5 favourite invitations for a luxury stately home wedding, with Polina Perri

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This is a guest article written by our friends at Polina Perri

If you want to add a real sense of grandeur to your wedding while maintaining a homely and inviting atmosphere, a stately home wedding could be a perfect choice. Whether you envision a grand and dramatic wedding or an intimate ceremony, the enchantment of a stately home will create a magical setting for your big day.

We would like to present you 5 favourite wedding invitations for a luxury stately home wedding which will convey the ambiance of the stunning stately home, giving your guests a glimpse of the majestic glamour they will encounter on the day.

IVORY VIRGINIA WEDDING INVITATION

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The embossed pattern of Polina Perri’s Virginia wedding invitation design resembles a refined brocade texture.

A delicate shimmer of ivory Italian card stock enhances the similarity with the lustre of precious threads. The smooth satin ribbon brings contrast to the relief tracery.

A rhinestone brooch with a pearl in the centerpiece puts the final accent on this beautiful design.  See more...

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New English Wedding member welcome – Luxe wedding stationery by Polina Perri

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Following beautifully on the heels of yesterday’s luxury wedding at Morden Hall, today I’m thrilled to be introducing a new member of the English Wedding team. Polina Perri is a wedding stationery studio whose luxe, elegant invitation designs are perfect for elegant and designer weddings in our most beautiful English stately homes and manors.

Polina Perri design studio was established in 2009. We are a visionary, conceptual, luxury brand striving to adorn your world and create the best memories of your special day. Drawing an inspiration from the world around us, we take traditional ideas and bring into existence one-of-a-kind fashionable products.

The clientele of our studio is very diverse – from celebrities to young couples on a budget – and we always welcome every new customer with genuine passion for creating their perfect wedding stationery! Furthermore, we operate not only in the UK nationwide – orders are shipped all over the world.  See more...

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Luxury fine art wedding stationery by Pingle Pie

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Happy weekend, you lovely people!! Are you enjoying all the sunshine, or ready for some raindrops and that delicious smell of dusty grass after the first summer showers? I’ve almost forgotten where I left my brolly, way back in April! Today though, we’re thinking ahead to summer weddings, bright and breezy sunny celebrations with beautiful styling touches and the loveliest stationery to set the scene for the day. I’d like to introduce you to lovely Kim from Pingle Pie.

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Pingle Pie’s pre­designed collections are passionately refined to produce unique suites that can be altered to perfectly suit your day. Each stationery piece is listed separately so that you can pick and choose which items you’d like to purchase ­ there’s something for every budget.

Our designs are hand painted and designed in­house, making each piece truly unique. If you love our style and would like to have something designed especially for you, get in touch to discuss your ideas. We understand that each wedding is unique and for this reason, we never sell the same bespoke design twice guaranteeing individuality with each and every custom order.  See more...

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Beautiful wedding invitations and stationery by Olive Weddings

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Olive Weddings was created by graphic designer Ruth Snell and is run from a small studio in a leafy suburb of Cardiff, Wales.

Ruth’s work was recently highly commended at the 2018 Welsh Wedding Awards and has been featured in countless national wedding magazines. She has even provided stationery for a number of celebrity weddings during the ten years she has worked as a wedding stationer.

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Ruth offers a complete wedding stationery service. The Olive Weddings website showcases her stunning range of beautiful wedding invitation designs and offers free sample packs along with tailored samples in tailored colours, designs and formats for a small fee.

Olive Weddings also offers a gorgeous range of finishing touches such as belly bands, eye-popping bakers twine, tags and mix-and-match patterned envelope liners, including some luxe botanicals and trendy geometric designs.

A bespoke design and illustrated stationery service is available for those seeking an even more personalised set for their big day. Ruth is a talented illustrator and has produced many original drawings for couples looking looking for something unique to reflect themselves or their wedding.  See more...

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Happy Birthday! We’re celebrating with THREE very special offers for you today :-)

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Hey lovelies! I wrote this yesterday – this morning I’m either still in bed, or up a mountain, or sat in the sunshine having a cheeky glass of wine and some boxes of chocolate… and definitely not feeling my age! It’s the anniversary of the day I popped out into the world many years ago, so I am celebrating with a day off!

I also thought it would be nice to celebrate with some special offers for all of you lovely people who have supported the English Wedding Blog for so many years. You’re all awesome. So here you go…

WIN your wedding invitations!

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These beauties arrived at English Wedding HQ last week. Prices officially start from £1.50, but you can win your wedding invitations up to the value of £100 today.

TO ENTER…

  1. Visit our Instagram page
  2. Find the pic of the invitations shown on this blog post and give us some love!
  3. Leave a comment and tag a friend 🙂

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10% saving on wedding invitations this weekend!

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Order your invitations from the English Wedding Shop this weekend and CLAIM 10% OFF the total price of your order with our exclusive code at the checkout. You’re welcome!

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Serenity wedding invitation, with illustrations by Amy Swann

Save 10% on the most beautiful printed wedding invitations

Choose your wedding invitations from our beautiful stationery collections, add the quantities you need to your basket – including RSVPs if you’d like them, and enter the code APRIL18 at the checkout. Your 10% discount will be applied automatically and we’ll be in touch to ask for personalisation details (names, venue, date and time etc.) within 48 hours*

*Monday – Friday

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Modern Minimalist fine art wedding invitation

Our designer wedding invitations are printed on luxury Italian card stock and all come with quality white envelopes. We pride ourselves on attention to detail, and you’ll receive a digital proof of your invitations and RSVP cards before they go to print.  See more...

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A brand new wedding invitation – Ethereal, from the Wild & Painterly collection by Amy Swann & By Moon & Tide Calligraphy

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If you’re looking for beautiful invitations which reflect an English garden theme, we have the perfect solution for you. These beauties are unique – illustrated by fabulous cake artist and designer Amy Swann, with hand calligraphy by Claire at By Moon & Tide – they will delight guests from day one.

Available now from Not On The High Street, they’re affordable, completely personalisable and start from just £2.50. Imagine your wedding bouquet: the beautiful wildness of nature tumbled into the most stunning armful of blooms you ever did see.

The ‘Ethereal’ wedding invitation is designed to capture the spirit of a modern bouquet – Illustrator Amy Swann’s stunning statement blooms make this our favourite all-year-round wedding invite. With soft tones and handwritten calligraphy, it’s perfect for flower-lovers, like us!

Buy your Ethereal wedding invitations from Not On The High Street today!

Huge thanks to lovely Carl and Lisa at 166 Photography for taking the beautiful images of the Wild & Painterly wedding stationery collection for the English Wedding Blog Shop. Gorgeous flowers by Shirley from S & A Floral Design, Lincolnshire

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Exclusive calligraphy workshop offer – save 15% when you book this week for June!

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Hello lovelies! I have a treat for you today – an EXCLUSIVE saving for English Wedding Blog readers for a modern calligraphy workshop in Manchester on the 23rd of June.

I host calligraphy workshops every few weeks – this summer’s dates will be June 23rd and 11th August. We spend 2 – 3 hours on a chilled out Friday afternoon learning to write beautiful letters together, and I honestly love teaching the classes so much!

The calligraphy workshop is small and friendly, with only around a dozen places in each class. Students are always a mix of brides-to-be and their friends or mums, creative wedding industry folks, graphic designers and crafty types. Whichever of these you are, you will LOVE learning modern calligraphy – anyone can do it! Manchester is wonderfully central with students coming by train from as far as Edinburgh and Birmingham, Wales and Newcastle for the day!  See more...

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Simple, understated elegance – calligraphy wedding invitations from By Moon & Tide

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If you would like to find wedding invitations with simple, elegant design which are perfectly on trend for 2017 – I like to think I have the answer.

These beautifully simple calligraphy invitations from By Moon & Tide are based on a handwritten original master copy, created especially for you.

They’re also wonderfully affordable and you can buy them now in the English Wedding Blog Shop!

 

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Heirloom is a stunning designer monogram wedding invitation with beautiful modern lettering and your names in handwritten calligraphy. Headed with your personalised monogram in a modern and organic calligraphy style, this relaxed and ultra chic invite will really impress your guests.

From £2.55

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Laurel is a chic and simple calligraphy wedding invitation featuring a hand drawn wreath with your names in pretty calligraphy. We love it and hope you do too!

From £2.25

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Visit the shop to see invitations, wedding decor and accessories at Shop.English-Wedding.com

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Managing your wedding stationery expectations and sticking to a sensible budget for beautiful invitations

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Do you have a vision for your perfect wedding invitations? Are you collecting images you love on Pinterest, but leaving it until 6 months or so before your wedding to place an order? Or do you think DIY-ing your invites will save you money? (And surely it can’t be that hard, right?)

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I’ve been a wedding calligrapher for 12 years. I’ve made bespoke invites, launched my own collections and helped hundreds of brides and grooms find their perfect stationery. I’ve also seen thousands of invitations cross my desk from letterpress companies, high street brands and little independent wedding invitation designers.

But I’m lucky – I get to see (and make!) your stationery: I don’t have to find something for my own wedding. It’s hard – for some of you it will be way more complicated than you think. You’ll need to make compromises, scale back your expectations… or maybe be surprised when you find invitations which are less expensive than you thought they could be!

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So we opened a shop!

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Hello lovelies! I hope you’re having a really good week. Spring is here at last, and with it the exciting news that the English Wedding Blog SHOP is now open!! We’ve been working really hard behind the scenes since – ooh – Christmas?! – to bring you our brand new shop, and it’s all up and running, ready for business!

The English Wedding Blog Shop brings together all of the things I love. It’s early days and I  plan to add more lovely things for you to buy soon. You can shop for wedding invitations today – these are close to my heart as they’re designed by my beautiful illustrator friend Amy Swann and feature my calligraphy (I’ll even address envelopes for you if you’d like to hire me!).

I hope you love shopping with us – keep checking back as we add more lovely bits and pieces in there. Suggestions for anything you’d like to see and buy in the English Wedding Blog Shop are always welcome!

Claire

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Announce your wedding in extraordinarily beautiful fashion, with Cotton Letterpress

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There’s something very, very special about letterpress. It’s the way you’re drawn to touch what your eyes are drinking in; the way foil print catches the light; the luscious thick cards and striking colours. As a calligrapher it’s one of my very favourite things…

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Today I wanted to show you a few suites by Cotton Letterpress. These guys have a fabulous eye for design: their stationery is exquisitely styled and beautifully produced (I know this: I’ve had the pleasure of adding a little handwritten calligraphy to their invites and envelopes and I loved every second.)

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Cotton Letterpress use vintage 1950s presses to create their striking, unique and luxurious wedding stationery.

They’ve just launched their new website and new collections which include a wide variety of themes and styles.

You can choose your own colours for each design (and experiment with how it looks online – trust me; this is so much fun!), and make the most of their online quote builder to easily see how much your wedding stationery will come to.  See more...

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