Sweet little shop, just a bit outside Boston, but well worth the stop. I loved the sweet Japanese…read morestationery section, and the fountain pen case was beautiful with Sailor, Pilot, Kaweco, Opus 88, Esterbrook, and others that I hadn't yet come across.

What incredible service, Jenny helped me with choosing my first fountain pen and ink. She took her…read moretime answering all my questions, and even gave her recommendations. I was able to try different nibs, that's not a service you get from big box stores. Here at Paper Mouse, you feel like you're talking with a friend, they really make you feel valued as a customer. Shopping inside the store is like stepping back in time, before large corporations took over. Just browsing is an experience in itself. I highly recommend!

I found Allure Invatation while doing a quick google search for "Wedding Invatations". There was a…read moregroup of six businesses on this half page advertisement. While browsing , I found that Mara, the owner of Allure was very hands on and knowledgeable about style and quality that would best suit my individual needs. Mara was very responsive by phone and e-mail. At the end of the day I "love loved" my choices!!!!!! Mara brought my vision for a 1940's themed wedding to life on paper!!!

I have ordered stationery from Mara in the past; this year my son got married and Mara was the only…read moreperson I would go to for invitations. We gave her some basic guidelines, and she helped bring the vision to reality. She stayed within our budget, yet helped us create an invitation that truly took my breath away, and set the tone that we wanted our guests to feel the first time they opened the envelope. She is enthusiastic, smart, creative, professional, and very intuitive. She is hands-on and very knowledgeable about not only invitations, but any aspect of the wedding you need help with. She has a great network of people she works closely with, but your invitation is the most important one while she is with you. The collection of invitations that she can show you that she has worked on are so wide-ranging that you know she can do whatever you need from themes to the most formal. Most important to me was her professionalism and personality. Don't waste your time going anywhere else for invitations and all that go along with them.

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.

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.

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!

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 used Rosen Studios calligraphy service for my mom's 90th Birthday party…read more Bob wrote on sand dollars for the the table seating and did an excellent job. He is the BEST check him out. Kathy Foster

If you are looking for the most superb calligraphy in the world, you absolutely must use Bob…read moreGoodwin of JR Rosen Studio. I used him to do wedding invitations and escort cards and his workmanship was the most outstanding I have seen of all the myriad examples to which I have been exposed over many, many years of attending weddings and special events. His penmanship is consistently precise, extraordinarily elegant, and beautifully spaced. He is not only a consummate professional, but also I genuinely good and warm person. His rating really should be 10 stars!