About This Vendor
Create your invitations with a designer!
We are Shannon and Arielle and as experienced graphic designers, we'll work with you to customize your invitation--from the paper and embellishments to the monogram or motif. You can coordinate your save-the-dates, watercolor maps, programs, thank you cards, acrylic seating charts and day-of stationery. We love what we do and would love to work with you! LGBTQ friendly
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Woman-owned Business
Invitations & Paper Goods
Custom Invitations, Paper Goods, Coasters, Escort & Place Cards, Menus, Programs, Seating Charts, Signs, Table Numbers, Thank You Cards, Printing, Embossing, Letterpress, Save-The-Dates, Email Save-The-Dates, Shower & Party Invitations, Wedding Invitations, Online Invitations
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We could not have been happier working with The Inviting Pear. Shannon helped us with our invitations, thank you cards, escort cards, menus and table numbers. She listened to our feedback and vision and leant her own expertise and everything ...
turned out absolutely perfect. Not only was the end product absolutely amazing but the process was so easy, something I appreciated as a bride juggling so many elements of wedding planning. If you are still considering who to use for your invitation, day-of signage or thank you card needs, look no further than The Inviting Pear!
Do not go anywhere else for your wedding stationary needs!!! I worked with Arielle and she literally made ALL my visions and dreams come true for our wedding stationary. Not only is she a treat to work with, but she is great with communication....
But most importantly, she pours all her energy into your wedding paper needs to make sure that they will be absolutely perfect!!! I cannot praise working with The Inviting Pear more. From our custom drawn Save The Dates, to seriously the MOST beautiful wedding invitation suite (words from family & friends) that has been seen, Thank You note's, cups, and she even used our custom monogram and the orchids she designed to make us notepads to use at home. When I tell you there is NO other place to go for stationary needs, wedding and beyond, this is your place to go! I can't wait to work with Arielle again. I've told her this before, but she absolutely made every dream and vision of my wedding paper needs come true and is the most magnificent designer and person. Thank you Inviting Pear <3
We could not be happier with our wedding invitation suite and thank you notes. Their work is beautiful and high quality. Working with The Inviting Pear, specifically with Kat, was one of the best decisions we made. Kat was extremely responsive ...
and worked with us to bring our vision to life. She presented options until we found exactly what we wanted and the finished product was perfect. I cannot recommend The Inviting Pear enough!!
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My sister used the Inviting Pear for her wedding invitations several years ago and when I was looking for someone local to Austin, they were the first company that came to mind. Arielle was such a pleasure to work with. She was communicative, d...
elivered when she said she would and was easy to work with on iterations, etc. I cannot recommend them enough!
If you want custom invitations and stationary, Arielle with Inviting Pear is absolutely amazing. I am so grateful she was recommended to me and was available for our wedding. We had her do our full custom invitation suite with 2 original waterc...
olor images she created for us specific to our venues. They were so gorgeous and we got TONS of compliments on them from so many of our family and friends. I loved that she created an invitation that represented our venue and style so well. I’m so impressed by her talent to see examples of what a client likes and discuss their vision for the event and then create it and it comes out better than anything you could have thought of. It was a HUGE help to have her do all the envelopes and postage and mail them out for us. It took a lot of stress off my plate to have that part handled as it can be so time consuming. She also did all of “day-of” stationary including ceremony programs, dinner menus, bar menus, escort cards for our seating chart, welcome signs, frosted cups and cocktail napkins. She had them perfectly boxed up and organized for us when we picked them up upon our arrival to Austin for our wedding weekend. She even put together an extra copy of everything in an envelope for our photographer for their details photos. She literally thinks of everything! Arielle is not only extremely talented but also such a gem to work with. She made everything so fun and easy. I would absolutely use her for any event in the future! In fact, after the our wedding, I also worked with her for a gift for my parents since she does watercolors and sketches of homes as well. She created a trio of watercolors for my parents of each house they have lived in during their marriage. It was a lovely and touching gift and they loved that she did those for them as well since we all loved her work so much from the wedding. I cannot say enough good things about her and the Inviting Pear company! She is one of many stunning people we were so fortunate to meet and work with for our unforgettable wedding weekend.
We couldn't have been more thrilled with how our Wedding invitations came out! Shannon was so helpful throughout the design process and her expertise was clear from the start. Everything was fully customizable which made for a unique invitation...
suite that many of our guests told us was the prettiest invitation they had ever received. HIGHLY recommend Shannon and Arielle!
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Arielle is amazing. She listens, adapts and totally works with you to create just what your vision entails. There are so many details with weddings that we truly needed our hand held from our vendors. Arielle held on ti...
ght and was there every step of the way.
Invitations are not cheap but we thought they were worth it because they set the tone and the feel for our daughters big day.
Our friends and family commented often on how lovely our suite was it really did tell a story from the beginning.
Thank you Arielle for becoming a friend and a support when we needed you.
Carole
I had the most amazing experience with the Arielle from The Inviting Pear! She did an amazing job creating a water paint illustration of our venue for our Save the Date. She was also flexible with changes to our invitation suite visions. Everyt...
hing came out so beautiful! All our guest are in awe of our Save the Dates and Invitations. I highly recommend working with them and appreciate the quick response time and kindness the showed!
This team was so lovely to work with. Responsive, kind and they produce wonderful work. A bit pricey but the invitations were hand sketched and we received a ton of compliments. They get 4 stars and not 5 due to the Thank You notes. Compared to...
the invites and save the dates, they were subpar and not unique. We prepaid and had to use them and wish we used Shutterfly or something because they had better designs, ours was so boring. I signed off and said they were fine but post wedding was so draining that I didn’t have the energy to really push back. Other than that, I’d still highly recommend! Great team and great work.
If I had to rank all of my wedding vendors (which consisted of about 15!), The Inviting Pear would be #1. Not only were my expectations far exceeded on the final work product, but from beginning of our process to the very end, Arielle was consu...
ltative, extremely fast in communication, creative, punctual, and overall incredibly helpful. I wouldn't waste a second of hesitation on using The Inviting Pear.
Working with The Inviting Pear was fantastic! Beautiful designs, timely work, and such talented designers! I loved working with Arielle. I did not really know what my vision for my stationary was, and she took my thoughts and created some beaut...
iful pieces. She was patient and communicative when I was choosing amongst stationary updates and other decision factors. I received so many compliments on my invitations from guests! Would definitely recommend to anyone!
Arielle was fabulous to work with and really made sure that each one of my changes was reflected in her work in a timely fashion. Their prices reflect the quality of their work and their responsiveness. I would love to work with them again shou...
ld the need arise!
Arielle was great to work with! She communicated amazingly and all of our designs and products turned out great. She brought the vision to life and is very detail oriented. She also works very quickly.
Arielle was so incredible to work with! She is extremely talented and made beautiful wedding stationery for us. Our invitations turned out so so beautiful and unique! We worked with her for months and she came up with the most unique designs! W...
e received so many compliments on our invitations! They are probably the most beautiful invitations I’ve ever seen and I can’t believe they are for our wedding! In addition of being a great designer, she is also a great listener and borderline therapist! She heard so many stories of our wedding planning process and always cheer us on and was so encouraging! Bottom line is… Arielle is very responsible, organized, diligent, patient, incredible human and absolutely our favorite vendor we worked with! We would highly recommend her to anyone looking for wedding/event stationery! Most stress-free process ever and an absolute professional.
We saw Arielle's fantastic work at a friend's wedding and asked for her contact info almost a year later as we got closer to our big day and felt we were missing a personal touch to our bar. Arielle did such amazing work for us on very short no...
tice, and we couldn't be happier. We're sure our guests will love it too and are excited to pass the Inviting Pear on when we're inevitably asked!
The Inviting Pear was incredible to work with! My daughter did her research and pick them!! They were a class act and it did everything my daughter was wanting and more. We are looking forward to seeing all the photos from the wedding to be ab...
le to share their work. Arielle has amazing talent and was quick to respond and deliver!Thank you InvitingvPear!
If you want convenience, great selection, professional service and modern options at your finger tips, definitely partner with Inviting Pear for all of your stationary needs. This aspect of wedding planning can be overwhelming with so many var...
ieties of stationary and Inviting Pear makes it so much easier and enjoyable as they listen to what your vision is for the celebration and then provides options for you to make your selections. It’s personalized service as they come to you, in your home or with your planner to view all the selections. They pride themselves on creating unique designs for the bride and groom rather than repeating past designs. They really make you feel special! All of our stationary from our invitation suite to our day-of signage, mirror decals, and personalized napkins were high quality and stunning.
We were introduced to the Inviting Pear through our planner, Kristin Catter, and we LOVED the work that they did for our wedding! Arielle did a fantastic job. She was very responsive to us, understood what we were looking for better than we did...
, and was beyond patient with us in many ways. We wanted to name each of our dinner tables after books, and Arielle created a set of table name cards with little illustrations on them. We loved them so much that we had to have a copy of all the table names to keep. We were repeatedly blown away by her talent and the work that she produced. We cannot recommend the Inviting Pear enough, and they will far surpass your expectations in the wedding stationary.
Shannon did such a great job working through my invitation suite with me! She was extremely patient as I worked through my design idea and budget goals. The end product was beyond my expectations! Thank you Shannon for creating such a beautiful...
product!
Shannon did a wonderful job from start to finish on all of our wedding stationery needs! She was easy to work with, professional and everything came out perfect! Could not be happier with The Inviting Pear!
I am SO happy and in love with my wedding stationary suite!! Everything turned out beautifully! Working with Arielle was a joy and I had a ton of fun collaborating with her. She understood my vision and made it come to life. She was also incred...
ibly receptive to any tweaks/adjustments I wanted to make. I would 10/10 recommend The Inviting Pear for your stationary needs!
Our wedding planner Erica Catter referred us to the Inviting Pear for our invitation suites for our wedding in August. Upon first phone call consultation, I expressed to Arielle how our theme was “Modern Day Fairytale” and how we did not know h...
ow to incorporate that into our invitation suite. She threw out a BUNCH of suggestions that she felt would achieve our goal. When we got the first proposal I wanted to add upgrades, had questions about this or that, etc. Arielle really was patient with us (mainly me) and basically grabbed our hands and went thru every little detail. I basically had Arielle and Shannon tweak the quotes about 5 or more times, but they never made us feel like we were a hinderance! Aside from that, I probably emailed Arielle thousands of times in between the consultation to delivery and she was so polite and nice during every conversation! Customer service is certainly one of their strong traits along with their creativity and delivery! We added the upgrades of a watercolor map and let me tell you SHE UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT! I’ve never seen a map included in a wedding suite being so carefully and thoughtfully executed! Arielle also helped us with our timeline of when to get the invitations out in the mail. I believe we started with our first consultation back in late March or April. So if you want to add a customized feel for your wedding suites, please go with the Inviting Pear! I am so glad our wedding planner referred us to them! I would post a picture but due to privacy reasons and because our wedding has not passed yet I will wait. But I can’t wait for our friends and family to see them! THANK YOU THE INVITING PEAR!
Stationary was the wedding task that I was the most indecisive on throughout the entire wedding planning process, but Shannon went above and beyond to make sure I was satisfied, and I was more than pleased with the design and gorgeous invitatio...
ns that she composed. She customized our requests and created a one-of-a-kind and unique invitation based on our many events that we had planned for our wedding weekend. We were also blown away by the beautiful map that Arielle created. It truly showed the character and Gatsby-themed vibe that we were seeking for our NYE wedding. Shannon was very prompt, easy to communicate with and accommodating to our changing tastes and I would highly recommend her to anyone in search of invitations or stationary for their special occasions and events.
Working with Arielle was such a treat! She is so peaceful and calm and really interested in creating the PERFECT invite. She went above and beyond to understand our colors, vibe, etc. and I am so happy we were introduced to them through our pla...
nner, Sweet Laurel Events.
Arielle did an amazing job for so many items for my daughter's recent wedding....invitations, place cards, painting of the venue, a watercolor map of Austin, and t shirts. She did an exceptional job understanding and then creating what our vis...
ion was for each of the items. She was an excellent communicator and we could not have been more happy with everything she created. Thank you Arielle for making the process so easy and being such an amazing artist!
The Inviting Pear designed t shirts for our pre wedding crawfish boil, menus/invites/namecards for my bridesmaid's luncheon, and a drawing of our venue/signature drink signs for our wedding and did such an amazing job. We gave Arielle inspo pho...
tos of what we wanted, and she really understood our vision and made it come to life for all of our different wedding festivities. She was so quick to reply to all of our emails, her turnaround time was incredible, and she was so easy to work with. Thank you so much Arielle and The Inviting Pear team!
The Inviting Pear created our seating chart and table numbers and we couldn't have been happier. We wanted to bring in the Austin theme as much as possible for our wedding and had Austin landmarks as our table numbers. Arielle hand drew each of...
our icons for the different table markers and used watercolor and they turned out absolutely gorgeous. She offered recommendations along the way and so far exceeded our expectations. We kept the table markers and can't wait to display them in our home. Both Shannon and Arielle were wonderful to work with, and I'm so thankful to have used them!
Shannon's work on our wedding stationery was nothing short of stellar, we'd give 10 stars if we could! We cannot recommend her and Arielle enough, they were amazing to work with, fantastic people, super prompt, and created stunning work that we...
'll treasure forever. We love them so much and are so grateful to have had them on our team of vendors!!
Arielle has been an amazing collaborator to work with. We're having a Dungeons & Dragons themed wedding and she was able to convert my drawings and ideas into something special for our Wedding invitations. We've heard nothing but fantastic comp...
liments at how perfect our invitations are and we couldn't have done it without the AMAZING work from Arielle. She's made the process flow easily and painlessly. We've been told our invitations are like nothing people have seen and it means so much to us that Arielle helped with all this. 100% would recommend The Inviting Pear to EVERYONE.
We loved working with Arielle at The Inviting Pair. We are in Dallas and she made the process a breeze! Meeting virtually can be scary when you are picking invitations, but she made sure to send us samples and answer all of our questions. I fel...
t she understood the vibe we were going for from that start and we absolutely loved the way our Save the Date and Invitation Suite came out. Highly recommend working with them and felt their prices were reasonable as well!!
The Inviting Pear absolutely knocked it out of the park for our wedding! We had her design and print all of our wedding stationary (Save the Date, Invites, Rehearsal Dinner and all day of stationary). We have gotten SO many compliments on how c...
lassy, creative and elegant everything was. Not only is she incredibly talented, but she is kind, patient and responsive. She was also very reliable which is so important as a bride when you are juggling many different vendors. Whatever your vision is, even if you don't have one, Shannon will help guide you and bring it to life. I can't recommend her and her creative talents enough.
It took me a while to write this review because I was trying to put into words how amazing The Inviting Pear (Arielle), was for my daughters wedding. The wedding took place in Puerto Rico where we live but, my daughter lives in Austin so we loo...
ked around and found the The Inviting Pear on social media. Arielle responded right away and took us under her creative wing and walked us through the entire process. Being a destination wedding had a few challenges and she rose to every one of them and made everything run so smoothly! Most importantly her guidance and amazing talent blew us away! From the invitations to all the stationary for the day of and the beautiful canvas that she had hand-drawn of the beach where my daughter got married was outstanding! I would recommend her to everyone! What a difference she made in our stress level of having everything perfect and so coordinated. Thank you The Inviting Pear for doing such an amazing job! Best wishes in your future endeavors, ya'll deserve the best! I will definitely use you again when the need arises!
If you are in need of a stationer that is willing to take the time to collaborate with you, listen to your needs, and then take your vision and run with it, then look no further! I highly recommend Arielle and the team at the Inviting Pear. She...
designed a beautiful invitation suite. I have received so many compliments! I have even had several guests tell me that they plan to frame the watercolor artwork that was included in the invitation that Arielle painted and had printed on a vellum overlay. This creative team does great design work and I guarantee you’ll enjoy working with them.
The Inviting Pear did an amazing job of making our vision come to life! We ordered some samples from popular online invitation companies but couldn't find anything that really stood out. We decided to use The Inviting Pear and they were so pati...
ent and creative, taking the time to really listen to what we were looking for and delivered above and beyond what we every could have hoped for with our wedding invitation suite. I can't recommend them enough, if you are considering going with them, DO IT! You definitely will not regret it.
Shannon and her team have been wonderful to work with the entire process so far for my wedding. They drew beautiful watercolor prints for my save the dates that depicted our love story. And then for our invitations I wanted a more modern colorf...
ul feel, moving away from a more traditional invite. They nailed it, I have heard from several guests they LOVE the invitations. And were excited to see some color and something new from a wedding invite. Shannon and her team are responsive, willing to go back and forth until I am happy and the job done is exactly what I want for my day. I would HIGHLY recommend working with the Inviting Pear, they really care about your event.
I am over the moon with how beautiful our invitations turned out! They were even better than I imagined. Shannon was wonderful to work with - from our initial consultation to COVID postponement to final delivery. She was incredibly helpful.
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You cannot go wrong with The Inviting Pear!
Arielle was amazing to work with and she helped us fulfill all of our invitation suite dreams. She was creative in helping us think through our vision, and extremely patient with us. We can’t thank her enough for our beautiful invitations!!! 🤍...
you are amazing!!!
Our daughter ordered her wedding invitations from The Inviting Pear and I went to pick them up at Arielle's house in Austin. The invitations came out perfectly and were designed so well!! Arielle took the time to provide instructions on how t...
o verify postage and tips on mailing instructions that we had not thought about.
I would highly recommend this vendor!!
Arielle at the Inviting Pear did an amazing job on our save the dates and wedding invitations. She was responsive, professional, attentive to detail and always willing to work with us to make sure the final product was exactly what we wanted. T...
he Inviting Pear can do it all from custom monograms, to custom venue illustrations and mailing services. Arielle went above and beyond to answer our questions, provide invaluable design advice and help us create beautiful save the dates and invitations. We had a seamless and stress-free experience!
All I can say is WOW. During the pandemic, we decided we didn't want to wait to get married and celebrate our love. We wanted something that we could cherish in our home and truly special piece of art to give to our families. Arielle helped...
us bring our vintage national parks post card idea come to life! She had fantastic suggestions and humored us on our ideas (some looked great and we kept, some ideas looked horrible haha). Beyond professional, timely and honestly, a joy to chat with :) Would 100% recommend her to anyone looking for something unique for their wedding!
What a find! Arielle helped me create our beautiful wedding invites and was so helpful and FAST! She guided me through the process and was so easy and fun to work with! Love love love the end product, but also loved working with her!
We used The Inviting Pear for a number of our wedding stationary needs including welcome sign, seating chart, table numbers, name place cards and ceremony programs. We also had them illustrate our signature cocktails which came out great! I de...
finitely recommend working with Arielle and the team at The Inviting Pear, you will not be disappointed!
Designing with Arielle was fun and easy and she really listened to my vision and brought it to life! The quality and their design knowledge is unmatched! They helped guide me in the right direction and I’m so happy with how my invitation suite ...
came out!
Shannon was referred by my wedding planner and was so wonderful to work with. She worked remotely with us to design the most perfect menus, ceremony booklets, cocktail napkins, welcome tags and notes, tent cards and seating chart. She sent proo...
fs of everything until we agreed on the perfect combination. She made the process so easy and sent reminders for printing deadlines. She also coordinated with my wedding planner for pick up. We highly recommend "The Inviting Pear" for that special touch for your wedding.
Arielle is a fantastic graphic designer - she was thorough getting our ideas and very efficient, and she created beautiful wedding invitations for us. I could not be happier with how our invitations turned out (colorful, unique, and modern!), a...
nd her additional expertise on the best ways to mail/organize the invitation suite were so helpful as well. Thank you!
I simply could not have achieved what I was dreaming of for our invitation suite without Arielle and Shannon's perseverance and beautiful creative vision. From the very beginning of the process, with just me showing them some Pinterest inspira...
tions, they have been the most proactive and thorough vendors to work with. I was so nervous also about designing and coordinating the suite all virtually; but this wasn't even a speedbump for them. They made me feel completely at ease and were highly transparent and communicative about every single step in the process. Would HIGHLY recommend them to anyone in the Austin area and beyond!
Shannon and Arielle weren’t satisfied until every detail of all of our reception signage was PERFECT. Maybe I’m biased but it totally was! Shannon found a great and affordable company that made comfortable masks and was able to print our monogr...
am on them for all of our guests. Arielle’s artistic talents are seriously so impressive, she’s meticulous with every detail down to the correct color shade.
I am so happy we had the opportunity to work with Arielle at the Inviting Pear. We are in love with our set of invitations! Arielle was so patient with us as we went back and forth on the styles we liked, and we were thrilled with how everythin...
g came together. Would absolutely recommend this team!
Exceptional! The most perfect wedding crest and monogram with the bride and grooms dogs included which was so important to them. The watercolor was absolutely precious. The invitation details were ready to go to print when COVID happened and ...
everything had to go on hold. The Inviting Pear was understanding and flexible with us. When we finally came up with a new plan we had a quick turnaround and had to make things happen quickly! New verbiage for the invitation, menus, placards, cocktail, napkins, etc.... they got everything done flawless! Great to work with!
We absolutely love our wedding stationary. Arielle made the entire process easy. She first started off by showing us an abundance of samples to decide on our likes and dislikes. Arielle also provided detail on wording, phrasing, and addressing....
Arielle is an amazing artist and sketched our wedding venue perfectly! We also had her create a watercolor of the venue for our home, which I highly recommend.
What a dream team! Arielle and Shannon were wonderful to work with, and created beautiful, unique invitations for my daughter’s wedding. They’re fun, talented, and responsive. As plans evolved due to Covid, they were quick to design perfect wed...
ding updates, and then created everything we needed to make our changed, downsized event as special as a big event. They listened to our ideas and made everything better and prettier than we could have imagined. During an angst-filled season, they were gracious and helpful and wonderful. We especially love the custom hand sanitizer labels they made - featuring the bride and groom’s dog. We appreciate The Inviting Pear!
Shannon captured our vision for wedding invitations as well as all of our other wedding stationery! She met personally with us in Austin after we scheduled our wedding date, and then worked remotely with us to create the perfect invitations. ...
She sent samples of envelope colors, ink selections, paper types, etc. until we agreed on the perfect combination. All of our guests commented about our beautiful, stunning invitations with their gold foil lettering, velum belly band, and gold monogram wax seal. Then we had to navigate through a COVID-19 wedding postponement, and again Shannon excelled in designing a perfect "Save the New Date/Time" invitation in a very timely fashion! She also sent reminders for printing deadlines and assisted with the design off our wedding programs, menus, and welcome notes. We highly recommend "The Inviting Pear" for that special, unique look for your wedding stationery!
I cannot say enough positive things about The Inviting Pear. I worked directly with Arielle and she was nothing short of AMAZING! I am a COVID bride that has had to deal with multiple invitation changes etc, and they were so accommodating an...
d understanding to all of my crazy requests. My invitations came out beautiful and I am so happy with their services. They have great attention to detail and a sharp eye for what looks good. I would choose The Inviting Pear over and over again!
Response from the Vendor on 09/15/2020
We have LOVED working with you! We can't wait to see everything come together. Your wedding is going to be stunning.
We received so many compliments on our Wedding Invitations. People would say it was the most elegant invitation they had ever seen. Shannon was wonderful to work with and she had so many great ideas for all the printing and came up with so many...
clever things for the day of printing. And she made every printing deadline even when I didn't get everything to her on time.
Response from the Vendor on 07/30/2020
It was a pleasure designing with you! I'm so glad that everything was stress-free for you despite planning a wedding during a pandemic. Please keep in touch!
The one aspect of our wedding we probably received the most compliments on was our invitations done by the Inviting Pear. Arielle and Shannon made the entire process so easy for me and I had so much fun working with them and coming up with idea...
s for the wedding! From the custom watercolor of our venue to Koozies with our dogs painted on them, The Inviting Pear did it all. Additionally they always quoted me on each service and confirmed before they started which I always appreciated. Our guests LOVED our invitation suite. Arielle had even met with me in person at first (in 2019!) and showed me specific examples of what they've done in the past to help me figure out what would be best for our wedding. I had complete trust in them to do all of our signage for our wedding too, in addition to our invitations. They made it so fun and not once stressful. Can't recommend enough!
Response from the Vendor on 07/30/2020
It was so much fun working with you! We love how it all came out (the dogs were so precious!) and are glad you are too. Congrats on your wedding and much happiness to you.
My planner recommended the Inviting Pear for our save the dates, wedding invites, and day of stationary. I wanted a simple clean design that incorporated our wedding colors, but wasn't overly fancy, and that fit within our budget - The Inviting...
Pear made all of that happen. I didn't have a chance to work with them in person, since I was out of state for all of the planning, but everything was easy to discuss through email. I was provided with multiple options and ways to customize our invitations, etc, and everything turned out beautiful!
Shannon and Arielle are fantastic to work with. They always have new fun ideas for our clients, and deliver with the highest of quality standards. From custom watercolors to custom acrylics, they never disappoint! We absolutely love working wit...
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Response from the Vendor on 07/30/2020
It's always a pleasure "working" with you (it's not really working when we have so much fun). Thank you for making the process seamless. We appreciate you more than you know!
We were looking for something custom and unique for our wedding invitations; Arielle has been amazing to work with and helped us create something beautiful that perfectly fit our colors, style, and vision! We have received many phone calls, tex...
ts, and in-person comments about how beautiful our invitations turned out. It has been fun, stress-free, and easy to work with Arielle and The Inviting Pear! Our invitations are something we will keep forever.
Shannon and her team at The Inviting Pear are top notch from start to finish. She has wonderful, creative ideas to get you started, and then is so easy to work with throughout the rest of the process, which turned out to be SO appreciated durin...
g my daughter's otherwise hectic wedding planning process. She just takes care of things. Her product is absolutely first class and she'll work within whatever budget you have set. She really can do just about anything you need to help make your wedding "presentation" a thing of beauty. You want to have The Inviting Pear on your wedding prep team!!
Response from the Vendor on 11/01/2019
It was such a pleasure to collaborate with you all! I can't wait to see the pics. And thanks to Taylor for sending a photo of the framed Hotel Ella watercolor we did. So cool to see it hanging up in their new home.
As a bride, generating wedding invitations through a website caused so much of a headache that I almost didn't want to send them. I found The Inviting Pear though Instagram and requested a quote online. Arielle reached out and we were able to d...
iscuss budget and ideas over the phone within just a few day. Her response with ideas, pricing, and designs were incredibly rapid and looked amazing! From invitations, to bar menus, koozies, and Thank You cards, I'm so happy that working with someone that truly put your ideas and dreams on paper. Thank you for creating such beautiful work for our wedding and we cannot wait to work together again!
Arielle was amazing! She nailed designs for our wedding invitations and save-the-dates first time around! She totally understood my vision and was so easy to work with. She was also able to be reached for a quick call (without scheduling) if I ...
were driving and couldn’t get back to email and was also extremely organized! Great skills, great personality, and beautiful product! Thanks team!!
I can't say enough great things about Arielle and the team at The Inviting Pear. The number of texts and phone calls we received from friends and family in absolute AWE of our wedding invitations proves how unique and extraordinarily creative t...
his team is! Arielle understood my vision completely and still dealt with numerous emails back and forth until the final product was PERFECT! I couldn't be happier with our beautiful invitations which included a custom watercolor of the location we'll be married. It's something I'll frame and treasure forever and I HIGHLY recommend this amazing team!
So... I'm a bit unconventional and wanted something kind of goth, dark and moody for my save the dates and wedding invitations. I wish I could post photos on here of the final product, but pictures don't even do them justice... because they are...
absolutely amazing. Arielle and Shannon were a DREAM to work with. My other half and I are getting married under a full moon and wanted a 'dark and moody' lunar calendar as the save the date. Arielle brought this to life BEAUTIFULLY. For the invitations, we went very simple... but stunning, black on black, dark green paper with foil gold text, cream paper with black text and a gold foil moon at the top to tie everything together. I live in Austin and went to meet Arielle one day to talk through every last detail and I left the meeting wishing we could have hung out all day. I seriously can not rate this team higher. I will absolutely be using them again in the future.
Shannon and Arielle at The Inviting Pear created the most beautiful watercolor signature cocktail signs which featured a watercolor painting of our yorkie, Bruno! Everyone at the wedding commented on how cute the signs were! The Inviting Pear s...
taff were very responsive, timely and professional. They can even ship your items if you live out of state! I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND them to anyone looking for a signature cocktail sign, bar menu, or other fun items for your wedding!
Response from the Vendor on 08/20/2019
We loved working with you to bring Bruno to life in a watercolor. We are so glad that everyone loved it . Congratulations on your wedding and please keep in touch!
The Inviting Pear worked tirelessly to create a vision for all of our stationary elements that we loved! We had a very specific vision in mind and with our help and the help of our incredible florist, they were able to create an incredible and ...
beautiful Save the Date, Invitation Suite, Cocktail Napkins, Stir Sticks, Menus, Programs, etc. They helped create signage and they even created some beautiful menus and name place cards for our rehearsal brunch. Arielle was a pleasure to work with and she put in so many hours working with us to understand what we were looking for and ultimately made our vision come true. They were willing to work with our florist to create a beautiful monogram which adorned the majority of our stationary pieces. The gold foil elements and unique shapes that we included in our stationary really made it stand out and become exactly what we were looking for. We are so grateful that we worked with them and that we spent the extra time and money to create custom and unique stationary with Inviting Pear. We highly recommend them for any of your stationary needs.
Arielle and Shannon did an amazing job! We really wanted our two dogs to be apart of our wedding since they were not able to be there in person and the watercolor napkins, koozies, and cups exceeded our expectations! They are amazing! Thank you...
so much for taking our idea and creating something so great!
We really wanted to do something different for our menus / place settings and Shannon did an incredible job making something beautiful out of my horribly drawn idea sketch! She worked closely with us and made adjustments to get everything right...
where we wanted it and we are so happy with the result! She also did our programs and place cards which turned out so lovely! Would definitely recommend her for all your paper needs and wish we would have used her for our invitations as well!
Shannon was a intertidal part of the over all theme and design of our wedding. She was able to deliver a look of pure Texas and reflect the two men getting married. The invitations were so clean, and so purely a reflection of our relationship....
These invitations went all over the country and the response was tremendous. Shannon was very easy to work with and the results are beyond excellent. Quick and easy communication was very important for us during the planning process and Shannon was a dream.
Arielle did an incredible job creating our save the date and invitation suite! We received SO many compliments on both! She created a custom monogram for our wedding invitations, which we also used on our thank you notes. They are so creative, ...
and quick! I can't recommend Inviting Pear enough!
Shannon did a great job for our daughter's printing needs for her recent wedding in Austin. She was very patient as we worked through the details to find exactly what was desired by the bride and groom. All items were completed on time and she ...
assisted in the final assembly of the invitations and getting them in the mail. She worked well with our calligrapher too and our wedding planner and we love good teamwork! All final printing was delivered to our wedding planner in a nice time for the wedding. You will be pleased if you go with the Inviting Pear for your wedding!!
Everything that we wanted for invitations and stationary turned out exactly how we imagined!
First, huge shout-out to Arielle for a great in person meeting. She brought plenty of samples which gave us some wonderful ideas. She also had suggest...
ions based on what we were envisioning and it helped a lot. They also have a great pintrest as well, which is where we found the idea for our menu.
Arielle and Shannon were so flexible working with us and with our budget. When we had questions or revisions, they were amazing at responding and making updates to our contract(s). They are both super personable and great to work with. I am beyond happy with our final products, thanks so much for being a big part of our day!
Shannon is the BEST! I am obsessed with her work and we were blown away by our elegant invitations and the cute map of Austin she created for us. We received endless compliments from our friends and family on our stationery. Thanks Shannon!!
Shannon came highly recommended from our wedding planner and she did not disappoint!! She created beautiful pieces [escort cards, table numbers, send off sign, guest book sign, koozies (my absolute favorite design - very creative), favor tags a...
nd more!] that matched our wedding vision perfectly! We had no edits! ... We can't wait to show all of Shannon's work at our wedding in a few short weeks!
Shannon at the Inviting Pear is amazing! She truly cares about each and every client’s needs! She responds so quickly, and is helpful every step of the way. I 110% recommend the Inviting Pear! 5 star business 🤩
Shannon was amazing to work with for my name cards, escort cards, table numbers and a custom watercolor bar menu incorporating my two dogs (!!!). She was extremely professional, easy to work with, and quick to respond. Shannon has amazing taste...
and attention to detail and I highly recommend her work. You can't go wrong working with Inviting Pear!
My invitations were so perfect and exactly what I wanted. I am super picky (and indecisive) and Arielle was flexible and easy to work with. I changed my mind about design and fonts a couple times and she got me a new proof super fast. She helpe...
d make decisions on the paper type, envelopes, font style, font color, etc. I decided to order menus as well. She nailed them and had them to me super fast! Would definitely recommend!
Arielle was so helpful when designing our wedding stationary. Our consultation was very informative; she brought a ton of samples so that we could see different papers, colors, fonts, etc. and it made the decision making process so much easier....
The designs were completed quickly and she was always willing to make corrections/changes if needed. Arielle helped us set the tone for our wedding and we got SO many compliments on the invitations, as well as the cool acrylic seating assignment chart!
To be honest, invitations weren't the most important or exciting thing to me when planning a wedding.
However, the work that Arielle and the Inviting Pear team did for our invites made it one of my favorite part! The invitations turned out be...
tter than I'd pictured and were absolutely stunning. They were so beautiful that I framed one and hung it up in our house :)
In addition, the team was easy to work with and turned everything around quickly and thoroughly.
HIGHLY recommend this vendor.
Shannon & Arielle were amazing in every way. They captured the essence of our wedding in their design. They were fabulous to work with and the quality of their products are top notch. I would highly recommend working with them!!! Three Claps to...
Inviting Pear!!!
The inviting pear made my invitation dreams come true. I had some different ideas that I wanted and Arielle patiently worked with me and my inspiration to create a one of a kind invite. The process was stress free and went smoothly. I was thril...
led with the finished product and would highly recommend Inviting Pear to any bride!
I recently had the pleasure of working with Arielle and Shannon at The Inviting Pear and I could not recommend them more!
Arielle so graciously first met with us on December 23rd - right before the Christmas holidays when no one is thrilled to...
be working. I lived out of town and had very limited vacation days available to me, so I had to work around my own holiday schedule. She kindly met with us and showed us examples of their work and I was blown away! I booked them immediately. I didn't even need to meet with anyone else.
In the months to follow, Arielle not only created beautifully classic invitations, save the dates and programs, but also created a custom monogram for us that we could not be happier with!
You have to have a special kind of person to work with me on stationery, as I am extremely picky and know what I like and don't like. :) Arielle was patient and attentive to all of my comments and requests and I never felt that I was bugging her with random thoughts and revisions.
But my favorite part of working with The Inviting Pear were the amazing acrylic seating chart, table numbers and bar menus that they created for our reception. They happily worked with my florist and lighting company in coordinating how to hang and showcase this stunners. I am still receiving compliments on them weeks later!
A lot of work goes in to what they do every day and it truly shows. They care about their clients and I felt that they strove to make us 100% satisfied with our final results. I can't wait to use them again for other stationery needs!
I was extremely pleased with the work from The Inviting Pear! Everyone that received the invitation text or left a message on the RSVP how they were the nicest invitations they’d ever seen. The invitations were completely personalized to my sty...
le and had almost immediate feedback when I had questions or adjustments.
Super pleased with their work.
I'm so proud and excited to show off my wedding invitations! They truely are unique and one of a kind. The Inviting Pear helped me through every process of my wedding. After all, the invitations and save the dates are the first impression of y...
our wedding.
Shannon was great to work with and help guide me through the process. Thank you for everything!
Shannon was simply amazing. She worked with our budget to create a beautiful invitation suite that all of our guests loved. She reminded us of various invitation etiquette rules, but ultimately let us pick what we wanted. I cannot say enough ni...
ce things about her and would 100% recommend her to anyone planning a wedding or event. Thank you, Shannon! You are the BEST!!!
Shannon was absolutely fantastic to work with! She made us feel completely at ease during the whole process of designing our save the dates and invitations. Her attention to detail is out of this world!
Shannon & Arielle are awesome! They are very professional and super responsive. They have helped me on multiple occasions create a Gobo Monogram design and they help bring your ideas to life. Arielle called me to get an idea of what I was looki...
ng for and she really went above and beyond to help make the design come together! She did it in such a short amount of time as well! Thank You!!!!
Very responsive and great to work with! When I wanted to change something, Arielle never made me feel like I was too needy. Arielle was very excited to create and use her imagination. The Inviting Pear comes highly recommended by me. They also ...
took care of the addressing, bundling and sending out. I would have been lost without them.
The Inviting Pear is the BEST stationary company in Austin and Houston by far! I live in Houston but gor married in Austin so I did a lot of research before choosing in both cities. After my research I reached out and got proposals from 6 diffe...
rent companies in Austin and Houston. I actually was able to personally meet with Arielle (she was super flexible with me since I was from out of town and met with me during a weekend). I loved her personality and her creativity! The Inviting Pear also came highly recommended and had amazing reviews. After I compared all the companies it was a no brainer and decided to work with them. I am sooo happy that I did because Arielle who worked closely with me was such a joy to work with! I know that I was not an easy customer, I was very perfectionist and had a million editions to my save the date and wedding invitation and she was super patient with me and did all the changes that I requested and more. She also had great attention to detail and was able to understand my vision and even made it better. I absolutely LOVED the final product! I wanted to design a logo for our wedding that would represent our love story and how we met (I am originally from Mexico, my husband is from Colombia and we met and live in Houston) and she took my idea and a map that my sister drew and elevated it and made it just PERFECT! We absolutely loooved our wedding logo as it represented us and our story as a couple perfectly! We used it for the invitation as well as the wedding day. I used it as inspiration for our wedding decor and theme and it was perfect! Our guests absolutely loved the stationary and got lots of praises about how beautiful our invitations and save the dates were! Arielle was one of my favorite vendors and she was an absolute pleasure to work with! I would hands down recommend them to any person looking to have the most AWESOME stationary for a special event! To Arielle thank you sooo much for being so patient with me and for your wonderful creativity! Thank you for bringing my logo to life!! I really appreciate it!!, love, Gloria
Shannon was the first stationer that my husband and I met and we knew right away that we didn't need to meet anyone else. We described our vision and style in that first meeting and she picked up on it immediately. Working with Shannon througho...
ut the design process was one of the easiest parts of the wedding planning process. We received so many compliments on our wedding invitations and she carried the same style throughout the rest of our paper products for our wedding.
Arielle and The Inviting Pear were absolutely wonderful! She helped me create exactly what I wanted for my wedding invitations. They provide so many other services as well for weddings. Arielle even met me at the post office when I was having t...
rouble getting the invitations out! Couldn't recommend more!
We had the best experience with Shannon! She is so professional and creative and made the whole process so easy. Not only were our invitations and save-the-dates unique and gorgeous, but she created a boutique of menus, place cards, and signs...
that fit beautifully into the look and feel of everything. These day-of details would have been so stressful were it not for Shannon. I can't recommend her highly enough - thank you Shannon!!
For our invitation suite, we had the pleasure of working with Arielle. My fiancé and I had several strong ideas of what we wanted coming into our design appointment, and I feared our meticulous visions would never be turned into beautiful invit...
ations! Arielle was absolutely wonderful to work with and made our vision into reality; she remained open-minded and flexible with our many, many ideas. She managed to merge our visions together perfectly by using her keen artistic eye and design prospective. Our paper goods are more than I have ever imagined! On top of all things, she was very professional, timely, and responsive. From our first design meeting with Arielle to having printed invitations in my hand, it took merely 6 weeks! And considering we emailed back and forth almost daily, I feel like that 6 weeks went by faster than the speed of light! I would (and do) 100% recommend working with Arielle.
When faced with creating the perfect invitation for our daughter’s wedding and having to work long distance with the couple for their choices, I had a concern about choosing the right designer/company for this project. Again, the Knot gave gre...
at options and through their vendor lists, we were able to find Inviting Pear. For us, it was another fortuitous choice. Shannon, who owns the company, was our point of contact and, from the first meeting, we knew we had chosen well. She provided far more assistance than I could have anticipated providing guidance on wording choices for our formal wedding to spreadsheets for the guest lists to make printing not only easy but correct with regards to rules of etiquette. While I originally thought we would use Inviting Pear for only the invitations, our experience was so positive and Shannon so helpful, that they also provided escort cards, head table seating cards, and table numbers. One of the most special aspects of working with Inviting Pear is Shannon’s creation of the couple’s monogram. With input from all of us, she created an image they will use for years to come and which we incorporated in everything printed or produced for the wedding. I am already looking for the next opportunity to work with Shannon!
The Inviting Pear did all of our invitation suite along with the fan programs and thank you notes for our invitation. They were so amazing to work with, affordable and local which made an amazing combination. All the work was quick and turned o...
ut perfect.
I can't recommend them enough for your upcoming wedding. We were able to do so much more with our invitations (adding backing, belly band, custom logo, etc) than we could have just ordering online and for about the same price!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stationary! Everything we ordered was perfect and exactly what we wanted. This vendor is a pleasure to work with and goes above and beyond to make sure you're happy with the finished product, and her turnaroun...
d time for proofs etc. is stealth speed. Amazing!!!!
Response from the Vendor on 10/10/2016
Thank you so much for the amazing review! It was a pleasure designing with you. Much happiness in your marriage...only one more week. Yay!
Our designer, Arielle, was great to work with. She patiently walked my daughter and I through the artistic design process and created a beautiful wedding invitation by showing us many different styles and fonts, and capturing the inspiration f...
or the garden wedding based on our descriptions. Our programs, menus, and signage were strikingly gorgeous. She and Shannon were especially helpful with articulating the wording used on our selected stationery, and with the final extra touch of tying a ribbon around the neck of our program fans that matched the wedding colors. We were very happy with everything, and received many compliments on everything that was created. The Inviting Pear was the perfect choice for us because we got a very beautiful, very unique set of
wedding stationery!
Arielle was an absolute GEM! My fiance and I are not the easiest or most decisive people to work with (to say the least), but Arielle worked tirelessly and used her creative expertise to create the most beautiful wedding invitations. She was in...
constant contact, even on weekends and when she was out of town for vacation. She hand drew the loveliest maps for our invites that totally encompassed who we are. I could not recommend Arielle more!
Shannon was so amazing to work with! I felt like I had so many ideas for invitations and sent her multiple pictures of other invitations that I liked, it was overwhelming! But once I met with Shannon and she narrowed down my style, she came up ...
with something better than I could have ever dreamed of!! Since sending out my invitations, I have received nothing less than rave reviews! My highest recommendations for the Inviting Pear :)
Shannon was so sweet and easy to work with! I didn't know much about invitations/paper but she was so patient with me and explained everything. There was a lot of back and forth when designing everything but she was extremely patient with all o...
f our feedback and was willing to help us make sure that everything was exactly how we wanted. I didn't have any big ideas about our invitations and really wanted more of a classic look and feel... Shannon definitely delivered on that! And we had some fun stationery for our wedding night, including cardboard cutouts of our faces for people to use in the photobooth (those were a huge hit and ended up on the dance floor after a couple of hours).
Shannon has been amazing to work with throughout the initial inquiry to receiving the completed invitations. I do not live in Texas so planning a wedding out of state has been hard, but Shannon has been overly accommodating with everything. Her...
creativity and designs are even better. She was able to understand the vision I was going for and literally designed the PERFECT invitation suite. You cannot go wrong with The Inviting Pear!
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Shannon Ferguson
Owner
My name is Shannon Ferguson and I’m the owner of The Inviting Pear, a graphic design and stationery studio based in Austin, Texas. Arielle has been with me full-time for 8 years and is an amazing artist, specializing in custom watercolors and sketches. Founded in 2005, we believe every design should be as unique and special as the client. We strive to listen to our clients and understand their personality so that we can translate it into the perfect design piece. We love what we do and hope to be able to collaborate with you!
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