HELLO THERE!
I’M ASHLEY!
It started at NOMA in sixth grade — a Monet exhibit, a little Southern Louisiana girl, and a feeling she couldn't quite explain. Years later, designing my son's birthday invitation, something clicked. Stationery could be art. It could tell a story, hold a memory, mean something. That realization became InvitoBella, and today I bring that same belief to every suite I design — working with two antique letterpress presses in my Louisiana studio, for couples whose love stories deserve to be told beautifully.
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I'm currently in my French Toast latte era and fully obsessed. That said, LaLaLand's Banana Cloud is literally heaven in a cup and nothing will ever top it.
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My Kindle is hands down my favorite piece of tech (after my presses, obviously). I'm a sucker for a good mystery novel, but right now? Fully spiraling into Victorian Murder Mysteries and living my best gothic era.
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Spontaneous travel is literally my entire personality, and I'm always ready to book a weekend trip on zero notice. New York this weekend? Already packing. London in 72 hours? We'll figure out the details when we land.
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Fleetwood Mac and Florence + The Machine have my whole heart, but catch me crying to Taylor Swift and consuming true crime content like it's my job. Plot twist: I'm also obsessed with Modern Classical music and you should be too.
the inspo
vintage, heirloom, artistry, architecture, antiques, museums
MORE BEHIND THE SCENES
Meet our In-House Presses
We’re so grateful to own two pieces of history - our vintage Chandler & Price presses!
Our Tabletop Press
Bella
Bella is our cherished tabletop press, manufactured sometime in the early 1900s, and she has spent over a century leaving her mark on the world — quite literally. She has strong preferences and makes them known, but when she is content, what comes off her plate is something quietly extraordinary. We reach for her on shorter runs and smaller pieces, where her precision feels almost intimate. She is proof that the most beautiful things often come in the most unexpected packages.
Our Floor Press
Lagertha
Named for a warrior queen, and she wears that name like a crown. Our 1899 Chandler & Price floor press commands the studio the way only something truly magnificent can — with presence, with power, and with an unmistakable personality all her own. She is temperamental and demanding, and we love her for it. Give her a heavier stock or a larger card and she presses with a depth and authority that reminds you why letterpress has never gone out of style. To watch her work is to fall in love with this craft all over again.
Our Hot Foil Press
Opal
Opal arrived with all the sparkle her name promises. Where Bella and Lagertha lay down ink and impression, Opal does something altogether different — pressing pure metallic magic directly into the page, delivering that unmistakable luminous shimmer that catches the light and takes your breath away. Hot foil stamping is one of those finishing techniques that simply cannot be replicated digitally, and we are absolutely thrilled to bring this capability in-house. From gilded monograms to gleaming borders and dreamy foiled details, Opal opens up a whole new world of possibility for your stationery, right here in our own studio.
“InvitoBella was our easiest and best vendor to work with for our wedding! She has phenomenal communication skills and does and efficient job making the design and development process easy. She has a strong creative eye and I had no edits on almost everything she proposed from our menus, save the dates, koozies, beads, name tags, signs, etc. I even asked her to try a new technique for our bar signs which she executed flawlessly. I recommend to anyone!!”
Our Philosophy
Every suite that leaves this studio is someone's love story made tangible. We don't take that lightly. From the first conversation to the moment your suite arrives at your door, we treat every single piece as though it were the only one we've ever made — because in the ways that matter most, it is.
We have been doing this since 2011, and in that time we have had the privilege of walking alongside couples through some of the most beautiful seasons of their lives. A wedding suite becomes a birth announcement. A birth announcement becomes a first birthday. We show up for all of it, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
Every new suite is our new favorite. We mean that. There is something about the moment a design comes together — when the paper is right and the ink is right and the whole thing simply feels like the couple it was made for — that never gets old. That feeling is why we do what we do.