Calligraphy
Hand lettering for envelopes, place cards, and signage. Envelope counts follow the invitations instance's household count, and the due date backs off the invitation mail date.
Also called: calligraphy, hand lettering, addressing, envelope addressing, place cards.
When couples book this
Usually booked about 7 months out. It moves with your date.
Your wishlist, before you talk to anyone
Questions you can answer early — they become the yardstick you compare candidates against.
What lettering style are you drawn to?
What are you hoping to have lettered?
Wishlist mirror of the pieces candidate fact — compare what each calligrapher quotes against it.
Any ink colors you're picturing?
What to ask each candidate
Facts that differ from one vendor to the next — worth writing down while you shop.
What's being lettered?
What settles once booked
The working details you and your vendor pin down together.
How many envelopes?
DERIVED from the invitations instance. Extras matter here: addressing carries its own error allowance.
How many place and escort cards?
How does the calligrapher get the address list?
Lettering style, ink colors, and layout notes
Script vs. block, ink colors against the envelope stock, spelling-out rules for addresses, and any pieces with special layouts.
How it’s usually priced
Usually priced per household.
Lines that sometimes ride along: Inner envelopes, Place cards / signage, Specialty ink / materials.
What your vendor reads from your plan
Book on or off Beetrothed — either way the plan assembles a brief your vendor can work from: the work, quantities, key dates, the event, contacts.
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Plan your calligraphy — and everything around it
These questions live as one cell of a connected plan: your budget, guest list, checklist and timeline all read from the same answers. See the whole board work, or join the waitlist and we’ll write when it’s your turn.
We will write when there is something worth telling you.