This year, we are giving you the chance to win a veil this Christmas. Christmas time can be an expensive time for everyone, which is why Fitzpatrick’s Veils of Ireland are giving you the opportunity to win a free wedding veil for the bride in your life this Christmas.

Here at Fitzpatricks Veils of Ireland, we are enthralled with the history of lace. Having been working with lace for over 40 years creating

handmade wedding veils and dresses, we know a thing or two about lace! Although there is no exact date that can be attributed to the ‘invention’ of lace, most historians agree that we associate its beginnings with the early sixteenth century. Early references to ‘lace’ in English texts almost certainly refer to ‘ties’, as this was the primary meaning of the word lace until well into the seventeenth century.