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 and have been pressing love stories into cotton ever since.
THE STUDIO
A husband-and-wife
letterpress studio in Ponchatoula.
InvitoBella is a small studio — intentionally. 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.
THE PRESSES
Bella. Lagertha. Opal.
Three machines that shape every suite that leaves our doors.
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
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
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.
Always
Ready for a last-minute weekend in New York.
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.”
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 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!!”
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.