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Lucy’s wedding invitations are a lovely, simple design. The invitation is ‘Bond Street’, from the Letterpress of Cirencester. They were beautifully printed in black raised ink on heavy white card.

The calligraphy is in my classic italic style, in black ink. This was written with the smallest calligraphy nib I have, a William Mitchell size 6. The invitations are only 6 inches square, which doesn’t leave much room for calligraphy – but with first names only the finished effect was perfect.  Read more... (129 words, 2 images, estimated 31 secs reading time)