About this vendor
Melinda Cantor Designs specializes in custom invitations now located in downtown Port Jefferson, servicing weddings throughout the local areas: Suffolk, Nassau, and New York.
By private appointment, the showroom(s) at Melinda Cantor Designs features unique concepts/designs made special for EACH couple and their unique story. Enjoy the invitation and day of event showrooms. Just bring us your thoughts and ideas and we will create beautifully written, well-crafted invitations like none other.
We have have been part of the Long Island wedding industry since 1998 (aka as Only You) specializing in custom crafted wedding invitations, day of event essentials, graphic design, unique engraved gifts and promotional swag items.
Showroom open by appointment or special events.
Email us DIRECT ---> MCDinvitations@gmail.com
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Invitations & Paper Goods
- Calligraphy
- Custom Invitations
- Paper Goods
- Coasters
- Escort & Place Cards
- Menus
Awards and Affiliations
3-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2025.2022.2021.
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I have used Melinda for both my daughter’s bridal shower invitations and wedding invitations. If you are looking for someone who is creative, can collaborate and produce a high qu...
ality, memorable invitation, look no further! Melinda spent time developing our inspiration into a real vision! She even created large welcome signs that matched the invitation theme! She is patient and efficient and worth every penny! I highly recommend her! You won’t be disappointed!
We worked with Melinda on creating a long list of items for our wedding, and she exceeded my expectations with everything! I had a particular vision from the start for everything f...
rom my invitation suite, down to table numbers and programs. She truly made my vision come to life!
Melinda created the perfect wedding invitations that were classy and elegant for my NYE wedding! She brought my vision to life and crafted an unforgettable wedding invitation for m...
y guests! I love how they came out!
I highly recommend using Melinda for wedding invitations! I picked mine up yesterday and couldn’t be happier! They are so stunning and elevated. Melinda was very wonderful to work ...
with and made the process seamless. I am looking forward to using her for the rest of my wedding day stationary!
Melinda Cantor Designs is a highly recommended vendor to use for invitations! Melinda was an absolute joy to work with. She spent the time with my fiancé and I to ensure that we go...
t the design that worked perfectly for the vision we had for our invitations.
We had the pleasure of working with Melinda for our 2026 wedding! She was sincere, attentive and helped us a lot with the color scheme and wording to best fit our vibe and personal...
ities! We will be recommending her to our Long Island friends and family! Thanks Melinda
Melinda has been amazing to work with. She’s super communicative and is very thorough with her work. She really takes the time to sit with you and go over all your wedding details....
We were a rush order and she made sure we had our invites in time.
Melinda Cantor Designs was one of our favorite wedding-planning discoveries! My fiancé and I met Melinda at a Bourne Mansion showcase, and once we decided to work with her, she mad...
e the entire invitation process easy, enjoyable, and completely personalized.
From the start, Melinda was warm, organized, and attentive. She listened to everything we envisioned, showed us her past designs, and then happily collaborated with us to create something unique to our style. She thoughtfully matched every detail of the suite to our vision and even designed new elements to bring it all together.
Her communication was exceptional—prompt responses, clear updates, and a seamless process from start to finish. We received our invitations quickly and well ahead of our mailing timeline. When we opened the finished invitations, we were blown away! They are gorgeous and even more beautiful than we imagined.
Future couples—you will be in amazing hands with Melinda!
Melinda did our invitations for our wedding! They came out absolutely perfect. She was very easy to work with and listened to all my suggestions and showed me what she can do and i...
t came out amazing! 10/10 would recommend her to anyone looking for any wedding signage they might need
Working with Melinda has been an amazing experience! We customized our dream wedding invitation suite as well as our day of event details with her. We were blown away by her expert...
ise and professionalism. She really listens to your ideas and incorporates them into the final product. Our family and friends were so impressed with our invitation, boasting about the design and describing opening the invitation as a “beautiful experience.” Would 10/10 recommend Melinda!
Melinda was the best to work with! She really cares about each of her invitations and it shows! She is very meticulous and knows what looks best together. Melinda's work is beautif...
ul, and keeps her clients updated on the process of their invitations. She can customize everything and anything you would ever need. I highly recommend her work to all couples looking for invitations, itineraries, menus, signage, and much more. Just to chat with her you will get so much help in your design process!
Melinda made my invitations, and I absolutely love them! She answered all my questions about formatting and etiquette. She was very knowledgable, and her work is beautifu!
Melinda was extremely great to work with. She is professional, timely, organized and delivered exactly as promised. Her attention to detail is unmatched. I would recommend her for ...
all wedding printing needs
Melinda was a pleasure to work with! She was so attentive to our wants, needs and concerns. She was able to help us come up with ideas and visions. She has so much inspiration to l...
ook at in her show room, which will give you ideas you may have never thought about before! She was able to take aspects from our wedding and incorperate it into our invitations, which made it feel like one of a kind! Everyone who recieved our invitations loves them and won't stop talking about how beautiful they are! Melinda does amazing work and I could not recommend her enough!
We are so happy to have worked with Melinda, who crafted our stunning wedding stationery. From the invitations to the mass booklets, menus, table numbers, and cards, every detail w...
as perfect. The process was effortless, thanks to her prompt responses, which ensured a seamless production. We deeply appreciate Melinda's talent and support in making our special day exceed our expectations.
Melinda was an absolute pleasure to work with. She is full of positive energy and truly takes the time to listen to what your vision is. She was always responsive to our emails and...
any questions we had. Absolutely the best!
Melinda has created invitations and stationary for many of our events, including our wedding, and we absolutely love working with her and the work she creates! She is so talented a...
nd made our unique vision come to life. We absolutely recommend using Melinda!
Melinda did a wonderful job with our invitations. They came out exactly how we wanted them & then some! She’s so talented and I would recommend her to anyone.
Melinda did an excellent job on our wedding invitations. She is creative, professional, patient, and accommodating. She worked with us to get exactly what we wanted.
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Melinda did such an amazing job with my invitations for my wedding! She was easy to work with and made the process very seamless for me. The invitations were so beautiful I love th...
em! Everyone has been commenting on how beautiful the invitations look. Definitely highly recommend!
Melinda was amazing! Our invitations are so beautiful and exactly how we imagined them to look. We are very grateful and can’t wait until our big day!
Melinda has a true gift for what she does and she gets a 5 star rating from my fiancé and I. She did a beautiful job on our invitations for our upcoming wedding and we couldn’t be ...
happier with how they turned out. If you’re looking for invitations for any upcoming event Melinda is your girl. Thank you so much for the beautiful work you did!
Melinda is amazing to work with. She is a true artist and a visionary. We needed an Indian wedding invitation for our Son's wedding. With no prior experience with the wedding invit...
ations and not so sure about how to go about with the design, I stepped into Melinda's studio. Immediately I felt an enormous relief and knew that I was in good hands. Everything went so smoothly from the design to the final draft. The invitations were a work of art, beautiful, gorgeous and classy. We are still getting compliments on the invitations. We are so happy that we chose Melinda. I highly recommend Melinda for all your printing needs. She is the BEST in the business
Melinda did my invitations, church programs, and menus for my wedding. Working with her was a fabulous, stress free experience! She made it very clear and easy to get her all the ...
needed information for the projects. Her product was beautiful and meticulous! When I needed wedding programs with short notice she was able to do the order and they came out amazing! I would recommend her to anyone and know my family will be using her for all future events!
We worked with Melinda on our invitations and all of our printed items for the wedding day. She is extremely easy to work with and our invitations came out beautifully, even better...
than we had envisioned. Would highly recommend working with her for invites and any other stationary you may need on your wedding day!
Melinda was super helpful throughout our invitation process. She personalized every detail and created invitations that are truly memorable. Stunning in every way!
Melinda was a dream to work with. The whole process was extremely easy because of the guidance she gave. Her new space is incredible and really lets you see all the different optio...
ns to chose from. Our invitations came out beautiful and we're so excited for everyone to get them!
Melinda was absolutely phenomenal when it came to designing and putting together our wedding invitations. She offered many different designs and was able to capture exactly what we...
were looking for! Working with her was easy and fun. Melinda was responsive, professional and very detail oriented. We are in the process of designing our wedding favor decor with Melinda and cannot wait to see what she puts together!
Working with Melinda was wonderful. She did my son and daughter in law’s wedding invitations and my daughter’s save the date , shower and wedding invitations. She customized each o...
rder to the exact wants and needs of both my children and their future spouses. She also made a beautiful sign ,as well as, custom napkins for my daughter’s shower. The invitation sets the stage for any event and Melinda always does an amazing job. I highly recommend Melinda . She helped make all of our events special.
Melinda’s work is one of a kind. Designing invites turned out to be my favorite part of wedding planning because of her. It was so much fun! She is so talented, and her work is so ...
classy and stunning. She worked to make my vision come to life and she nailed it! She can do anything you ask for. We got SO many compliments on our invites. She is patient, extremely detail oriented, responsive, and professional. Melinda also designed our ceremony programs, escort cards, and table numbers. She made everything match perfectly and ran our theme throughout our wedding. I can’t recommend her enough.
Melinda was very flexible and accommodating during a very troubling time for our wedding plans. The wedding was postponed four times but Melinda was both professional and timely in...
creating our wedding invitations, menus and place cards. We highly recommend Melinda and her services for your wedding!
Our decision to use Melinda for our wedding invitations was an easy one!!
First, we love supporting local vendors. Melinda has an adorable studio located in Stonybrook that made u...
s feel at home. Plenty of samples to look over. Melinda is extremely talented. Once we explained our wedding and our vision for the invitations Melinda took over and created us an amazing product. The quality of paper and envelopes was by far 100 times better than any invitation we ever recieved from an online store or spect out through online stores. Best part of our experience was how dedicated Melinda was to meeting our deadline. We will ALWAYS use Melinda for any invitations or cards going forward. Thanks again!!
Melinda Cantor Designs was amazing!! My fiance & I had Save The Date Cards, Wedding Invitations, Calligraphy on Envelopes & a special unique seal. Not only was Melinda totally prof...
essional, knowledgeable & fair, but, because she has so many years of experience in this industry, she also made suggestions & recommendations that proved to create beautiful photo cards. I would highly recommend Melinda Cantor Designs to anyone!!
We are so thankful we found Melinda for our wedding invitations. Melinda went above and beyond to help us make our invitation dreams a reality. Melinda's knowledge of invitation et...
iquette helped us with things I would not even have thought about! Also, her invitations are amazingly beautiful. She did invitations for both our wedding and my shower and table numbers and place cards for our wedding. Everything was amazing - we got sooo many compliments on the invitations! Also, she is sooo professional, responsive, and kind. I cannot recommend Melinda enough!
I feel so lucky to have found Melinda to design my wedding invitations. Originally my mom hired Melinda for my bridal shower invitations, and after seeing how beautifully they ca...
me out, I knew I would be in great hands. Melinda is warm, caring and passionate about her business. I felt very taken care of and that my wedding was a top priority. Every time I met with Melinda, she really took the time to walk me through the creative process, from design options and colors, down to the exact verbiage that would be on my invites. What she created absolutely blew me away (and I still receive so many compliments about how beautiful and elegant my wedding invitations were!) Her process was so seamless and she is incredibly accommodating. Melinda also created gorgeous ceremony programs and cocktail napkins for my wedding with font to match my invitations so they all tied in together which I loved! I would highly recommend Melinda to anyone I know looking for beautifully made invitations.
Melinda was very easy to work with and helped us to create an amazing invitation. When we initially met, we had a limited idea of what kind of invitation we wanted. Melinda sat dow...
n and showed us different options and styles of invitations and helped us to create a unique invite based on our preferences. We received many compliments on our invitations. Melinda was even able to print an additional batch of invitations when our venue capacity increased.
We love our Save the Dates!
Melinda has been so helpful and flexible to work with. I didn’t know the first thing about Save the Dates or invitations, so I’ve really appreciated h...
er knowledge, creativity and patience. She’s made this whole process very easy even during these difficult times (covid wedding planning)- she’s been so accommodating. Can’t wait to see our invitations!
And I already know I’ll be calling Melinda for invitations for future events too. :)
Melinda’s work is amazing! I met with her twice and could not have had a better experience. She gave us 100% of her full attention and listened to exactly what we were looking for ...
and gave us options/opinions which made our invitations even better! Additionally, she is such a sweet person. She is easy to get in contact with and very responsive. Her work is impeccable. She has SO many options to chose from and can customize and create literally anything you could think of or want. She is very easy to deal with and beyond accommodating. Prices are affordable too - go see her! You’ll be so happy you did! She will work with you to create something in your price range and best part is you get to see it in person and make any changes you want/customize it to your liking before final prints. Melinda is an amazing woman who puts her whole heart into her work and cares about you as a customer. 5 stars are not enough - she needs 100!!!
We spoke to and met with so many vendors throughout planning our wedding that only a few stand out and Melinda is one of them. From the moment I met Melinda at a Bourne Mansion sh...
owcase she was receptive to my ideas and extremely flexible. My fiancé and I met with her and placed the order the same day for our Save the Dates and invitation ensemble. Melinda presented us with different options to work within our price point.
Covid struck before our invitation ensemble was completed. When it came in Melinda met us at the car with her mask on and wished us the best. Working with her was a very pleasant experience and we will be repeat customers for any invitations we need in the future!
I walked into Melinda’s store with no vision and no experience designing invitations. She took the time to get to know who I was and used our conversation to help us design the inv...
itation of our dreams. We were not only over the moon with the final product but were so impressed in how Melinda communicated with us every step of the way. On top of that, she made the challenges of Covid manageable. We decided to use Melinda for most of our wedding decor! I would recommend Melinda for any of her services!
Melinda and her team were amazing to work with! I contacted her based on an invitation suite photo I found on social media and she worked with me through facetime, emails and phone...
calls to effortlessly replicate what I was looking for in my budget! She gave great suggestions and quick responses and the end result was AMAZING! Sadly, COVID-19 put a damper on my wedding and I didn't need the additional details and stationary I was going to order in addition to my invitations. We are looking at doing another larger celebration and I will definitely being using Melinda again. Can't recommend enough!
Melinda did an incredible job with my wedding invitations, wedding programs, and name cards for our big day! Her quality of work is amazing, and so many of my guests reached out to...
let me know how much they loved the invitations. Melinda was so great to work with and made the invitation process seamless, we really valued her opinion and suggestions. We highly recommend her!
When my daughter was looking for someone to help with invitations, we knew who to immediately turn to. Melinda Cantor knocked it out of the park. We couldn’t have asked for anythin...
g better. Being in the business myself and running the day-to-to operations of Lessing’s Hospitality Group, we were over-the-moon with the invitations that Melinda put together. It was a true pleasure to work with her and I can’t thank her enough for how perfect she helped make my daughter's wedding day.
I loved working with Melinda and her team! When my fiancé and I first met with Melinda, I knew in my head what I wanted but had a hard time picturing it. After telling her just a c...
ouple of details, she made my vision come to life! My fiancé also wanted to add his touch to it, and Melinda put together a beautiful invitation that represented the both of us. She made the process so easy and talked us through everything. We also needed our invites done by a certain time, and they were able to get done with no problems at all! Melinda also stayed in touch with me through email - updating me and sending me examples along the way always making sure I approved and was happy with each step. I have received so many compliments already on my invitations and it’s only the beginning. I plan on going back to her for my welcome bags and favors as well. Thank you Melinda and team! I’m one happy bride!
Melinda is great to work with. She gave us a ton of options to consider for our invitations while staying in budget. They came out fantastic!
We had the best experience using Melinda and her team. Our invitations were beautifully assembled and everything I was looking for. I found the online invitations were lacking what...
I had always envisioned for a wedding invitation and found that it was very time consuming to do. Melinda made everything so simple and easy. I was able to get all the response, accommodation, and reception cards plus invitations all within my budget! I highly recommend!
If you want so many options for custom invitations, then you are at the right place! I met with a few other vendors and Melinda by far was the best. She totally got my vision and w...
orked within my budget. I highly, highly recommend!
Picked up our wedding invitations this weekend and they are beautiful! I had a great experience working with Melinda. She worked with my vision and allowed me to pull ideas from a ...
bunch of different samples to create my own invitation. She was great at communicating every detail and decision and answering all of my questions. She worked within my budget and even lined my envelopes for me, which we were originally supposed to do. That saved us so much time!! I would highly recommend her to anyone for their events. Thank you so much for everything Melinda! :)
Melinda was absolutely AMAZING! I came across her on the knot when I noticed my friends invite as her profile pic. I spoke to my friend who highly recommended her, and she was more...
than I could of expected. She was patient kind and worked to make sure our invite was everything we wanted and in our price range! I can not say enough great words about her and the experience and the outcome of my invites! She made the whole process so easy and worth every penny, and stress free for me! I would go back to her for anything else I need in the future!! TThank you again Melinda!!!
Very creative, lots of options. Will take care of as much or as little as you want. Invites are beautiful and custom motifs are amazing.
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Melinda Cantor Designs 2233 Nesconset Highway, Ste. 104, Lake Grove, NY | Port Jefferson, New York
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