About this vendor
Invitations by Leston is a wedding stationery company based in Coral Gables, FL. Owner Ernesto Leston expertly crafts each of his couples’ paper items with love, ensuring every invite and place card is exquisite. With his eye for detail, Ernesto is dedicated to creating memorable stationery for soon-to-be newlyweds.
After graduating with a degree in design, Ernesto worked for several prominent clothing companies throughout New York City. When he moved to Florida, he began designing stationery for clients while working at a bridal salon. Ernesto quickly discovered his passion for stationery and has since worked with numerous couples to create paper items for their weddings.
Clients who work with Invitations by Leston receive personalized, attentive service during the design process. Ernesto offers consultations throughout the experience and strives to create a luxurious setting by providing champagne, chocolates, and other refreshments. In addition to invitations, couples can avail of other paper goods such as place cards, menus, programs, and more.
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Invitations & Paper Goods
- Paper Goods
- Escort & Place Cards
- Menus
- Programs
- Table Numbers
- Wedding Invitations
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Ernesto (owner) was great when it came to helping me with my wedding invitations. He was very patient and found the right fit with my budget and style. He offered us snacks and wine while we shopped which was so nice and considerate. Ernesto made you feel like you were a friend from the start. My invitations arrived very quickly. We even had him address our envelopes with calligraphy which he himself does beautifully! I highly recommend Invitations by Leston!
When looking for an invitations vendor, I only knew one thing: I did not want to use any online paper stores to make my invitations (you know which ones I'm talking about!) After a thorough google search, I can only say: thank goodness for Ernesto! He not only became like a a family friend during the process (love all the treats you get when you spend time in his store!) but he was incredibly knowledgeable and professional throughout the journey of finding the perfect Save the Dates and my wedding invitations. Not only was he able to provide quality paper goods but he does absolutely beautiful calligraphy and was able to do the artwork for my invitations. Overall, the price was fair for the quality of invitations and the fact that your receive excellent customer service was just the cherry on top! I loved the idea of supporting a small business and so, will continue to keep Ernesto in mind for any future milestones that require paper goods!
I just can't speak enough about Ernesto from Invitations by Leston! Our wedding planner, Joni Scalzo, recommended Ernesto's shop and we did not look any further. We spent a couple of hours with Ernesto and ended up ordering our gorgeous invite with him. He has so much attention to detail that he even noticed a small mistake the company made on our envelopes and asked them to resend all of them. He was patient and worked with us as we designed our own monogram for the invites and he did the stunning calligraphy for all of our envelopes. We got SO MANY compliments on the elegance and beauty of our invites that we decided to do a lot more with Ernesto! We ended up asking him to write our "welcome mirror" with his calligraphy, we did our ceremony programs, menus, table numbers and napkins through him. Every single one of those items came out perfect! He was able to deliver all of it in a timely manner despite a major family emergency. Thank you Ernesto!
Great invitation selection! Everything was classy and beautiful. He also does the most incredible caligraphy himself, and it’s beautiful! Our invitations were beautiful and he made magic happen on a small time frame (we had some last minute guestlist issues).
What a variety of invitations they had to offer! Such an elegant and well organized system, a plethora of samples to view in several albums, and a beautiful shop. Ernesto was charming and very helpful from the moment we entered the store. He was attentive to my requests and within one sitting, we found the perfect invitations! His calligraphy is the most beautiful I have ever seen and we are so pleased with his work. Pricing was exactly what we were looking for and I would highly recommend him to all brides to be! My cousin and so many of my friends have used Invitations By Leston! Reputable and beautiful.
Ernesto is the epitome of etiquette, class, charisma, the ultimate host, and a man who takes the utmost pride in his work and produces a beautiful quality product. Ernesto makes everyone who works with him feel like a family member, whether a client or fellow wedding vendor. Now in my case, he truly is a family member (a cousin to be exact), but, I know even if we were not related by blood, I would have felt just as welcome into his shop and trusted him wholly. Every time I would visit his shop to go over details, I would see him treat his other customers that walked in with the same attention and respect, and with the same aspiration to please them and assure them their products would be perfect. Working with Ernesto was a breeze.
Ernesto was so fabulous and aimed to please. I had a budget and unfortunately, as I learned during the wedding planning, my style and budget apparently were never on the same page. I fell in love with the font and formatting of one company, but it was out of my price range. For me, the format was personally more important than the weight of the card stock. Ernesto was able to arrange it so that I could get a more economical, lighter weight card stock from the sister company of the invitation I fell in love with, while still using the same font that I adored.
He has been in the wedding business for so long that he truly has seen it all and has a wealth of knowledge, that in itself is worth a pretty penny. Whether it is how to properly address a non-traditional couple, how to word an invitation just right, or asking for new ideas on how to set something up, or getting inside intel on other wedding vendors when you are stuck between choosing between two, or just wanting to share an espresso with a chocolate pirouette, Ernesto is your man and you cannot go wrong!
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2714 Ponce De Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL
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