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Rust Belt Love is a wedding invitation service and event design studio based out of Buffalo, New York. Rust Belt Love is owned and operated by invitation power couple Alyson and Nick. Allyson and Nick are obsessed with creating beautiful and personalized paper products. Each of their pieces is an original work of handcrafted art and can be customized to fit the style and taste of the happy couple. With Alyson’s skill in pen and ink illustration, and Nick’s meticulous eye for detail, you can craft the perfect wedding invitation using Rust Belt Love.

Services Offered

Rust Belt Love offers a range of products for couples to choose from, including coordinating programs, place cards, menus, favor tags, and of course, custom invitations. Some of the services that they offer include:

  • Assembly
  • Letterpress
  • Design
  • Printing
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Frequently asked questions

What invitation and card products do you offer?

Custom Invitations

What services do you provide?

Assembly
Design
Letterpress
Printing

Reviews of Rust Belt Love

Elizabeth
Elizabeth Sent on 06/20/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Such a wonderful experience!

Working with Rust Belt Love was amazing! Alyson and Nick are warm, professional, organized, and flexible. Through paper shortages, guest changes, and all the stress of wedding uncertainty, they made everything as easy and smooth as possible. Shouts to Alyson for managing my 500 emails about every minor detail. Everything came out beautifully, and we would highly recommend working with them!
Allie
Allie Sent on 02/27/2020
5 out of 5 rating

Fantastic Creative Wedding Paperie

We had the most wonderful experience working with Alyson and Nick for my daughter's wedding. Alyson is professional, kind, and very patient. Her work is creative and beautiful. She offered many positive suggestions to go along with our ideas and will implement your designs to perfection! Everything is so well done, from the invitations to programs to seating charts or cards to welcome signs, etc. We needed something at the very last minute and they were able to accommodate us before they went on vacation. It is not very often that you come across vendors that have a fabulous personalized product and are equally as fabulous to work with!
I highly recommend them for any occasion. They will not disappoint you!
Jami
Jami Sent on 09/18/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Perfect Preview to our big day

I loved working with Aly & Nick for our save the dates and wedding invitations! Aly totally got my vision and was a saint dealing with my momager. Our save the dates and invites were the perfect first look into our beautiful wedding day.
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Karen Sent on 06/03/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Great to work with

Alyson was a dream to work with. Her designs are beautiful, she’s has creative ideas, her online approval and payment system was the best of any vendor I worked with for my daughter’s wedding. She offers a wide variety of services, for us she did save the date cards, invitations, seating chart and table menus. Highly recommend, plus she’s just really nice.
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Jamie Sent on 04/27/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Breathtaking Invitations!

As soon as our guests received our invitations in the mail, we received so much praise on the quality and design of the wedding invitations that Alyson designed just for us. I cannot count how many times we were told that the invites were beautiful.

Alyson is an absolute delight to work with. She is in constant contact with you (either via e-mail or in person) to discuss every detail of the invites. She works hand-in-hand with you on every design, font style, font colors, envelope colors, and any other detail that you want to incorporate. We had an idea of how we wanted our invitations to look, but Alyson truly blew us away with the final outcome. Invitations truly set the tone for wedding, and Rust Belt Love helped to set the tone of our beautiful wedding.
Megan
Megan Sent on 12/13/2018
5 out of 5 rating

Love rust belt love

First Impressions start with the stationary you choose for your wedding, it's a VERY significant set of details which will enlighten your guests into the style and details you're creating for your wedding. We found Aly via Instagram and were immediately intrigued by her work. We traveled home for the Holiday's shortly after being engaged and were absolutely enchanted upon arrival. Meeting Aly was a dream come true- She was just as excited to meet us as we were to finally meet her. She really listened to our vision and helped guide us in creating an absolutely custom portfolio that WOW'ed everyone. The design was perfectly curated and had us equally excited to receive our RSVP cards (Buffalo shaped OF COURSE) back in the mail after invitations were mailed. We both felt Aly's passion for paper and genuinely warm personality through the whole process. I have since recommended her to everyone and anyone getting married and will continue to do so. We can't wait to have another life event which we will be able to use her services again.

THANK YOU A MILLION AND MORE ALY- XO M+N
Robync
Robyn Sent on 12/12/2018
5 out of 5 rating

So happy we hired them as our day of coordinators!!

Alyson and Nick were amazing day of coordinators! We are incredibly thankful we decided to book them. We had to go with our rain plan last minute and they went above and beyond to make sure everything ran smoothly. I don’t want to think about how stressful it would have been without them. Alyson communicated with us frequently in the weeks before the wedding to make sure everything was on track with our plans and all of the various vendors. She is also an incredibly talented artist and her stationary is beautiful! Even though we wished we could have her design our invitations, there wasn’t room in our budget and she didn’t pressure us at all. She was extremely professional all the way through. We had a great experience overall and can’t recommend RBL highly enough!
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Kayla Sent on 06/13/2017
5 out of 5 rating
Alyson and Nick do AMAZING work and are so fun to work with. We got our invitations (x2), place cards, menus, programs and welcome sign from them and couldn't be happier. We got so many compliments on the invitations, which to me is something that people don't normally remember - but they remembered these! And Alyson was there to help us send out venue change cards when our second venue fell through - she was on it immediately! Communication with Alyson was super easy and reliable, which is a breath of fresh air when working with so many vendors. I would 150% recommend Rust Belt Love to anyone looking to get invitations, stationary, signs, or any other related products for a wedding or event. Thank you Alyson and Nick for helping to make our day perfect!
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Sarah Sent on 02/15/2017
5 out of 5 rating
After our first meeting with Alyson, my husband and I both said she was the type of person we wanted to be friends with. She brings so much of her passion into her work, and she's so easy to talk to. For our wedding from Rust Belt Love, we got place cards, welcome cards for hotel guests, a large welcome sign for our reception, smaller signs for guests book table etc, and wine labels for our favors. And they were all STUNNING. My expectations were blown away. Alyson was super respectful of our budget, even suggesting things that would save us money. I loved knowing our details were one of a kind. We highly recommend!!
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Leslie Sent on 10/24/2016
5 out of 5 rating
Alyson & Nick created beyond gorgeous & elegant wedding invitations, customized table "numbers", place cards, and seating chart for us, we were beyond amazed with their talents. Our reception was at the Butler Mansion, Alyson sketched the stunning mansion and it was incorporated in all of our stationery! Rust Belt Love is beyond amazing, do yourself a favor and work with this awesome couple!!!
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