A NOTE FROM THE STUDIO

I’m Ashley.
Paper has always moved me.

The weight of it. The way ink sits on cotton. The moment a finished suite comes together and becomes something a couple will hold onto forever.

My love affair with fine art began in sixth grade, at a Monet exhibit at NOMA. I grew up in South Louisiana among magnolias, moss-draped cypress, and the kind of beauty that doesn't announce itself. Years later, designing my son's birthday invitation, I realized stationery could carry the same quiet weight as the paintings that first moved me.

I founded InvitoBella in 2011. We’ve been pressing love stories into cotton ever since.

Woman in a white dress with black zigzag detail standing in a workspace with clipboards hanging on the wall and shelves filled with boxes and supplies.

THE STUDIO

A husband-and-wife
letterpress studio in Ponchatoula.

A white wall decorated with two shelves holding white binders clipped onto each clipboard, some with labels and papers attached. There is a small pot of green plant on the left. Below, a counter with a vase of white flowers, a few bottles, and containers. On the right, there are white headphones hanging on a stand and some electronic equipment.

InvitoBella is a small studio, intentionally so. I design, direct, and oversee production on every suite that leaves our doors. My husband Jason is the letterpress specialist behind our three presses, the hands that press what mine draw. For digital work and large-format signage, we partner with fulfillment houses whose finish work meets our standard.

Fifteen years in, three presses, and we still know every suite by name.

NOW Weddings logo in elegant script
Text reading 'People' in beige font on a black background.
Logo design with the text "Style Me Pretty" in elegant, cursive lettering.
Text that reads 'lovely' with a heart symbol replacing the 'v'.
Logo for 'Cookies + Cakes' featuring the text in stylish font on a black background.

THE PRESSES

Bella. Lagertha. Opal.
Three machines that shape every suite.

A work station with a black die cutting machine on a gray table, a small pink wire basket, a framed decor piece on the wall that says "Trello" and "Stationery," and two wooden shelves holding a potted plant, a clipboard with papers, and a clear plastic container with a red glue gun.

Bella
The matriarch.

A rare early-1900s tabletop letterpress, small in scale and remarkable in detail. Bella prints our most delicate work, where a light touch matters most.

CHANDLER & PRICE • C. 1900S

A woman in a white shirt and blue jeans leaning on an antique printing press or printing machine in a room with white walls.

Lagertha
The workhorse.

Our 1899 Chandler & Price floor press, named for a warrior. Cast iron, century-old, and responsible for the deep impression InvitoBella is known for.

CHANDLER & PRICE • C. 1899

A heat press machine with a black base, metallic components, and a control panel, placed on a wooden table in a room with white walls, sheer curtains, and a window, along with a bouquet of white flowers nearby.

Opal
The shimmer.

Our hot foil stamping press. Heat, pressure, and metallic foil marrying to fine paper, producing a finish that catches and holds the light.

HOT FOIL PRESS

A FEW PERSONAL NOTES

Off the press.
A handful of things I love, when I’m not in the studio.

Currently

A French toast latte, with no apologies.

Reading

Victorian murder mysteries on the Kindle.

Listening

Fleetwood Mac, Florence and the Machine, modern classical.

Supervised By

Remi Rose, French Bulldog and quality control.

AN AESTHETIC NOTE

The studio’s references.

“I keep coming back to the same rooms. South Louisiana light, antique paper, the quiet authority of an old museum. Everything that leaves this studio is borrowed, in some way, from one of them.”

A woman in a pink dress sitting on a wooden chair, holding a white cloth, with daisies in a basket nearby, in a warmly lit room with a painting and a window in the background.
Close-up of seven hardcover books with floral and bird designs on their spines, featuring titles by Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott.
Ornate wooden double door with decorative carvings and lion head knockers, above which is a carved stone ornate design with a window and balcony with wrought iron railing.
A scenic painting of a river with trees on both sides, and a large building in the distance, with horse-drawn carriages and people in the foreground.
A pencil drawing of a vintage long gown with puffed sleeves and intricate floral details, signed by the artist in the lower right corner.

South Louisiana • old architecture • antique paper • museums • the patina of kept things

IN THEIR WORDS

“InvitoBella was our easiest and best vendor to work with for our wedding! She has phenomenal communication skills and does an 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!!”

OLIVIA & ETHAN

Three things we believe
about the paper that opens a wedding.

THE STUDIO’S PHILOSOPHY

Unmistakably InvitoBella.

Every suite carries a consistent studio voice: the way we compose, the type we set, the ink we mix, the papers we trust.

Made to be kept.

Pressed on cotton, sealed in wax, built to live in scrapbooks and frames long after the day ends.

Pressed by the same hands.

Letterpress and foil work is pressed by Jason in our Louisiana studio. Every piece, regardless of method, is designed and overseen by Ashley before it ships.