I am calling upon my middle school drafting skills to hand letter all the wedding invitations. It’s fun and I am improving as I go along, so if your last name begins with a letter early in the alphabet… your invitation won’t look as nice as my guests whose last name begins with a “Z.” Sorry.<\/p>\n
I have several calligraphy books at home, but I am still in Laguna, so I am using my Internet resources. For an example of Simple Italic Hand, try this site<\/a>. For short sweet lessons in the upper case letters, try here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I used to love practicing my calligraphy, and once I even did the program for my friend, Michelle Wolf’s, Bat Mitzvah. She acknowledged me as a “designer Jeannie,” as we were very into “designer jeans” back in the early 1980’s.<\/p>\n For the wedding invites though, I am not using a special calligraphy pen – just picked up a box of black ink Pilot Precise V5’s extra fine at Office Depot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am calling upon my middle school drafting skills to hand letter all the wedding invitations. It’s fun and I am improving as I go along, so if your last name begins with a letter early in the alphabet… your … Continue reading