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This was a departure from our normal illustration style and a refreshing and exciting calligraphy commission to work with.
The poem is a very popular wedding reading, The Art Of Marriage. The poet is Wilferd Arlan Peterson. Our version is in classic italic calligraphy with an art deco inspired border illustration in coffee tones with some pastel colours – perfect for a vintage wedding gift.
We framed this calligraphy poem in an art deco style, with a white mount and thin black frame.
I’m having a lovely meeting with Janet from Urbis Scriptores soon – we’ll have news for you later!
I was playing with these new wedding place cards a few weeks ago. I love the contrast of black place cards with light inks, and wanted to test some new calligraphy styles in a variety of different ink colours.
The calligraphy is in two styles: an italic style written with a pointed pen, quite casual with serifs on the letters, and a straighter, modern calligraphy style. The former is in white and green in the photo, the latter in blue and pink.
I was so pleased with this wedding table plan for Aaron and Emma, which I made a few weeks ago for their April wedding.
The theme was red roses, with white and black colours throughout the wedding reception. All their wedding tables were handwritten in ‘Cinderella’ calligraphy (a rounded italic style with very curly descenders on the letters, written with quite a thick nib), then cut with a circular cutter and layered onto black mountboard.
The paper roses were from Hobbycraft, and each red rose was complemented by sparkling diamantes tucked just under either side of the petals.
