I first wrote this for So You're Getting Married last week.

Modern calligraphy is a real art and something I've been swooning over for a while now. In our digital world of emails, texts and tweets putting pen to paper and writing properly and beautifully is underrated. Learning how to do it has been on my wish list so when I had the chance to attend a workshop hosted by Quill - an online store dedicated to seriously stylish stationery - I jumped at the offer! Beautiful writing will take you far in life, whether it's for addressing your wedding invitations or just a love of pretty stationery it's a skill that is well worth learning. 

I posted the above photo back in July when I was making thank-you cards and I promised a couple of you that I'd do a blog post about it. Sorry it's taken so long, I was trying to search for the photos. It's not a groundbreaking idea, I just decided to make my own thank-you cards after seeing how cheesy and overpriced ones on the web are. Plus, when guests have been so so generous, it's nice to spend a bit of time making cards to send back to them that they'll appreciate more than a glossy impersonal card ordered online. These are so easy to make:

You might have seen this post about our invites and save the dates and this about our table names and plan, this post is a kind of follow up with the stationery I made for our wedding day with, you've guessed it, more brown paper and red hearts. I'd love to share how I made our own order of services, menus and name tags and let you use them for your own day if you like the style.