Welcome!
My name is Tarin and my love of the sun, art, nature, family, California, and Italy has inspired me to create and aptly name my wedding invitation company, Sole. As a native of Chicago, I studied Visual Communications and developed a love of design, typography, and watercolor painting. While living in Chicago, I met and married my wonderful Italian born husband. Our mutual love of nature, rock climbing, swimming, hiking, biking, travel, yoga, and warm weather led us to move to California where we became sun loving residents. We began this journey with our dog, Sierra, and have since then added even more love to our family with the addition of our two beautiful daughters.
As a family, you will typically find us outside, cooking Italian food, and spending our time traveling throughout California and Italy. On most weekends, we pack up the family in our Eurovan, and explore the natural beauty of our own Sunshine State. Throughout each of our travels, I often create watercolor paintings of the flowers and plants indigenous to the regions which you will notice in some of my designs featured on my site.
When I first began creating wedding invitations, it occurred in an organic nature as friends and family members asked me to apply my design, typography, and watercolor skills in creating invitations for their wedding events and later, baby showers. In my initial conversations with each couple’s invitation vision, I realized that everyone desired something special and unique for their upcoming joyous celebrations. This interest inspired me to create my invitation company, Sole Invitations.
The word sole in both Italian and in English means being the only one, having no sharer, and belonging exclusively or otherwise limited to one usually specified individual. In Italiano, the word sole also translates to the word sun. As a sun lover who enjoys creating specialized invitations that are exclusive to each couple’s event, Sole Invitations seemed to become the perfect name to describe my company that seeks to create an invitation suite that is customized solely to your special day.
As an art director who has been in the design business since 2006, I aim to provide you with an invitation design experience with collaboration and professionalism. Whether you find a personally painted design that I have already created or if you wish to consult with me on developing your own painted concept, I will work with you in developing your unique Sole wedding invitation to complement the vision of your special day.
