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Sara E. Designs

East Peoria, IL

4.8 out of 5 rating, 38 reviews

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Sara's work is unbelievable. We were so happy with both the process and the final products. She created a custom gold foil letter press invitation suite for us, along with a tropical band and envelopes (even a stamp) to incorporate in our destination wedding. She also created welcome bag tags, programs, menus, signage, and thank you notes for us all coordinated with the invitation suite. I couldn't have imagined working with anyone else. Looking forward to working with her on many more projects.
Megan Sent on 12/08/2014

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I would highly recommend Sara E Designs! Sara is so personable, creative, responsive, and genuinely cares about her customers and her work. I ordered my "Save the Dates", Wedding Invites, Programs, Food Station signs, Restroom signs, Rehearsal Dinner invites, Monogrammed napkins, Thank you stationary, as well as my Christmas Cards this year. I also ordered a gift for my husband and she put the decal on the bar mirrors. I will forever use Sara. Sara is so easy to work with! Her work is fabulous!
Mary Sent on 09/13/2013

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Sara has done invitations for both my daughter and son's weddings. She also did the rehearsal dinner invitations for my son's wedding. I have had Sara design thank you notes for friends and the two brides. Sara is so creative! She has wonderful ideas even when you are stumped. Everything was done when promised or sooner. She worked long distance via email with my daughter-in-law. She was patient with changes. Sara is a delight to work with. Her shop is welcoming and will give you great ideas. You can not go wrong using Sara E. Designs for any of your printing needs. I miss seeing her!!! I am not going to plan another wedding though.

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Sara was great to work with. I was extremely pleased with my invitations and other products!
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Sara was always very professional. Despite we were in a hurry, she did an awesome job with our wedding invitations. The design was lovely! Everybody loved the invitations. Many people mentioned that they were gorgeous. Thanks Sara for contributing to the success of our wedding!
Patty Sent on 05/20/2013

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Sara was great to work with. I loved the little extra ideas that she suggested. She listened and everything we suggested she did for us with such inner caring. I would suggest her to everyone.
Annie Sent on 05/20/2013

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If I could give a 10 for flexibility I would! Sara was fantastic to work with, always making time to sit in person with me or discuss VIA emails when I couldn't make time for personal visits to her shop. I even had to drop in an extra order after the fact and they handled it extremely well with great response time! Everyone loved the unique touch to the invitations and ceremony programs! Thank you Sara and Team!
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Sara helped with all things paper for our wedding! She did our table numbers, signs for our popcorn bar, our seating chart, stickers, etc. And everything was perfect! I don't live in the area so all of our plans were made through email and she gave us exactly what we wanted! She was great about responding and very patient with all the pictures I was sending her. I would recommend Sara to anyone, she is great at what she does and so easy to work with!
Jayne Sent on 05/12/2013

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Sara made rehearsal dinner invites for our son's wedding. She suggested the design and they are beautiful. I would recommend Sara E. Designs for your event.
Toni Sent on 12/06/2012

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Sara E. Designs rocks!!!! The work is innovative, unique and absolutely beautiful!!!!!
Jenna Sent on 09/05/2012

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Sara E Designs was one of the top vendors I worked with for my wedding. Her work was creative, timely, and gorgeous. She listened to my vision and added her own touches, which was great. Sara did our invitations, table numbers, card box, and programs at the church. Everything matched and looked perfect. I couldn't have asked for a better vendor and I would recommend Sara E Designs to anyone. My best friend is using Sara for her programs after she had a bad experience with a different vendor :) Thanks so much for helping to make my day magical!
Jamie Sent on 08/27/2012

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Sara was absolutely amazing! She created exactly what I wanted and was prompt with reaponding as well as development. I highly recommend her for any printing needs!!!!
Nancy Sent on 08/23/2012

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Working with Sara was a dream come true!! Everything that I imagined she created! I couldn't wait to see what she would come up with. I have even used her since the wedding and will continue to do so!!! Nancy Ensor
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Still to this day I get compliments on my invitations designed by Sara. She also made beautiful double matte table numbers, menus and signage. She gave exactly what I asked for the first time and I am very picky!
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Patty Sent on 02/01/2012

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Beautiful work. Can't say enough about her interpreting our style and mood for the invitations. Sara was jut wonderful!
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Great choices for invites. Very class style. Sara is the sweetest vendor you'll deal with! She was a life-saver!
Karlie Sent on 12/12/2011

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We received a number of complements on the invitations. They were exactly what we wanted and they were beautiful.
Kate Sent on 12/11/2011

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Sara was absolutely wonderful to work with! I had a very specific theme for what I wanted my wedding invitations to look like, but also knew I didn't want the theme to go too overboard and loose the elegance I had in mind. Sara did a great job coming up with several designs for me to choose from and was very responsive in the process. The invitations turned out beautifullly and she was able to flawlessly carry out the same design to the seating chart and table numbers as well. The result was just what I wanted!
Laura Sent on 12/08/2011

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Sara was one of the best vendors I worked with for our wedding. She designed, printed, and delivered our seating board chart for our reception and the quality was oustanding! She was very prompt in responding to my emails/phone calls - I never once had to "follow up" with her for a response. Her fees were also very reasonable. I highly recommend her!!
Tamara Sent on 12/07/2011

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Everything went like clockwork putting the final touches on the "paper" item for the reception and the seating chart. We loved the colors, design and flexibility of services. I was happy with the price. She worked well with our other vendors Countryside Banquet Facility and Create-A-Scene which saved us several phone calls last minute!
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Sara was a dream to work with! In our first meeting she listened to me list off all my crazy thoughts. About a week later I changed my mind on all of it and sent her a picture I found of invitations that cost WAY more than I was willing to spend. Sara to the inspiration and ran with it! My invitations were beautiful and affordable! I love absolutely everything Sara does and I love even more than she will listen to my ideas :)
Kellie Sent on 07/07/2011

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Sara was GREAT to work with! I ordered invitations and ceremony programs from her. She responded to questions right away and was willing to work with me to create exactly what I wanted. Her prices are reasonable and quality is excellent. I would recommend Sara E. Designs for all your wedding paper needs!
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Love Sara!! She is awesome our invites are amazing looking and got lots of great compliments on them! Table Numbers and Seating Chart was amazing too! I couldn't asked for anything better & it was great to work with Sara!!
Vickie Sent on 02/03/2011

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I used Sara's services for my son's wedding. Sara is fun to work with and really listens to you. She provides you with a variety of samples to choose from all within your price point. There is no pressure and I did everything by email which made it convenient for me. I got lots of compliments about the uniqueness of my invitations and how well they coordinated with the wedding. I would highly recommend Sara E Designs.
Stacey Sent on 02/01/2011

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Wonderful to work with. Stress free process. Loved her creative suggestions.
Anna Sent on 01/30/2011

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Sara's designs are incredible. I asked to make baby shower invitations for me & within a day of discussing designs she had emailed me beautiful samples. The finished product was done within 1 week. I love her creativity!
Kirsten Sent on 01/30/2011

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Our invitations were innovative and fun. Sara really understood what we were looking for and was great about providing several options to choose from that were all customized to our ideas. Sara E. has unique flair and a keen awareness about what personalized style means. Thank you for helping us make our day even more special.
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Sara was so easy to work with! I gave her a rough idea of my vision and she gave me stunning and unique invitations and programs that my friends and family are still talking about. It is more than worth hiring her for the personalized attention and wow factor.
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Let me first start with all of the things that Sara E. Designs did for us: wedding invitations, rehearsal dinner invitations, brunch invitations, place cards, thank you notes for out of town bags, the out of town bags, menu cards, programs and all of our printing.
The only thing I asked Sara to do were my wedding invitations and they were so gorgeous, I kept adding and adding and adding to our order. I explained to her what I wanted and she made my vision come true. I am in Chicago and she is in Central Illinois so our communication was almost always over email. Once I ordered something, she would promptly work on it and send me a mock up for my review. If there were any changes for the mock up, that was also promptly done. I had many, many questions throughout my wedding planning process and Sara was great with answers and suggestions/recommendations. She create a logo for a lot of our stationary, and added so much beauty to the plain jane program that I brought to her which made them amazing. Sara was very professional and her communication was great which eases a bride’s peace of mind any day. She shipped everything to me overnight mail (again, I am 3 hours away) and I always had a confirmation number to track my items. My place cards were a last minute thing (read: ordered Monday or Tuesday before the Saturday wedding!!) and I had them in hand in plenty of time.

I can’t wait to work with her again in the future for other invitations and announcements. Thank you Sara E. Designs for helping me with my special day!
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Sara was very professional and provide beautiful save the dates and unique invitations and fan programs. Thanks Sara
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Sara was very helpful.

After we had sent out "save-the-dates" cards, we had a change of plans.
Sara listened well to us, and designed excellent "change of plans" cards.
We were extremely happy with the cards and with Sara's work. (And her price seemed quite reasonable.)
We would definitely use her again and we highly recommend her.
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Sara was so professional and helpful throughout the entire planning process! Her designs are so creative and unique! I would recommend her (and have) to anyone planning a wedding or other special event.
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Invitations were perfect and Sara was more than willing to make sure they turned out just the way I wanted them.
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Sara listened to my idea of design and worked to create several examples of ideas to look at that fell within my budget. She did a great job of customizing the design down even further to match our theme and look. I received numerous compliments on our invites!
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Sara E Designs was wonderful and very accommodating to my needs. I was on a time constraint and Sara did everything to ensure we received the invitations as quickly as possible. Thank you!
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Sara took my abstract idea and created invitations that were better than I could have imagined. We had a Frank Lloyd Wright theme and that was made apparent through all our stationary but in a classy and wedding like way. I would recommend Sara. However, be sure to start working with her early to ensure everything is done on time.
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Sara E. was very nice and the invitations were beautiful. It was very stressful. With the wrong size envelopes being ordered and the wrong color, the directions not being printed on the back of the card, and the invitations came in about 5 days late. If you want to use this vendor give yourself enough time. The price is great so if you are on a budget the is the way to go, just make sure you print them 3 weeks before you need them!
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BRIDES BEWARE! Don't get me wrong Sara's designs are great and so beautiful. But her professionalism is lacking. Sara sent an inner envelope with our wedding invitations which she 1- charged us for and 2- we never proofed and had even agreed to NOT do. I have a signed contract where it specifically states we did not want an inner envelope. To make it all worse, the envelopes went out with incorrect names and misspellings on it. Some if them even said 'wife' for couples that we had yet to verify the wife's name. This was the only disaster in our wedding of 220 people. Sara printed extras for us so I could include one in our scrapbook and these didn't include an inner envelope. I didn't find out about the inner envelope until we got a call from a family member asking why the invitation was addresses to "the Joe Smith family" but the inner envelope had only one name on it. It may not sound like a big issue until you realize we had a contract signed that said we were not interested and that this resulted in multiple phone calls to guests clarifying who he invitations were intended for. No bride deserves to go through this just weeks before her wedding. We thought it was great to support local and work with a great artist but I would not recommend her to anyone else. There are other small, local business who can take better care of heir brides.

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