Interracial non-binary couple kissing in front of a welcome sign and colourful streamers.
 
 

Colourful, fun and offbeat wedding stationery for your big day and beyond.

 
 
 

Hey, I’m Carly (she/her).

I work with you to create bespoke and customisable wedding stationery that is proud to be edgy, untraditional and a little unexpected. It’s my job - and my passion - to craft you the perfect wedding stationery, and ensure that it really represents who you both are and the day you want to have.

My work is proudly rebellious and my designs are usually colourful, gothic, illustrative and graphic, with a strong typographic leaning.

I don’t have any expectations about your relationship, sexuality, race, gender. All I know is that if you’ve ended up here, you can’t find your fit in mainstream wedding styles. No calligraphy, watercolours or traditional, seen-it-before vibes around here.

With Bells On! is an indie design studio, creating paper goods and wedding websites for couples with alternative tastes.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Let me guess. You’ve been searching for wedding invites and it all just feels a bit… wedding-y?!

 
 

That’s how I felt when I was getting married and I was searching for wedding invites and stationery for our wedding day. Everything looked the same, and none of it was right for us as a couple.

My partner and I love watching live music at festivals, going on city breaks and exploring the world’s best dive bars, or grabbing a craft beer and unskilfully playing crazy golf. Suddenly we were in a world of lace and frills and watercolour flowers that just didn’t fit us. Does this sound familiar?

Getting married doesn’t equal ticking off all the old traditions. The day is about you two, how you two do things and a big celebration of your love for one another. Sack off all the stuffy stuff if it doesn’t feel good.

So, without further delay, let’s get your party started!

 
 
 
Paper table names made to look like orange and pink records for different rock bands, with the title 'Bespoke Stationery'.

Wedding stationery that’s completely unique to you. We’ll start with a mood board, and I’ll guide you through to ideas, designs, printing and crafting. You can have any colours, fonts, shapes, logos, motifs and patterns you want.

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A wavy-edge menu and heart-shaped place card lay on a gold rimmed plate, surrounded by crockery, glassware and candles.

Welcome signs, table plans, place names, cocktail and dinner menus - the lot! You can go bespoke or customise a house collection to suit your day!

Let's get started!
 
 
 
Illustrated cake save the date and invite and detail cards in pink and red, with the title 'Customise a design'.

I have a whole collection of bold, offbeat designs that you can make your own. Choose the colours, text and patterns on any of them. Super simple and quick!

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A hold holds a smart phone with a blue and yellow wedding website on the screen, alongside the title 'Wedding websites".

Host all of your celebration plans in one place, and get your guests to RSVP digitally. It can work across mobile, tablet and desktop seamlessly and look just as good as your designs on paper.

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Just got engaged?

It’s funny - when you decide to get married, you’re suddenly expected to know your ‘wedding breakfast’ from your ‘order of service’. Erm, what the hell are they?!

Did you two instantly become pros with a clipboard-budget-spreadsheet and full Britney headset the second you agreed to marry each other? I certainly didn’t! I had never heard about ‘declaring my intent to marry’ at a registry office, or about humanist celebrants or what ‘dry hire’ or ‘carriages at midnight’ meant. I definitely didn’t know how much to spend on each part of our wedding day celebrations, and frankly I barely understood what I needed to plan.

Well, you don’t have to worry - consider me your sidekick. I’ve planned and hosted my own wedding, and now through With Bells On! I’ve helped plenty of couples go from that newly-engaged confusion to sending out their cool, calm and collected post-wedding thank yous. I’ve got a heap of advice, tips, tools and tricks and I’m here to help! Check out some of the questions I frequently get asked below, and if you have your own then please get in touch and I’d love to answer it!

I’ve been a graphic designer for nearly 15 years, working across branding, publishing, app design and now very happily helping couples with their wedding stationery. I use all of my passion and experience to make invitations, signage, websites and paper goods that get you super excited about your wedding day celebrations - and I absolutely love it.

Let’s dive in! You can schedule a discovery call with me, completely free of charge, and we can chat about your wedding plans, style, hopes and dreams for the day. Let’s see if we’re a perfect match!

 
 

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Let’s work together?

If you’re a fellow supplier and want to work together, check out my thoughts on styled shoots and my inclusivity policy.

Collaborate with Carly

Get the lowdown on the process of working together, what my prices cover and why I might be your perfect match.

Get to know me better!

Some lovely words from some lovely, loved-up people! Find out what these couples had to say about working with me.

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Let’s take a moment for this stationery set that is giving pure pink festival wedding vibes! It’s the house collection called Your Electric Feel, which is customisable to your own celebration plans. You can take the design as a base and c
Pattern and colour are my favourite tools when it comes to designing your wedding stationery. When I describe my job to people, I always talk about bold colours and patterns, unique shapes and front-and-centre typography. These are the things that ma
HAPPY NEW YEAR, GANG! And welcome if you’re new around here. I’m excited to launch into a year of new weddings, fresh designs and meeting more lush couples. Let’s make you some dream wedding stationery, shall we?! If you are findin
Happy anniversary to this wonderful couple, who had a beautiful Christmassy wedding this time last year. Lara and Gus were a dream to work with; being so warm, excited and trusting the vision @wholelottalove_weddings created. Loved designing this wed
THANK YOU CARDS ✌️ So you’ve done all the planning and finally had the big celebrations 🎉 A great way to round up all the good vibes is to send a thank you card to your guests, and even better if it matches your invites. Here’s an exam
Well I’m a day behind BUT the #weddingadventchallenge2023 prompt for the first of December was COLOUR and, well, that’s sorta one of my main loves. Can you tell?! This is one of my house collection designs - a riff on Time After Time, wh
This week I received images that the amazing @em.jphotos has taken of my whole house collection and I am IN LOVE. She not only shot everything beautifully but she also set up and styled all the flat lays of my stationery. She’s one talented ind
I love the text you guys choose for different things. There’s such a lot of personality and fun in what you say on your signage, invites and menus! ___ Image is of a square menu pack in purple, orange and pink laying on a bar with cocktails an
Mike and Rosie designed their own save the dates, so I came in later in the stationery process. For their invites, I took the colours and vibe they’d already established and helped elevate it. It feels consistent with that they sent out to gues
Proudly offbeat, for all you rebels in love 💕 I liked these images of stationery on stationery. Sometimes I make printed goods for myself, too! ___ Images and video are rectangular flyers which are printed on thick, textured paper. They feature an
 

Image credits -
Green streamer couple by Stephanie Dreams • Wavy menu with velvet ribbon by Sophie Traynor
Pink and orange brides by Lex Fleming • Images of me and pink wavy stationery by Em J Photography
Cake stationery shot by Isobel Buxton