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About

Located in Waconia, Minnesota, Ivory Isle Designs specializes in custom stationary for weddings and events. This business offers both semi-custom and custom design for a variety of wedding stationary items, such as invitations, place cards, menus, programs and more. Josie Helmstetter and her team will craft stunning and personalized items unique to you and your celebration.

Experience

Josie Helmstetter is the CEO and Creative Director of Ivory Isle Designs. Born in Scotland, she studied at Oxford University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Winona State University. Prior to Ivory Isle Designs, Josie Helmstetter traveled in Asian and Europe, later working in advertising. Her travel experience is apparent as she often weaves culture into her designs and offers an array of language options. Josie Helmstetter and her team share their creative expertise with Ivory Isle Designs, a business with 13 years of existence.

Services Offered

Couples looking for custom and semi-custom wedding stationary items can find a wide variety of beautiful and professional options with Ivory Isle Designs. In addition to invitations, this business can create menus, place cards, programs, RSVP cards, save the dates, thank you notes and other items. Services provided by Ivory Isle Designs are:

  • Addressing
  • Assembly
  • Consultations
  • Design
  • Foil-stamped
  • Letterpress
  • Printing
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Frequently asked questions

What invitation and card products do you offer?

Custom Invitations
Imprinted Napkins
Menus
Place Cards
Programs
RSVP Cards
Save the Dates
Thank Yous

What services do you provide?

Assembly
Design
Embossed
Letterpress
Printing

Reviews of Ivory Isle Designs

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Brooke Sent on 08/15/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Vision Brought to Life!

Working with Josie for our wedding stationery was great! Despite the fact that we collaborated entirely from a distance and never met in person, she somehow managed to bring our vision to life in the most magical way possible.

We wanted a whimsical, romantic, old library feel for our stationery, and Josie absolutely nailed it. She created two stunning original pieces of art for us—a beautiful watercolor of one spot within our venue and a delicate sketch of the venue’s exterior. But what truly blew us away was the incredible attention to detail she put into every aspect of our stationery. From the save-the-dates, to the wedding suites, to the table numbers, and even the individual bookmarks that doubled as name cards for each guest, she hand-tore every single piece of paper to give it that perfect, timeless look we were after.

Josie didn’t just stop at the stationery, though. She was an invaluable resource, offering guidance and inspiration for other parts of our wedding, including an escort wall featuring handwritten letters to each guest. Even though she wasn’t local and couldn’t physically build it for us, she walked us through every option and helped us bring the idea to life.

Unfortunately, we had a bit of a nightmare when our original invitation suites were stolen before we could even get to them (the joys of living downtown in a city!). But in the midst of what must have been an incredibly busy wedding season, Josie handled the situation with such grace and calm. She cleared out her schedule and re-did the entire suite for us, hand-tearing every piece all over again. Her dedication and understanding during that frantic time meant the world to us.

If you’re looking for a wedding stationery vendor who is not only immensely talented but also genuinely caring and committed to making your day as special as possible, Josie is your person. Thank you Josie!
Morgan
Morgan Sent on 09/02/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Choose Ivory Isle for Stunning Stationery

We did a lot of research to find the best stationery for our wedding. Initially, we were looking at save the dates and invitations, and I fell in love with the vellum wrap venue painting style that Josie has. I ordered a sample and that mixed with my first call with Josie sealed the deal.

Josie designed our gorgeous monogrammed save the dates, our stunning invitations (Many people commented that they felt like they had just received an invitation to the Royal Wedding and that our invitations were the most beautiful they had ever seen), and all of our day-of stationery. She was easy to communicate with via email and despite what was probably over a hundred emails back and forth over the course of a year and a half, she was always kind, and patient, and gave great insight into the meaning and reasons behind various elements or language choices.

I would 1000% recommend Josie to anyone who is looking for memorable, stunning, and detailed stationery! Additionally, her prices are great for the level of quality you're receiving. While our wedding stationery needs are over, we hope to utilize her services in the future for other milestones.
Michaela
Michaela Sent on 07/17/2023
5 out of 5 rating

What stationary dreams are made of!

If you're looking for any stationary needs, look no further - Josie is the BEST. We worked with Josie for our save the dates, invitation suite, and day-of stationary, and Josie went above and beyond on every single component!

We loved the watercolor of our wedding venue, which we used on both the save the dates and wedding invitation, and it was such a special added touch when Josie sent us the original 8x12 watercolor, which we now have hanging in our house! Josie also helped bring our day-of stationary vision to life - making our escort cards into the cutest luggage tags (each table was named after a place my husband and I had visited together and loved), creating a monogram that perfectly encompassed our wedding day colors and florals, and making beautiful menus with a thank you note from us to our guests on the back. Our friends and family were so in love with all of the stationary and friends and we couldn't be happier.

Josie is so wonderful to work with, cares so much about her craft and clients, and provides the best guidance to ensure your stationary is so wonderful and reflects your essence and vision. I highly recommend working with Josie - you'll be so happy you did!
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Jennifer Sent on 01/18/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful and affordable

If you are looking for personalized stationary (and possibly a picture of the stationary to keep as a wall-hanging) this is the perfect company. Beautiful watercolor stationary and they work with exactly your vision.
Darcy
Darcy Sent on 06/29/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Dream Vendor!

I could not be more thankful that I stumbled upon Josie/Ivory Isle on Instagram. If you have the chance to work with her - do it! I may be biased, but our invitation suite is genuinely the most beautiful suite I have ever seen! Her artwork is incredible and attention to detail is amazing. She was quick to get revisions back to us and offered advice and her opinion when I was unsure. We are so excited for our guests to get their invites and cannot wait to work with Josie for our day of stationery!
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Caitlin Sent on 02/22/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Absolutely fantastic!! SO grateful we worked with Ivory Isle!!!

Josie was AMAZING to work with! It really was a joy working with Josie at every step of the process - from our first meeting through all of the stressful unknowns that came with rescheduling our wedding in the beginning of the pandemic through the final lead-up to our wedding. She really was a saint and demonstrated impressive amounts of patience and professionalism in working with us over the course of two insane years!

We worked with Josie to design our invitations and include hand-sketched renderings of our wedding venue, and the results were absolute perfection. Our family continues to talk about our "magazine" wedding and Josie's ability to customize our paper goods and personalize them to our taste really contributed to that experience.

We highly recommend her, and we are so so thankful we decided to work with her!
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Laila Sent on 08/20/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Beauty brought to life

Working with Josie on our wedding invitations truly brought to life our dream wedding. We chose to have her paint a scene from our venue, which she so graciously helped us decide on. The piece is truly beautiful and captured the romance and beauty that exists both at the farm venue and now on paper. Josie was amazing to work with from start to finish. When what I had originally ordered arrived and didn't exactly look like what I had pictured she worked quickly and kindly to create exactly what I had envisioned. I truly could not imagine a more beautiful piece of artwork to get my wedding rolling. We will treasure the painting of the Stone Barn for years to come.
Melissa
Melissa Sent on 11/03/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Incredible

Josie was absolutely amazing to work with. From our save the date magnets up to our invitations. She is very responsive and really cares about your vision for your invites. We had so many compliments on our magnets and our invitations and even the envelope the invites came in. I would recommend IvoryIsle to anyone and everyone. It honestly was so stress free, and everything came VERY quick. We were even emailed a sneak peak of invitation suites the day they were mailed out 😊
Miranda
Miranda Sent on 10/28/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful Stationary

Jamie made getting all our stationary so easy a small they looked beautiful!
Nikki
Nikki Sent on 09/27/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing!

If you do not use Josie for all of your wedding stationary you will be missing out!!! We got complements from our guests starting with our Save the Dates!!! She the process so easy and painless. I would recommend her to ANYONE!!!!!
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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2020 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2019 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2015 Winner

Professional Network & Endorsements

1 Endorsement
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Ivory Isle Designs is the best in wedding stationery! Josie is a joy to work with and can easily create exactly what you are looking for.

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