Subtle Glances

Subtle Glances printed my wedding invitations and they are worth every penny. Julie and Mario worked with me to customize our wedding invitations. They are detail oriented and very easy to work with.
Letterpress is the way to go for wedding invitations. You only get married once. All of my guests raved about how great our invites looked and how they reflected our personality (or mine).
Subtle Glances offer unique ideas for your custom stationary needs. Julie and Mario are full of ideas of different things for your event that will set your apart from the boring things you can get on Wedding Paper Divas.

Great work!
I was referred to Mario and Julie at Subtle Glances by two different friends. They worked on all of the stationary elements for our wedding: invitations, escort cards, menus, programs, gift tags, and thank you cards. We used digital printing. The paper quality was excellent and better than samples I got from websites such as Weddingpaperdiva etc. Their prices are competitive and reasonable.
What makes them 5 stars worthy is the experience — patient, detailed and responsive. Overall, the experience working with Mario and Julie was easy and fun. I tried to keep things easy, but they were still so accommodating to my suggestions. It’s probably not ideal to go through 20 iterations — but we didn’t have to since they came up with close to final products from the get go. They saved me and my fiancée a lot of trouble and grief. Great work!
There was a small hiccup on the paper color for some of the final items. They apologized and quickly fixed the issue and made sure that I was happy. Great service.
I think the Subtle Glances duo is taking a short break to focus on their own wedding. What fun! Hope they come back soon. We’ll want them to do our future stationary items and cards!

Subtle Glances is amazing. They did the most incredible job on our wedding invitations and we couldn’t be more thrilled with how they turned out.
When we initially went to look for wedding invitations there was always something we wanted to change on the invitations that we found in stores and luckily, we found Subtle Glances who solved this problem. They worked with us from scratch to design the save-​the-​date and wedding invitation exactly to our specifications. I am a perfectionist and was constantly changing my mind and asking for different proofs until we got exactly what we wanted. They were extremely patient and always gave us what we wanted. We have had an overwhelming response from guests about how much they love our invitations. It was a long process (because of me) but well worth it!
Thank you Julie and Mario!

Elegant Perfection!
My husband and I couldn’t be happier with the wedding invitations Julie and Mario designed for us. With very little inspiration provided from our end, Julie presented us with several gorgeous options. We married elements from two of our top designs choices that Julie created to make the final copy. We almost settled on spending more money are far less quality, but luckily we stumbled upon Subtle Glances via Unilocal.It was a pleasure doing business with them.

I am absolutely happy with my invitations… they are not only unique but they are also very elegant! I am looking forward to sending them and shock and awe my guests :-)
Mario and Julie were very helpful and offered creative ideas! Very much worth the money!

Julie and Mario are great! After meeting with them I am so much more confident that I can get the design I’m after. The samples of the work I saw were beautiful… definitely pushed me over the edge to letterpress. I actually considered DIY invitations for a while there but I really want to incorporate a San Francisco theme into my invitation suite and I just wasn’t finding anything that didn’t have «cheesy» written all over it.
Julie and Mario’s designs are very elegant and unique. Best of all, they’re willing to work with you and design your suite around your budget. Want the luxury of letterpress for your invitations but want to save a few bucks by doing your direction cards or thank you cards digital? No problem. Their a la cart selection process is awesome! You can pick and choose where you splurge. Their letterpress pricing is so reasonable, though, you might not need to pick and choose ;) I can’t wait to start the design process with them. They’re young, fun, and savvy. I would definitely recommend them to any picky bride.

I have been planning my daughters quince since the moment she was born, literally… first mother daughter bond and straight planning for the quince. The only thing I wasn’t prepared for where the invitations. I knew I didn’t want cheesy invites, I wanted something OG and Subtle Glances designed the prefect invite. When they produced a draft I was immediately in love. I could have gone off the draft. They were totally open and perfected my opinions. I couldn’t of been luckier. My daughters quince invite was definetly OG and now I know where to go in the future. You can’t go wrong with Subtle Glances.

Subtle Glances designed our beautiful wedding invitations and all I can say is yummmmmm letterpress! delicious thick paper! the perfect shade of dark Navy Blue! quick turn around! Their flexibility and patience during the consultation, design and proofing process was such a relief during our 4-​month wedding planning/​engagement period. :] check out their creations!!! We received SO many compliments.

I am a crazy obsessive planner and yet somehow I let the timing necessary for custom wedding invitations pass my by. Oops. My fiancée and I started a frantic search for wedding item designers and ended up going with Julie and Mario and Subtle Glances. I am SO THANKFUL we found them– all of the items they did for us (invitations with lots of extra parts, announcements, programs, escort and placecards, menus, etc) were absolutely stunning. We got tons of compliments about the items as well and one of our wedding guests loved the invite so much she had a gift custom made for us that incorporates the invitation! And most brilliant of all, they were able to complete our wedding invitations well within the ridiculously short timeline we gave them (which was all as a result of my negligence in the first place). Gotta love that.
Not to mention, their prices are really reasonable for custom work, and especially letterpress (normally ridiculously expensive). I highly highly recommend Subtle Glances– in fact I’ve already sent their info along to a friend getting married next year.
I loved working with Julie and Mario and hope to use their services again in the future for other print projects.

My fiancé and I stumbled across a recommendation for Subtle Glances while browsing through the Envelopments website. At that time, we were opting for DIY wedding invites. We then browsed through their website, and were both impressed — You could tell that each job they did was carefully crafted and personalized to meet their clients’ personalities. We then met with them in person shortly after and instantly knew that they were the perfect choice to be our invitation printers.
The prior reviews for Subtle Glances do not lie… They ARE the best. Julie and Mario work hand in hand with you to give you the exact look you want for your invitations. The invites are the story to your big day, after all — and each couples’ story is different… so they really do give you the uniqueness that all couples look for.
We were already speechless when we saw the final proofs before printing, but seeing the physical product was something totally different. They were packaged so nicely, and turned out so beautifully, that everytime we touched them, we made it a point to wash our hands so we wouldn’t soil them in any way.
Letterpress really is the way to go, but most think that they’ll be burning holes in their pockets if they go that route. Not with Subtle Glances. They’re reasonably priced for such elegant products. We’re also getting our favor tags and place cards from them and I can’t wait! I know we’ll be using them for our Thank You cards, as well as for other special moments/​events to come in our lives.
Thank you, Mario and Julie!

I love stationary and I absolutely am obsessed with letterpress and knew I wanted it for my wedding invitation. I also knew I wanted something that was whimsical and fun and very very personal and customized. No cookie cutter for me please.
I began drawing, sketching elements of the invitation and before I knew it, I had designed the entire invitation suite including the drawing/​silhouette of our dog and a «crest» that I wanted to be carried out throughout the suite; I incorporated our initials, nationalities with a maple leaf, star/​stripes (I’m originally from Canada and my husband is American) and of course our dog.
Subtle Glances was able to take all my sketches/​drawings and translate them perfectly into a digital format and into a beautiful letterpress suite. That’s truly custom work!!! When I first saw the finished product, I was so ecstatic and yelled «I LOVE IT» over and over again.
I am very particular and know what I want and Subtle Glances was really patient and worked with me until I was 100% satisfied. They are AWESOME! Also, they are super nice too and fun to work with!
Also, on a side note, they also do awesome laser printing which is really affordable for any day of pieces you need. I had them do a couple of signs (guest book and favours table), menus, escort cards, and favour tags.

Subtle Glances custom designed and created the birth announcements for our baby girl. They did an excellent job. High quality paper, creative and unique design, excellent customer service. We are very impressed with the final product. The announcements are just beautiful and very elegant.

Julie & Mario were a nice fit for our wedding invitations — the invitations very elegant and they were reasonably priced. We did our invitations in Chinese and English. We have gotten lots of compliments on our invitations — the color as well as the style and letter press. They were good at responding to emails and also to phone calls to discuss what we liked and didn’t like, or any questions that we had even when we had to have a quick turn around time. We’d recommend them!

Subtle Glances worked really hard to find the perfect stock for my client’s business cards. We went back and forth for a few weeks, making sure me and my client were completely satisfied before going to press. In the end the cards came out perfect, nice deep black ink and clean blind emboss. I would not hesitate to use them again.

I can’t rave enough about Julie & Mario at Subtle Glances, where I got my absolutely gorgeous letterpress wedding invitation set made. I searched far and wide across the physical and internet world for a company that could make my letterpress invitations, rsvp cards, accommodation cards, direction cards, map, and envelopes in my very limited budget with the simple elegant design that I want. .. thank you to the powers that be that I found Subtle Glances. Letterpress is not cheap but soooo worth it, and for what you get, Subtle Glances is a great value.
The design process was a breeze. I had a telephone conference with Julie and told her my design concept «outdoors, simple, elegant, leaves or trees, carmel valley, ivory, green, and brown.» If someone gave me these words I would’ve said make it yourself lady! But not Julie, she took these abstract concepts and she and Mario e-​mailed me proofs with different choices as our jumping board. They just got it and are extremely talented young designers.
From there, my fiancé and I selected the font we liked, asked for more movement, trees, etc. We are an indecisive couple and liked options and Julie & Mario so patiently took our suggestions and gave us options until we had our perfect invitations. They went out of their way to ensure that the process was seamless and that we were confident that the finished product will be exactly as we have envisioned.
The turn around was very quick, considering how many times we changed our minds and that fact that they letterpressed everything themselves. Then the day came when I received that big box at my house. I opened it with delight and could have cried. It was like opening a present because they packaged it so beautifully and their packaging went on to inspire the way I assembled my invitations to send out.
The paper quality is amazing, since they used crane’s lettra paper, super high quality cotton paper, the letterpressing looks amazing, the colors were perfect. We couldn’t have asked for a better product with better customer service. Julie & Mario… thank you soooo much. Everyone has complimented us on our gorgeous invitations and I have recommended you guys to my closest friends and family.

Subtle Glances did an amazing job with my daughter’s Quince invitations.
We really didn’t decide that we wanted letterpress invitations until late in the game, but they were on board with taking on the challenge.
We also had no clue of what we really wanted except that we wanted pink, white, and silver. But not only did they meet our deadlines, but they came up with something that was very creative, personal, and probably the best Quince invitations that I’ve ever seen. They created a square letterpress piece in a petal envelope, a patterned band with a custom wax seal. The end product was really amazing. We received so many compliments from the guests on the invitations and we would highly recommend the work of Subtle Glances!