Shaye Calligraphy & Design

Katelyn is very pleasant to work with and super talented!!! If you give her some inspiration, she'll run with it and I guarantee you'll be pleased with the outcome.

I had the pleasure of working with Shaye Calligraphy & Design almost a year ago to the day. She provided the tables numbers for my wedding reception. She was very prompt and responsive after first contacting her about my ideas. She offered great advice and pictures to help me pin down the exact look I wanted. We stayed in contact throughout the entire process. The execution of her work was exactly what I was looking for. Shaye Calligraphy & Design was the perfect vendor! I would highly recommend her to my friends and family.

We hired Katelyn to create our save the dates, invitation suite, escort cards, table numbers, card box, welcome sign, programs and menus for our winter wedding. Her work is AMAZING. She is a design genius, so talented, so professional, and so incredibly sweet. I really felt that her number one goal was making sure I was happy, and when hiring a vendor for your wedding, you can’t ask for anything more. When it was time to send out our save-the-dates, we knew we didn’t want a standard engagement photo announcement, so we started looking for calligraphers. I had something specific in mind and was looking for someone to create it for us. We wanted our printed materials to be elegant, classic and beautiful, and I felt Katelyn’s style matched all of those qualities. From the first time we spoke, I just felt like Katelyn understood my vision exactly. She asked the right questions, offered helpful suggestions, and provided clarity to me where I was struggling to explain my ideas. She ended up creating an incredible sketch of Chicago’s skyline as the main focal point of the invitation, which we were blown away by. Besides loving her calligraphy, her sketching and drawing work was beyond what we had imagined. When we sent them to friends and family, we received a ridiculous amount of complements and praise on them. Mostly people wanted to know where we found them online, ha! We loved the save-the-dates so much we ended up hiring Katelyn to creative our invitation suite and the remainder of our printed materials / wedding extras. We decided having a beautifully designed, hand-written invitation that you can’t purchase online made us feel like we had something that was uniquely ours. Again we met to discuss our vision, and she provide recommendations on incorporating wax seals, ribbons and liners - which I really needed help with. For the invitation suite, she provided three different options for us to choose from; I was impressed that she even showcased three different writing styles. Honestly it was hard to choose just one - we loved them all that much. Between myself, my mom and my fiancé weighing in, we decided to merge two styles together. In terms of our feedback, she listened to our changes and made them in a very timely fashion. For our other pieces, Katelyn drew inspiration from our invitations, so it was wonderful to see how everything fit together perfectly. She even hand-wrote all of the escort cards and table numbers which really took our decor to the next level. Everything she created looked so elegant and complemented our formal venue perfectly. Even the typically boring card box she crated was nicer than anything I could have imagined. My favorite piece she created was probably the welcome sign. My mom found a vintage picture frame from my grandparents house and we converted it to a mirror for her to write on. It meant so much to have a personal item incorporated into our day, and Katelyn’s calligraphy was the perfect addition to it. Overall, hiring her was the smartest decision we made during our entire planning process and we could not be happier. If you’re on the fence about getting a calligrapher, it’s really a no brainer, you NEED to hire her for your wedding needs. Besides being such a wonderful person to work with, all of our materials could be described as truly beautiful. We actually framed some of her work hung it in our new house so we can cherish it forever. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, Katelyn!!

Katelyn did an amazing job with our wedding invites and table numbers! Her calligraphy is a work of art, and we received so many compliments from our family and friends on our handwritten envelopes. We even had her write one for us as a keepsake so we can look back on it for years to come. Katelyn is amazing to work with! She’s very detail oriented and was super helpful choosing which colorway would look best for both our invites and table numbers. We received everything very timely. We are so happy we chose Katelyn to do our calligraphy for our wedding day!

Katelyn did an absolutely amazing job on our wedding numbers and custom signs! She was extremely timely, professional, and trustworthy. The signes completed the entire look of the wedding. Thank you Katelyn for everything you did to make our day special. We had so many compliments on your work. We hands down recommend Katelyn for your upcoming event!

Katelyn exceeds expectations! I recently ordered the canvas with the different cocktails on it to hang above my bar cart and I couldn’t be happier with it. I get so many compliments on it! I also ordered a custom calligraphy return address stamp for my best friend’s engagement party/housewarming gift and she was able to use it immediately on all of her thank you notes for the party. Katelyn is very creative and detail-oriented. She will always put 110% into every project she works on. You won’t be disappointed if you choose Katelyn. I cannot wait to order my next gift from her and one day use her for my wedding!

Katelyn is absolutely amazing to work with! Her calligraphy and designs are truly a work of art. My favorite part of wedding planning was designing my invitations and it was all thanks to Katelyn! I would HIGHLY recommend her to any bride!

Katelyn designeda beautiful sign with the happy couples last name for their living room as a wedding gift. She was not only very helpful at providing gift ideas but also sent multiple script options and designs for me to choose from. She was very timely in her responses and had the gifts ready and shipped to me right on time. 10/10 service and will definitely be purchasing from her in the future for wedding gifts and for myself in the future!

I will always recommend Shaye Calligraphy to my closest friends and family. Katelyn does flawless work and pays meticulous attention to every detail. We used Shaye Calligraphy for our wedding and Katelyn gave us creative insight and ideas when I was unsure what I wanted. All of her work is classy, creative and beautiful!

Hiring Katelyn at Shaye Calligraphy was one of the best decisions I made during my wedding planning! If you are on the fence on whether or not to splurge for custom invitations or calligraphy, I would say splurge. Your invitations are what set the tone for your wedding and having a beautifully designed and hand-written invitation sets the tone for a beautiful wedding. As soon as our guests began receiving our invitations, we got so many calls and texts just raving about the invitation. So many of our single friends said they were keeping ours so that they would have a reference for when they got engaged (the men, too)! Her work is top-notch and working with Katelyn was such a joy. I was recommended by a friend that used her to design custom save the dates (and I just fell in love with them). After talking with Katelyn, hiring her was a no-brainer. She is so sweet, so professional, so detail-oriented and her work is absolutely stunning. We hired her to design our entire invitation suite along with all calligraphy for our invitations. I went to her with a budget and she was so helpful in finding ways to save money through the process (for example; she made a stamp for us for our return envelopes rather than charge us per individual envelope - and super cute to have after your wedding!). She designed three different invitation suites and was so patient with me during my decision process. We ended up hiring her to print them as well (letterpress). Once I saw how gorgeous everything was printed, we decided to have her also do wax stamps for us. I can't describe the response we got on our invitations when people started receiving them; they were in such awe and were so impressed by them, that my mother-in-law made the decision that we needed to hire her for absolutely everything. She said now that we set the tone for this insanely gorgeous wedding, everything related to our wedding had to match. We extended our contract and also had her design all wedding signage (welcome sign, instagram sign, program, escort cards, table numbers, gift card sign, etc). I was probably a little crazy, and never once did she make me feel like I was - Katelyn is so patient, so understanding, so professional and beyond talented. My advice is that you only get one day. Make it your dream wedding and skip the online invitations that all your friends are doing and announce your engagement with custom save-the-dates and invitations by Shaye Calligraphy and Design. Her talent is truly unmatched. If you live in Minneapolis, she is even willing to meet with you in person to discuss the design; her creative mind will absolutely match your vision and I assure you, she will design and create the most aesthetically gorgeous save-the-dates, invitations, thank you cards, escort cards, favors and all things wedding signage! We are so excited to get our wedding pictures back to post and share all her work with everyone! Thank you so much, Katelyn for all your hard work the months leading up to our wedding. Hiring you was THE best Decision EVER!