Handwrite or printed?

We printed addresses directly onto the envelopes for our save the dates. Our invitations are from Minted and they offer free address printing so we took advantage of that.

I was excited to try some calligraphy, so I got some Tombow brush pens and printed a handful of alphabet sheets, and felt comfortable enough after a few practice sessions to hand address our invites. It took a little extra time, but I actually really enjoyed doing it and I'm happy with how they turned out.

I hand addressed mine. It was actually more of a "oh crap, I forgot about addressing them" decision rather than a cost saving decision. But I don't think I would have gotten them printed even if I had thought about it because invitations are already so expensive. And honestly, no one cares about them but you. No matter how pretty or how simple they are, people will look at them, possibly put them on the fridge so they remember, but in the end they get trashed so I didn't see the point in spending extra money on those. I will say though, I am no calligraphist, but my handwriting is neat - if I didn't have neat handwriting, I would probably just buy labels from walmart and print them on my computer.

We paid a local woman to do calligraphy so she hand wrote all our guest addresses then our address on the RSVP envelope. Our return address was a stamp we got on Etsy.

We hand wrote ours and it was absolutely fine!

I hand-wrote mine because I like to do that kind of thing.