Eloise Wren Calloway

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Florist

Nothing that does not grow in the chapel garden. The suite's garden is engraved from a real bowl — dahlias, wild roses, sword ferns, berry sprigs. No stock peonies, no eucalyptus, no pampas. And no pastel nursery register at all: this is a christening, not a baby shower.

Chapel / venue

The palette, and the note on the cross: the only religious mark in the whole suite is a slim typographic Latin cross, the shape of the chapel's own. Please do not add a heavier one to signage or the order of service.

Photographer

The stationery list is the shot list. Worth a frame: the bowl itself, the deckled edge of the invitation in raking light, and the letterpress impression — it only reads at an angle. Note that no printed piece in this suite carries a photograph of the baby; that is a stated rule of the design.

Luncheon / planner

A standing luncheon in the garden at Church Street from twelve; cake cut at one, after the toast to the godparents. Everything else is under Day-of notes.

The event

Date

Sunday, 27 June 2027

Service

Eleven o'clock

Chapel

St Cecilia's Chapel
12 Legare Street, Charleston

Chapel character

A small early-nineteenth-century Episcopal chapel of stuccoed brick, set back behind a wrought-iron gate — lime-washed walls, a plain Palladian window over the altar, worn heart-pine underfoot.

Luncheon

Standing, in the garden at Church Street, from twelve

Guests

74

Dress

Sunday best

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The visual identity at a glance

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

Match to the printed piece, not to these squares. These are screen values. The stationery is letterpressed, so the blue sits in an impression and reads deeper at an angle and paler flat on — and the chapel is lime-washed, which cools everything. Ask for a printed piece before ordering ribbon, linen or painted signage.

Stationery arriving

Counts are 74 guests plus a proofing margin. “One per household” is the envelope count, not the guest count.

Day-of notes

The bowl

A blue-and-white Canton porcelain bowl that has held the water at every Calloway christening since 1931 — Caroline's grandmother, her mother, Caroline, and now Eloise. It is not valuable and it is chipped at the foot. Please handle it as the object it is and do not substitute a font bowl for it, at any point, for any reason.

The garden

The engraved rim of that bowl is the entire ornament of the suite: dahlias, wild roses, sword ferns, berry sprigs, two swallows and one small bird low on the left. The complete four-sided frame belongs to the invitation and the welcome sign only. Every smaller piece gets a fragment — a running band, a corner spray, a single sprig, one bird.

The wren

She is named Eloise Wren, for that bird and for her great-grandmother Wren Calloway. The bird appears exactly once per piece, never twice — and never on the order of service, because the service is not about the bird.

The cross

A slim typographic Latin cross, the shape of the chapel's own, and it is the only religious mark anywhere in the suite. Nothing heavier, nothing added.

Luncheon

Standing, in the garden at Church Street, served from twelve. Cake is cut at one, after the toast to the godparents — not before.

Material

Letterpress from photopolymer, one blue ink in three tint strengths, soft-white cotton rag at 600 gsm duplexed, deckled on the long edges, with a printed liner of the same garden. No foil, no emboss, no wax seal. Envelopes are addressed by hand in the same blue.

Please do not

• No pastel nursery register — no storks, no rattles, no prams, no baby-blue, no cartoon animals, no “Oh Baby” script.
• No gold, silver or any metallic. The bowl has none and neither should the suite.
• No second accent colour. The blue carries everything.
• No heavy graphic crucifix — the only religious mark is the slim typographic cross.
• No photography of the baby on any printed piece.
• No florals that do not grow in the chapel garden — no stock peonies, no eucalyptus, no pampas.

This list is the family's own words. The standard they gave us was Caroline's: “I want it to look like something that has always been in the system.”

Questions about anything on this sheet

Ask the studio directly rather than working around a detail — hello@evorrah.com. Artwork, vector files and colour references for anything listed here can be sent to a supplier on request.

The Baptism of Eloise Wren Calloway · Sunday, 27 June 2027 · St Cecilia's Chapel, Charleston · prepared by Evorrah