4.9 out of 5 stars and 54 reviews
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(54)Best of Weddings (3x).912 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg, FL
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A&P Designs is a boutique custom wedding invitation studio and letterpress & foil print shop. We are owned & managed by a husband & wife team. We love to provide beautiful hand crafted papers for brides all over the world. For those that are local to the St. Pete / Tampa Bay area, we love to welcome them into our design studio located in downtown St. Petersburg. A&P started in 2009 with an idea & a dream to provide quality heirloom letterpress invitations and paper pieces while offering affordable price and superior customer service.
All of our paper pieces are designed and printed by us on our antique printing presses.
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- Custom Invitations
- Paper Goods
- Coasters
- Escort & Place Cards
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Alicia was FANTASTIC! She executed my vision perfectly. Easy to work with and communicative (both via email and on the phone). Incredibly fast turnaround. Everyone has been raving about how great the invitations look. Highly recommend :-)
I have nothing to say but good things about Alicia and her company! She was very quick in her responses, so kind, and made our dream wedding and rehearsal dinner invites come to life! She explained all the options so thoroughly and even sent us samples in the mail so that everything was perfect and the way we wanted. The amount of details offered is simply amazing! When we saw our invites for the first time I cried because they were even more beautiful in person that seeing the proof! We got so many compliments on our wedding invites that it was "wedding goals" and we will always go back to Alicia for any future events!! We would highly recommend Alicia and A&P Designs!!!
Alicia was amazing to work with. She met with us in the beginning to understand our vision and truly blew us away with the end result. She even was able to reprint an invitation for photos and our menus when our venue had to change due to Hurricane Ian. We were so happy with everything and would recommend her services to anyone!
Alicia did an incredible job designing our invitations and day of paper goods! Extremely professional, responsive, and kind. She met with us to go through all of the beautiful options and made fantastic recommendations. We were so pleased with how everything turned out!
Working with Alicia was a dream come true for my wedding invitation suite! I had tried going the online company route, but became very frustrated with the limited customization options (ability to change wording, fonts, colors, etc). Alicia worked very quickly with me on designing and delivering my invitation suite since I was coming down to the wire on having to get them sent out and had not found anything I had loved. From our initial phone conversation, I was so happy to hear that Alicia would be able to customize everything as we wanted - the wording, the colors, the pieces in our suite, etc. I have nothing but AMAZING things to say about working with Alicia and was extremely pleased with our final invitation suite. The invitations are timeless and are better than I could’ve even imagined at the beginning. Alicia was also a great resource on learning proper etiquette for the invites and any other questions I had arise. You will not go wrong working with A&P!
From the beginning, Alicia was amazing to work with! My husband and I met with Alicia in 2019 to discuss designs for our save the dates and invitation suite. There were tons of different styles, colors, patterns, and designs to choose from so we were able to really customize our entire suite and make it our own. Our save the dates and invitation suite came out more beautiful than I could've imagined and I'm still so obsessed with them. Alicia also produced the menus and place cards for our wedding, which all came out beautiful as well!
Alicia was amazing to work with and I loved my invitation suite! The quality of the paper, printing, and packaging was awesome. We got so many compliments on our paper products and Alicia really understood my vision. Additionally, she was patient through rescheduling the wedding and making new Save the Dates! We had a great experience with this vendor!
Alicia was amazing to work with! She was so helpful throughout the entire process from start to finish. She is talented - her watercolor artwork of our venue was beautiful and got so many compliments. She helped us create a full invitation suite! From save the dates (and re-prints due to COVID), to the invitations, to hotel welcome bags, weekend detail booklets (including another water color, an area map), and day of paper goods, our paper suite was cohesive and well received. Not to mention, we felt her prices were very fair given the work she put in! You will not go wrong working with Alicia!
Our wedding invitations came out perfectly! Alicia did a great job making my vision come to life. Her communication was lacking from time to time which was not good for someone as type A as myself.
Beautiful invitations. So responsive and made sure we understood how long these took so everything was ordered and done on time. Invites came out exactly the way I wanted. They were quick to reply and make any adjustments we asked for.
I found A&P Design Co on Instagram and was blown away by their designs and customizations. Alicia is incredible to work with as she is responsive, professional, and full of design suggestions. The prices were extremely reasonable and worth every penny. We loved our wax seal detail - we even ordered extra to use on our menus. A&P will do all of your paper goods - including place cards!
Alicia did an amazing job designing our invitations and all of our day of paper needs! She was so kind and professional. Her work is definitely top notch! I highly recommend her! We lost our minister the week of our wedding and she quickly updated and reprinted our programs. We really appreciate everything she did throughout the process!
I was referred to Alicia through a friend who used her for her wedding invitations - and I am so glad I found her! She worked to create my vision of a simple, elegant yet classic wedding invitation suite, while also sticking to my budget/made cost saving suggestions. I really appreciated her honesty and our invitations couldn’t have turned out better!
Alicia also created our programs and seating charts carrying the same design for an overall cohesive look to our day. The process was simple and communication was good the whole time. Overall, very satisfied and would recommend!
Incredible! I was totally satisfied with every element of our wedding stationery. Alicia is very talented and has wonderful suggestions and pairings. She created a watercolor painting of our venue to use in our invitation suite! The personalization and attention to detail is amazing! The communication line is very open and prompt! I can't say enough great things and I will definitely head back to A&P next time I have stationery needs!
I used Alicia for my Save the Dates, invitations, seating chart, table numbers, menus, and signs for around the reception. I absolutely love her work. She does letter press and foil letter press for such a reasonable price. I received so many compliments about my invitations which is so great considering I designed with her while I was out of state and unable to see in person. She’s an artist but professional. Cannot recommend enough.
This business is unprofessional and lies to its customers. I paid for a specialized invitation. We made very minimal changes. I have emails where the staff belittled our opinion regarding our changes. I emailed the owner to let her know about the unprofessional behavior. She told me those emails were none of my business. Even though they cc’d me on the emails. The owner admitted to lying on the consultation. Our first consultation she was a no show to but emailed me 10 min. before saying she was sick. We understood an went to a 2nd one giving her a second chance. She admitted she lied about being sick. That was my fault for giving he the benefit of doubt. If I could submit the emails as proof I would.
A&P makes beautiful invitations, but their communication is lacking. We met with Alicia in the studio but then worked with Patricia. Somehow in between working with these two women, many details were lost. Definitely check all invoices to make sure that the details you requested are included and that other details were not added. We also noticed some basic math errors in our invoice. In the end, all was corrected, but it was not a seamless process. Fixing all of these errors also added to the production timeline, which was frustrating, and we had not accounted for going back and forth so many times. The finished result was beautiful, but the experience of working with A&P was not easy. They also did not mention the purpose of the paper lining in the invitations (to reduce smearing), which had we known, we would have added.
My invitations were amazing!! They do a beyond phenomenal job. I would highly recommend them and plan on using them again in the future!
If you are looking for quality invitations, this is the place! Very friendly and professional couple to work with. Exceptional and beautiful work! Thank you!
A&P is absolutely fabulous!! Alicia and her husband own and run the business themselves and hand-print each invitation themselves. They also custom design EVERY single piece and put plenty of thought, care and attention into every detail. The prices are also very competitive. I fell in love with letterpress when I first started looking at wedding invitations, but could not afford the steep prices of most places. Alicia custom designed letterpress invitations for me at a price point lower that the quotes I was getting for some thermography designs elsewhere. I LOVED how gorgeous my invitations turned out, and I actually ordered matching Thank Yous and ceremony programs from Alicia as well! Alicia was also very quick to respond by e-mail at all times, and was always very flexible about meeting me to pick out papers, approve the design, and pick everything up. I cannot say enough good things about A&P, and I would recommend them to anyone in the country!
I used A&P for all of my stationary. My save the dates, invites, day off stationary, signage, table numbers, place cards etc.
When I originally came to them about my invites I had a little idea of what I wanted. Alicia took what ideas I had and made it even better! I had so many people tell me that my invites were so different than your normal invite. So many told me that my invites were their favorite invites they had seen.
They turned out better than I would have ever expected.
Everything they did was AMAZING!! Alicia was so great to work with. Anything I needed she helped me with. With her and Patricks work they truly helped to make my wedding design amazing and very me! :)
I will definitely use them again and recommend them to others.
I was referred to Pat and Alicia by a personal friend. It was one of the best decisions I made to use them for not only the wedding invitations, but also the table numbers, programs, and props for the reception.
A side note, the mother of the groom used A&P also for the rehearsal dinner and cocktail party.
Alicia and Pat have a flair for creativity; we received multiple compliments on the elegance of the inviation they designed. High quality and custom design without having a book put in front of you to pick out of. I liked the fact that our invitations will be like no others. You don't get that when picking from a book. I like that you can order any quantity. I LOVED the fact that they are done on the premises.
We were even able to come down to choose what shade of gold we wanted on the invitation!
I will definitely use Pat and Alicia again. They deserve the highest of recommendations!!
I was very satisfied with everything from A&P. Alicia is great and really listens to what you are looking for an is able to capture the feeling of your event. For letterpress invitations this is the best value around!!! They look so beautiful :)
I can't even begin to explain how grateful I am for A&P designs! I was the typical bride who had NO idea what I wanted and Alicia was absolutely wonderful at guiding me to the invitations of my dreams! Time and time again she created custom designs until I was completely happy. They came out perfect and even months after my wedding I am still receiving complements on our stationary.
Working with A&P designs you will not receive your typical invitations but you will get one of a kind hand crafted stationary that cannot be matched anywhere else! They even let my dad hand draw aspects of the invitation and then letterpresses it in!
In addition to the amazing work they have great calligraphy contacts which helped bring my invitations together! I could not have imagined working without A&P designs and would (and do) recommend them to anyone! I will be using them again in the future without a doubt!
My wedding stationary turned out beautifully thanks to A&P Designs. Alicia was so great to work with (even though I'm in NYC and she was in FL)! She managed to create a look that was one-of-a-kind and exactly what I wanted. I could not have been more pleased with the final product! She was not only creative, but patient, responsive and accommodating! I could not have asked for a better vendor to work with for my big day! I would highly recommend reaching out to this vendor for your wedding..their work speaks for itself!
This husband and wife team are creative and professional. This is the one aspect of my wedding that I felt most confident and excited about. It was truly a great first impression of our wedding. Just about every one of our guests complimented our invitations. Our day of stationary at the actual wedding was unique and beautiful. Alicia listened to what I wanted and guided me to exactly what I envisioned. I feel so lucky to say that I didn't pick my stationary from a catalog that someone else may have used.
I searched everywhere online for quality and affordable letterpress invitations. Every place I looked, seemed way overpriced or every change of a format had a high cost to it. I came across A&P designs through ETSY and fell in love with one of their designs - her pricing was competitve or even a little less than other shops similar and she was able to provide full pricing up front - so I knew how much everything would cost. We wrote back and forth daily regarding my vision and she was happy to provide numerous versions of the design so I could really figure out which I liked best (different fonts, formats, colors, etc..). Everything was done so timely and when I got the box in the mail, I was ecstatic - the proofs were great, but in person, the invites were beautiful! Letterpress is a high-end way to deliver invitations and I didn't have to spend 2k to get exactly what I wanted. I highly recommend A&P and will certainly use them again!
This company did my wedding and bridal shower invitations. The owner met with us to get a feel of what we wanted and how to make them perfect, and perfect they were. I received SO many compliments on my invitations. This company did an amazing job. I highly recommend them.
Alicia was VERY patient with me as we worked through the iterations of both the save the dates and the invitations. She never complained about any changes I requested and quickly turned around the proofs. She would make herself available around my schedule. Our invitations were letterpress and she had some very cool ideas on how to make our invites unique. She also did our programs and table numbers and it was great to have everything so cohesive with the look and feel of the wedding. We also created CDs that were placecards as well as favors, and Alicia was critical in getting the design done, and she assembled all 110 CDs that had custom spines and covers to indicate our guests' names and tables. In the end, we got a lot of compliments on all of it and I was very happy with the process. Alicia is a very hard worker, she would bend over backwards to make her brides happy and you can't ask for much more than that.
Elena W.
Alicia is very talented and creative. She worked with me to design a boarding pass invitation that stayed within my budget. She was a pleasure to work with and everyone absolutely loved my invitations. It was a perfect way to set the tone for our destination (Key West) wedding.
Our wedding invitations were flawless! We are still getting compliments about them. Seaside Invitations is the only way to go, in my opinion. They were prompt in communication, always pleasant and truley in sync with what we wanted. We recommend them wholeheartedly!
I couldn't be happier I chose Seaside Invitations to make our invitations for our wedding. The end product was far better than I could have ever imagined and expected. Our passport invitations were a total hit with our friends and family. Alicia is the nicest person to work with, and I love her professionalism. I did a lot of research before I decided whom I wanted to make my invitations and Seaside Invitations was the best choice. The price was right and the quality of the product was great. One of my favorite part was that she is local and I met with and picked up my invitations personally. I will definitely contact her first when I have any paper needs.
I found Alicia on etsy as I was planning our wedding. After visiting all the old invitation standards (papyrus, paper source) and some local spots, we realized that we wanted custom invitations. I couldn't find anything I liked locally, so I checked on etsy - and I am so glad that I did!
Alicia is extremely talented and VERY flexible and responsive. I had a design in my mind and she was able to take that idea and make it a reality. Alicia did our save the dates, invitations, reply cards and our table markers. Everyone loved the unique design and how every small detail had the same design.
Thank you Alicia for your hard work! In a couple years we will need you to do our baby announcements :)
My save-the-dates are still being talked about! I was an out of town bride and I met with Alicia via phone lots of times. She was so helpful and took the time to understand what my vision was. I ended up doing "boarding pass" tickets because my wedding was out of state. They were so awesome and looked so much like a real plane ticket. This type of save the date is more expensive, but she worked with me to get it to a level I was comfortable with.
I would definitely recommend her!!!
I met with Alicia from Seaside Invitations to discuss my wedding invitations. Alicia brought numerous samples and helped me with envisioning my 'look'. I went with letterpress invites in 5 different sizes (main invite, accommodations, rehearsal dinner, reception and reply card). I own an ad agency so my designer worked closely with Alicia to determine specs and colors. She met with us here at my office many times and was always very accessible due to my busy schedule. I just got the invites last week and LOVE them - they are perfect and more than I had expected. I can't wait to get them in the mail!
Thank you Alicia!
Brooke Gast
On top of the amazing quality of our invitation suite, Seaside Invitations provides stellar personalized customer service. Alicia is laid back, very responsive, helpful, and has been an integral part to the success of our wedding. She helped us develop our style and theme for our wedding and was super patient with us through each step of the process. Every design we received was created with impeccable taste and incredible attention to detail. Alicia allowed us to have our dream suite of paper goods, while being more affordable than any other stock or customized paper goods you will find in a store or online. I feel so lucky to have spectacular, custom invitations that received countless rave reviews from our guests. I cannot say enough positive things about my experience as it has been my favorite part of planning our wedding and the element I have never worried about. I will continue to use Seaside Invitations for our note cards and for gifts for friends and family
Our invitations turned out absolutely beautiful. We couldn't have asked for anything more! Alicia was so helpful when coming up with a design. She sent over several different templates to choose from, all were very beautiful! Countless friends and family commented on how much they loved the invitations and response cards. I know I couldn't have found this type of quality anywhere else but with Seaside Invitations.
We were referred to Seaside Invitations by a friend after a long and very unsuccessful search at trying to find unique Save the Dates for our destination vineyard wedding and coming up empty handed. Without much to go on but a vague vision of what we wanted, Alicia and her husband gave us a beautiful custom design that was better than anything we imagined. We got so many compliments about how beautiful our Save the Dates were and we couldn't be happier! To make it even more amazing - Alicia is a breeze to work with! Can't wait to see what they come up with for our invitations!
I received so many compliments on my beautiful invitations! My family and friends are still talking about how unique and perfect they turned out! I would definitely recommend Seaside Invitations (Alicia) to anyone who is interested in custom paper for their wedding
I can't even begin to describe the positive responses we got from my Wedding invitations. Seaside is helpful, dependable, and so affordable compared to other companies. I recommend them to anyone who wants to be completely happy and wants an 'over the top', never before seen kind of invitation. Thank you Seaside(Alicia) for making them perfect!!!!
Seaside Invitations created a beautiful custom Save the Date for my wedding. I am thoroughly impressed with the quality and communication with Alicia. She was quick to respond to questions, concerns, and suggestions. I really enjoyed working with Alicia and loved the final product!
I received so many compliments on my invitations! They were super cute and well crafted. I would totally recommend Seaside Invitations!
Seaside Invitations was a breeze to work with. I ordered the beautiful & original boarding pass invitations for our destination Maui wedding. She translated all of my requests in absolutely record time into beautiful invitations my family and friends are STILL raving about! They are even on display in their houses! Just a tribute to how beautiful her work is.
Alicia - you were a pleasure to work with on this! You were very good about responding quickly and working with me to get just the look I wanted. I was really impressed by your patience as we did revision after revision and your help along every step of the way. I was also really impressed by the quality of the products you made. Everyone who I showed the wedding invites loved the way the paper felt! :) Thanks again and sorry its taken me so long to get back to you! I would definitely recommend you to anyone and hope to do business w/ you again soon!
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Ellie
Seaside invitaion provides creativity, beauty and originality to each and every piece of paper work that they do. Seaside invitations makes sure you are happy and get exactly what you want. I am so happy with my save the dates for my wedding and have had many compliments from all of my guest on how beautiful they are. At first I was not sure what I really wanted, but Alicia knew exactly what I had in mind and helped asked me the right questions to find exactly what I would like. I couldnt be happier with the way they turned out and look foward to the same results for my wedding invites. I am confident that they will turn out beautiful.
I stumbled upon Seaside Invitations while searching for ideas on etsy. After contacting Alicia and telling her about what I had envisioned, she sent me some samples and quote and I did not hesitate to say print! I had wanted a tree to be our main focus/trademark. She had her team hand designed a few trees for us to choose from. Alicia was able to incorporate the tree into all of our items, even the last minute table numbers I requested!
Our guests have raved about our invites and our wedding map since the day they got them in the mail! I had many guests compliment the design of the wedding and many of them said "Even from the beginning your invites were amazing". All credit to Alicia and her team.
I have really enjoyed working with Alicia, she really helped us design the original invite I have always dreamed about. I will definitely use her business for any future "paper" items I may need!
Seaside invitations offered me a one-on-one experience that I could not find any where else. They were dedicated to making my invitations special and unique- they also stayed in communication with me throughout the entire process. My invitations were made quickly and arrived quickly- and were the most beautiful invitations I have ever seen. I can not wait to send them out and hear how much my guests enjoy them- they are truly pieces of art. You would be crazy to work with any other vendor!
I absolutely adored the style of Seaside Invites since I first saw their website. I was lucky enough to win some free printing through a local vendor here in Las Vegas but still wanted the creativeness that Alicia and husband provide, so I asked her to create something for us. I love the Save the Date design and can't wait to start working on the rest of our invites.
They are always available to answer questions, flexible and quick to make any changes I need. LOVE!
I have nothing but great things to say about Alicia and Seaside Invitations. She was able to make a wonderfully creative and personalized invitation & RSVP card that blew my guests away. Some of them didn't even want to return the RSVP card, it was just too cute! Her prices were very competitive, she was very attentive to my requests and prompt in her replies... 5 stars. :)
I had wanted colorful, non-traditional invitations for my wedding, and Seaside Invitations delivered the perfect product! I met with the designer and she asked questions and made suggestions for almost an hour, then a few days later sent me several different designs to choose from. She worked with me on wording, font, paper texture, and even met with me again to make sure that the finished product was perfect before she printed everything. Her prices were less expensive than any other professional printer, for full-color, and she included textured paper, colored envelopes, and individualized design into her price. My invites have butterflies and pinwheels and look like nothing else out there. Thank you, Seaside Invitations!
I randomly found Seaside Invitations while on Etsy.com. I was considering creating my wedding invitations myself and contacted Alicia regarding her monoLOVEgram. She created a few samples for me and while emailing back and forth she suggested sending me a quote that included her costs, shipping, etc. I was amazed at how cost-effective her quote was and immediately decided to go with her. I'm so glad I did - she ended up creating our invitation suite, place cards and programs. She was extremely easy to work with, and the final results were amazing. I so happy I found her!
I'm getting married in Clearwater Beach, FL but I live in Milwaukee, WI. I found Seaside Invitations through my sister because she used them for her wedding invitations and programs. Her Invitation is called the Natalie Invitation on their website: http://www.seasideinvitations.com/collections/wedding/natalie-invitation. I chose them to do my Save the Dates because they have unique hand painted beach themed designs and I wanted to be different than sending out plain, traditional announcements. For my Save the Dates they designed a postcard where they painted a beautiful blue colored beach scene for the background and added our names and location of the wedding on the front. Then
on the back had more information and room where my fiance and I could handwrite a personal message if we wanted to. They also designed a message in a bottle with a elegant label on the front with sand and shells inside along with a rolled piece of paper with our wedding information. I went with two different save the dates because I couldn't decide on one. I only sent the message in a bottle to my close family, some friends, and bridal party (because of cost) and the postcard to the rest of my guests. I mailed 45 message in a bottles and 80 postcards. Here is a picture of my Save the Dates message in a bottle: http://tweetphoto.com/31919286. I received a lot of compliments on my Save the Dates from my guests and that's what I was going for.
Also my bridesmaids used Seaside Invitations for my Bridal Shower invitations. It was a beach themed shower and they created cute luggage type tag invitations. Here is a picture of that as well: http://tweetphoto.com/29688240
(My invitations were featured twice on their Twitter Photo account!)
I highly recommend using Seaside Invitations for all of your wedding stationary needs. They are wonderful to work with especially since I live so far away. They were in constant contact through email and were easily available by phone. They work hard in creating customized styles to fit your wedding motif and I can't wait to work with them in designing my wedding invitations, programs, thank you cards, and more.
I was really happy with the magnet "save the dates" that Alicia and her company designed for me! She was great to work with and both my fiance and I are really happy with the magnets. We can't wait to send them out to friends and family. She gave us several options/ideas while still making sure we felt that the save the dates were personal and representative of us. I would highly recommend Seaside Invitations!
Alicia designed my save the dates for my wedding as well as wedding party cards to invite the people we wanted to include in our wedding party. I was very pleased with the design. She was very quick and efficient with getting the projects done and available for me to send them out to my guests. I am very happy with this company! :)
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