Erin Manning, AKA Lullabelle Design, is a stationist out of Elgin, Illinois. She makes and creates custom invitations! I hired her to create my wedding invites almost one and a half years ago. From my initial phone call, to face to face meeting..., emails/text threads back and forth, and phone calls in between, Erin has been a gem and an absolute exceptional professional to work with. I would recommend her to anyone wanting custom invites done for any type of event! Her work is beautiful and she puts love into it.
For being a small business owner and custom designing everything, her prices are reasonable and affordable. I was expecting to pay more than what she charged. She threw in a few bonuses because I paid in full.
Throughout this journey, Erin was patient with me and understanding of how painful wedding planning was because of Covid. She was the one vendor I hired that communicated with me consistently and checked in on me. One situation that comes to mind is when I had already sent her my list of who was getting invited. She ordered everything needed for 130 invitations and sent it off to the printers just like our timeline was set up for. A few days after she sent everything, I received an email from my venue informing me that we were only allowed 50 guests instead of the 205 we were anticipating. I called Erin immediately and of course she answered the phone in a split second. I told her the situation and she immediately went into idea mode. She couldn’t cancel the order- it was out of her control at that time. A short time later she texted me and told me that she was conversing with her other friends in the industry about ideas on how to utilize all of the paper, envelopes, wax seals, etc that was ordered and she offered to look at my contract with my venue (for free) after I explained I might want to cancel the wedding.
She came up with the idea of sending out wedding announcements utilizing the invites that couldn’t be used. That is exactly what happened and it’s a brilliant idea! Additionally, Erin reformatted the menu cards that I put together for free and I ended up asking her to print those for me which she did at a minimal cost.
I changed my mind on a few things from our initial design meeting. Erin is totally fine with change and changed everything that I wanted. I was still within the deadlines and time limits. I ended up loving a vellum envelope with an Art Deco liner in it which she changed for me and designed. Something else that I love about Erin is that she thinks through everything. She put together a sample invite and sent it to her friend in the industry just to see how the vellum envelope would hold up in the mail.
Erin offers day of stationary that is totally customizable. Her idea was to use some more hand torn paper that we had left over with extra wax seals to use as the name card at the tables and attach them to the menu cards. It turned out beautiful! I also ended up purchasing an acrylic seating sign from her. The prices are affordable and the end result looks gorgeous.
Erin is responsive, empathetic, understanding, brilliant, nice, and knowledgeable of the industry. Erin not only does stationary, but she’s a wedding expert and knows the typical rules and general traditions that are followed.
Support small businesses like Lullabelle Design! I promise you will be satisfied and happy that you chose Erin to be in charge and handle your wedding invites!