Hello Gorgeous Print from Etsy seller PrintableWisdom, $5. (The photoshopping in this image is kind of killing me. Unless that teacup was floating in real life?)
I feel so fancy when I get a beautifully hand-calligraphed wedding invitation in the mail. But it also kind of kills me, because I know custom calligraphy is so expensive (up to $1 per line!) and that pretty envelope is going directly into my recycling bin.
If you like the idea of custom calligraphy but don't want hundreds of your hard-earned dollars getting tossed away with old cereal boxes, here's a cheap and easy cheat: Type your addresses in Word, change the font to a pretty script, then change the color of all the text to the lightest shade of gray, and print your envelopes. Then use a fountain pen to write over the calligraphy. Like this:
The top is the "traced" fancy font, the bottom is the printed font. I did this in under a minute last night, and I think the results were pretty good. Here's the pen I used:
Pilot Plumix Fountain Pen from jetpens.com, $7.25.
The font, Apple Chancery, came with my Word suite. You can download prettier fonts from sites like dafont.com. Here are a few I found:
If you choose a font that's all the same thickness, you'd use a fountain pen with a fine tip, like the Pilot Petit1 Mini Fountain Pen.
Would you use cheat the calligraphy on your wedding invitations? Do you need the custom, super-fancy version? Or will you just print your envelopes?
I typed our wedding invitation envelopes on a vintage typewriter. LONG story.