THE WEDDING STATIONERY TIMELINE

Here's an ideal timeline for your wedding stationery. Even if you contact us in the midnight hour (and yes, we’ve helped clients, literally at that hour), we’ll do our best to accommodate you. That said, the earlier we connect, the better.

11-12 MONTHS AHEAD
Save the Dates: Schedule an appointment to discuss options and pricing, and to begin developing a vision.

6-8 MONTHS AHEAD
Mail Save the Dates. If you’re having a destination wedding we suggest mailing your Save the Dates 10-11 months in advance.

6 MONTHS
Invitations: Schedule an appointment to discuss options and pricing, and to begin developing a vision.

2-3 MONTHS AHEAD
Mail your wedding and rehearsal dinner invitations!

3 MONTHS
”Day Of” pieces: Schedule an appointment to discuss options and pricing for your menu cards, table numbers, escort cards, programs, thank you cards, sign-in-board and other signage.

YOUR BIG DAY
Hooray! Have a blast! And remember: Control is letting go.

2 WEEKS MARRIED
Order personalized correspondence cards with new names and/or monogram for your thank you cards.

1 MONTH MARRIED
Mail your Thank You Cards.

THE CUSTOM DESIGN PROCESS

STEP 1: LET'S TALK!

If you’re interested in custom wedding stationery design, start by taking one of our style quizzes so that we can better understand your mind’s eye: Save the Dates and/or Invitation Suite.

Getting to know our clients is the best part of our job, and probably the most important. Next we can meet over the phone or via Zoom. This first conversation is a chance for us to collaborate on ideas. It’s okay if you don’t have your all of your event details yet. If you have a Pinterest board, we'd love to see it. Show us your dress, flowers, wedding locale, color ideas, designs that have caught your eye, your favorite movies or books—we want to know it all! We may want to ship you a curated box of samples to review.

For corporate events or branding inquiries, please email info@katiefischerdesign.com and someone from our team will get back to you within 24 hours.

STEP 2: ESTIMATE & APPROVAL
We’ll send you proposal within a week of our initial conversation. To reserve our services, please approve the estimate and the non-refundable deposit. From there we’ll send you some helpful resources and create a detailed timeline to ensure that everything flows seamlessly.

STEP 3: MOCK-UPS
The fun begins! From the notes we took at our initial meeting and the mood board provided in your proposal, we'll start the design process. First we do a font study of your names in all of the fonts we think you may like. Viscerally, just respond with a list of fonts that you like. We'll present sketches of custom calligraphy fonts, if ordering, and begin on any custom artwork. We'll start by presenting at least 3 mock-ups of the main card only using fonts that passed the font study (invitation or save the date).

STEP 4: PROOFING
We only ask that you tell us exactly how you feel—don’t hold back! Depending on your design package, you will receive two to three additional revisions free of charge. We can combine your favorite aspects of the mock-ups or go in an entirely new direction. Once a final save the date card has been created, we'll design the rest of your set (envelopes, liners, etc.). For the invitation suite, we may start with just the invitation card (like we do for the save the dates) or we may present three different full concepts of the entire suite. Each project is tailored specifically to our clients needs.

STEP 5: FINAL APPROVAL
We have in-house copy editors who review your wording and our designs as we go to make sure all is correct. If we catch a typo in the text you provided, we'll bring it to your attention. Before going to print, we'll present a final proof for your approval. 

Please be sure that every detail is correct. Once you sign the final proof, we are not responsible for any typos or copy errors. From there, we’ll go into production and the remaining balance will be due. Your order will ship within 3-6 weeks depending on the intricacy of production. Rush service is available at a premium.

STEP 6: YOUR ORDER ARRIVES
Our in-house quality checkers meticulously inspect each and every piece of your suite. We allow so much time in our print production timeline so that we may get anything that doesn't meet our standards reprinted. Upon request, we can do the assembly and mailing for you. Or we'll package your order up in pretty boxes and ship or messenger them to you. Let the unrestrained giddiness begin!