5.0
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Custom Handcrafted Invitations + Paper Goods
Carolyn helped me bring my dream save the date and invitations to life! She helped me develop a half baked idea into a true work of art. Carolyn was willing to meet with me as many times as I needed and reviewed countless images I sent to her as inspiration. Carolyn was so patient and receptive to feedback. I always felt like I had her full attention and that my project was equally as important to her as it was to me. Working with Designed by the C was a fantastic experience!
Olivia A.
5.0
Carolyn did a wonderful job with our invitations! We had a specific vision in mind and she guided us along and helped make our vision come to life., Couldn't recommend her more!
Parul K.
5.0
AWARD WINNER (4X)
Thanks to recommendations from couples on The Knot
Based out of Long Beach, NY, Designed by the C is a boutique design studio that offers unique fine art wedding invitations and paper goods. The owner and creative director, Carolyn, has been working with clients since 2013. This artist will happily collaborate with clients to make an exceptional suite for their wedding celebration.
Carolyn has always had a strong passion for art and design, painting since an early age and drawing inspiration from the ocean. Carolyn has a professional background in many areas of design, such as the editorial, beauty, and fashion industries. Through Designed by the C, this dedicated creative strives to create one-of-a-kind pieces for each couple.
Designed by the C offers custom handcrafted invitations and paper goods for wedding suites. She also offers any day of wedding items needed. These include menu cards, place cards, escort cards, table numbers, programs etc. With design and illustration, Carolyn will make your wedding vision come to life!
Woman-owned Business
Details
Invitations & Paper Goods
Custom Invitations
Paper Goods
Coasters
Escort & Place Cards
Guest Books
Menus
Programs
Seating Charts
Signs
Table Numbers
Thank You Cards
Save-The-Dates
Shower & Party Invitations
Wedding Invitations
Awards and Affiliations
4-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2026.2025.2024.2023.
Best of Weddings
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Hall of Fame
Earned by winning 'Best of Weddings' four or more times.
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Designed by the C delivers gorgeous, highly personalized wedding stationery and signage, often featuring custom watercolor art that clients frame and treasure. Clients praise the designer's creativity, responsiveness, professionalism, and flexibility with last-minute changes. Overall, customers highly recommend her work for its quality and attention to detail.Review photos
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Cristina R
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5.0
12/15/2024
Carolyn is the most incredible person to work with! She is so helpful and creative. She has great ideas of her own and is also great at helping you turn your own ideas into an even...
better reality! We worked with Carolyn on the majority of our stationary starting with Bridal Shower invites and signage, wedding invitation suite all the way through to match books and more. We will be working with her on any/all artwork for forever — she is the best out there!!! So talented, helpful and responsive. We love her!!!!
Olivia A
5.0
11/22/2025
Carolyn helped me bring my dream save the date and invitations to life! She helped me develop a half baked idea into a true work of art. Carolyn was willing to meet with me as man...
y times as I needed and reviewed countless images I sent to her as inspiration. Carolyn was so patient and receptive to feedback. I always felt like I had her full attention and that my project was equally as important to her as it was to me. Working with Designed by the C was a fantastic experience!
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Parul K
5.0
11/15/2025
Carolyn did a wonderful job with our invitations! We had a specific vision in mind and she guided us along and helped make our vision come to life., Couldn't recommend her more!
Elizabeth R
5.0
11/13/2025
Working with Carolyn on our wedding invitations was one of the best decisions we made during our planning process. Her creativity and talent are unmatched! Every element of our inv...
itations was the perfect reflection of us as a couple — from the design and color palette to the small custom touches that made each piece of the suite feel so special. Our guests can’t stop talking about how gorgeous they are!
Working with Carolyn was not only easy and fun, but genuinely inspiring — she has a true gift for turning ideas into art. Her work is timeless, personal, and absolutely breathtaking. She went above and beyond to ensure everything was perfect and I cannot recommend her highly enough!
Nikita T
5.0
10/29/2025
Designed by the C is the best! Carolyn was kind enough to lend her next-level creativity to all things stationary for my baby shower - invites, signage, thank you notes, etc. Was s...
o special and custom to our theme and personalities, which was “Bun in the Oven” a boulangerie vibe that incorporated her incredible watercolor talent with nuances unique to me and my husband. Couldn’t have just bought them in a store! I highly recommend Carolyn for any design needs for your events!
Emily J
5.0
10/15/2025
Carolyn was an incredible vendor to work with. We connected with her after a mutual friend knew we wanted a water color, multi piece wedding invitation suite. Once we saw Carolyn’s...
previous work we knew she had the exact type of watercolor artistry we were looking for. We had a destination wedding and wanted our guests to open our invitation and feel like they were transported to our wedding location. Carolyn achieved that perfectly and helped us prioritize what we wanted to showcase image wise. She was also very receptive to tiny edits we wanted to make to a map piece, as accuracy was very important to us. All in all we were so pleased to work with Carolyn. She was organized, clear, easy to work with, amenable and above all else a very talented artist!
Tyler M
5.0
9/26/2025
Carolyn’s work is so incredible, she made the most beautiful custom welcome sign for my wedding. All the guests loved it and I can’t wait to keep it in our house for years to come!...
Turnaround was extremely quick and easy and she made the whole process that much easier! Thanks Carolyn!!
Shreya
5.0
3/21/2025
Working with Carolyn was a dream come true! She understood my vision so perfectly. Her work is truly amazing and one of a kind. We got a handful of invitations printed to give to o...
ur close Famiy and friends and a number of them told us they had our invitation artwork framed because of how stunning it was. I couldn’t recommend her enough and I will cherish our invitations forever!!
Response from Designed by the C on 07/07/2025
Thank you SO much for the kind words Shreya! This makes me so happy :) It was my pleasure ...
to create these for you and make your vision come to life!
Tony M
5.0
12/12/2024
Carolyn was fantastic to work with. She did an amazing job on our save the dates and really captured a very special moment that we get to look at before our big day. Highly recomme...
nd working with her. Delivery and presentation as well were a huge plus!
Zayba A
5.0
12/06/2024
I loved working with Carolyn on all my wedding stationary! She did such a beautiful job and was so responsive to my feedback (even when it was a bit last minute!). Everything she m...
ade us turned out amazing -- even our table numbers were a work of art! :)
Heather H
5.0
11/21/2024
Carolyn absolutely nailed the stationary for one of our clients!! Highly recommend Designed by the C for your event
Elizabeth J
5.0
9/14/2024
We loved working with Carolyn on our save the date cards and wedding invitations. She truly brought our vision to life and ensured that we were a part of every step in her process....
She was very responsive and accommodating, understanding last minute changes that came up. Her designs are absolutely beautiful, both elegant and modern. She is super open to all designs and ideas. She is also very creative if you need help with direction!
Holly G
5.0
9/11/2024
Carolyn made all of my invitation dreams come to life! She provided guidance every step of the way. We received SO many compliments from our guests. They were absolutely beautiful!...
!
Colleen M
5.0
9/10/2024
Carolyn was the absolute best to work with. I had no idea what I was looking for when I started and she worked with me to create the most perfect invitations that matched us and ou...
r story perfectly 🤍. The invites mean so much to us and we have a copy framed in our house that we’ll cherish forever. We get endless compliments as well. Highly, highly recommend working with Carolyn!
Kaitlyn K
5.0
12/20/2023
I could not be happier to work with Carolyn on my wedding stationary! She recently did our save the dates and we’ve gotten so many compliments on them! She is extremely original an...
d talented. Whatever ideas I come up with she brings them to life and better than what I originally envisioned. She is the easiest vendor to work with and she truly cares about your vision and day!
Amy H
5.0
12/16/2023
Could not be happier with our decision to work with Carolyn for all the paper goods and stationary involved with our wedding. She was by far the BEST vendor that we used. The quali...
ty of her work is unmatched, her creations are literally works of art. We have our save the date framed in our home and are still receiving compliments about our invitations months later. Carolyn was an absolute pleasure to work with, she listened to our ideas and visions and she created something even more amazing than my husband and I ever could’ve imagined. It is very obvious while working with Carolyn that she cares about her clients and making all their dreams come to life. We cannot recommend her enough and look forward to working with her again in the future!
Samantha P
5.0
11/30/2023
Carolyn beautifully executed my vision for an elegant and unique invitation suite. She was professional, timely, and gracious - even when I changed the design direction close to t...
he deadline. The suite really set the design aesthetic for our entire wedding. She turned a photo of our engagement spot into a beautiful watercolor, which now serves as a personal art piece in our home.
Michaela L
5.0
10/16/2023
Carolyn was fantastic to work with. She’s super professional and quick to respond. She created amazing save the dates for us- we got so many compliments. We love it so much we even...
framed it in our house :)
Jessie A
5.0
10/12/2023
Carolyn created custom stickers of our dog for our exit station at our wedding! The watercolor art of Harper was spot on and beautiful. She used our wedding color inspiration to ti...
e into the floral accents to bring the design together. She was super accommodating and truly listened to our opinions to ensure it was exactly what we imagined. If you are looking for an extremely talented vendor who is the queen of customization, look no further than Designed by the C!
Puja D
5.0
4/18/2023
We absolutely loved working with and getting to know Carolyn. Not only is she genuine and kindhearted, she listened to all of the details we were interested in and delivered the mo...
st unique artwork in the form of our wedding invites. The entire process was seamless and truly the best (& easiest) decision we made!
We loved our invite so much we leveraged her to pull together a custom dance floor template for us.
Raina P
5.0
1/13/2023
Working with Carolyn for our wedding paper goods and signage was fantastic! She was collaborative, responsive, and professional. She made our vision come to life, and more. I'll ne...
ver forget the moment that I held our physical wedding invites in my hand — they were absolutely perfect and everything we dreamed of. All of the items that Carolyn created were unique and memorable, and w are so grateful for her partnership.
Chelsea P
5.0
12/20/2022
Carolyn is amazing! She is able to take a vision you have and run with it. She designed a cartoon of my husband and myself for our save the dates and it was such a hit we decided t...
o order stickers of them as another special part of our wedding. Our invitations were simple and elegant and everything I could have dreamed of
Carolyn's work is beautiful, creative, and unique! If you are looking for something special and custom for your big day run to her!! Working with her is super easy as she is very quick to respond and her turnaround is very quick also! I cant wait to work with her again in the future
Liza G
5.0
6/25/2022
Carolyn (Designed by the C) was the most wonderful and easy to work with vendor throughout our entire wedding planning. From start to finish Carolyn delivered such creative and bea...
utiful pieces that tied our whole wedding together. We really appreciated how she listened and communicated with us, while providing her own input. She was so flexible and open to ideas, and made a point to be on time with her deadlines. From our hand painted save the dates to our sailboat guest table cards, Carolyn worked tirelessly and thoughtfully to make sure our wedding day was so special. Carolyn never hesitated to set up a call or send us a draft of what she was thinking. Her detailed plan for each item we were asking for made the whole process seamless. We will continue to recommend Carolyn and Designed by the C to our friends and family for years to come and cannot wait to continue working with her in the future!
Victoria P
5.0
6/17/2022
Carolyn is the best of the best! She made my invitation dreams come true. She knows exactly how to take your thoughts and ideas and turn them into reality. Her invitations are tai...
lored specifically to you and your day! Let’s not forget that she is one of the most incredibly talented artists I’ve ever seen. Her attention to detail is unmatched. Also, she was amazing to work with even through the pandemic. Our wedding was postponed 3 times and she was patient, helpful, and dedicated all the way through! I HIGHLY recommend her!!!
Jessica N
5.0
5/09/2022
Carolyn was such a pleasure to work with. She was so accommodating after two covid reschedules and helped us create our dream wedding invites and details throughout our whole week...
end. theres nothing she cant do!
Haritha R
5.0
4/27/2022
Working with Carolyn was an absolute dream! Stationary was one of the details we had put off until the last minute for our wedding, and Carolyn was so accommodating when it came to...
helping us meet our timelines. We had a rough idea of what we wanted for our programs, itinerary cards, menus and table numbers, and she provided us with great direction on how to create a cohesive suite based on the colors and design we were looking for. All the pieces were so beautifully packaged upon arrival and we received a ton of compliments on everything. I could not recommend Carolyn more and definitely plan on using her for all my future stationary needs!
Dianne O
5.0
4/25/2022
Carolyn designed the invitations for my sister (2019) and cousin's (2021) bridal showers and they were AMAZING. Every single person who attended both events commented on how gorgeo...
us the custom cards were, and my sister and cousin were thrilled beyond belief. Carolyn is a GENIUS - I highly recommend her!!!
Emily R
5.0
4/22/2022
Carolyn did THE BEST wedding invitations for us! She totally understood our woodsy/bohemian/music theme, listened to our ideas, and then her artistry made them absolute perfection....
I still get compliments about our invitation, and all of the invitation inserts, to this day. She created an incredible logo that we used throughout the wedding and we still identify with as a married couple. She took the time to understand our vision, and then truly brought it to life. Highly, highly recommend.
Ellen M
5.0
4/14/2022
Carolyn created the most beautiful invitations for our wedding on Cape Cod and could not have made the process easier for us. She helped me narrow down what I wanted and gave me gr...
eat ideas that I didn't even think about. We received so many compliments on our invitations and I can't recommend her enough!
Christi R
5.0
4/14/2022
When I met with Carolyn about our invitations, I had just a few pictures and ideas to show her. She turned my vision into the most beautiful, creative invitation suite. It was so...
special and one of a kind and every detail and nuance was perfect and cohesive; more than I could have ever imagined. I 100% recommend her for all of your invites/paper/signage!
Rebecca L
5.0
4/12/2022
I can’t recommend Designed by the C enough. Carolyn goes out of her way to understand your vision, provide guidance and ensures that the final product is exactly what you want. She...
designed the full suite for my wedding, including invitations, programs, name cards and even tote bags for favors. If you are looking for a completely custom design experience, please go with Designed by the C - I promise you won’t regret it.
Brittany H
5.0
4/11/2022
Designed by the C is amazing! Carolyn completely captured my vision for my invites and designed them in a way that was even better than I had imagined. It truly set the tone for my...
wedding. She’s so incredibly talented and makes the whole process fun and easy. I got so many compliments - her designs are timeless and beautiful, no matter your style! Five years later, I still treasure the personal touch and custom details of our invites. You can’t go wrong!!
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