Bespoke Wedding Stationery

I'm always open to new ideas, but generally the below are the most common stationery items I design:

• Invitations

• RSVP cards

• Info cards

• Order of service

• Place cards

• Menus

• Welcome signs

• Order of the day signs

• Table plans

• Table names

• Favour cards

• Thank you cards

• + any other signage you fancy!

Details of the design & production process for totally bespoke wedding stationery is below:

• You read through the below Ts&Cs and ensure you are happy. 

• You email me OR contact me via the contact form with details of what you are looking for (as much detail as possible is always helpful - share screenshots, bonkers ideas, colour palettes - whatever your vision is!)

• If needed, I will send you the link to a google form to find out any additional specific details to help me with the quotation. 

• Once I've received all the information I need to accurately quote, I'll send you back a personalised quotation to review.

• If you are happy with the quotation and would like to go ahead booking me, you confirm that you would like to proceed and transfer the 50% deposit payment so that I can crack on with your designs!

• I send back first visuals (a PDF proof) within 3 weeks of receiving the deposit for you to review. If I'm creating multiple items of stationery, I usually just focus on the main stationery item first (e.g. the invitation). This is so we can make sure you love the illustration and the design style before I spend time creating the other pieces. 

• If you are happy with the first visuals and don't require any amendments and you've only ordered one stationery item (e.g. invitations only), the 50% payment is due prior to me sending the designs to my printers. Your printed wedding stationery should then be with you within 3 weeks (usually 7-10 days but always best to prepare for 3 weeks just incase!).

• If you are happy with the first visuals and ordered multiple stationery items, I will then work on creating designs that work cohesively with that design for each of the other stationery items. You can expect this within 2-3 weeks from your feedback on the first visuals. 

• If you have any revisions after the first visuals (in line with the Revision Terms & Conditions below), let me know so that I can get to work getting the designs perfect for your needs. I will send you a revised proof with the amendments after receiving your feedback. Once you approve the revised proof, see the points above for what happens next!

PRICING:

ILLUSTRATION FEE + DESIGN FEE + PRODUCTION FEE + DELIVERY FEE = TOTAL PRICE 

Illustration Fee

This is dependent on the complexity and quantity of illustrations required. Once I know more about your ideas, I can accurately quote for this. Pricing is usually between £75 - £300 per illustration. Illustrations can be re-used across your stationery suite. 

Design Fee

Pricing depends on the complexity of the design and the number of design hours that will be needed. My time is charged at £35 per hour. Once I know more about your ideas and the stationery that you need, I can send through a no obligation quotation. 

Production Fees

High quality printing on premium paper stocks is costly but makes the world of difference if you would like your invitations to stand out on a fridge full of other invitations! It also makes each item of stationery feel like an heirloom piece and something that you could keep to show future generations. 

Printing pricing depends on the quantity required, so please get in touch for an accurate quotation, but as a general guide I've included some estimates below. Note that these may be subject to change as per inflationary price increases from the printers & material suppliers that I work with:

A1 sign = £50

A2 sign = £33

Note that the above pricing estimates are for standard rectangular shaped paper/board. For custom shapes like arches or wavy edges; for non standard folds like concertina or gate fold; or for premium finishes like digital foiling, letterpress or hot foiling, please get in touch for a bespoke quotation. 

Kraft or white envelopes are supplied with all invitations, thank you cards and RSVP cards (where required). If you would like coloured envelopes to match your chosen colour palette, there may be an additional surcharge. It's usually about 5p-40p extra per envelope, depending on the colour required. 

Delivery Fee

£5.00 for A5 size stationery and below

£10.00 for large scale signage (A3 size and above)

PAYMENT

Once your order is confirmed, a 50% deposit is due before I can begin any work on your order. Once the designs are finalised and approved by you, the balance is due before your order is sent to print. Preferred mode of payment is via bank transfer. Bank transfer details are provided on the invoice.

REVISIONS

Included in the price is up to 3 revisions for each item of stationery you have ordered (e.g. full day invitation = one design, evening invitation = one design, RSVP card = one design). To clarify, a revision is where upon receiving a design proof from the Inky Acorn Designs, you, the customer, request an alteration. For my existing designs, the revisions included within the price are: additional wording to be added, font colour changes, switching to a layout I use in another of my existing designs, changing the case of the font (e.g. to sentence case or all capitals). 

If revisions are required, you are advised to collate them and send them to Inky Acorn Designs together in one email where possible as each request received from you to make amendments to the design will count as one revision. (e.g. If you request that I amend the font colour and then later send a request for additional wording to be added to the design, this will count as two revisions. However, if you request both these changes at the same time, in the same email; it will only be classified as one revision. The reasoning for this is that each minor change can significantly impact different elements of the design, so if I have all the information of changes required at the same time, it will take much less time to resolve revisions than if multiple separate amendment requests are received at differing times.)

CHARGEABLE REVISIONS: 

If you want different colours used in the drawing, please get in touch. It might be that the colour change is quite simple or it could be much more complex and time consuming for me to change. I need to understand what you would like before I can quote for colour changes or drawing changes. 

If in the unlikely event that the you are unhappy with the final design and the 3 revisions have been utilised, you have the option to request additional revisions for an additional charge of £20 per hour of my time, or to terminate the agreement. If the agreement is terminated by you, the deposit will be kept by Inky Acorn Designs and no other charges will be due and no further work will be completed by Inky Acorn Designs and no physical items will be shipped to you.

PROOFING

All designs will be sent by PDF to you to approve before they are sent off to print. Once you have approved the files, I unfortunately cannot take any responsibility for any spelling errors that you did not notice on the proof, even if the spelling error is due to the word being mis-copied from the wording you provided to Inky Acorn Designs. Please thoroughly check each proof carefully before you confirm a design is approved. If you spot an error after the designs have been sent to print, payment for re-printing will be required before corrected designs can be sent to print. 

RIGHTS & REPRODUCTION

All images and designs created by Sophie Hodges are copyright to Sophie Hodges for Inky Acorn Designs. 

Designs and images created by Sophie Hodges for Inky Acorn Designs may not be edited, copied, sold or reproduced without her permission. E.g. you may not crop one of Sophie Hodges' designs and print it yourself onto an order of service. No work of Sophie Hodges, whether in draft or final stages, may be inputted into any form of AI. 

Inky Acorn Designs reserves the right to re-use commissioned illustrations and/or designs in any future projects or commercial products unless explicitly agreed prior to work starting. Note that exclusive usage illustrations would require an additional exclusive use fee to those prices listed above. 

SOCIAL MEDIA

Unless specified, you permit Inky Acorn Designs to use photographs of the finished designs for portfolio use, on social media (Instagram @inkyacorndesigns) and on inkyacorndesigns.com. You will not be tagged in social posts unless you specifically request Inky Acorn Designs to do so.