About this vendor
Crissie Vitale Creative is a business located in Chicago, IL, that creates hand-painted paper goods for weddings. The company specializes in making wedding invitations using watercolor paints. Their goal is to blow each person away with the elegant works of art.
Crissie works to help couples have a good experience while they navigate their wedding details. She takes care of guiding nearlyweds through the wedding invitation creation process by offering her expertise and knowledge. During the creation period, Crissie discusses ideas and visions with couples in order to create a design that reflects their personality. Whether it is fun and playful or chic and sophisticated, Crissie is happy to come up with a layout plan.
At Crissie Vitale Creative the goal is to create something that is simply more than just a piece of paper. Crissie strives to design a beautiful work of art that represents a moment in time and can be kept as a keepsake. She achieves this by putting meaningful thought and cohesiveness through each concept she creates. After the final stroke of her brush, she hopes the personalized elements of the work of art resonate with each onlooker.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Invitations & Paper Goods
- Calligraphy
- Custom Invitations
- Paper Goods
- Escort & Place Cards
- Menus
- Programs
Awards and Affiliations
2021 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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out of 5.014 reviews
Crissie is such a talented and gifted artist and is phenomenal to work with! From the moment we discussed the wedding invitation collection, she listened to my vision and made it c...
ome to life by creating a stunning, custom invitation design! The highlight of the creation was a Map of my hometown complete with individual hand painted destinations on the map. We also loved our custom Crest! Crissie is very detail oriented and has a great turnaround time.
Throughout the entire process she offered great recommendations and suggestions. Crissie definitely added EXTRA joy to our wedding planning experience and we are so grateful for her and her beautiful work. She is very professional and I highly recommend her to all brides for watercolor and calligraphy, you will not be disappointed!!
Working with Crissie was amazing. She was professional, creative and talented. My one of a kind invitations came out beautiful and thrilled my guests. Throughout the entire process...
, Crissie went out of her way to make sure the end product was everything I wanted and more. Would recommend her to anyone!
Crissie is a good friend of mine, but that did not deter her from being both professional and responsive. What I love the most about Crissie's work is how personal she makes it; sh...
e goes out of her way to learn both your love story and wedding details to accurately and beautifully interpret them in your deliverables. Whether you're planning a casual event or black tie wedding, Crissie has the skillset you need to execute flawlessly.
Crissie is amazing. She was not only the most responsive vendor I worked with for our wedding, but she created the most perfect, beautiful invites for our big day. Could not recomm...
end her enough!!! She is sweet, professional, and does flawless work :)
These were my favorite wedding invitations ever! You can call me bias, but they really were amazing. I went to Crissie with an idea of what I wanted, and she exceeded my expectatio...
ns. It was her idea to incorporate our kitties which turned out to be my favorite thing about the invitations. So many of the RSVPs had a note about how much they loved the invitation, and we got so many compliments on how cool and unique they were. We loved them so much we went on to use the crest she created for us on our Thank Yous, of Photo Booth strips, and our programs. Would highly recommend!!!
I came to Crissie with a shell of a wedding vision, and she took a few photos and my description and turned it into the most perfect wedding suite that I could have ever imagined. ...
Our stationary went from being one of the things that I planned to just check off my wedding to do list to one of my favorite parts about our day!
If you are looking for a thoughtful and extremely talented calligrapher, then you should seriously consider working with Crissie to help you make your calligraphy dreams a reality....
She was open to trying new things and was a pleasure to work with. We received so many compliments on our invitation suite, and we ended up asking her to design our menus and other fun pieces as well. Thank you Crissie!
Crissie is absolutely amazing. Not only is she so creative and full of great ideas, she is incredibly easy to work with! I recommend her to anybody who is looking for a reliable in...
vitation designer. Not to mention -- her work is BEAUTIFUL!
Crissie was so, so wonderful to work with throughout the entire design process for our wedding paper goods (and enamelware — more on that below!).
For each item she was designing...
, Crissie would present several concepts to me and my husband, and it was on us to choose one to move forward with. It was always harder than we thought; each concept was so good! Crissie was amazing at getting exactly the vibe and ideas we had in mind but didn't know how to articulate.
When I wanted to give enamelware camping mugs as wedding gifts, Crissie was instrumental in making that happen, working with a vendor to get her designs printed on the mugs. They were a huge hit.
Would highly recommend Crissie and her beautiful watercolors for any of your design needs <3
Crissie made our wedding stationery DREAMS COME TRUE! Not only did she come up with a gorgeous design and flawlessly execute the invitations, but she also helped us build a story a...
nd add contextual meaning to it all, making the experience so special for us. We wanted to base the invitations off of a stained glass window that was in our venue, and she took that simple idea and added beauty, coming up with the concept that our invitations were 'As if, over the years, the stained glass window had fallen away to reveal a living version of itself'. Chills! We loved her design and concept so much, that we ended up inspiring much of our wedding after it! Crissie embodies creativity at the highest level. We were nearly 8,000 miles apart during the design process, but she made us feel so confident and found ways to show us every aspect of what was going into the invitation suite. Thank you thank you thank you for this keepsake that will always be in our hearts and framed on our wall.
Crissie is incredibly talented and puts so much thought and detail into her work. She did a beautiful job on our wedding invites, programs and decorative signs; we received so many...
compliments from our guests! It added a very unique touch to our special day. She was very collaborative and helpful throughout the entire process. I highly recommend her for any calligraphy needs.
Where do I start? Crissie is the absolute best! She was a dream to work with. She truly understood my vision and created the wedding suite of my dreams. Crissie's style is impeccab...
le. Not only is her work beautiful, but she is super knowledgeable about stationery in general. She walked me through a ton of options that I did not know existed - envelope size and style? paper weight? address etiquette? - she knows it all!
I work in Public Relations and am very picky about vendors. Crissie was extremely responsive over email and did not a start new email thread every time she had an update for me (am I the only one bothered by this?!). Crissie never missed a deadline and there was no stress around this piece of my wedding. I felt like she was truly on my team and wanted to produce the best work for me and my husband.
I would 110% recommend working with Crissie, especially if you are looking for something that is one-of-a-kind. Her prices are beyond fair and she is lovely.
Crissie was simply the best to work with. She really understood our vision and brought what we wanted to life. We got so many compliments on the custom wedding invitation suite and...
other paper products she created for our wedding. Crissie is so talented!!
It was an absolute pleasure to work with Crissie to create our dream invitation suite as well as everything and anything else we needed for our special day (programs, day-of schedu...
le, menu etc)! I cannot express how intuitive, collaborative and timely she was from our initial conversation through to receiving our STUNNING final products. She took our vision and transformed it into the most beautiful and totally "us" invitations, which speaks to her incredible talent and flawless execution. Crissie was always one step ahead of us and went above and beyond in all regards to create timeless, creative and unique invitations that perfectly complimented our style. She is so personable and her guidance and collaborative approach was so enjoyable to work with that as a result, she completely took the stress away from this part of our wedding planning! Thank you Crissie!
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Chicago, IL
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