the creation

one of our most asked questions is where does the name stella valle come from?! we love the meaning & memory behind our company name so we wanted to share it with everyone today:)

it’s almost 3 years ago now that ashley and i started to brainstorm about opening a company together. at the time ashley was living in dallas and i was in nj. i found this adorable french bulldog puppy that I wanted to adopt from oklahoma so of course i made some grand old plans to fly into dallas and then drive 4 hours one way to get the pup. ashley was totally in on the plan. we decided that this was a perfect time to discuss the foundation and name of our company. we set some requirements for our company name—1. we wanted it to sound like a person’s first and last name, but not our names 2. we wanted it to have something that we shared in common and 3. we wanted it to incorporate a meaning/memory that we both cherished.

with those 3 requirements in mind we started thinking. we decided that the thing that linked us together all our lives was our last name—dellavalle. we knew that this trip would be a memory that we would never forget and loved how it was the very beginning to the start of a wonderful thing. ashley and I decided that we would name my pup stella. we combined stella and dellavalle to come up with stella valle which successfully accomplished our first requirement to sound like a person’s name. 

that trip is a memory that both ashley and I cherish and laugh about today. it reminds us often of how far we've come and how much we've learned along the way to becoming the company stella valle is today. not to mention we are still scared from stella’s horrific gas the entire ride home. 

some pics from that day we picked up stella!