Kirstie Allsopp Stroked My Calligraphy on the Telly!

Cal­lig­ra­phy ideas for your own vin­tage wedding

I’ve just had the loveli­est email about my cal­lig­ra­phy from Amy and Craig’s vin­tage wed­ding ear­lier this year. I wanted to share some of it with you, because I’m proud and because I love the way Kirstie All­sopp cre­ated some­thing really beau­ti­ful from a very sim­ple hand­writ­ten lug­gage name tag!

Kirstie and her fab team at Raise The Roof Pro­duc­tions worked with wed­ding sup­pli­ers to design these lus­cious table dec­o­ra­tions and place settings.

The flow­ers and foliage are incred­i­ble, but you can cre­ate your own gor­geous place set­tings with a few sim­ple steps too. If writ­ing your own cal­lig­ra­phy, use a colour­ful gel pen and add big loops to your hand­writ­ing — it will look quirky and suit a vin­tage wed­ding theme.

Or use any­thing colour­ful instead of the car­na­tions here — paper flow­ers, assorted fab­ric nap­kins, jew­elled nap­kin rings. When they’re all set out on tables they’ll look fab!

(I’ve just realised this is upside down. If you’re read­ing this blog post on your iPad or mobile you’ll be ok! Every­one else, you’ll have to use your imag­i­na­tions I’m afraid… the name is Sadie Crisp!)

Amy’s mom — the lovely Jan — told me, “It was a won­der­ful occa­sion and Amy and Craig couldn’t have wished for a bet­ter day. The joy for us was that it remained a fam­ily affair, in which we were all involved, and that was about real love rather than about TV or celebrity! Kirstie and the pro­duc­tion team were great and highly sen­si­tive to the fact that this was a once in a life­time moment for our fam­i­lies and friends.

“We really can’t thank you enough for your con­tri­bu­tion to the day — peo­ple such as your­self were over­whelm­ingly kind in the time and exper­tise that they gave and we feel so very fortunate.”

I’m so pleased to see my cal­lig­ra­phy was a fea­ture of this amaz­ing wed­ding. Amy and Craig’s big day means more to me than work­ing on celebrity wed­dings or lux­ury events — they’re a lovely cou­ple, and they’re real peo­ple who chose to use cal­lig­ra­phy in a cre­ative way. As Kirstie has said, the cal­lig­ra­phy costs less than you might think, and I love see­ing it in such a fab­u­lously cre­ative context!

It’s espe­cially nice to see Kirstie stroking it though… that image tick­les me

More about my wed­ding cal­lig­ra­phy here and ideas for incor­po­rat­ing cal­lig­ra­phy in a vin­tage wed­ding theme can be found at calligraphy-for-weddings.com/wedding-signs-and-reception-stationery/

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