Calligraphy grants importance to your invited guests. When guests receive their envelopes hand lettered in calligraphy, it stands out amongst a sea of bills, and is becomes a paper treasure along with your invitation, something that will be kept and not thrown out. You will find calligraphy will most definitely set the tone for your wedding.

After investing all that money in beautiful invitations, the use of calligraphy for addressing your envelopes completes your investment.

Decide if you want your addresses to be written out formally or informally.

To save time for your calligrapher, it is best to compile your guest list, alphabetically, for quick easy referral. This will assist both you and your calligrapher to address any questions either of you may have or if any of those last minute changes are required while your calligrapher addresses your envelopes. As an option you can also number your guest list for easy referral.

Nothing is abreviated when addressing envelopes in calligraphy. Be sure all information is provided. This includes Roads, Streets, Drives, Crescents, Rural Routes, etc.

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Authored by Diane Iannuzziello for Calligraphy by Diane.

A world class calligrapher of extraordinary talent, Diane Iannuzziello, with Calligraphy by Diane, has the ability to write in any lettering style and in any language.  Diane’s level of perfectionism and insistence that all her work far exceed expectations, has made her the most sought-after calligrapher.  Diane looks forward to servicing you for your very special wedding day.

In the last couple of weeks, more than half of the envelopes I have addressed for brides have had square envelopes. If you are concerned about postage, make sure you take into consideration when looking at invitations that the square will cost more in postage, in some cases up to $1.00 each to mail. When the price of stamps went up, the postal service actually lowered the price of what I refer to as the “bridal” rate stamp (they used to be $.63 and now they are $.58 each) but the price of squares went up a lot. A small square envelope might be able to use lower postage (but not as low as a $.42 regular stamp) but it would have to be about 4 1/2 inches or less. Always, even with non-square invitations, make sure you take one completed invitation to the post office to have the weight checked before buying your stamps.

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Authored by Maren Nicholas of DreamWeaver Calligraphy

Through each aspect of wedding preparation, many couples are looking to cut corners and reduce costs and fees where they can so that they may splurge elsewhere.

I would caution couples to think ahead about using this logic on the purchase of their wedding invitations.

There are many processes the invite must go through: stuffing, addressing, mailing and hopefully a safe return to the couple. What happens if one should get wet? What if you mis-spell something as you address them? What if the Post Office returns one to you, “Oops!, We’re sorry we destroyed your mailpiece.”? There will always be an instance where enough, is just NEVER enough.

If you have 74 couples attending the wedding, 75 invitations is NOT ENOUGH. Did you know that they price difference between 75 and 100 invitations on even a high end invite could be less than $25?!

If you did choose to only order 75 of everything and your future mother-in-law adds the other 3 ladies of her golf foursome (and thier husbands) to the guest list, making you just 2 invitations short… that the minimum order on many wedding invites is 25 and you will now be processed as a brand new order, rather than just a re-order? The $25 saved on the first order probably won’t even cover the deposit required to place your order into production at this point.

And now, your second order of invites will be about 10-14 days behind the first mailing… which means the respond date may be quickly approaching.

The good thing: the groom’s Aunt Tilly will have plenty of extra invitations to scrapbook for you, your parents, his parents…

My recomendation: Always order plenty of extra invitations to save your time and money, not to mention your sanity later on.

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Amy Stillwaggon of Newburgh Envelope which is a 4th generation commercical print shop located in Newburgh, NY. Specializing in commercial print, but offering the best in wedding invitations through Carlson Craft, Birchcraft and Jean M invitations. All invitation orders are processed and delivered in a week’s time. Newburgh Envelope is also a Carlson Craft Tru Dealer, with exclusive invitations which are earned by the dealer through past performance and service to customers

Through each aspect of wedding preparation, many couples are looking to cut corners and reduce costs and fees where they can so that they may splurge elsewhere.

I would caution couples to think ahead about using this logic on the purchase of their wedding invitations.

There are many processes the invite must go through: stuffing, addressing, mailing and hopefully a safe return to the couple. What happens if one should get wet? What if you mis-spell something as you address them? What if the Post Office returns one to you, “Oops!, We’re sorry we destroyed your mailpiece.”? There will always be an instance where enough, is just NEVER enough.

If you have 74 couples attending the wedding, 75 invitations is NOT ENOUGH. Did you know that they price difference between 75 and 100 invitations on even a high end invite could be less than $25?!

If you did choose to only order 75 of everything and your future mother-in-law adds the other 3 ladies of her golf foursome (and thier husbands) to the guest list, making you just 2 invitations short… that the minimum order on many wedding invites is 25 and you will now be processed as a brand new order, rather than just a re-order? The $25 saved on the first order probably won’t even cover the deposit required to place your order into production at this point.

And now, your second order of invites will be about 10-14 days behind the first mailing… which means the respond date may be quickly approaching.

The good thing: the groom’s Aunt Tilly will have plenty of extra invitations to scrapbook for you, your parents, his parents…

My recomendation: Always order plenty of extra invitations to save your time and money, not to mention your sanity later on.

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Authored By: Amy Stillwaggon of Newburgh Envelope -

Amy has been with the company 3 years now and has expanded the formal and social invitation businesses to offer a wider variety and selection of items and attending Bridal Expos and sending personalized mailings to recently engaged couples.

Newburgh Envelope Corp is a 4th generation commercical print shop located in Newburgh, NY. Specializing in commercial print, but offering the best in wedding invitations through Carlson Craft, Birchcraft and Jean M invitations. All invitation orders are processed and delivered in a week’s time. Newburgh Envelope is also a Carlson Craft Tru Dealer, with exclusive invitations which are earned by the dealer through past performance and service to customers.

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