Invitations & Company

Arlene is absolutely fantastic. My fiancé and I loved working with her to choose and design our wedding invitations. She has a beautiful workspace and made us feel so welcome and excited about the process.
We came to her with a lot of vague ideas about what we wanted, and she was quickly able to help us pare down our choices at our initial meeting. Together we designed a simple but elegant invitation suite. She was very efficient with the proofing process and ensured that our edits and concerns were addressed.
We could not be happier with the final result, which was a Vera Wang invitation suite. I would also highly recommend using the computerized calligraphy service she suggested. It saved us a ton of time and looked incredible.
Arlene is exceptionally knowledgeable and a truly kind person. When I picked up the invitations she went out of her way to include my mother, who was visiting from out of town, making it a truly special experience. She is an absolute professional and we couldn’t be happier that we found her!

I cannot say enough wonderful things about Arlene and Invitations & Company. I picked up my invitations a few weeks ago and could not be happier with how they turned out — they are absolutely stunning!
Arlene made the entire process easy and enjoyable — from our initial 2 hour meeting where she answered every question and walked us through the painstaking process of choosing papers, fonts, and ink colors to every one of the numerous emails I sent her throughout the process. Arlene is extremely responsive — your email or phone call won’t go unanswered for more than a few hours and she is always very easy to reach.
It can be scary to custom design an invitation and not know what the final product will look like until you pick your order up but my invitations honestly look BETTER than I had imagined they would. Of course, the invitations are pricier than your run-​of-​the-​mill invite but that is to be expected for a custom invitation and the quality you get makes it well worth the price.
I would highly recommend Arlene and Invitations & Company to any bride that is having trouble finding the invitations she has been envisioning. This was one of the tasks of wedding planning that I found the most challenging to find something that fit what I was looking for and Invitations & Company was definitely a solution to that problem. I can’t wait to send my invites out this week!

Arlene is amazing! She is so detail oriented and really listens to what you want. If you let her know what your budget is, she will make recommendations to help you fit within that budget. She knows everything there is to know about etiquette with weddings (and there are a lot of things that I didn’t even know about) so you will not have to worry about offending anyone unintentionally.
The absolute only downside is that parking can be a pain in and around Charles River Park but Arlene was so helpful leaving things with the doorman for me to pick up and this was never really an issue.
Our save the dates, wedding invitations, and programs were gorgeous and so personal. Arlene is truly the best and I have been recommending her to everyone!

I heard about Arlene through my calligrapher who recommended her after I mentioned that I was thinking of ordering my wedding invitations online. SO GLAD I went to Arlene.
Before our meeting with her we had emailed her with our wedding colors, general style, and budget. When we arrived she had picked out tons of options that she thought would work well for us. There are certainly a lot of options for wedding invitations so it can be a little overwhelming. Arlene was great at helping us narrow down what we were really looking for. I found the most useful part of her services to be her assistance with the wording for the invitations. I really had no idea what I was doing when it came to the wording. Arlene told us all the options and what the norm is and helped us put together a beautiful wedding invitation.

This is somewhat of a word-​of-​mouth place run out of a Charles River Park apartment turned business where you can get personalized help in creating and ordering invitations and personal stationery. I happen to think it’s «the» place to go for wedding invitations in particular. That’s because someone very kindly told me about Invitations and Company when I was planning my wedding.
Arlene Cronk, the owner, is a former social worker who left the field when she decided to pursue her more artistic talents instead. She started this business in an untraditional non-​store-​front setting and has continued to gain a legion of fans.
Although she left her original field, her social work skills are very much still put to use however as evidenced by the skillful way she deals with stressed out brides and grooms and helps to soothe frazzled wedding-​planning nerves. Simply put, she makes the designing and selection of wedding invitations as stress-​free as possible.
I’ve referred a lot of people since my own wedding and so I continue to have opportunities to either see the invitations others have had done or I’ve directly heard back from them about how pleased they’ve been by the referral to Invitations and Company.
I still think my wedding invitations are gorgeous, if I do say so myself. I appreciated that Arlene helped me take a chance on an idea I had that was a bit unconventional.
I continue to use the antique Florentine design from my wedding invitations for my personal stationery. And yes, Arlene will help you with personal stationery too for those of you who believe as I do that sometimes there is nothing better than a hand-​written letter or note.
Arlene’s artistic eye, her years in this business, her respect for your budget and her great personality all help to make this a great place to go for any kind of invitation, notecard, stationery or announcement card you might need.
You call and make an appointment for a time slot that is all yours. You don’t feel rushed and there aren’t other customers milling about.
The attention you get will be well-​thought out and personalized based on the kind of event you are planning.
Arlene also has access to all kinds of other wedding and party planning associates so if you just have a conversation about what you need, chances are she will have ideas about a host of other things besides invitations.