Memorial stationery for independent funeral homes
A set of memorial stationery your families will keep, offered as your home’s own.
Folders, programs, prayer cards, signs and thank-you cards, drawn by hand from the plants of your region and set like a fine press book. You offer it to families as your signature collection. Your staff fill in each piece in a few minutes.
The offer
One payment. A collection that is yours to offer every family.
What your home receives
- Three looks, Herbarium, Colophon and Mourning Rule, so each family can choose.
- Every piece a service needs: memorial folder, eight-page program, prayer card, bookmark, welcome sign, thank-you card, register book pages and a set for screens.
- Five colorways, each one ink on its own paper tone: fern green, iron gall, ink blue, oxblood and lamp black. Families choose; your home can also fix one as its house color.
- Six plants to choose from, native to your region and drawn by hand. Each family picks the one that means something to them, and it carries through every piece.
- The family’s photograph, prepared for print. Staff drop in any photo, even one from a phone. It is cropped to the frame and printed toned to the ink, in black and white, or in full color.
- Files your staff can fill in with free Adobe Acrobat Reader, and print on your own printer or at any print shop.
- Your home credited once, small, on the back of each piece.
What it earns your home
Homes that offer a matched, designed set charge families $150 to $250 for it. One family covers the cost of the collection. After that, it is part of your arrangement offering for every service.
House Collection
$249
$199 for our first 25 homes. One payment, no contract.
Your own plant
+$499
A plant drawn for your home alone and added to your set. It is never sold to anyone else.
Seasons
$49a year
Optional. New drawings for your region as they are finished.
In your rooms
On the shelf, at the door, by the graveside.
Three looks
Herbarium, Colophon and Mourning Rule.
Most memorial print relies on doves, sunsets and gold script. These take their cue from herbaria, private press books and nineteenth-century mourning stationery instead. Each prints in one ink on uncoated paper.
The photograph
Their photograph, set like a plate in a book.
Families bring the picture they love most: an old print, a scan, a photo on a phone. Your staff drop it in once, and it takes its place on every piece in the set.
- The family chooses a photograph. Any picture works. Staff can scan a print at the front desk.
- Staff drop it in. It is cropped to the frame and sized for the folder, the prayer card and the sign at once.
- The family chooses how it prints. Toned to the ink, in black and white, or in full color.
Every piece
One set, from the program to the sign.
The plant
Each family chooses its plant.
Your region’s set has six drawings. A family might choose the flower from a garden she kept, or the fern from the woods he walked. The same drawing then appears on the folder, the cards and the sign.
Colorways
One ink, one paper, five ways.
Every collection comes in five colorways. Each prints in a single ink on its own paper tone, so it reads as made rather than designed on a screen.
Drawn for your region
A plant from the place they are laid to rest.
Each region has its own set of drawings, made by hand from botanical plates. The label under each one names the plant and where it grows, so a family in the Hudson Valley sees a plant from the Hudson Valley.
The drawings are made for Fernhouse alone and are not sold anywhere else.
After the service
The thank-you card belongs to the same set.
Families leave with a folder, a prayer card and a stack of thank-you cards that all match, which is what makes it feel considered.
The builder
See your home’s set before you buy it.
Every change shows on all three pieces. The person on the sample is made up.
Setting the type…
Founding price for the first 25 homes. One payment, no contract. The sample is free and carries a watermark.
What you get
Files your staff can fill in, and your printer can print as they are.
- Memorial folder in each collection, 5.5 x 8.5 in folded. One file for a print shop, with bleed, and one for your office printer on letter paper.
- Prayer card, 2.5 x 4.25 in, front and back.
- Welcome sign, 18 x 24 in.
- Fill-in fields for the name, dates, service, life story, verse and a photograph. Each box is sized to fit, so text never runs off the page.
- A printer's specification for each collection: stock, ink, trim and bleed, with notes on seed paper and vellum.
- A proof sheet listing every word we set, so you check the spelling of your home's details once.