Left Handed Calligrapher

Dallas Calligrapher

  • Home
  • Engraving
  • Scripts
  • Pricing
  • Shop
  • Press
  • Blog
  • Contact

Wedding Calligrapher – Setting up your guest list

February 17, 2014

Congratulations on your engagement!  It is so much fun planning the flowers and picking out the dress.  The worst part is putting together a guest list – lots of spelling checks and address checks and if you are not a whiz at excel it can be a bit overwhelming… since you have never put together a guest list like this before.  Today I wanted to chat about a couple of useful tricks to make you organized and your calligrapher happy.

wedding guest list

In the image below you can see how I like my guest lists set up for the basic list and for the advanced list to sort by any category (for you data driven couples).  The most important item is that there is a column for each line: the name, address, city/state/zip.

wedding guest list

Basic List

excel wedding guest list

Advanced List

Are you having trouble with the visual aspect of reading across?  Here is a nice hint – to return for a new line within an excel cell – click “Alt + Enter”.  Now you don’t have to space across until it looks like a new line.

This is never recommended though because the calligrapher will mail merge your list into a word document that will be easier for her to read.

wedding guest list tips

Final note – Remember to send your list to be checked by multiple people before sending it to your calligrapher.  We know you have spent months cultivating your list and changing spelling and addresses until it is perfect, it is easy to overlook something you have been looking at for so long.  Don’t be afraid to ask a second (or fifth) set of eyes to double check the list and probably save you some money!

Still wanting more? – you can download my guest list templates from the website here!

Have more questions – send them to me and they will be answered in a future post.

Filed Under: calligraphy, gadget geek, Notes and Such, Pretty Paper, Wonderous Weddings Leave a Comment

share it pin it tweet it

Davinci

February 26, 2008

I know you think I am going to blog about Davinci and his crazy left handed right to left backwards writing ways today. (not today, but maybe in the future!) Today, I am getting some inspiration from Davinci Haus, a German based zero carbon house building firm. This is great because each house is different designed exactly to your needs on the specific land you own. These prefabricated buildings are not available in the states (boo), but they have been around for the past 70 years working in residential and commercial real estate. They also provide excellent options for indoors swimming pools, furniture to coordinate with the new home, and modern gourmet kitchens. I’m in inspirational love. pictures provided but I recommend exploring the website.
“We build your house (depending on size) between 8 to 16 weeks to a fix price / fix date – no advance payments – no deposits and all we guarantee you in contract and maybe in the highest quality in Europe! See it with your own eyes. There is no space for a snag list… 100% customer satisfaction.” …. I wish it was like that on this side of the pond!

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Eco-Conscious, gadget geek Leave a Comment

share it pin it tweet it

nicole@thelefthandedcalligrapher.com

© 2023 Left Handed Calligrapher

| a doodle dog creative website