On today's episode of the podcast Michelle connects with the lovely Claire White, owner of White Ink Calligraphy. Listen in as Claire answers all those questions you want answers to about any type of print material you're going to need for your wedding.

Claire White puts pen to paper in Nashville Tennessee and has been serving the wedding industry for five years. White Ink started out as a calligraphy studio and has recently expanded to offering full invitation services, graphic design and printing services. White Ink assists their clients with wedding details from Save the Dates to the place cards at their wedding reception, and everything in between.

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Big Takeaways

From Chava: Any tips for creating your own invitation/invitation suites? We want to design the invitation ourselves but how to best execute once we have the design. What card stock would you recommend? Any specifics on how to utilize a cricut?

From Anamaria: Ways to save money on custom invitations.

From Hope: What is the best way to find postage that will compliment your invitation suite without the ability to customize stamps? Do you ever have issues with return addresses printed on the back of envelopes being sent back instead of to the intended recipient because it isn’t on the front in the upper left hand corner?

From Brigit: The whole USPS mailing process. Anything we should know about weight/stamps/ hand canceling (I know I've heard that term before but think it's more expensive??)

From Laura: What’s the best way to address invites in the modern age?

From Amber: What recommendations do you have for seating chart styles and formats (ex. Grouped by tables or alphabetically) in light of Covid and higher likelihood of people not being able to come last minute and maybe needing to shuffle some people around. Especially for outdoor weddings where escort cards are likely to fly away.

From Jessica: Recommendations on what information to actually include on the invites/inserts? -

From Natasha: What's the etiquette for sending out 2 different invitations? One set for the bride's family and a different one for the groom's side. I feel like certain family members need to be told specific things and others do not.

From Nika: Any advice on mailing invites abroad? My save the dates took 6 weeks to get to parts of Europe.

From Manda: Do I have to include physical rsvps or can I just have people go online? I don’t want to be tacky- but also think this could save a good bit of money.

From Cassy: If its OK to add a leaflet about a welcome party in the invitation suite, why is it bad form to add the reception invitation to the suite? Why do people recommend mailing them separately?

Links We Referenced

etsy.com

store.usps.com/store/results/stamps/_/N-9y93lv?_requestid=304204

emilypost.com

crane.com/etiquette-guide

qr-code-generator.com

whiteinkcalligraphy.com

instagram.com/whiteinkcalligraphy

littlepostagehouse.com/vintage-postage-curated-collections

enfieldpost.com

magnoliapostage.com

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