In-house calligrapher, at your service
July 16, 2010 by Jenni
Helen & Erik live on the east coast, but they discovered Lunalux while visiting Erik’s family in Minneapolis. Erik gets credit for designing their wedding invitation suite, including the fantastic tree illustration. I suggested a few minor edits to the text and the layout, but my main contribution was calligraphy on the invitations and envelopes. The hand-written names are letterpress-printed along with the rest of the invitation text; I wrote the bride and groom’s names over and over again, until each curve was just right, then scanned the best versions and dropped them into the layout like a graphic. The full set – wedding invitation, rehearsal dinner invitation & response card – was letterpress-printed in black ink on pearl white 100% cotton Lettra 110# cover, with matching invitation and response envelopes. When all the work of printing and trimming was finished, I set to the hefty task of hand-addressing the envelopes too, so the mailing address matches the text on the invitations themselves.
I have worked at my penmanship for many years, so it’s a great honor for me to share it with my clients. I have addressed a few wedding invitations in my time, and have occasionally incorporated my handwriting into greeting card designs, but this is the first time that my lettering has been letterpress-printed on an invitation. And it was such a thrill to see the finished product! Since this project was completed a few months ago, I have taken on a few other exciting hand-lettering projects – I look forward to featuring them here in our blog in the coming weeks.
Curious about our letterpress-printed wedding stationery? Click here to read more about our design and printing services. You might also enjoy browsing through our blog archives, where we’ve featured many of our favorite wedding projects.
I love that you made a plate with your handwriting included on it! It’s beautiful.
When you’re addressing the envelopes, do you have some wrist pain? I can imagine with a lot of the same movements it would be likely.
Wow! These are beautiful. If I ever get married I’m going this route. You do such fantastic work!
It’s a real pity that the names are hand-written. Not because they aren’t beautiful — they’re gorgeous! — but because I was hoping I could beg you to give up the name of the font that you used.
Normally, fonts that try to look like handwriting are pretty ugly, and here I thought I had come across a gold mine. *sad, sad face*
WOW your handwriting is Amazing. I love that you personalized their invites. Nice touch!!! Hope you got a nice hand massage after all those envelops.
As someone whose penmanship has grossly deteriorated into an illegible scribble over the years, I so appreciate someone who has a lovely pen stroke. Quite beautiful and a lovely design!