The Seedling

The Seedling

Meredithe Stuart-Smith

How she got the Meri Meri party started...

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Willow Crossley
Jun 29, 2026
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The uber creative founder of global party brand, Meri Meri, Meredithe Stuart-Smith transformed her early passion for design into a big business.

As a child, she would stick cards she designed in her window - in the hopes that a Hallmark employee walking past would notice (the Hallmark HQ was just nearby in Kansas City). By the 1980s, creating handmade c…

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