Handwritten vs. Printed Addresses

Wouldn't think anything of it either way.

Beautiful to look at. In the post office's defense, the workers and computers will have a hard time trying to read it.

I wouldn't even notice, unless it's a hot mess! Personally I'm printing labels on clear labels.

I know some people say that handwriting the envelopes is more personal and shows your guests you care. But one of the first things I saw on my wedding check list was: Hire a Calligrapher. So if you are hiring someone to do it then I feel like that defeats the point of the personal handwriting theory.

Also, my parents were recently invited to a wedding where the couple hired a calligrapher to address the invitations. They were absolutely beautiful but more than half ended up lost, returned to the couple or delivered to the wrong address because the post office couldn't easily read the addresses.

I'm team print or handwrite or do whatever you want as long as your guests receive the invitation.

I hand wrote mine, but I didn't have that many (48 to be exact) because I had the time and I couldn't print on my envelopes from home because the ink wiped right off my metallic envelopes. It took me about 2 weeks doing 5-10 per night every few days.

If I got a printed envelope I don't think I would care unless it was printed on a label...that I would side eye a bit.

It would be an extra $130 to get mine printed so I think I am going the hand written rout.

I honestly don't care. It's an envelope that gets thrown away.

Thanks @Rayla, I do that different feeders on mine so I guess I'll do some tests and find out! Yah !

I'm just hand writing mine. I got a Lettermate to make sure all the spacing is perfect, then wiritng with pencil and going over it sharpie pen. But then again ive been told that my handwriting should be a font. Keep in mind that writing them takes FOREVER but when you don't want to pay an arm and a leg for invites nor do you feel like fighting with the printer it's just easier.

I just turned on Netflix and wrote 10 per night - now they are just sitting in a box waiting for 2 months before I send them lol (they had a 50% off sale for vistaprint and I totally took advantage of it)

In the end no one will really notice - it's an envelope...

I hand printed mine and showed it to a few people. All the feedback I've gotten is that they look like I paid someone to do them. I honestly wouldn't waste any money on getting a calligrapher. It was somewhat time consuming but very worth it. Wish I had a pic I could share but I'm at work. Good luck to you!

I don't notice and don't care BUT since your mom really wants them handwritten and wants to do it herself for free, what is the harm in letting her have her way? Some people find that sort of thing soothing. I know I do.

I wouldn't care.

Our envelopes were done through WPDs, and they did free address printing. Mom offered to work her penmanship on the RSVP cards (because it has a line for the name and another for how many seats are 'reserved in your honor'), but as someone already mentioned, it'd be a lot of work (75 invitations will be going out).

I told her I appreciate the thought, but would much rather put her handwriting to use on personalizing my wedding sneakers

My mom and I hand wrote ours last weekend, and it took about 2.5 hours to complete 135 invitations (so 5 hours if working on them alone). We have very good handwriting, and wrote in cursive. I honestly think it would have taken me just as long to type in everyone's address into the computer.

I pay more attention to whether someone made an effort to make the envelope look nice. If you're just printing the address in a standard, non-decorative font, I'd consider that to be pretty impersonal. Printing the address in a gorgeous script font shows you cared. I'd say that's personal, and I'd say in some cases that shows more attention to detail than sloppily writing an address on an envelope just to say it was handwritten.

I learned brush lettering for mine because I wanted really decorative envelopes. Guests did notice. But I honestly feel like there are stunning printed designs and fonts for envelope addressing that would also wow guests. Even though hand addressing with pseudo calligraphy is something I chose to do, I would still value printed addressing as personal and detail oriented if I received an invitation that was not hand addressed.

People aren't going to care! Save yourself some time and just print them. The envelopes get thrown away as soon as the invite comes out!

I am pretty dang good with Word I think. So I downloaded some awesome fonts from dafont.com and used those fonts for my envelopes. I haven't printed anything yet or even got invites, but I was messing around. I think the printed calligraphy is so pretty, so I am doing the names in calligraphy and then the rest in a pretty font from dafont.com. my hand writing looks like a childs so I think it is better if I write. Plus I get bored and then I mess up! The only reason I pay attention now is because I am getting married, but honestly have never noticed

Definitely handwriting our daughter's. I've gotten all kinds of invitations through the years. I don't give it a single thought how they are addressed. Now, if I got hand calligraphy? I would probably notice. We are not reserving money for addressing. My handwriting is fine. This is family and friends. They don't need impressing. They already are, right?