Your event identity — the christening bowl

Everything you have been sent is built from a very small number of decisions. They are written down here so that anything you make yourselves — a card at a place, a note with a gift, an order of the day — still belongs to the same morning.

The colours

One blue, printed at three strengths, on a soft-white cotton sheet. That is the whole palette. The full strength carries every word; the second tint draws the garden; the palest is a veil that lets the rim ramp down into the well of the card. There is no metallic anywhere — the bowl has none, and neither does the suite.

Porcelain — the sheet itself

#FAF8F2

Canton blue, full strength — every word

#3F6389

Canton blue, second tint

#5C80A6

Canton blue, palest — the veil

#B9CBD9

Chapel lime-wash

#E7E3DA

The two typefaces

The Baptism of Eloise Wren Calloway

Pinyon Script — the child’s name, and nothing else in the suite. One line, once per piece.

St. Cecilia's Chapel

Cormorant Garamond — every other word — set as text, and as letter-spaced small capitals for the eyebrows and labels.

The one mark

A toile garden, engraved around the rim of a blue-and-white Canton bowl that has held the water at every Calloway christening since 1931 — dahlias, wild roses, sword ferns, berry sprigs, two swallows, and one small bird perched low on the left. Eloise Wren is named for that bird. The complete four-sided frame belongs to the invitation and the welcome sign only. Every smaller piece gets a fragment of the same garden — a running band, a corner spray, a single sprig, one bird — and nothing is ever invented that is not already on the rim.

Letterpress from photopolymer, one blue ink in three tint strengths, on soft-white cotton rag at 600 gsm duplexed and deckled on the long edges. Printed envelope liner of the same garden. No foil, no emboss, no wax seal — the impression and the deckle are the whole finish.

Your suite

Save the date

Envelope liner

Order of service

Luncheon menu

Place card

Welcome sign

Favour tag

Thank you card

Using it yourselves

This is your event's visual identity. If you make anything yourselves, use these exact colours and these two typefaces — the restraint is the design.

The colours, to copy

#FAF8F2 · #3F6389 · #5C80A6 · #B9CBD9 · #E7E3DA

Porcelain — the sheet itself · Canton blue, full strength — every word · Canton blue, second tint · Canton blue, palest — the veil · Chapel lime-wash, in that order.

The two typefaces, and where to get them

Pinyon Script and Cormorant Garamond are both free and open-source, and both are on Google Fonts — search the name, install the family, or pick it straight from the font menu in Canva, Google Docs or Word. You do not need a licence and you do not need to ask us.

5 rules, if you make something new

One blue, at three strengths, and the paper. That is the whole palette.
The full four-sided garden is the invitation and the welcome sign. Everything else gets a fragment.
The wren appears once per piece — never twice, and never on the order of service.
The only religious mark is the slim typographic cross, the shape of the chapel’s own.
Everything drawn grows in the chapel garden: dahlias, wild roses, sword ferns, berry sprigs.

These colours were read off your delivered pieces rather than from a locked palette file — if you want them confirmed against the press proof, ask the studio.