calligraphy?

sunflower331

do most people hire a calligrapher for their invitations? 

what would be the best thing to do:

JBs_Bride

We had computer calligraphy done for our invites. It looks just as good as hand calligraphy, but it's a lot cheaper.

bostonbride214

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_massachusetts-boston_calligraphy-3?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:89Discussion:c99464e0-0c05-4576-bc3c-1572f29da0cfPost:1c0ed22c-9945-414a-a356-b4dd63c02e66">Re: calligraphy?</a>:
[QUOTE]We had computer calligraphy done for our invites. It looks just as good as hand calligraphy, but it's a lot cheaper.
Posted by JBs_Bride[/QUOTE]

we had ours done with computer calligraphy as well, it looked perfect and at half the cost --- there was no way either of was going to hand write them and I'm not a fan of labels on wedding invites, but that's me personally

sunflower331

can you send me the website you used and offer any advice on the computer calligraphy b/c I don't know anything about it...thanks so much

Galaxy8227

We had them done by a woman on Etsy.  She did an amazing job and the price wasn't bad at all.  Her shop was called Artful Celebrations and she was fantastic to work with. 

snorri10

I used "Calligraphy by Michelle B" - she wasn't expensive and was very easy to work with.

I had considered the preprinted calligraphy route but wanted a more personal touch, and I think this ended up costing about the same anyway!  Her website is http://www.calligraphybymichelle.com/

Good luck!

njlfred

If I had known about the computer calligraphy, I might have done that.  However, I did not at the time of my wedding. 

Neither my husband or I has good handwriting, so we went the calligraphy route.  We used afineletter.com and I have nothing but good things to say - service and price were great, envelopes came out beautifully.

noodle_oo

We printed the addresses directly on the envelopes using a nice, free font.  They looked beautiful and cost us nothing (well, ink I guess!).  Took us like one afternoon to do them all, it was pretty easy.

erilouboston

We also used A Fine Letter and like the PP, I can't say enough good things about them - beautiful work, fast turnaround, and REALLy affordable! I thought about doing the calligraphy myself, but after all the work we put into the wedding, by the time I got to that, it was the LAST thing I wanted to do - worth every penny to have someone do it for me

blaharn

The graphic designer we hired to do our invites is also printing the addresses in a nice font for us as well.  I had considered writing them out myself - I have nice handwriting, but it's not close to calligrapher level! I figured it was one less thing for me to worry about...

sunflower331

I'm glad to hear this, b/c A Fine Letter is one of the calligraphers I had noted as a possible calligrapher...thanks

sunflower331

Thanks, I'll take a look

snoangel79

Wrote mine out with very neat writing <:  and gold ink.

Our place cards were done by a calligrapher though and were very reasonable! I highly recommend her! Very easy to work with and she has her business in the North End so perfect excuse to grab some pastries <:

Lettering by Liz :

http://www.calligraphyboston.com/