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Berry,

First, with the exception of font bundles or premiums offered by legitimate foundries or software developers, "free" fonts generally fall into two categories:
1. illegal (pirated) knockoffs of legitimate fonts which may or (more likely) may not look or behave like the real thing (poorly drawn letterforms, unreliable output, inconsistent spacing, etc.);
2. fonts created by amateurs or novice designers or typographers, generally with the same problems as above.

Aside from legal issues, my concern is appearance and performance issues of the fonts I use. There's nothing like spending time designing a piece and finding that the font cannot be set properly or it won't output properly. And who are you going to call?

So, no, I will not recommend "free" fonts.

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Fonts from legitimate, established foundries are cheap software (often around $25 or less per font). If this project is for a paying client, it is accepted practice to bill the client for purchasing font licenses (and even include a markup for your time or for advancing the money).

My list of favorite scripts are meaningless as you don't just choose a font that way. You need to determine which fonts are appropriate for the job, whether designing an ad, a book, a bumper sticker, a restaurant menu...or a wedding invitation. So, as for particular scripts, what are you looking for? Traditional scripts with swashes and flourishes, mimicking classic hand calligraphy? A modern script? A casual script? What is appropriate for the wedding and the couple being married? Are they conservative? Is it a formal wedding and reception? A big affair? A casual wedding by a JP? What kind of paper are the invitations going to be printed on? What colors? Is it a formal invitation layout? How much copy is going on the invitation? How large is the type to be? Etc., etc.

In short, we need enough information to choose intelligently.

There are many scripts out there which could be appropriate. Go to the Adobe type library or to an independent vendor such as www.myfonts.com and do a search on "scripts" and you'll see what I mean. As you can see, there are many questions you have to answer before we can suggest an appropriate font.

Please think about this and get back to us.

Thanks.

Neil