Two Questions: Calligraphy and Rosebud Studios?

[SarahLovesJS]

Question one: Is anyone using a calligrapher for invites, etc.? If so, how much did they cost? I know it probably depends on the area, but I wanted to know if this was in my budget.

Question two: Does anyone know anything about Rose-Bud studios? They look awesome! I would like to know prices, etc. I left a message on their voicemail, but thought I would ask here in the meantime. Rosebud

 

[Haven]

My mother is a calligrapher so she''s doing our invitations as a gift. In Chicago, people pay between $4 and $10 an invite for hand calligraphy.

 

[SarahLovesJS]

Wow that is awesome! Hmm. I wonder if I could talk my Mom into learning how.

Her handwriting is 10x better than mine, mine is so horrible.

 

[enbcfsobe]

If you are just having the addresses done, it shouldn''t be anywhere near $4-7 per invite!! From what I looked at, it runs from 70 cents for just recipient''s address to $1-4 for calligraphy on all the envelopes (return address, recipient''s address, inner envelope, RSVP address). If you want them to actually write out the invite, it would be much more.

 

[SarahLovesJS]

Ohh I see. Well, I would just want the envelope. Looks like we''re looking at an extra 400-700 dollars at least I think..

. Maybe we can cut money somewhere else?

 

[enbcfsobe]

There are also services that will use a fancy calligraphic font and do computer-printing. Some of these turn out awesome and you couldn''t tell it wasn''t hand done. Others are so-so. Don''t know what the price difference is. Don''t forget that you won''t have the same number of invites as guests! It will be a lot fewer! We''re inviting 150 people but only anticipate sending out around 80 invites.

 

[SarahLovesJS]

I keep forgetting that!!

Thank you for reminding me! Haha. Okay, so then it isn''t as bad as I was thinking. We are inviting about 120 so it''d probably be like 60-70 invites total I think.