About

Overview & Vibe

Lilykiss is a Melbourne wedding stationery studio that works online — you browse the range, order through the shop, and everything after that happens by email or over the phone. It describes itself as a studio for design savvy couples, and the range is led by its materials: as well as printed card, it makes invitations on wood, on acrylic and on transparent vellum. The range is built for weddings, and the studio says it will adapt a design’s wording and layout for an engagement party, a baby shower or a birthday if you ask.

Style & Printing

The designs run classic and romantic through to modern and minimal, with a vintage and a whimsical group, watercolour florals and greenery, monograms and arch shapes. Printing is digital, with metallic foiling, white ink on kraft and on coloured stock, laser cutting with an insert, and wax seals. Colour is the thing they are most flexible about: any design can be colour-matched to your palette at no extra cost.

Ideal For

Couples who would rather choose from a finished range than commission from scratch, and who want to know the price before they enquire — every invitation design shows a full quantity ladder, so you can see what 30, 50 or 100 will cost before you contact anyone. It suits couples anywhere: shipping is a flat rate Australia-wide however remote, and it ships overseas too. A $5 sample with generic wording lets you handle the card first.

The Need-to-Knows

The minimum order is 30 invitations, though smaller runs can sometimes be arranged by email depending on the technique — and for timber or foil a short run can cost the same as 30 anyway. Your layout comes back by email to approve; two to three rounds of changes are included, and further rounds are $20 each. After you sign off and pay, allow about nine to seventeen working days, and around three weeks for acrylic, envelope liners or place cards. Cancelling before you approve the proof costs $150, and once the proof is approved there are no cancellations or refunds, because the order is already at print.

Standout Feature

Pricing here is unusually open for the trade: instead of a single starting figure, every invitation design lists what each quantity costs, step by step from 30 upwards, so you can see the whole curve before you commit. It is worth reading the steps rather than just the first one, because the rate per card falls steeply with volume. The studio also recommends ordering at least five spare blanks, since reprinting a handful later is disproportionately expensive.

Appointment Policy

Everything runs online and by email - you order through the shop, or ask for an invoice instead if you would rather not use the cart, and the studio makes contact within 24 hours of an order to get your wording.
A $5 sample is the recommended first step and comes with the matching envelope, tie and tag and an address label, printed with generic wording rather than your own. There is a phone number for questions, and custom work starts with an email.

Areas Serviced

An Australian online business shipping to all areas of Australia, however remote, at one flat rate.
It ships overseas as well, with published rates to the US, New Zealand and the UK, and will quote for anywhere else.

Delivery & Setup

Shipping is a $15 flat rate anywhere in Australia, however remote, and samples are posted free.
Orders go by Australia Post as registered post with a tracking number, and you are emailed when they are posted. Overseas: $30 to the US, $25 to New Zealand, $30 to the UK, and a quote for anywhere else at the current exchange rate.

Design Fee

From $150

Minimum Order

30 on the invitations, and it is the same 30 across every invitation design that publishes a price ladder
Smaller runs can sometimes be arranged by email, though it depends on the technique and the studio warns that short runs are expensive - for timber or foil a smaller order can cost the same as 30 anyway. It also suggests ordering at least five spare blanks, because reprinting a few later is disproportionately costly.

Nearby Landmarks

Melbourne city centre - the studio gives its postal address in Abbotsford, just east of the city.
Yarra Valley - the wine-country wedding region about an hour north-east of Melbourne.
Mornington Peninsula - the coastal wedding region about an hour south.
Dandenong Ranges - the fern-gully and garden venues east of the city.
Geelong and the Bellarine - the coastal region south-west along the bay.

Per-Piece Pricing

From $3.30 per invitation at the minimum of 30, falling to about $1.80 each at 100

Price Notes

Colour is free. Any design can be colour-matched to your palette at no extra cost, and the studio says it will change a design to any colour for no extra fee.
Placing your wording costs nothing, and adding a bus option or dietary requirements to an RSVP card is free. Printing wishing well or gift registry wording on the back of a card varies by design: many flat card and wood designs say they will do it at no charge, the cheaper flat card range prices it at $60, and the studio's own FAQ says it does not fit on laser cut inserts and suggests emailing for a quote. Check the design you want.
A wholly new bespoke design is usually $150, and the studio may waive it if the design is one it can add to its own range. Cancelling before you approve the proof costs $150; after approval there are no cancellations or refunds.
Prices can change - the studio reserves the right to adjust them if its printers or materials go up.

Printing Methods

digital, foil, white ink, laser cut, vellum and wax seal

Proofs & Revisions

Once your wording and any guest names are in, the layout comes back to you by email to approve - within 24 hours on one part of the shop and within two to four working days on another. Nothing goes to print until you approve it.
Two to three rounds of changes are included, and further rounds are $20 each. Once the final proof is signed off no further changes can be made, and an error you approved means paying for a reprint - though the studio reprints its own mistakes free. A fee also applies if you want to see an extra colour variation as a proof, or change to a different design after a proof has been made.

Services Offered

Designs from a published range, free colour matching to your palette, wholly bespoke hand drawn and laser cut design on quote, wording layout and typesetting, guest name printing on most ranges - though not on the metallic foil invitations, where the print plates do not allow it - printed address labels, matching stationery across the range, a $5 printed sample service, and flat rate shipping Australia-wide with overseas delivery on request

Starting Price

From $99

Stationery Packages

Each invitation design is priced as a complete quantity package rather than as a named suite - you pick the design, the colour and the quantity, and the price for each step is shown. The invitation prices include the matching envelope.
Matching items - RSVP cards, place cards, menus, seating plans, wishing wells - are sold alongside, and the studio says every design can be made as a matching set even where the extras are not yet listed on the shop. For a large order it will put together a package deal on request.

Stationery Range

Wedding invitations as flat cards, opening cards and laser cut designs with an insert, printed on card, wood, acrylic or transparent vellum, plus details cards, envelope liners, menus, place cards, RSVP cards, save the dates, seating plans, wishing wells, wax seals and welcome signs

Stationery Styles

classic, modern minimal, romantic, whimsical, luxe, vintage and hand drawn

Turnaround Time

Allow about nine to seventeen working days after you sign off the proof and pay, before the order is posted. Delivery time is on top of that.
Some lines run longer: envelope liners and acrylic take about three weeks, and place cards are quoted at three weeks. The timings exclude public holidays and the Christmas period, when the printers close.

By appointment

Contact

Website: lilykiss.com.au
Based in: Melbourne, Victoria

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