Who Loves Calligraphy!

This guy does! I (Luke) have an obsession with calligraphy and the extreme talent of the skilled calligraphers out there. I have spent hours on YouTube watching videos that make this art look effortless.

When we found our wedding invitation calligrapher, Jennifer Taylor, we were SO happy! We went to her house, looked over all of her jaw-dropping samples and in the end she created a style that was completely custom to us and matched our invitations to a tee! When we went to pick up our invitations I even asked Jennifer if she could write my name in calligraphy. She did and did it with ease. The only thing is that she wrote my name as Lucas Benjamin Williams! Williams was Cat's maiden name, so we got a good laugh out of that :)

After going through the process of selecting our wedding invitations calligraphy, we started to follow other calligraphers and I may have tried to do a little of it myself too. If anyone knows of a calligraphy school, let me know. I have read books, but I think that one-on-one instruction would be best! I have broken too many nibs and turned my fingers black too many times!

We just discovered a Los Angeles calligrapher, Molly Jacques, and spent a good hour yesterday looking at her amazing work! Who wishes this was their wedding invitation?

These little handwritten details are what can push your wedding over the top!

Also, if you are following along with our home renovations, you know that we are adding some French Doors where our bay windows used to be and building a deck off one side of our house. Then we are putting up a fence and making a side yard! We are so pumped about this!

(I should use the term "we" loosely because neither Cat nor I are doing any of the work, we just provide moral support for the guys taking an entire wall out of our house!)

Cat and I are already planning what we want out new space to look like and we fell in love with this "calligraphied" chalkboard we found!

There is still a lot to be done with the construction, but we will keep you updated as we progress through this excitement!