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Simple, beautiful wedding place cards

My wedding place cards are plain, high quality white or ivory card. I supply them either folded or flat. Amy chose the flat cards, with a corner ribbon in a very rich blue organza. Don’t they look fabulous with her cork place card holders?

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Custom wedding reception calligraphy

While the main website shows my core wedding calligraphy services, I also work on bespoke items and unique calligraphy items for wedding receptions. These ‘Reserved’ signs for the backs of chairs at the wedding ceremony were a lovely personal touch!

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Real gold leaf calligraphy

I’ve been working with a lot of gold leaf on my wedding calligraphy orders recently. Having just finished an order for Pure Gold Calligraphy I’ve finally ungilded my hair and face (it gets messy!) and thought it would be nice to show you some gold leaf work in progress.

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Real gold leaf calligraphy

Ruby wedding celebration calligraphy

These were individual calligraphy place settings, written not for a wedding reception but for a ruby wedding anniversary dinner. My parents celebrated forty years together in December, and my Grandma, along with me and my sister, organised a celebration for them. Nothing but the very best for my Mum and Dad!

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Real gold leaf calligraphy

I’m always happy to take calligraphy commissions for other special occasions: most of my work is for weddings, but I also write paper wedding anniversary poems and calligraphy place settings for special celebrations. Please contact me with your enquiry and I’ll be very happy to help.

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Luxury wedding calligraphy. Photo credit Ed Peers www.edpeers.com

Wedding calligraphy review

Kate’s mum, the lovely Christine, worked with me to get all the details for the wedding calligraphy just right. I really enjoyed writing all Kate and Marcus’s calligraphy – and Christine gave me such charming feedback: “We received the place cards etc and all look really marvelous. Kate is thrilled with them… Your calligraphy has become an important part of Kate’s wedding and there have been many wonderful comments.”

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Luxury wedding calligraphy. Photo credit Ed Peers www.edpeers.com

Kate and Marcus’s wedding reception calligraphy

I did all the calligraphy for Kate and Marcus’s wedding reception. The photos show custom made wedding breakfast menus (tassels provided by the bride and groom!), wedding place cards, table name cards in holders and wedding escort cards in calligraphy.

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Luxury wedding calligraphy. Photo credit Ed Peers www.edpeers.com

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Luxury wedding calligraphy. Photo credit Ed Peers www.edpeers.com

Wedding escort card calligraphy for Kate and Marcus

The escort cards shown below were all handwritten, and Christine added the badges and ribbon when they were finished. So I knew exactly where the calligraphy should be written, Christine sent a little mocked-up escort card with a circle drawn where the badge would be tied.

Escort cards are becoming more and more popular in the UK (soooo much easier for couples to arrange than a table plan!) – if you’d like to find out more, please visit my escort card calligraphy page.

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Luxury wedding calligraphy. Photo credit Ed Peers www.edpeers.com

All of Kate and Marcus’s wedding calligraphy was written in my own Freestyle Script.

Simply because I prefer writing in Spencerian and Copperplate calligraphy styles, I don’t include this style on the website any more. If you’d like a sample, please feel free to ask! Click to read our Contact Information

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Rustic wedding place settings with calligraphy from the UK

While many handmade papers are unsuitable for calligraphy, our cards provide you with the best of both worlds: these are wonderful little place settings which look fabulous with handwritten guest names in Copperplate calligraphy.

They’re ideal for a vintage wedding theme too: calligraphy by its very nature has that timeless elegance which harks back to the days when ladies and gentlemen were taught that a ‘fair hand’ would make all the difference in making a good impression.

We think there’s a little truth in that! Find out more about our rustic wedding place card calligraphy or email hello@calligraphy-for-weddings.com (with your wedding date) to ask for a sample.

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Wedding invitations printed in a calligraphy style, to which guest names were added later

The stationery Anisa sent was of exquisite quality – a cotton rag card, very smooth and soft, and with hand torn edges to the invitations.

The cards were printed with a rich brown ink, so our calligraphy was written in a similar earthy tone to complement the overall tone of the invitations.

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Luxury wedding invitations with monogram print. This photograph shows the hand torn finish of the invitation

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Handwritten calligraphy envelope in Spencerian script

We can’t show full addresses for legal and privacy reasons of course. If you’d like to see a sample of an addressed envelope in calligraphy please contact us: calligraphy-for-weddings.com/contact-information

Find out more: wedding invitation calligraphy and envelope addressing

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Ordering calligraphy for your wedding – samples

The first step in ordering calligraphy for your wedding is to see a sample. We always recommend asking for a sample of our calligraphy so you can see the quality of our work for yourself.

Calligraphy samples on your stationery – whether you’re sending us your wedding invitations, asking us to address your envelopes or enquiring about wedding place card calligraphy – allow us to test the suitability of your card for our calligraphy pens and inks.

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Most cards are suitable for calligraphy. Smooth, heavy papers and cards are best. An uncoated surface is recommended. Very occasionally we find a rustic card (especially those sold by Cox & Cox) are unsuitable for calligraphy. Some pearlescent and glossy surfaces don’t allow absorption of ink.

Please email hello@calligraphy-for-weddings to ask for a free calligraphy sample. Our full contact details are here: calligraphy-for-weddings.com/contact-information

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Pearlescent wedding invitations with handwritten calligraphy

Wherever possible I ask to see a sample wedding invitation, envelope or wedding place card before an order is placed.

Pearlescent surfaces and calligraphy

Pearlescent surfaces can be unsuitable for calligraphy – while these cards were of a high quality and the coating took the calligraphy ink nicely, sometimes a shiny card can be difficult to write on: the ink may not sink into the card, and can spread or bead.

If you have pearlescent wedding invitations, do enquire about calligraphy nice and early so your calligrapher can test a sample.

Wedding calligraphy samples

If you’re a wedding stationery business and you’d like to know if your cards are suitable for calligraphy, we’ll be happy to write a sample for you. Email hello@calligraphy-for-weddings.com and ask!

The invitation above was written in black sumi ink in Spencerian calligraphy script.

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These luggage tags were handwritten for a wedding, with a sheer red ribbon to suit the theme of the wedding day.

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The calligraphy style is copperplate, written in black ink.

These luggage tags are available in white or ivory, with any colour ribbon.

More information: luggage tags with calligraphy

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Spencerian calligraphy place card in blue

I wanted to show you these wedding place cards written in Spencerian script, and in blue ink. They were letterpressed (with the wedding venue printed at the bottom of the card) and I added names by hand in calligraphy gouache.

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Marriage proposal in calligraphy

Marriage proposals in calligraphy are a rare treat – and have to be absolutely perfect. Dobromir contacted me from his home in France to commission this very special proposal in 2011.

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Marriage proposal in calligraphy - ribbon border

The lettering was in Spencerian script, with initial letters in red to begin each paragraph. Dobromir’s poem was in French, which is a beautiful language to write in calligraphy.

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Marriage proposal in calligraphy - red orchid illustration

The border illustration, at Dobromir’s request, included white stargazer lilies and red orchids.

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Marriage proposal in calligraphy - lily and orchid

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Marriage proposal in calligraphy - orchids close up