The inevitable creep of the computer age is slowly but surely encroaching on the domain of calligraphy. Where people would hire a calligrapher to design and create a beautiful set of wedding invitations and place cards in the past, the tendency now is to jump onto the computer and print out your own.

Tradition shows that a calligraphy-written card was always the way it has been done. A monk would sit down and write the contents of the invitation for engaged couples.

While there is nothing wrong with doing your own invitations on the computer, there is still something special about picking up a calligraphy pen and giving the invitations your own personal touch. Taking it a step further, particularly if you don’t know your way around a calligraphy pen, you can hire a calligrapher to design your cards for you. Handmade, whether by you or someone you hired for the job will always give your invitations that unbeatable human touch.

A good calligrapher will have created wedding invitations before and so, they will have a portfolio of previous work to look over which will help in choosing how you want your cards to look. This will certainly make your card an extremely unique one.

Because, no matter how skilled the calligrapher is, each invitation card will contain differences giving them a uniqueness that will come to be treasured. It would be a good idea to get your prospective calligrapher to do an example card for you, to check the work. Alternatively you can just hire the calligrapher to do the one card and copy it to produce the balance of the order. Naturally, you lose the unique nature of each invitation but you are saving a considerable amount of money if that’s the option you choose.

A consideration that you’re going to have to factor in if you go for a handmade calligraphy wedding invitation is that it is going to be expensive. As a matter of fact, the cost of a card can be quite high if you would like to make all your cards hand-written. This is probably one of the disadvantages of such a wedding card.

That brings us back to taking up a calligraphy pen, learning some calligraphy and creating your own wedding invitations. The invitations will be more meaningful to you and also to your guests, not to mention to act as a strong talking point.