Seating Plan For Weddings

While looking through my stats I noticed that Seating Plans for Weddings are the most searched for words when traffic comes to my site and for that reason I am adding this post.

As well as Stationery, Place Cards. Albums and Guest Books,we as calligraphers are often asked to do Wedding Seating Plans. Although I have done many of these in the past, they are usually a last minute job as the bride finally completes her list and the cancellations have all but finished. The down side to this is that they are collected more or less as soon as they are completed and it's not always possible to managed to get photographs. Anyway, I thought I would share just a couple with you.
The theme of Alison and Nicholas was a beautiful teal and as well as a seating plan, the bride wanted an alphabetical list to speed table finding...

The Alphabetical list was typed on 5 pieces of card ensuring that their was a balance on the 4 cards. The cards were then edged in teal ...

The 9 tables and a hand written title were added to the seating plan and a monogramme of the bride and grooms initials were placed in the middle as requested.....

Stephen and Ambers seating plan was made in a wonderful cherry red, and a butterfly theme was added for decoration.....

The date of the wedding is added underneath....

And the butterflies continue down the board. The gorgeous thing about this is that some of them were only glued under the centre of the body of the butterflies, leaving their wings free and giving them the impression that they have just landed there and are waiting to take off again...

Seating plans cost from as little as £50 and really do add to the reception. Many brides have told me that they get them framed afterwards as a lasting reminder of 'Who was there on the day'.

As usual, for further information feel free to email me at: inspiredbyscript@yahoo.co.uk

Hand Lettered Place Cards

Of all the reasons Calligraphers are called on for Weddings, place card writing is probably one of the most popular. How wonderful in this day of type and computer font overload to see your name written in beautiful calligraphy. It always impresses the guests and they usually take them home!

Prices for lettering single names on place cards and in a colour to match your theme costs from as little as 50p per card.....so within everyones budget. and they look stunning when added to your beautiful wedding table.

Hand Made Photo Album and Hand Made Guest Book - Hannah and David

How strange life can be sometimes.....this is the 3rd wedding in a row where the Groom has been called David....hopefully not the same one!

First off is a Guest Book....in soft sage green and black. The size of the guest book is around A5 size - Approximately 21cm x 15cm and contains 25 pages. These can of course be made-to-order and have as many pages in as you wish just email me here: inspiredbyscript@yahoo.co.uk

Then a rather larger matching Photo Album which is around 40cm x 30cm and with spacers in so that the photo album lies flat when closed.

And here they are.....Personalised on the covers of course with the Bride and Grooms name and date of their wedding. I was more than slightly surprised how wonderful these colours went together....definitely a good choice!

Materials: Sage Green Cover Paper,

Black ribbon and thread,
and crystal drops to the binding

Wedding Keepsake Box and Handmade Invitations

As well as being asked to make a Wedding Guest Book as mentioned in this post I also had the invitations and RSVP cards to do as well.

I sent off 3 proofs all the same and from the 'Mystery Range with the only change to the one on the North Yorkshire Weddings Website being 'Can we have it in pale blue?'


And I must admit it looks wonderful in this colour.....

Packaging is always a problem. Handing over a bride and grooms precious wedding stationery in a shoe box doesn't seem to be right somehow and finding a box that fits all sizes of invitations seemed to be a nigh on impossibility.....so I am having the made to order.

I was surprised when they turned up today....in pieces. Now making boxes up and especially flat packed ones does not usually phase me....except these came with left over pieces....and then I realised that as I had suggested I give them to the brides as 'Keepsake Boxes' the company included some file dividers to be used both portrait and landscape inside the box. How lovely. (And how relieved!)

Here's the order packed and almost ready to go. I've added a personalised tag to the top of the box with the names and date of the wedding and a little message thanking them for their business.

There's a channel inside the top lid to add a complimentary ribbon and overall I'm delighted with the results. I hope the Bride and Groom will be too :o)

I'll be adding the Keepsake Boxes to my website very soon, but if you are interested in buying one in the meantime, please let me know via the contact details on this page.

Hand Made Vintage Wedding Invitations - Finished!

Well, another week almost over, and the Vintage Wedding Stationery is finished. I'm always relieved when an order is ready to go. It's that sigh of relief when, if anything has gone wrong during the making, it's not apparent when the order is finished.

Thankfully, once the final design was approved, this order was straight forward

And below is a photo of the RSVP cards,

designed to match the Invitations.

On order are some fantastic Keepsake Boxes, which will become available on my website just as soon as I update it.

Hand Made Wedding Guest Book - Tanya and David

As mentioned in my post about meeting the perfect Bride and Groom I've finished the matching Guest Book they requested along with their invitation order. Once again I use pale blue ribbon and Japanese tissue paper and bound it using a Japanese Style Binding, used in times past for ledgers.

The front was personalised with their names and the date of their wedding

Hand Made Vintage Wedding Invitations

Here we go.....not my design,

but one a customer commissioned me to do.

Well, in no uncertain terms....this year, 2011. sees that Vintage is definitely 'in'. The client supplied the pictures and I did the designing, based on another envelope card I had done before.

The original design was to have cherubs on it, but after some thought the bride decided to shelve this idea in favour of her second choice, which was the above image.

If you intend to design your own cards it's always best to see a proof first...unless you are a designer, the ideas in your head don't always match the outcome. Personally I liked the cherubs best as I think that weddings deserve to have colour....however, it's not my wedding and not my choice and we designers have to keep quiet about these things :o)

The colour choice was a simple Black and White, the colour theme of the Wedding being introduced elsewhere in their wedding plans.

Their names and wedding date were added to the scroll on the back of the card. This card is designed to be simply folded, the flap attached with some double sided tape and sent through the post as is.....so there is no need for an envelope.

Meeting the Perfect Bride and Groom!

I've finally finished the last of 120 ideal wedding favours. Brought to me by the Bride in 3 lots. The Bride will add a Kinder Egg to each one, making a pretty cool idea as far as Wedding Favours go.

As a calligrapher I get all sorts of jobs to do. From small quotations to full pieces of poetry or prose. The same goes for the Wedding Market. These jobs can range from just the place cards (as below) or full Wedding Stationery orders (see below that). I think that Place Cards are so popular as they can really add to a table and far more preferable than typed or badly written out names. The guests tend to keep them too as it's always nice to see your name written out in a calligraphic hand.

The colour used was a fantastic Royal Blue to match the Brides theme.

And lastly I want to share with you the invitations chosen and made for what must be the 'Perfect' Bride and Groom. I met Tanya and David only briefly at a Wedding Fair.

I say briefly because we were packing up and most of my stuff was packed away. The arrived at the studio without any clear idea of what they wanted and within 10 mins and quickly scanning through 2 Wedding Portfolios, (SEE SOME OF THE DESIGNS HERE) the chose 'Mystery' ......with only a slight alteration in that they wanted them to be Pale Blue.

I also made them some RSVP Cards.....which are always useful and handy and save the invited people the problem of going out and finding a card or acceptance or refusal and ensuring replies are returned quickly and efficiently.

The Bride and Grooms return address is printed on the reverse and so that card simply needs a stamp and a tick and into the post box it goes.

I particularly like the wording on the cards.....it really makes me smile.
As I add to my portfolio of designs on a regular basis, if you would like to see a full range of designs it's best to visit the studio in Northallerton. If you haven't seen it already, I have a website at http://northyorkshireweddings.co.uk

The Bride and Groom are also wanting a Guest Book....so that will be made next week, again in the lovely Pale Blue colours of their Wedding Theme.

Over the next week or 2 I have a Wedding Album and Guest Book to make for another Bride to be and another Wedding Stationery order, made to the Brides own design. So it's all go, go, go in the wedding world at the moment.

Hand Made Wedding Albums, Guest Books and Hen and Stag Books....Oh and some Wedding Portfolios thrown in!

A new portfolio is available at Inspired by Script!

Many readers of this blog will not realise that the North Yorkshire Weddings is only a small part of my business at Inspired by Script. So, although it looks like I have taken a long holiday and not much happens at the studio, nothing can be further from the truth....in fact, it has been busier than ever as you will see if you visit my Inspired by Script Site.



On the Wedding front, I am in the process of 3 wedding orders. 1 finished, 1 almost finished and 1 to start next week....providing the proofs come back OK.

In the mean time I needed to make a few portfolios to showcase my new range of Foiled Wedding Cards.



As not only a Calligrapher and Lettering Artist but also a Creative Bookbinder, I thought it would be a bit wrong of me to use shop bought albums and so I made my own. The advantage of this is that I can make them any shape and size and with any amount of pages...so I set to work....first by drilling.......



Then by sewing using a Japanese Stitch and ribbon to hold it all together.

Of course a foiled front label completes each album and they are already sent out to the shops and people who will act as my agents.

This album is a style that I use to create my Hand Made Wedding Albums. Guest Books and Hen and Stag Albums.

All books are made to order which means you get to choose the size, the colour of the cover, the designs and how many pages you would like inside. Guest Books start from as little as £15 so if you would like a no obligation quote, just send me and email to inspiredbyscript@yahoo.co.uk or give me a call on the telephone number in the contact me section.