Hand-Painted and Hand-Crafted Watercolor Wedding Invitations
Creating beautiful, one-of-a-kind save the dates, invitation suites, and wedding day stationery since 2012 in the forested foothills of the beautiful Rocky Mountains, created for weddings across the world
What We’re Known For
Tying the Knots creates watercolor wedding invitations, save the dates, and wedding day paper that capture our couple’s wedding aesthetic & vision through hand-painted illustration, typeface, color, and tone.
Our invitations offer a visual rendering of beautiful ceremony landscapes, iconic wedding venues, and meaningful illustrated details to be cherished for generations.
We Offer Two Types of Design for Our Couples
Custom Design, created for you, from scratch
Semi-Custom Design, existing template designs, personalized for you
Frequently Asked Questions
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We offer a wide range of custom and semi-custom wedding design options paired with professional printing to create a seamless experience for our couples. Our projects include save the dates, wedding invitations, and wedding day stationery as well as reception accessories such as matchbooks, cocktail napkins, and beverage cups, all complete with consistent branding created by our in-house artist painted by hand. We also offer letterpress and die-cut specialty shaped printing.
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Using our Semi-Custom templated designs, we can change the text, the layout of the text, the fonts, and the color of the fonts.
Illustrated itineraries, wedding crests, and wedding maps can be personalized using our vast collection of existing watercolor design catalogues.
For an additional fee, we may be able to change the color scheme, floral scheme, or season.
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Getting started is simple. Choose whether you’d like a semi-custom suite (pick a design and we personalize with your wedding details) or a full custom commission (completely original, hand-painted art), or a combination of both. Contact us by filling out our contact form and we will get back to you with answers to your questions and a complimentary estimate.
Timeline depends on the option:
Semi-custom: 3–5 weeks from order to finished prints. This includes personalization, digital proof approval, and printing.
Full custom: 3-5 months from initial consultation to final prints. This covers concept sketches, hand-painted artwork, revisions, proofs, and printing.
Rush options are available for an additional fee if you need a faster turnaround. Final production time can vary with quantity, specialty printing (letterpress, foil), and custom wording rounds; we’ll provide a personalized timeline when you inquire.
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Our couples work one-on-one with our artist, creating a meaningful partnership that will last throughout the entire design and printing process.
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Wedding stationery projects vary widely with our couples depending on the scope of their project as well as guest count, embellishments, and upgrades.
Semi-Custom ready to personalize template designs + printing range from $750-$5,000
Custom artwork created for your wedding + printing range from $2,000-$20,000
“Working with Meagan and Tying the Knots was one of the better parts of wedding planning! Meagan was attentive to every little detail and overall such a joy to work with. My fiancé and I were blown away by how stunning our invitations and day of paper turned out, and we received so many compliments from our guests. If you’re thinking about investing in beautiful wedding paper, please go with Tying the Knots. My fiancé and I can’t recommend Meagan enough! Thank you so much again for bringing our vision to life in all of our wedding paper!”