LIVE CALLIGRAPHY & CUSTOM ENGRAVING SERVICES FOR BRAND ACTIVATIONS

Give Your Guests a Branded
Moment They Won’t Forget

Live calligraphy studio offering custom engraving services for agencies, brands, and corporate teams planning their next activation or event.

Based in Philadelphia and available for travel worldwide.

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Your Brand Deserves an Activation That Runs as Smoothly as the Rest of Your Event

Juggling vendors, managing guest flow, and hoping the final result matches your brand standards shouldn’t fall on your team the day of the event. Studio MCJ plans, staffs, and executes every detail of your live personalization activation, from live calligraphy and custom engraving services to sourcing favors and a digital ordering process, so everything looks and feels intentional to your brand.

What You Receive When You Hire a Fully Managed Activation

You don’t need just a calligraphy artist or engraving services, you need a full-service activation partner to flawlessly elevate your event.

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A Premium Guest Experience

A seamless experience and polished moment guests want to be part of.

A Keepsake Worth Keeping

Personalized favors guests actually use and have a great story about.

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Craft at scale

We source personalized favors and design custom signage, printed and ready to go, so every touchpoint matches your brand.

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Where Live Calligraphy Meets Brand Strategy

Meet Marie Coleman-Johns, a calligraphy artist, custom engraving specialist, and full-service brand activation partner based in Philadelphia and available for travel. 

With a background as a corporate marketing VP, Marie partners with brands, agencies, and event teams to design and execute live engraving and calligraphy experiences that drive meaningful guest engagement. She leads the planning, manages the details, and delivers an efficient on-site experience that supports your goals, from increasing dwell time to creating shareable moments that extend your brand beyond the event.

Meet Marie

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Experiences Guests Are Still Talking About

From national brand activations to intimate corporate events, Studio MCJ has personalized experiences for guests at every scale.

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Custom engraving services that impress.

Live Calligraphy Activations for Every Event

Live event calligraphy and on-site engraving services for brand activations, corporate events, product launches, and PR and influencer events, with every detail of the activation managed for you.

  • Fully managed experience

  • Scalable artist teams

  • Guest liaisons

  • Branded favor sourcing

  • QR code digital ordering

  • Signage design & production

  • Station presentation

  • Nationwide & worldwide travel

  • Live art across services

  • Post-event wrap-up

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Also Available for Weddings, Social Events, and Calligraphy Workshops

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A Seamless Experience Guests Remember Long After Your Event

Here’s how the process works.

Order

Guests place and customize their order from anywhere in the venue from their phone using a fully-branded QR-code ordering system.

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Personalize

Guests gather and watch their gift come to life in real time, while a dedicated Guest Liaison manages the flow so the moment stays smooth even at scale.

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Enjoy

Guests leave with a favor they actually want to keep, and you leave with the data and recap to show it worked.

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Hear from the Brands and Guests Who Were There

  • "Marie was fantastic to communicate with and was great about making our vision come to life"

    “Marie and her team were incredible! We had them custom engrave/foil luggage tags for our company event. Everyone loved the interactive experience and the final product. Marie was fantastic to communicate with and was great about making our vision come to life - she even ordered some luggage tags from a different vendor than she normally used to make sure they matched our company colors and printed out extra instructions cards with our branding to be placed at every table! I 100% recommend Maiden September for any event.”

    — Amanda H. | Corporate Client

  • "A huge thank you for being one of the stars of our event!"

    "We wanted to extend a huge thank you for being one of the stars of our event! You truly impressed everyone, especially the President of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bucks County. He couldn't stop talking about you and your talent! We look forward to working with you again in the future."

    — Ali B. | Event Planner 

  • “Her calligraphy and her charisma really elevated the guest experience."

    "As another live calligrapher, I truly cannot recommend Marie enough! We partnered together for a gifting suite at a pre-party for an awards show in New York, and her calligraphy and her charisma really elevated the guest experience. Her work is stunning and her warm presence made everyone feel at ease and excited for the activation. I cannot wait to work with her again soon!"

    — Cat B. | Calligrapher 

  • “Her work is spectacular.”

    "I'm a Philadelphia area event planner and just worked with Marie at Studio MCJ. Her work is spectacular. My clients and their wedding guests were wowed by the beautiful favors and thrilled to receive a beautiful party favor they actually wanted. Marie was a pleasure to work with and I hope to have her at future client events - soon!"

    — Li H. | Event Planner

  • "She is so professional, kind, and easy to work with."

    "Cannot recommend Marie and her services enough! She is so professional, kind, and easy to work with- and her engraving activation is amazing!!"

    — Cailey G. | Med Spa Client

  • "she was so pleasant and easy to communicate with during the entire planning process."

    "Marie and her team helped make my daughter’s quinceañera an unforgettable night! Everyone absolutely loved the personalized engraved favors! And she was so pleasant and easy to communicate with during the entire planning process. I would definitely recommend using her services!"

    —Cristina G. | Quinceañera Client 

  • "everyone was beyond OBSESSED!!"

    "Marie did custom on-site engraving at my sister’s baby shower and was absolutely amazing!! She engraved custom claw clips and combs for guests and everyone was beyond OBSESSED!! I could not recommend her or this service more!!!"

    —Brooke K. | Baby Shower Client 

Give Your Guests an Experience They Won’t Forget

From activation concept to the last guest gift, Studio MCJ handles the details so your activation becomes a powerful brand experience.

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