The wedding industry in this country will make you go crazy when you see the overwhelming number of things that you could spend money on and how much each of those individual things could cost. One of the things you could potentially “invest” in would be calligraphy, as in, calligraphy of the addresses on your invitation envelopes, calligraphy for your invitations themselves and all wedding stationery, as well as the calligraphy that writes out every sign or post at your wedding. I have decent hand writing, but not writing that I would want to grace all my wedding signs, so I started looking into how much work this would entail if I could do this myself.

I found a great website that even has videos and downloadable guides for different types of calligraphy last night, and apparently all I have to do is invest $5-10 in a calligraphy pen set, and I can achieve “the look” I am going for myself instead of spending $2-5 per invitation for someone else to write it out for me. There’s even a calligraphy hack where you can trace the letters and run over them again with the same color ink, and no one would know it was a hack except you.

It’s the little wins sometimes.