Christmas
Eve at Thirty-Two Legare
Vendor guide · 32 Legare Street, Charleston
If you are reading only one part
- Whoever prints it
- Cotton rag with a real tooth, digital offset, and one brushed
stripe of pink painted along the card edge. Nothing is foiled, metallic or glittered —
the brass on the ornament caps is a painted ochre, and if it comes out shiny it is
wrong. The paper stays ivory: no dark grounds, no navy, no forest-green backgrounds. The colour
goes on top of the paper, never behind it.
- Anyone setting type
- Pink leads, and pink never sets a word. It measures 3.11 to
1 against this ivory — enough to be seen, not enough to be read — so spruce carries every line.
There is no black anywhere in this world. One word on the invitation is hand-lettered:
Christmas, in a real written script, in the pink. Everything else is set properly.
- Whoever sets the tables
- Three tables in the double drawing room with the pocket doors
pushed back. The menu is read by a ninety-one-year-old without glasses — that is a real
constraint on the type size, not a preference.
- Anyone tempted to make it a Christmas card
- Please do not. No plaid, no tartan, no
buffalo check. No snow, no snowflakes, no reindeer, no Santa, no sleighs, no candy canes. The
ornaments are the subject.
The event
The evening
- Date
- Thursday, 24 December 2026
- From
- Half past six. Supper at seven, carols at nine
- Where
- The Pomeroy House
32 Legare Street, Charleston
- Evorrah
- An 1817 Charleston single house south of Broad — one room wide, turned
sideways to the street, double piazzas down the south flank, a garden gate onto Legare. Cypress
panelling in a chalky old white, heart-pine floors gone the colour of weak tea, and a double
drawing room that opens into one long room when the pocket doors are pushed back.
- Guests
- 44, at three tables
- Dress
- Festive — “wear something with colour in it”, the one rule Nonie ever
made
- Replies by
- 5 December 2026
- Files delivered
- 20 November 2026
The visual identity at a glance
Warm ivory#FAF5EA
the paper, with a real tooth
Spruce#2E4A26
every word — there is no black
Bubblegum#E45C8C
it leads — and it is never type
Leaf#5F8F3E
a spring leaf, never a fir tree
Crimson#CE3B44
used less than the other two
Painted brass#C09553
the caps — a pigment, never a foil
Pink is not an accent and it is not blush. Nonie thought a
Christmas that was only red and green was a Christmas that had not been thought about, and everything
Evorrah owns for this evening is pink and green together. But pink is paint on the paper —
a stripe, a swirl, an ornament — and the moment it is asked to be a word it stops working.
Two faces that work, and one that appears exactly once.
Fraunces — the names and the numbers.
Hanken Grotesk — everything a
guest reads, set large enough to be read across a table without glasses.
Christmas
Yellowtail — one word, on the
invitation, in the pink. It is spent there and nowhere else.
Match to the printed piece, not to these squares. These are screen values, and the client's
own test is the real one: hold a card up to the 1964 ornament, and if the pink does not match, the
pink is wrong.
Stationery arriving
| Piece | Trim | How many |
|---|
| Invitation | 5 × 7″, painted edge | one per household |
| Envelope | A7 — digital calligraphy addressing | as invitations |
| Save the Date | 5 × 7″ | as invitations |
| RSVP Card | 4.25 × 5.5″ | as invitations |
| Menu Card | 4 × 9″ | 49 — 44 + 5 spare |
| Place Cards | 2 × 3.5″ folded | 49 — 44 + 5 spare |
| Table Numbers | 5 × 7″ | 4 — 3 tables + 1 spare |
| Favour Tags | 2 × 3.5″ | 49 — one per guest, + 5 spare |
| Welcome Signage | 24 × 36″ | 1 |
| Thank You Card | 4.25 × 5.5″ | one per household |
44 guests plus a proofing margin.
“One per household” is the envelope count.
Day-of notes
The ornaments are the whole thing, and the suite empties as the box does.
Nonie — Anne Pomeroy, though nobody has called her Anne since 1948 — bought her first hand-painted
glass ornament in 1959 from a shop on King Street that closed in 1981, and one every year after,
writing the year on the brass cap in pencil. There are sixty-seven. She left the box with a note
that said only keep buying them. Every guest leaves with one, and it never comes
back.
- The favour tags
- Each tag carries the year of the ornament it is tied to, and
those years run
1959 – 2025
so the design has to hold a four-digit year gracefully at a very small size. Check it at final
trim, not on screen.
- The menu
- Set to be read without glasses at ninety-one. If a line has to be
shortened to keep the size up, shorten the line.
- The cascade
- The Save the Date carries the whole cluster; the invitation carries the
cascade with one lockup under it; the signage carries the cluster at architectural scale; menu
and table numbers carry a single object each; the place card carries the smallest. It thins out
on purpose — do not even it up.
- The painted edge
- One brushed stripe of pink along the card edge. On the real ornaments
the paint pools slightly at the bottom of each stripe; that looseness is the reference, not a
defect to correct.
- Material
- Cotton rag, digital offset, digital calligraphy addressing. No foil, no
metallic, no glitter, no gold leaf.
Please do not
- No photographs of the family or Evorrah — the ornaments are the subject.
- No plaid, no tartan, no buffalo check.
- No snow, no snowflakes, no reindeer, no Santa, no sleighs, no candy canes.
- No foil, no metallic, no gold leaf, no glitter. The brass is a painted colour.
- No dark grounds, no navy, no forest-green background. The paper stays ivory.
- Nothing minimal or pared-back.
- Pink setting a word. It leads as paint, and spruce carries the type.
Marguerite's own list, and her test: “I would hold a
card up to the 1964 ornament and if the pink does not match, the pink is wrong.”
Questions about anything on this sheet
Ask the studio directly rather than working around a detail —
hello@evorrah.com. Artwork, the painted-edge specification
and colour references can be sent to a supplier on request.