Press Room For InviteSite
Article: Eco-Couture Wedding Invitations from InviteSite (April 27, 2010)
Review on Ecoscene
InviteSite to Celebrate Ten Year Anniversary as Pioneers in DIY Wedding Invitations Movement
2009 - This December marks InviteSite's ten year anniversary offering brides and grooms affordable designer wedding stationery. The occasion will be marked by a variety of promotions, including free ground shipping on all orders from September 15 through December 31. InviteSite was the first wedding invitations company to marry fashion-forward, modern designs with eco-friendly papers. Many of InviteSite’s eco wedding invitations are made from tree-free and 100% post-consumer recycled papers. Tree-free papers include “papers” made from post-harvest waste of mango leaves, sugar cane, and other leaf and grass fibers. Read more about InviteSite's anniversary celebration.
Local Press Covers Eco Wedding Invitations. Who Else But InviteSite?
November 14, 2009, Juliette Funes.
Environmentally Friendly “I Do”
InviteSite makes it to newsprint again in a Pasadena Star News article about hosting and planning your green wedding. The story profiles InviteSite’s 15 year history of making environmental wedding invitations accessible to everyone, along with some photographs of our Angelicia eco wedding invites and Plum Seedling plantable wedding invitation designs.
Read a full sized scan of the article (it's a very large picture file).
Paul Ollinger Interviews Helen Driscoll on Creating Your Niche in the Marketplace on Dog and Pony from C-Net
In 1995 Helen Driscoll founded the company that became Invitesite, a fine paper company that uses 19th century printing presses. Driscoll discusses how she found innovation in an old-fashioned craft and the unique ways she serves her niche clientele.
Wedding Invitations from sustainable materials are covered by Ideal Bite.
On May 8, 2008, InviteSite got a glowing review, published alongside the following tidbit: Small Changes Add Up: If 10,000 LA Biter-brides send out tree-free invites instead of materials made from trees this year, we'll save nine Big Sur redwoods.
Pasadena Magazine - March, 2008, pages 87, 99 and 101.
Specializing in green wedding invitations for 13 years, Helen Driscoll, founder of the environmentally conscious stationery company InviteSite was into eco-friendly nuptials far before the fad. "A green wedding can be an over-the-top, lush, organic, and sophisticated lifestyle thing," Driscoll says.
"It is actually a fairly complex thing to put together," she adds. For a wedding planner, she recommends Angelica Weihs with Green Weddings. Driscoll's favorite locations are the Southwest Museum, Descanso Gardens, Audubon Center in Debs Park ("It's off the grid and can only handle small numbers of people.") and the Pacific Asia Museum.
For caterers, Driscoll advises to use someone who works with organic food. She recommends Casablanca International Events, who handled the green opening of the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
To carry out the eco-friendly aspects, make sure that your florist only uses organic flowers. To be extra kind to the earth, instead of the regular gift registry, Driscoll notes that you can register for altruistic cuases, including donations to third-world countries.
At the big wedding show at Paramount Studios July 22, 2007.
It was a great way to show off the feel of our invitations to thousands of people. Feel is the one thing pictures can't convey as well as we would like.
Fall 2007 Editorial coverage in Wedding Dresses Magazine
"It's Easy Being Green" (pgs 158-160) article on Green Weddings: featuring our Wedding Invitations, with a photograph of our eco Cerise wedding invitation. The article, by writer Annie Chambliss, illuminates the Hollywood trend for Green Weddings and how to include the philosophy into the average budget wedding.
August/September 2007 issue of Modern Bride.
"100 Things We Love: Our Annual LIst of the Best, the Beautiful, and the Budget Friendly! (pgs 456-479) Our Cerise Wedding Invitation made it to the Hit List - coming in at #64.
TIME MAGAZINE November 7, 2005 Modern Marriages
Time featured the Carmine, Beatrice in a nice 1/3 page photo layout and Invitesite as a source for do-it-yourself invitations to save money.
Fine Paper won The LA Weekly's “Best of LA” in 1996, a much coveted award.
The LA Times ran a color photo feature of Helen and Fine Paper in April, 1999, and a few more features since. In 2003 InviteSite was written about in Newsweek.
Our wedding invitations have a very nice write-up in the “Bridal Bargains” book (3rd edition).
Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2002.
An article on Letterpress printed invitations. Also Nov. 21, 2010, Helen Driscoll quoted in the "Image" section.
