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Posted on October 30, 2024November 14, 2024 by Hello Snowflake Designs

Wedding Invitations for Your Kilshane House Celebration

Venue Focus – Kilshane House, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

When planning a wedding at Kilshane House, one of Ireland’s most stunning and historic venues, your wedding invitations set the stage for the elegance and magic your guests can expect. Nestled in the heart of County Tipperary, Kilshane House is a Regency estate that blends grandeur with charm, and your invitations should reflect this unique balance. Here’s how you can craft the perfect wedding invitations to match the beauty of Kilshane House.

Kilshane House Ireland Wedding save the dates

Set the Tone with a Classic Design

Kilshane House is renowned for its timeless beauty. Built in 1822, it features breathtaking architecture, a conservatory that feels like stepping into a romantic era, and sprawling gardens. To capture this essence, consider wedding invitations that embrace classic, elegant design elements:

Neutral Color Palettes: Soft whites, creams, and gold accents evoke the sophistication of the venue. These colors mirror the refined interiors and stunning grounds of Kilshane House.
Calligraphy and Elegant Fonts: Opt for traditional fonts like serif or a hand-lettered calligraphy style. This adds a personal touch while maintaining an old-world charm.
Foil Press Printing: High-quality printing techniques such as foil pressing, embossing or letterpress can give your invitations a tactile elegance that matches the venue’s luxurious atmosphere.

Incorporate the Natural Beauty of the Grounds

Kilshane House is as much about the natural surroundings as it is about the architecture. From its lush gardens to the peaceful lake, nature is an essential part of its charm. Consider incorporating botanical or nature-inspired elements into your invitations:

Floral Illustrations: Use illustrations of local flora, like Irish wildflowers, or designs that nod to Kilshane’s gardens, like acorns.
Earthy Tones: Beyond the neutral palette, you can incorporate natural tones like soft greens, dusty blues, or warm blushes to bring the outdoors into your design.
Wax Seals and Ribbons: Tying your invitation suite with silk ribbons or using wax seals with a botanical motif adds a touch of rustic romance, perfect for a venue that feels both opulent and natural.

Add Personal Touches to Reflect Your Love Story

Kilshane House offers an intimate yet grand setting, and your invitations should reflect your unique love story. Personaliwe your invitations to make them meaningful and distinctive:

Custom Venue Illustrations: Include an illustration of Kilshane House, featuring its iconic conservatory or the beautiful facade. This not only adds a personal touch but also introduces your guests to the stunning venue they’ll soon be visiting.
Monograms or Family Crests: Incorporating a custom monogram or, if appropriate, a family crest adds a regal and traditional element that aligns with the historic nature of Kilshane House.

Practical Information for Guests Traveling to Kilshane House

Because Kilshane House is tucked away in the serene countryside, some of your guests may not be familiar with the area. It’s essential to provide them with clear and thoughtful details:

Travel Directions: Include a map or a detailed description of how to get to the venue. You can also create a custom wedding website with GPS coordinates and travel tips, especially for guests traveling from abroad.
Accommodation Options: Provide information about nearby hotels, guesthouses, or the possibility of staying at Kilshane itself if your wedding package allows. Guests will appreciate knowing about local amenities in advance.
Itinerary for the Day: A small schedule of the ceremony, reception, and any other activities planned at Kilshane House can be included as part of the invitation suite, especially if the celebrations will take place over several days.

Your wedding at Kilshane House is a celebration of love in one of Ireland’s most picturesque and romantic venues. The invitations are your guests’ first introduction to this unforgettable event, so let them reflect the beauty, elegance, and personal touches that make Kilshane House so special. Whether you opt for a timeless, botanical, or custom design, your wedding invitations will be the perfect prelude to your dream day in Tipperary.

With the right balance of style, personal detail, and practicality, your wedding invitations will leave a lasting impression, inviting your guests to share in a celebration that mirrors the grandeur of Kilshane House.

Posted on September 30, 2019October 11, 2019 by Hello Snowflake Designs — 1 Comment

Top 10 Wedding Invitation Tips You Need to Know

Top 10 Wedding Invitation tips blog post

Your wedding invitations are the first peek your wedding guests get into the style of wedding you are planning. It gives them a glimpse of what they can expect on your big day. When you get to the stage of posting them out, the excitement starts to build. Here are my top 10 wedding invitation tips to get you stamping and posting, celebrating and doing your happy dance!

Hello Snowflake Designs Wedding Program Fan — The Caroline Wedding Order of Service Fan

1. Wedding Invitation Style

The style you choose will set the tone of your Wedding Day – whether it’s going to be formal, elegant and black tie or boho, rustic and outdoor – your wedding invitations must set the style.

If you are planning an elegant, formal wedding then the wording of your wedding invitations should reflect that. Whereas if you are planning a more casual, destination, beach-style wedding you would choose more relaxed wording for your wedding invitations.

The design style of the wedding invitations must also reflect your wedding day style. A formal wedding calls for an elegant wedding invitation style, whereas a relaxed wedding lends itself to a more colourful, playful wedding invitation.

Emily Minimalist Wedding Invitation — The Emily wedding invitation is perfect for a formal style wedding

2. Wedding Invitation Colours

As you begin to plan your Wedding you will start to think about what colour combinations you love. What colour your Bridesmaids will wear, the Groomsmen and what colour decor you will use. Make sure you tie your wedding invitations in with your colour scheme. Your wedding invitation tells your guests what style of wedding you will have so be sure to follow that colour scheme through your bridal party and decoration theme.

Hello Snowflake Designs Caroline Wedding Invitation and Envelope Liner

Hello Snowflake Designs One Fab Day Feature

Hello Snowflake Designs Caroline Wedding Menu

3. Wedding Invitations – When to Start?

If you decide to send Save the Date cards then you need to plan your time in advance. I would suggest sending Save the Dates about 6 months before your Wedding date. But of course, you need to decide on a design and get them printed so don’t delay. If of course you’ve decided not to send Save the Date cards then be sure to give your guests plenty of notice by sending your wedding invitations about 2 months before the wedding, or 3 months if you are having a destination wedding.

4. RSVP Card or RSVP details on the Wedding Invitation?

The choice between sending an RSVP card or including the RSVP details on the wedding invitation often comes down to the style of the wedding and your budget. Adding on RSVP cards does increase the cost of your Wedding Stationery but if you order everything at the same time you can often get them at a reduced cost. If you are having a formal wedding then the expectation is that you would send an RSVP card, whereas if your wedding has a more relaxed tone it would not be unusual to include the RSVP details on your wedding invitation. Either decision is perfectly fine, nobody will judge you on whether you do or you don’t send them.

5. Wedding Invitation Paper Types

Wedding invitations can be printed in numerous styles of paper. Generally a thick, luxurious, card stock is used with texture to give that luxe feel to your invitations. We like to print on linen and aquarelle card which are both beautiful thick, textured cotton card stocks with beautiful detail and soft to the touch. We also love the addition of vellum and of course offer a range of recycled card stock too for the sustainable bride and groom.

6. Envelope Liners

Take your wedding invitations up a notch with envelope liners. They fill what is usually a blank space and can add such class and elegance to your envelopes. You can buy envelope liners already fitted or to fit yourself. Knowing how much work it takes to fit them I’d advise you to leave the job to the experts unless you really enjoy spending hours in the evening putting them together!

Hanna Wedding Invitation Envelope Liners

7. Calligraphy

Something to consider is how you will address you envelopes. Traditionally wedding invitations are hand-addressed. Depending on how many wedding invitations you intend to send and how neat your writing is will help you make the decision on whether or not you want to hire a calligrapher. Having a calligrapher hand-address your envelopes can turn a standard envelope into a thing of beauty. There are many very talented calligraphers who can help with this task and one of our favourites is Jagdeep Sahans from Wedding Calligraphy Ireland.

8. Triple Check the Wording

Check, check and check again. Once you agree your proof with your stationer and your wedding invitations go to print it is very difficult to make changes without it costing a lot of money! We check every proof that we send to our clients but of course we also want the bride and groom to confirm our checks. Some names are spelt differently and of course you don’t want mistakes on your wedding invitations. Make sure to check all the details, including the grammar and to be sure ask a friend to run their eye over the wording as sometimes you can be blind to mistakes when you see the same design so often.

9. How many Wedding Invitations do I need?

When it comes to counting your numbers, often people think, ‘I’ll have 100 people at my wedding so I need 100 invitations’. Take a look at your list, who lives with whom, who are married, in a relationship or living together. Then go back through and reassess your numbers for invitations. Remember to count the households, not the individuals. We have put together a 100 Guest Wedding Stationery pack that includes 80 wedding invitations because on average 80 would be needed, 100 wedding menus, 100 wedding programs and 5 bridal party proposal cards.

That should cover all your guests and some extras for you and your photographer.

10. What other Wedding Stationery do I need?

Think ahead about what type of wedding stationery you would like. It makes financial sense and is most efficient to order all of your wedding stationery at the same time. For example, we offer free shipping on wedding stationery when €200 or more is spent, which means if you order everything at the same time you won’t have to pay multiple shipping fees. That is just one way you can save.

The 100 Guest Wedding Stationery pack that we offer is another fantastic way to save. If you are looking for wedding invitations, wedding menus and order of service cards then this pack is perfect for you. With this pack you can save about €70 which you can spend elsewhere on your Wedding.

In terms of matching wedding stationery to go with your invitations you can consider:

Save the Date cards
RSVP cards
Menus
Table numbers
Place cards
Custom wax seal stamp
Envelope liners
Envelope seal stickers
Order of Service cards / Wedding Programs
Thank You cards
Bridal Party Proposal Cards
Hen / Stag / Wedding Shower Invitations
Favour Tags / Stickers

Caroline Wedding Stationery Collection Save the Date Card Front

Caroline Wedding Stationery Collection Envelope Seal and RSVP Card

Caroline Wedding Stationery Collection Order of Service Card Front

Caroline Wedding Stationery Collection Menu Front and Back

We can design and print everything above in the same design so that your wedding stationery theme runs through every element from your Save the Date cards to your Thank you cards.

Ok, now it’s time to get planning – let’s chat about your Wedding Stationery and start planning what you need.

Posted on July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 by Hello Snowflake Designs

Classic wedding invitations with a botanical envelope liner

Black and White

We love black and white and how formal yet classic a tone it can set. We are delighted to share our new Emily wedding stationery collection with you. Our Emily wedding range can be tailored to your style with a variety of envelope liners available. This means you can add a dash of bright colour to your wedding invitations while maintaining a formal, classic style.

This wedding invitation features a beautiful, elegant script font and when printed on textured linen paper it makes a real statement, which your wedding guests will love to receive. This wedding stationery suite is perfect for the couple planning a classical style wedding.

Check out the variety of envelope liners available for this wedding invitation range. Contact us if you would like to discuss an alternative style

Emily Wedding Invitation and Envelope Liner

Hello Snowflake Designs Emily Wedding Invitation

The back of the Emily wedding invitation stays in keeping with the classic style and features the couple’s names in a beautiful script font.

Personalisation

The Emily wedding invitations can be personalised in a number of ways. We offer two types of cardstock, linen or recycled matte. We have other cardstock options available but these two options are what we recommend for wedding invitations. The wording on any wedding stationery item can be changed and of course all your own personal details will be included. All of our wedding invitations include white envelopes. We also offer envelope upgrades. It is possible to order a custom envelope liner with the Emily wedding invitation, while we also stock a range of coloured envelopes.

Complete the look

Complete this look with the other matching pieces! The Emily range also features a wedding menu and a wedding program. We can offer other wedding stationery in this range if you require; thank you cards, envelope seals, wax seals, RSVP cards and save the date cards.

The Emily wedding menu is printed with the same beautiful script font and matching design on the back.

The wedding program card is printed front and back. This card is also often referred to as the order of service card.

The front of the order of service card usually features the details of the ceremony, while the back includes details of the wedding party and the guests taking part in the ceremony. This wedding program can be edited to include your own personal ceremony details and design.

Find out more about our Emily wedding invitations and start planning your wedding stationery range today.