Adara is a wildly talented artist, and a delightful human. With her background in art, she creates…read moreabsolutely stunning calligraphy. Her sense of color, scale, and materiality are top notch, and her resulting work is so inviting and beautiful, there's no mistaking that it was crafted by hand and with great consideration and care. Her work makes me wish everything could be calligraphed, or that we can at least go back to the days of hand-calligraphed notes and invitations in our daily lives! If you're lucky enough to have an occasion to seek this kind of work, she's the artist you need. And her custom engravings are to die for!

From the owner: Adara Meyers Calligraphy is a boutique bespoke wedding invitation and calligraphy design studio…read morelocated in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in pointed pen calligraphy and serving clients worldwide. In addition to custom stationery, we also offers on-site calligraphy and engraving for corporate events, brand activations, and other social occasions.

Fine Script Studio / Jessica wrote out cards for my wedding seating chart earlier this month. She…read morewas extremely responsive, easy to facilitate drop off and pick up with, and really fair with pricing. The cards were absolutely beautiful and her calligraphy added so much character. My guests and I were equally impressed! Would highly recommend Jessica & Fine Script Studios for any calligraphy needs!

I would highly recommend Fine Script Studio. Jessica led me through the process and offered great…read moresuggestions for my project. She was timely at responding to my messages. I couldn't have been happier with the finished product. She was very accommodating when it was time to pick up my product and her price was very reasonable!

Beautiful, classy, a step beyond. Diane designed our wedding invitations and an intertwined set of…read moreinitials for our monogram. It was like the monogram would come alive and walk across the paper! Her work has character and depth and is of the highest quality. I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone seeking calligraphy services.

From the owner: ThistleWork Studio provides a range of artistic services including calligraphy, envelope…read moreaddressing, hand lettering, gilding, engraving, book binding and decorative painting. Custom designs are provided for special occasion invitations, awards and certificates, monograms, logos and more. This is a one-woman owned and operated business.

What can I say?! Jan was truly a blessing. Her work was not only impeccable, but she was helpful…read morethroughout my entire wedding planning process! Any question I had, she was able answer. She has remarkable taste and her suggestions helped me improve my vision for my wedding event. Additionally, Jan was so accommodating, and was able to work around my busy schedule. She made the whole process so easy! Jan showed me tons of beautiful cards and fonts, which made choosing a style easy. Within just a few short weeks we had our invites back with all of the names and addresses printed beautifully. She also did my escort cards in a moment's notice and had them alphabetized upon pick up! Not to mention, the price was so reasonable for such quality work. Thank you Jan for all you did to help make my wedding day perfect!

From the owner: Everything you could possibly need for your special event, from invitations to menus and programs…read more No job is too big or small. Pet portraits, escort cards, poems, quotations, diplomas, certificates: Janscript does it all. I also carry Checkerboard!

Services from Inked by Elle are performed with dedication to her craft. Every step is done as if it…read morewas for herself which makes the end result remarkable. Try it, you won't be disappointed!

From the owner: Since she was a little girl, Elle has always been obsessed with handwriting, planners, pens and…read morematerials of the like. She can remember seeing someone else's handwriting, loving their style and copying it over and over again until she learned it. She has always been the organization and handwriting queen amongst her friends and thrives with a pen in her hand. In 2017, Elle took her first traditional calligraphy class which sparked her creative passion again and led her to find artists and resources online to learn modern calligraphy on her own. Shortly after, "Inked by Elle" was born. At first, it was a way for her to showcase and practice her lettering techniques. Soon after, friends, family and others started to take note and would ask Elle to do lettering projects for them here and there. Today, she is working with clients to add a little ink to their special event or every day!

Oh my goodness where to begin? !!! I've been doing calligraphy for years and years and in 5…read moreminutes I learned more from Liz than any other teacher. She's a joy to work with so much so that when my kids couldn't figure out what to get me for a gift they made a handmade gift certificate to study with Liz cause they knew I'd LOVE that for sure! Her styles are so much more fun, playful, varied (including romantic and modern) than anyone I've met. Her passion for lettering makes the time fly. In my first class with her there was a woman who had never calligraphied before and me - we both learned a ton and I was amazed at what a newcomer could accomplish in one class!!!! Many thanks and see you soon!!!

This review should be 2 stars but I feel bad tarnishing this page solely because I have zero…read morepatience for individuals being unable to effectively communicate via email in 2015. I will start by saying that I was perfectly satisfied with the work Liz did for me. If this review was based on quality vs. price, it would have been 5 stars. What I was not pleased with was how many times I had to poke and prod her to get an actual result. I had been working on a tattoo idea for about 3 years. Finally committed to some text and wanted a professional to draw it out in pretty font. Nothing on Microsoft word was jiving with me, so I decided to look into a calligrapher. Liz had the highest ratings on yelp. 2 stars seems really harsh, but when I write a yelp review, I think about whether I would recommend the business to a friend. In this particular case, I can't say that I would. After initially reaching out and getting no response, I sent a follow up email 8 days later to see if she was even interested in doing the work for me since it was such a small project. Frankly, overcharging someone for doing one sentence worth of work, versus hundreds of envelopes for a wedding seems kind of a no brainer to me...whatever amount she would have suggested...I would have happily paid. Courtesy is also another big thing for me--it's 2015, I know you have a smart phone and, as such, nearly 24-7 access to email. A simple "Hey, thanks for your email. Sorry I'm super swamped for the next couple of weeks, can I touch base then?" would have been more than OK. After Liz confirmed that she would do the text for me, it took another 6 days to set up a paypal transaction. I paid within half hour of receiving the email prompt and then it took another 3 days to actually get the file via email. Again, all if this would have been OK had she not emailed me that I'd have the file the next day. Again--nothing wrong with the quality--at the end of the day I got several options to work with, but I cannot tolerate this level of slowness/unresponsiveness. I can't imagine paying her to do wedding invites and then sitting on pins and needles waiting to hear back.

If you are stressed about sending out beautiful invitations and know that your handwriting just…read moredoes not cut it, Genie is your lady! She's like a magical calligraphy fairy, and a very detail-oriented, cheerful one at that. Her process is really simple~on her Web site, you choose which font(s) you'd like and send her your list of addresses and envelopes. She will then send you a detailed cost estimate and a sense of the timing to expect. Genie will contact you with any questions (she standardized my list so that all "Apartments" were spelled out) and she really understands how to work with frazzled brides!! Genie is also gracious when taking your suggestions. Because some of our invitations were destined for British addresses, I found that the Genevieve font was much more legible for the postal code numbers than the Daniella font (which we did use for our Boston list). Genie took care of each set of addresses and the envelopes were mailed to us very promptly. I can't thank Genie enough for working with me on my invitations. Brides know this can be a stressful process (I think I've even mentioned the word stress twice in this review!), and Elite Calligraphy takes a lot of the pressure away.

Genie did an outstanding job addressing our wedding invitation envelopes. Genie provided sound…read moreadvice on etiquette and thoughtful suggestions on style. We received many compliments from our guests about Genie's work. It truly is beautiful. I would highly recommend working with Genie!

We hired Maryanne Grebenstein from the Abbey Studio to personalize our Wedding Invitations by…read morehand-lettering both the Inner and Outer Envelopes with our guest's names and mailing addresses. From the beginning, Maryanne was extremely accommodating, even inviting us into her home to discuss our needs, look over fonts and select ink colors. Our invitations were a bit delayed in being delivered from our vendor and we had to have all 141 Invitations in the mail in just 2 weeks, providing our guests the appropriate 30 days to RSVP. Maryanne was very up-front with us, letting us know that for 141 guests (282 envelopes essentially), she would typically ask for at least 3 weeks. We completely understood we gave her a tall order & worked to prepare everything else invitation-wise we possibly could to not further delay shipping. Our entire wedding planning process was flawless and it was looking like the most stressful part was going to be getting these invitations mailed in time ... Well, thank goodness for Maryanne. Since she is a total ROCKSTAR and completed all of our envelopes in just 9 DAYS, we were able to get our Invitations mailed right on time. We received so many compliments on her calligraphy & were told that it was the perfect accent to our pocket invitations. We can't even explain how huge of a blessing Maryanne was to us. Her art perfectly tied together the "feel" we were going for and certainly set the tone for our wedding. Thank you so much, Maryanne!

Maryanne is lovely and very communicative, and she recently undertook a very rushed last-minute job…read morefor our organization at a reasonable price meeting all necessary deadlines. Trust her and the studio with any of your important projects. :-) She even e-mailed the morning the package was delivered to ensure that it was received from our loading dock.

Highly recommend Ally! She was so responsive and was able to turn our vision into reality in a…read moreshort month leading to our wedding. I wish I had went to Ally early on (lesson learned!) and that would have saved me the stress. But despite this short turnaround, she was able to design our cocktail sign, seating chart, table numbers, and menus for our summer wedding. All of the signs were high quality, and many of our guests complimented us on the designs! Ally was great to work with. We would highly recommend her for your wedding or any event.

Ally is a gem and her work is beautiful! Most importantly, she saved my behind…read more After planning my sisters wedding, I decided I would also take charge of the name cards for the reception. The Monday before the wedding I sat down to attempt to write out the guests names and promptly realized I was in way over my head. I ruined all of the extra cards I had and resorted to drinking. Tuesday afternoon (3 days before the wedding!!) I found Ally on Yelp and sent her a panicked message, hoping that somehow she'd be able to help. She responded immediately and put me at ease. She gave me a quick VERY reasonable quote, I sent her an inspiration photo, and we arranged for me to drop the cards off with her that evening. She promised a 24 hour turn around, as the wedding is on Saturday and she was going out of town on Friday. I dropped the cards off with Ally on Tuesday evening, and she texted me on Wednesday morning saying the cards would be ready to be picked up at 5:30 that evening. LESS that 24 hours later. The cards are stunning and I can actually relax and enjoy the wedding!! I could not recommend Ally more, she is a kind person and an incredible calligrapher.

I could CRY right now because of the generosity of the owner and his daughter…read more I had called a dozen places to see if they do urn engravings (wooden, rectangular box) for a memorial happening tomorrow. The box had arrived very last minute, no one could help and I was in a huge bind. They offered to do this very last minute project after hours for our family. I know this will give everyone in our family just a little bit more comfort seeing the beautiful engraving with a name instead of a cold, solid box. Not only that- but the saxophone on the urn managed to snap off during shipping. They offered to FIX it for me!! I will also say- I wasn't sure what to expect since I had never been in this type of store...but they really do quality, amazing work! I had so many ideas in my head for future projects! HIGHLY RECOMMEND Support family owned, small business! Compassion, and empathy are such a RARE quality. It gives me hope in humanity when these acts of kindness are extended. They will never been understand what this meant to our family! I hope they stay in business for many years to come!

Fast, high quality, competitively priced. Friendly and professionally staffed and enjoyable to be…read morearound