Jane K. Sent on 03/12/2024

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Exceptional Creativity and Dedication

I cannot express enough how grateful my husband and I are for the exceptional service provided by Mekala at The Tie That Binds. From the moment we had our first phone call, Mekala made us feel heard & so excited. She listened intently to our vision for our wedding invitations and branding, and with her unparalleled creativity, she brought it to life in ways we couldn't have imagined. Every detail was meticulously crafted, reflecting not only our ideas but also her artistic flair. Mekala's dedication and passion truly shone through in every aspect of her work, making the entire process seamless and enjoyable. Our invitations and branding were not just pieces of paper; they were reflections of us, thanks to Mekala's talent and commitment. We are beyond thrilled with the results and can't thank Mekala enough for making our wedding dreams a reality. If you're searching for someone who will go above and beyond to make your special day unforgettable, look no further than The Tie That Binds.

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Isabel S. Sent on 10/08/2023

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Tie that Binds is the best at what they do.

If anyone one is on the fence on whether to work with Mekala - DO IT! Mekala is a talented artist who spends the time getting to know and understands her clients, is incredibly professional, and wonderfully kind. For our wedding we wanted to bring parts of our cultural backgrounds to life and Mekala did that with elegance and grace. Somehow, she managed to see inside our minds and bring our visions to life in ways we didn't know were possible. She helped us with save the dates, invitations, menus, wedding gifts, welcome bags, welcome sign and name card display. I wouldn't have changed a single thing.

Jackie Sent on 11/14/2022

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Mekala is an artist!

Mekala's stationary work is probably the best I've seen. All of our guests raved about the invitations - more than a few people said the invites were the best they'd ever encountered. Someone even said they wanted to frame it. Mekala is incredibly responsive to feedback but to be honest we mostly just let her do her thing - her work speaks for itself. If you're looking for invitations, menus, save-the-dates, etc that really have a wow-factor (this is not standard stuff - it looks incredible and your guests will comment on it) then Mekala is the girl for you :)

Christina Sent on 11/21/2022

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Quality all the way around. Professional, great communication and everything created for our wedding was absolutely stunning

Mekala’s creations are stunning. Our guests were blown away, feeling like they’d been invited to the event of the year when they received our save the dates and invitations. Even the envelopes and vintage stamps were another level of awe. I want to frame one because they are so special and true keepsakes. Mekala was lovely to work with. She’s intuitive with her designs. She was so helpful, efficient and made the whole process easy and flawless. It became clear that Mekala takes a lot of pride in what she presents to you. That gives you the confidence that she will knock it out of the park. And she did!

Marcy R. Sent on 09/05/2022

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Inspired, Joyous, Creativity!

From the first conversation with Mekala , my daughter Madelyn and I knew we were being heard and that my daughter and her fiancé were truly being seen. Madelyn wanted the invitations to reflect the care and detail we were putting into the whole weekend . She wanted bold colors and their dogs represented in the theme. Mekala designed a crest for them that reflected the lives and personalities of both Madelyn and her fiancé along with their pups. Mekala guided us beautifully, keeping us on schedule from the Save The Dates right though the day of , wedding guest cards, bar signs, menus and printing thank you cards. The entire experience was fun and Mekala’s artistry and enthusiasm made the whole experience a complete joy!!! The invitations are precious keepsakes we will value for the rest of our lives! Thank you Mekala !!!

Kortney M. Sent on 10/12/2022

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Hire Mekala!

Our wedding planner suggested Mekala to help design our wedding stationery from invites to day of paper like menu and table numbers. If you want your event to look cohesive and stay true to an overall look or theme, I highly recommend booking the Tie That Binds! Mekala was prompt in her responses and brilliant with her design choices! She really helped our vision come to life and our wedding day would truly not have been the same without her work. Hiring her also saved me tons of time and stress trying to piece everything together myself. So thrilled to have had the chance to work with Mekala!

Karen M. Sent on 12/01/2021

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I cannot recommend Mekala at Tie that Binds enough. First of all she was a dream to work with. My daughter (the bride) is a graphic designer, but was too stressed to do her own invites. (Also need to add that my other daughter got married one month before so we were all stressed out!) She literally found Mekala on Pinterest and contacted her. My daughter is beyond picky with font, design, etc. and Mekala worked side by side with her to make invites, and other wedding papers, menus, table signs, etc. exactly how my daughter wanted them. Her work was unique, gorgeous, and she even ribboned and stuff the invites and mailed them! We got soooo many compliments on those invites! And trust me, if my daughter likes it - they are good! Thanks so much again Mekala for making a stressful time less stressful, and for amazing work. You are truly talented!

Sari Sent on 10/03/2017

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Mekala was an absolute dream to work with from start to finish. She is SO talented, and took exactly what my husband and I wanted and then made it one million times better! Mekala did everything for us from our invitations to day-off stuff (signs, escort cards, menus, etc.), and we got tons of compliments on our paper goods. She is extremely talented and very creative, and also the sweetest person ever and very responsive. She was always available for a quick call. We had one issue with shipping and Mekala handled is so professionally and calmly – my husband and I were 0% stressed or worried. She is truly awesome and we highly recommend Tie that Binds!

Ally Sent on 06/01/2016

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If you are in the market for any type of paper goods for your wedding, I cannot suggest Tie That Binds more! Mekala was absolutely incredible to work with, not only with her beautiful designs, but in her quick responses, and she even took a call at 8:30am on a Saturday when we had a shipping snafu the week before the wedding. We were over the moon with the finished product and want to keep them all in a frame or something because they are all so beautiful. Thank you so much, Mekala for helping to make our special day even more beautiful!

Jennifer Sent on 10/20/2015

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We have no idea where to even begin for this review. Tie That Binds is absolutely amazing! My husband and I are so thrilled with every aspect of all of our paper goods. Mekala took the time to get to know us (from the opposite coast!) and made sure that our invitation suite and other paper goods reflected our personalities, which is exactly what we wanted. So many guests commented that our invitations were the prettiest invitations they have ever received, and then were blown away yet again when they arrived at our reception and saw the seating chart, menus, name tags, signage, and all of our other paper good products. Oh and I almost forgot the beer labels! My husband brewed three different types of beer for our wedding and Mekala designed the most amazing (not to mention, freshest) beer labels, neckers, and caps ever! We plan to frame so many items that Mekala created for us and display them in our home.

We can't really express just how amazing Mekala's work is, and we also can't express how kind and thoughtful Mekala is. She is able to be extremely professional and personable at the same time. She always communicated with us (and our wedding planner and designer, who also loved Mekala) to make sure that we were getting exactly what we wanted, and was very quick to make any changes that we suggested. There really weren't many changes, and they were all very minor, as Mekala's work is incredible! We would highly recommend Tie That Binds for any service that they can help you with. You won't be disappointed. Mekala made the whole process extremely easy. Even though we were working with some tight deadlines, it never showed that we were in a pinch in Mekala's communication or in her work. Everything was perfect! Thank you so much, Mekala! Dean and I feel so lucky to have had you play such a big role in our big day!

Amara Sent on 12/02/2015

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I was not a bride that was expecting to care all that much about my invitations, but with Mekala's help our invites turned out to be one of my favorite personal touches of the whole wedding. I absolutely loved them, and 4 months after the wedding am still getting compliments on them. Mekala was incredibly responsive, and worked with me patiently through all my indecisiveness. She even went out of her way to hand-deliver a sample pack of paper to my house so I could get a better feel for the quality and weight of each paper. Above and beyond!

Christina Sent on 08/10/2015

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My husband and I were putting on a very large, complicated wedding on July 25th, and everything was coming together smoothly, but there was one thing I had not figured out with one week to go until our wedding, and that was the seating chart! My wedding planner referred me to Mekala from Tie That Binds, and she was a saving grace.

Mekala put together 2 beautiful poster-boards listing each of our 300+ guests by name and their table number. She was professional, prompt in her response times, and gave me ideas and advice where I needed it. She even found a border that matched really well with our colors and our invitations. Everything was ready within a couple days. Although I would not recommend waiting until last minute (as I did) to figure out what to do about a seating chart, I would recommend Tie That Binds every time!!

User1841849 Sent on 10/02/2014

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I started working with Mekala about 8 months before my wedding to create all of our paper products, including invitations, welcome bag items, menus, ceremony programs, table numbers, escort cards, and more! I live in NYC and my wedding planner highly recommended Mekala based on her keen eye, her ability to create custom designs with you, and her overall extremely pleasant demeanor and business approach. I can't give Mekala enough praise and I recommend her services to anyone looking for their perfect wedding invitations!

After our initial phone call where I explained my vision, Mekala sent me three custom designs to review. All were so unique and captured the many elements we were looking for. We picked one to move forward with and then tweaked it from there. Mekala was so sweet in letting us ponder over the smallest things and in the end it made our invites more perfect than we could have imagined! After that, all designs Mekala sent to us for the rest of the paper products were spot on and looked just fantastic! It was so nice to have all of the items from the start of the wedding process to the end be executed with the same vision and theme.

Not only does she provide amazing products, but her compassion and willingness to work with you on an intimate level made the process personal and enjoyable. If we had a quick deadline, her turnaround time was above par. If I needed to call her up to discuss something, she was more than happy to figure it out with me. Her enthusiasm for our wedding, her attention to detail and her organization went above and beyond anything we'd expected. Mekala, thank you for helping to make our wedding the one we wanted and envisioned all along!

Amy Sent on 11/24/2014

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Mekala at Tie That Binds is incredible. She designed wedding invitations that totally captured the feel of our wedding. Our guests still talk about them... She was super-easy to work with. We emailed back and forth with her design ideas, and she was super-fast in responding to my emails and incorporating any discussed edits into her design. I HIGHLY recommend her. Her work is really fantastic, and she's as sweet as can be.

Aldo Sent on 08/14/2014

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I can't thank Mekala enough for all she did to make my wife's 40th birthday party a huge success! In addition to her beautiful invitations, Mekala went out of her way to mail the invites as I was out of the country. We also added other touches to our party; signs, t-shirts, cake topper, all from Mekala. Thanks for everything Mekala!!!

Mary H. Sent on 07/23/2014

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I used the Tie that Binds to design my guests welcome bags for our wedding, and could not be happier with the turn out! Mekala worked with me and helped design my perfect bags. She was so responsive and easy to work with. She was able to use different design elements from my invitation which truly made the welcome bags our own. I would highly recommend Tie that Binds to everyone, you won't be disappointed!

Krissy Sent on 01/30/2014

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Mekala is so talented, sweet, and easy to talk to! I searched the web for days looking for the perfect invitations for our wedding and finally saw what I wanted! The process for ordering and creating the invites was very clear and easy to do... any questions I had, Mekala was there to help. When we received our invitations in the mail, it was like opening our first wedding gift! The packaging was beautiful and they are what we will always have to remember the essence of that special day . Thank you Mekala!

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Mekala did a beautiful job creating a custom welcome bag suite for our wedding! I would definitely recommend her services as she was easy to work with and very creative!

Mindy Sent on 12/06/2013

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Mekala Tinnen of Tie That Binds Weddings is an absolute dream to work with.... This is the 2nd event I have used her for .... Her work is perfection .... She is as PATIENT as they come...and just a delightful person... You can feel her heart in everything that she does ... I recommend her highly!!!

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LOVED OUR INVITATIONS!!! The quality was great and the customer service was incredible! Mikela was super patient and understanding through my bridal panic attacks and even though I was traveling in a different time zone during the finalization she was super responsive.

I had several of my invited guests go out of their way to call to tell me and my parents that these were the coolest and most creative invitations that they had ever received and a couple of them even put it on their facebook!

Lauren Sent on 10/07/2013

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Mekala at Tie that Binds was amazing to work with! She created beautiful programs, menus, escort cards and an escort board, as well as table numbers for me. One of the most impressive things about Mekala is that she was really intuitive about what I wanted -- which was incredibly helpful as these items were all done in the last few weeks before my wedding, which meant there was a lot of things going on and I needed someone that could run with a project. Mekala was the perfect person for the job! After an initial conversation about the style of my wedding and sending her a few inspiration ideas on a Pinterest board, she came up with exactly what I wanted. When I saw everything in person, it was all even more beautiful than what I had hoped for.

She was also very responsive and quick with her production time-- which is almost as invaluable as a beautiful product!

Kate Sent on 08/24/2013

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Mekala at Tie That Binds created the most beautiful party favors and signs for our wedding! She was such a pleasure to work with. She created stunning custom matchbox party favors based on a few details I gave her about the colors, theme, and feel of our wedding. It was like she read my mind, the first proof was perfect and very punctual. After seeing how amazing the matchboxes came out we had her also create our signs for our reception which were equally as gorgeous. I only wish I had known about her earlier in my planning process to help with other paper needs! She is very creative, talented, a genius at making your wedding vision come to life!

Faye Sent on 10/25/2013

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Mekala is an absolute dream. She loved my quirky idea for an invitation that involved a creative "fold out" design, and she made it happen! She added her own designs to make it seamless and more professional and we both were freaking out at how much we loved them! I used her for my table seating, escort cards, and thank you cards as well. She is a doll and I would absolutely recommend her.

Kate Sent on 02/14/2013

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We could not be more pleased with our invitations from Mekala at Tie that Binds. During the entire process she was extremely responsive and helpful. The finished product was an invitation that truly reflects our wedding style and what we had initially envisioned. I can't wait to work with her on the other details for our wedding!

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We LOVED our invitations and got so many compliments on them--they were exactly what we had been looking for: simple but elegant (and they were a great price for letterpress). Mekala is also a pleasure to work with--she is friendly, responsive and accommodating. We dealt with her directly and through our wedding planner (who deals with a lot of different vendors) and our planner also thought she was fantastic.

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