The Blog for Irish Brides (and Grooms!)

Valentine’s Contest: Win a Romantic Weekend Getaway

We’re kicking off the first of our monthly newsletter prize draws in style with a fantastic romantic get away for two.
Prize: Escape to the luxurious, four-star Blarney Golf Resort Hotel & Spa. Enjoy two nights accommodation in a stylish guest room, a romantic gourmet dinner for two, and breakfast both mornings. It’s the perfect engagement read more…

WeddingDates.ie Launch Party: You’re Invited!

It’s been five months since the WeddingDates.ie website went live, but like it says at the top: the bride is always late. So we’re celebrating our launch with a launch party extravaganza on Friday, 13 February at the Cork Vision Centre, and you’re invited!
True to form, we’re throwing our party in wedding reception style, complete read more…

Love Letters: Wedding Dates Newsletter Launching!

Here at the Weddingdates.ie Head Office (also known as the local pub – the “real” office is merely a satellite) we’ve been planning our new monthly newsletter for ages. The one thing we couldn’t come up with is a name, so we foolishly turned to the Internet and asked our online Twitter friends for suggestions.
Here’s read more…

Wedding Caricatures from Caricatures Ireland

If you’re thinking that chocolate fountains are not quite different enough, Irish artist Allan Cavanagh may have what you’ve been looking for:

As an alternative to the traditional guest book, Allan puts his talents to work to create a caricature signing board of the bride and groom. Mount it on poster board or in a custom read more…

Coffee, chocolate, men… some things are just better rich.

Chocolate Fountain - can you resist?!

The WeddingDates.ie crew attended our first wedding fair last weekend, and a certain highlight was traipsing up and down the stairs to ’sample’ the delights of the two chocolate fountains that were on show at the fair. Dark brown, flowing chocolate oozed down a 4-tiered fountain like milk – are you getting a good enough read more…

Meet WeddingDates.ie at the Wedding Showcase, Cork

We’re off to our very first wedding fair as an exhibitor this weekend and we’re so excited we’re practically drooling on our own tulle. If you’re around Cork, come by the Silver Springs Hotel and have fun with us upstairs at booth #F11.

We’ll have an amazing photo booth where you and your girlfriends or fiancé read more…

Sweet and Sassy Notepad Favours

These crafty and sassy mini-notebooks are all the rage; the matchbook style presenation is a nod to the days when smoking was not included on the list of Seven Deadly Sins and couples actually had match books custom printed for their big day as favours because absolutely everybody on the planet smoked.

Ahh, those were the read more…

Looking back on 2008

My Poster Girl Jenny

I began working on the basic concept for weddingdates.ie back last January when I attended my first ever wedding fair.  As I wandered around through the stalls, met with the hoteliers and other wedding suppliers and talked to the eager brides, I realised that there was potential for a business in this “Wedding Industry”.  From read more…