Kreative Blends Calligraphy does incredible work! And so fun to work with. They have great…read moresuggestions and truly artistic technique. Bravo. @yelpchicago @kreativeblends

Attended an event recently to watch Kristen do live calligraphy! I've seen her work but never seen…read moreher or anyone else do this craft in person. The craft that goes into this is amazing. I love to see her range on items from ornaments, tumblers, perfume bottles, champagne bottles etc. For this particular event she engraved tin lunch boxes and they came out so cute!! Can't wait to attend her next event!

Katherine was so friendly, responsive and talented. I received my placecards back in record time…read more They are so beautiful and exactly what I wanted. I can't wait to use them at my upcoming celebration dinner. I received many compliments on the placecards! Very beautiful.

This is a hard review to write. I hired Katherine to hand-write names on 80 table placecards for…read moreour July wedding. She charges $1 per placecard (invitation set prices are higher). She responded promptly to my emails and has a detailed website with calligraphy samples, so I felt I had a good idea of what I was getting into. I had our table placecards custom designed- they were ecru matte cardstock with a skyline image of chicago covering the bottom 1/3 of the image. The Sears Tower (where we held our wedding) appeared on the right side of the placecard, extending almost to the top of the placecard. The most important thing that I explained to her is that instead of doing table numbers, we did Chicago neighborhoods, and these neighborhood names were pre-printed on the bottom of each card in the skyline. I gave Katherine a detailed spreadsheet of each guest, their meal choice, and the neighborhood table they were seated at. She called a few days later to tell me the order was complete and we set a time for me to pick them up. When I saw the cards, my heart sank. Although the penmanship was nearly perfect (beautiful!) she wrote the names near the bottom of the card, covering the skyline. Even worse, she had been directed to put a B (for beef), C (for chicken) or V (for veggie) on the card. She put the letter on the top of the Sears Tower, covering about 1/8 of it and making the fact that it was a Sears Tower much harder to distinguish. If I did this again, I would have asked for a sample on our placecard first to be sure she was doing exactly what I expected. I suppose I was wrong to assume that she would write in the cream space above the skyline and put the meal choice in the upper left, leaving the Sears Tower unobstructed. But I had presumed that if your business is artistic like this, you would have the good sense to know where to write the names. Two stars because she is very nice, and has great hand-writing. Three stars taken away for no asthetic sense, which I believe is an important part of her job. If you choose to work with her, get a sample of your specific piece before you commit!

Mariette of GiftBandit.com did all our invitations, maps and place cards for our wedding on…read moreSeptember 4th.Mariette is extremely professional, detail oriented and patient.She takes great pride in her work. I had difficult Armenian names to spell and she was very understanding. Mariette is extremely skilled and offers a huge variety of invitation choices. I would recommend Giftbandit.com and Mariette to anyone who is planning a wedding.You will be very pleased with the quality and expertise!! Tammy

Mariette did a fantastic interpretation with attention to details, finding creative solutions and…read morereally understanding the special gift I was looking to send a friend. Wonderful to work with and tenacious with UPS when gift was lost. Recommend highly working with Mariette.

We were gathering friends and family for a wedding celebration and wanted professional and classy…read morelooking work down for our invitations. Elaine did a wonderful job - good communications, timely work and the results were spectacular. If your are looking for creative and high quality lettering at reasonable prices I would highly recommend Elaine for your project.

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Christy is absolutely incredible! She gold-foiled initials onto wallets for my groomsmen and the…read morework turned out perfect. Exactly what I was looking for! She delivered under a very tight deadline and even went out of her way to meet me to make things easier. On top of her amazing craftsmanship, she could not be sweeter! Truly one of the nicest people I've ever met. I can't recommend her highly enough!

I was referred to Christy by my Wedding Planner: Urban Allure Events. In short - SHE IS AMAZING!…read moreHer final product, pricing and customer service are all WONDERFUL! Christy provided a seating chart mirror for us, as well as a "Hello Gorgeous" mirror for selfies. She answered questions via email quickly. Everything at our event was on time and high quality. We were thrilled! Hire her now with confidence and move to the next item on your wedding planning list. Wishing you much success and love in your happily ever after!

Mike is creative, patient, prompt. The finished product is wonderful,, exactly what I wanted. I…read morewill definitely use him again.

I Needed a small job to enhance the messaging for some wooden fillable Christmas ornaments …read more Mike did an EXCELLANT job !!! My 3 Grand-daughters are going to LOVE it . Thank You Again Mike.

One of my best wedding finds throughout the entire process was Stephanie to do the calligraphy for…read moreour invitations, the place cards and a few other fun decor items. In a sea of craziness, Stephanie was the sweet, kind calm calligrapher who gave me exactly what we wanted with her modern and contemporary style. I truly lucked out with this Yelp find. She was amazing. But that wasn't all. She went above and beyond. A couple weeks before our wedding, we lost one of our labradors suddenly. Obviously our labs were important to us and Stephanie knew that since we had about 200 black and chocolate colored mini lab place cards that would be set up with a dog house and other related items. Each of our labs was also going to get their own card and be positioned near the dog house just for fun. Well, Stephanie took it upon herself to create lil gold wings for the lab we lost and did the same for another lab we lost earlier. Both were set up on a mini rainbow bridge. Fab calligraphy aside...she won me over with this act of kindness. xo

Stephanie did a wonderful job in creating a seating arrangement chart for our wedding. She was…read moreaffordable, professional and creative. We received many compliments from our guests on the beautiful board. Stephanie gave us the option of her buying the board and staining it, but we decided to do it ourselves. We're so glad we had her do our calligraphy...it was a nice touch that helped us immensely.

I found Sandy (Letter Perfect Designs) on Etsy and I am so glad I did. She handled all of the…read moreenvelope addressing for my daughter's bat mitzvah invitations. She worked with me on a font that complimented the invitations and set the tone for the type of party were were having. I was so thrilled with the quality that I went back to Letter Perfect and had them make some really fun two-sided escort cards and table numbers as well. Sandy's communication and turn around time were excellent and I appreciated the feedback and opinions she offered. I will 100% be going back for our thank you cards and then later in the year for our holiday cards. Letter Perfect Designs was such an excellent find! I would not hesitate to recommend them! Perfect scores all around! THANK YOU!

I found Sandy through Google and was looking for someone to address the outer envelope of my…read morewedding invitations. I am so happy I stumbled upon her. I went with digital calligraphy for my envelopes and they came out perfect! It was so nice to have someone local to where I could drop them off and pick them up and not have to address them myself and worry about messing up. Her website was easy to navigate and she responded quickly to emails. I would definitely recommend Sandy to anyone!

IK Calligraphy did a great job on my invitations. They were very professional and on time. They…read moreshipped these to NY and back. No problem. Great communication and very friendly! Thank You for making my invitations look SO GREAT!

Irene just dropped off my wedding invitations! They are perfect and beautiful. She did them so fast…read moreand is very reasonable! Amazing :) Thank you so much! Lisa

I enlisted Linda's help with the outer and inner envelopes for our wedding invitations. Linda is…read morewonderful in every way! She was extremely responsive via email during our planning phase and provided examples of her options very quickly. I dropped off the envelopes with an expected turnaround of 2 months but Linda finished in 5 weeks, far earlier than scheduled. Her work is beautiful and impeccable. Having Linda help was a huge weight off my shoulders and was well worth the cost. Above all, she is such a positive person that the entire process felt like meeting with an old friend. I cannot recommend her enough!

I worked with Linda to do a custom piece of calligraphy, including matting and framing. She was a…read morejoy to work with and was extremely enthusiastic about the project, and I was very pleased with the piece. I would highly recommend her for both her calligraphy and friendliness. I love finding such excellent local businesses to support.