I also met Nichole at a bridal bazaar very early in the wedding planning process. I loved her designs but her posted prices were a lot higher than what I had budgeted for invites and even though I was getting married in San Diego, I lived in B...oston and I wasn't sure I wanted to deal with another long distance vendor if I didn't have to.
Several months later I was in San Diego on a planning spree, after having found no "ready to order" invite options that I liked elsewhere, I decided to check Nichole's website out. There it said "All prices are not set in the stone, we can add or subtract to your package to stay within your budget. Contact us and we will work with you!". So I figured what the heck? I met with Nicole and true to her word, she took me through numerous different options until we identified an invite design that I was happy with at a price I was comfortable with.
During the design process a miscommunication about the process resulted in Nichole not being able to get us our invitations by the target date that we set in our terms, which could have been a huge problem on our end had Nichole not done everything she could to get us our invites as close to our deadline as possible. For example, she sent us envelopes in advance of the invites so we could work on addressing them and even took care of assembling, addressing and sending invites to Mexico for us!!! Word to the wise: if you want to work with Nichole on your invites get started as early as possible! The process takes more time than you might think, especially if you are long distance with time changes and a detailed oriented person (like me).
Anyway, I got our invites last week and they were just BEAUTIFUL! The colors and printing were perfect. We had chosen the self assembly route to keep costs down, and Nichole even sent us a few extra invites in case we messed a few up (and we did!), which was really unexpected and super nice. We our invites out immediately so we're already getting responses and everyone is commenting on how gorgeous our invites are. Thanks Nichole! :)
I definitely recommend working with Nichole on your custom wedding or any other invite design. She does beautiful work, will do her best to meet your budget constraints, works hard to exceed her clients expectations and is super nice and very professional.