the idea of her comping the 190 dollars for the HUGE inconvenience this whole experience cause, she was enraged. She was very rude to me on the phone. She did not agree to comp the seating chart, rather she said she would make us table numbers. Wanting to be done corresponding back and forth about this, I accepted that resolution, and they did turn out nice. All in all, this experience in working with Karen started off exciting, and resulted in a lot of stress, embarrassment, and tears. Invitations play an important role in the wedding--they should have been checked for completion and accuracy before being put into the envelope. I will not discredit her work in designing the invitations; ours were beautiful, but appearance proved not to be everything.

If your looking for one-of-a-kind,elegant invitations, Custom Creations is who you want to go to.I love my invitations and my experience in helping create them.

Custom Creations & Invitations were very professional, reliable, and the quality of work was great. They designed seating charts for my October wedding and many of the guests made comments about how lovely t eh charts were. I would highly recommend using them for your special event.

Be sure to keep your receipt for the price decided upon at your meeting. Also be sure it is clear what the final draft of the invitation is. There's so much you can do with your invite, so make sure you get what you want! Karen helped us put together the perfect invite. It does take quite a bit of time and energy to choose the papers, wording and fonts so make sure you set aside enough time to do so.

How wonderful it was that we found Karen. She worked closely with us to design our wedding invitations. Her ideas were excellent and her selection of papers unbelievable. We received so may wonderful compliments on the invitations. The coordinator at the facility where we had our wedding was so impressed she place Custom Creations & Invitations on their preferred list of vendors. I actually found the entire process to be relaxing as well as enjoyable.

I spent weeks looking for invitations that were unique and showed off my personal sense of style. After looking at books of cookie-cutter invitations, I'm so glad my planner recommended Karen and Custom Creations. I walked into her studio and after looking at exotic papers, beautiful ribbons and so many designs, we were able to create invitations that were perfect. Our invitations were so stunning, people said they couldn't throw them away. In fact, one of our guests from Germany took them door to door to show them off to their neighbors in their small German town! If you want something special, custom and will set the tone of your wedding or event, you will not be disappointed with what Karen and her staff will create.

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Karen. She provided excellent service to me in terms of her artistry in the Seating Chart Design and beautiful table numbers. She also helped me with favor selection ideas. Her service was impeccable and her finished products were fabulous. I will defiinitely use her services again, and I will also refer her to other people.

Karen... we appreciate your talent, creativity and attention to detail. Our framed reception seating chart and memorial poem were one of the highlights of the evening. Thank you so much for your flexibility and suggestions in creating both of these beautiful items!

Marcia & Phil Sansotta

Be sure to look at the front and back of every piece of the invitation before leaving with them. Some of my postcards were one-sided and didn't have our address or stamps on them. We also had a problem with our reception cards. They had to be redone and mailed to us. When I went to stuff them in the invitations, I realized they were done on a different color paper than the rest of the invitation. I just dealt with it because I didn't want to wait for them to get redone again. We were able to negotiate a good price and the vendor never let us forget it. She made it seem like she was doing us a favor.

I really enjoyed working with Karen on my wedding invitations. I like it so much that I decided to go work for and I continue to enjoy working with Karen. I have a new appreciation for beautiful wedding invitations!

Karen worked with us the whole way. The invitations that we wanted were original and classy and they were even better then we could of ever thought.

The ceremony programs were beautifully done. Unfortunately, our experience renting a seating chart was horrendous. She was unusually anal about her frames and even followed my maid of honor and myself to the car when we came to pick it up and kept hovering saying “didn’t I tell you to bring an SUV?” (she never did, btw.) She required a hefty security deposit for the frame upon picking it up to ensure it came back without major damages. When my parents dropped off the chart she refused to unwrap it from the bubble wrap to check for damages while they were there. A few days later we received a severely threatening email (on our HONEYMOON) accusing us of “destroying” her frame and threatening legal action if we didn’t respond and pay her the $50 we owed her for the programs. She was extremely unprofessional about the entire situation. My husband and I still feel she was lying about the damages in order to keep our security deposit. We asked to see photos of the damages and she has never provided any – even though she claims to have them. We would NEVER recommend using her Seating Charts after the experience we had. IF you choose to use her, insist she unwrap the frame when you return it to check for damages so you can see for yourself.

Karen with Custom Creations and Invitations was a joy to work with from start to finish. The process was one of my most cherished moments throughout my planning process. Her work is amazing! Everyone loved my invitations and she was able to work with my crazy schedule and within my budget. I also ordered my table numbers and programs which really added that special touch to our big day. I highly recommend Custom Creations and Invitations if you are looking for unique, quality custom invitations and superb service.

Karen was WONDERFUL to work with! The invitations are beautiful and the quality of her work is exceptional. Everything was completed promptly and she was very organized throughout the process. After seeing how beautiful she made my invitations, I also decided to have her make programs, wine bottle collars, small favor tags, and thank you notes for my wedding. She is a joy to work with and is very accommodating! I will definitely recommend her to all of my friends :)

The invites we ordered came out beautifully. They were delivered exactly one week after we ordered them and that was using their standard ground shipping option. The price was great, well within our budget.

My invitations were beautiful, they were everything I could imagine and more. Everyone I sent one to loved them. Karen is amazing and such a pleasure to work with. Thank You Custom Creations!!!

Custom Creations & Invitations were very professional, reliable, and the quality of work was amazing. I would highly recommend using them for your special event.

Karen has the most beautiful invitations I have ever seen. She is so creative. If your looking for unique and beautiful invitations look no further!!!

For anyone who is looking for absolutely gorgeous invitations definately needs to check out Custom Creations & Invitations by Karen Bailey!!! She does absolutely AMAZING work and can work with any budget!!! She is definately worth checking out even if you are on a budget. We got beautiful custom design invitaions (reception card, RSVP card included!!) for the same or less then what it cost to order from David Bridals and they are TOTALLY UNIQUE!!! She also does an amazing job with programs, seating charts, place cards, table numbers, save the dates, thank yous, shower stuff, and so much more... she does it all! I cannot sing her Praise enough!!!

My husband and I went with Custom Creations and Invitations to do our invitations and seating chart and we could not have been more pleased! We met Karen and in about an hour we had created a one of a kind invitation that said "me." We really enjoyed that it was custom made and that no one else had anything like it. Karen was so great to work with. She responded back to emails almost as fast as I got them out! She also always threw in little freebies, such as printed flowers on return labels, and making extra envelopes. The cost was very reasonable that we were able to add in extras that we did not think we could have afforded! Karen also did a wonderful job with our seating chart! People are still talking about both! We definitely would recommend Custom Creations and Invitations.

Teresa and Michael Andrzejewski

Karen is the sweetest lady and is one of the most creative people I know. When you go to her house, her office is in her basement. She has so many samples to show you and she works with a lot of brides. I would recommend booking her early rather than later. I booked her kind of late but she was still able to work with me and our end product wedding invites were absolutely amazing! We did a “Happily Ever After” theme invite with a castle! We received so many compliments and to this day people want to book her! You can choose what you want made and she will do it. She will do her best to work within your budget and she gave us some extra’s. It was an hour drive for us but worth the drive in a heartbeat. Tell her Prince and Princess sent you and she will most likely know who that is =) It is simply amazing what she can do with invites. People book her a year and two years in advance that is how popular she is!

I stumbled upon Karen at a bridal show after scouring the internet for invitations that weren't too "cutesy" - I'm just not that kind of bride. She was a joy to work with and was soon throwing ideas out so fast it made my head spin. Our initial planning appointment took a few hours, but in that time we had paper colors, font, and wording picked out. I had a draft from her within a day or two. She was very communicative throughout the whole process so I knew I never had to worry about how my invitations were going. They were even done earlier than she estimated! With all the stress that wedding planning can bring, this was one area that was just a breeze. Thank you Karen!

Karen was great to work with. My husband and I were looking for invitations that we both could like and with her help we created a completely unique invitation and program. Within one hour of sitting down with her we had hand picked ever detail from paper type, color; ribbon type, color; invitation wording, font, etc. It was so fun to actually be able to pick each of those details. It was hard looking at other places where everything was already picked and I just could not find anything I loved that was not extremely expensive. We also came to Karen with a budget and she worked around that. Our invitations were very unique and we received so many compliments. Many people usually do not even remember the invitation and throw them away, but this was not the case with ours. Karen also did our programs that coordinated with our invitations. It was a create little booklet that held all the information nicely. Karen not only is a great designer but she is so helpful with every aspect of the wedding. She offered a lot of assistance with wording, poems, dedications, etc. Everything was great!

Karen was very helpful and patient with us as we worked to design a wedding invitation for our daughters wedding. They came out wonderful and we couldn't be happier. We got many compliments on them. She also did the programs for us and they came out great as well. She is very knowledgeable and does many creative things based on what you are looking for. We highly recommend her.

When it came to invitations and guest lists, I was probably a vendor's worst nightmare bride. I was a huge procrastinator, but Karen made sure that everything was done on time and looked fantastic! She even wrote the notes from the bride and groom in the programs for me so I didn't have to worry about it. With Custom Creations, you can be as involved as you want to be and always come out with a good product in the end. I would definately use this vendor in the future for baby showers or anniversary parties, etc.

When you meet Karen you will immediately fall in love with her work and with her. She is extremely gifted in her craft and has a passion for what she does. I would recommend her to all my clients.

Karen is a true artist using handmade and decorative papers to create amazing invitations even on a budget! The personal attention she gives each and every customer is unparalleled!