Life’s most meaningful celebrations deserve a personal touch.

Meant To Be Calligraphy can help you set the tone for your wedding or special occasion long before the first guest arrives with beautiful hand-lettered invitations and envelopes. Then we can help carry that elegance through the event with hand-lettered signs, ceremony programs, escort cards, place cards, table markers, menus, favors and more. From beginning to end, we will work with you to help bring your bespoke vision for your event to life!

Services + pricing

Pricing assumes the client provides all paper stock.

Invitation Design/Lettering

To design a complete invitation suite (invitation, reply card, return address, reply card address), delivered electronically for reproduction: $800
To write out the couple’s names plus 3-4 other words (i.e. RSVP, Reception to Follow), delivered electronically: $500
To create a custom monogram, delivered electronically: $200
To write out just the couple’s names, delivered electronically: $200
To write out just the return address, delivered electronically: $200

Envelope Addressing

If providing unlined, white/cream/ecru/ivory-hued envelopes:

$2 per line, which generally translates to $6 per outer envelope and $2 per inner envelope

If providing envelopes that are lined with an additional paper liner and/or envelopes that are a color other than white/cream/ecru/ivory:

$2.25 per line, which generally translates to $6.75 per outer envelope and $2.25 per inner envelope

“Day Of” materials

If providing white/cream/ecru/ivory-hued paper:

$8 per card for table markers, if using numerals only
$10 per card for table markers, if using words
$3 per card for name-and-seating-assignment escort cards
$2 per card for name-only place cards or to add a name to a menu

If providing paper that is a color other than white/cream/ecru/ivory:

$10 per card for table markers, if using numerals only
$12 per card for table markers, if using words
$4 per card for name-and-seating-assignment escort cards
$3 per card for name-only place cards or to add a name to a menu

All other signage

Seating charts, complete menus, guest books, donations, way-finding, oyster shell or other non-paper place cards or escort cards and more. Prices depend on the size of the pieces as well as the complexity of what exactly would need to be lettered.

Special Projects

Please contact us to discuss the details, timing and pricing for your specific requirements.

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logo lettering + MORE

We can create gorgeous hand lettering for your business' brand identity, book jacket title treatment or editorial display type. Pricing starts at $1,000. Please contact us to discuss details.

Calligraphy Workshops

Ready to try your hand at pointed pen calligraphy or brush lettering? We have been teaching our popular workshops (which have been featured in Southern Living and Washingtonian as well as on Netflix’s Love is Blind!) all around the greater Washington, DC area since 2011. Take a look at our current class schedule here.

Or maybe you'd rather take part in a private calligraphy or brush lettering workshop for you and your friends or colleagues? We can arrange that! If you're interested in a private group workshop (with a minimum of six students and a maximum of ten), contact us to learn more.