Reaves Engraving Inc

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Reaves Engraving was founded in 1933 by C. McMillan Reaves and his wife Marion. The first home of Reaves was the couple’s kitchen table. The early popularity of Reaves spurred the move from the kitchen table to a one room building in Wagram, North Carolina. Mack traveled throughout the Carolinas selling stationery to law firms while Marion stayed in Wagram to run the wedding invitation operation. After Mack’s death in 1973, Marion sold the business to her sister and brother-in-law, Martha and Lindsay Pratt. Under their watch the company continued its growth through an emphasis on quality, service and value. Subscriptions to major newspapers on the east coast provided Lindsay the ability to contact recently engaged couples to offer them Reaves Engraving invitations. By 1984 Marion had retired and Lindsay and Martha sold the company to their son and daughter-in-law. Lindsay Pratt, Jr. and his wife Gabrielle, moved to North Carolina to learn the family business. In 1996, Reaves Engraving was unable to purchase suitable land for expansion in Wagram and moved to its present location in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Lindsay and Gabrielle began apprenticing their son, Page, in the operations in 2004.

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