One of my very dear friends recently travelled to Portugal for the wedding of her manager.  It was an unusual wedding in that, the newlywed couple are both American, but the bride has lived and worked in Ireland for the past number of years but is now planning to relocate back to America after the read more…

While not strictly a wedding-event, when I got the brochure from the Celtic Ross Hotel about their Girlie weekend package in aid of Action Breast Cancer, I thought it would be a great bonding weekend for a bride and her bridesmaids, or mother-of-the-bride/groom, or indeed a chilled low key hen event.

It’s on the weekend of the 9th read more…

This weekend is the annual Cork Women’s Mini Marathon and the weddingdates.ie team are getting involved by entering the race gowned up and ready to go!  We are running for Cork ARC Cancer Support House, a very worthy cause.  A few of us did the marathon last year in Wedding Dresses and it was great fun read more…

We are delighted to have the entire Cusack Hotel Group on board weddingdates.ie this month and to kick off their series of videos we have the first one from the 3* Newgrange Hotel which is in Navan town, Co. Meath.

With average prices of €32.00 per head, why not can check availability here for this Wedding Venue in Meath?

This Sunday sees a Wedding Fair in one of our favourite funky venues in Co. Meath - Marriott Ashbourne Hotel.  The Hotel will welcome couples from 1-5pm on Sunday 27th September 2009.  Admission is free for the exhibition, which will include a host of local wedding suppliers and services, presentations and tips for that very special read more…

A quick post to congratulate the Claregalway Hotel on its win at the 21st Hotel & Catering Review Gold Medal Awards last night in Dublin.  They won outright in their category for Best Three Star Hotel.  All credit goes to Owner/Managers Paul and Nora Gill and the superior team in the Claregalway Hotel who are highly efficient read more…

You all know that I love the quirky, unusual and FUN stuff over on this blog, and when it comes to a wedding car, I don’t think it gets more quirky than THIS!! The guys at www.vintagebridalcars.ie do a lovely range of vintage wedding cars, but they also have the uber-cool General Lee (from the Dukes read more…

We are always trying to improve things here at WeddingDates.ie to make sure that you guys are finding the information you need and are satisfied with your experience using the site.  We are doing a bit of research at the moment with our users to find out more about how they interact with the site read more…

Last night on RTE’s new show Higher Ground, you might have seen Jill FitzGerald and her Cake Topper Business.  Jill handmakes personalised cake toppers for wedding and occasion cakes.  They can be as quirky or traditional as you choose…the limit is your imagination!  Is your groom a big GAA-head or Rugby buff?  Maybe you play read more…

Whenever anyone talks about Wedding Insurance, you get the inevitable giggles about the wedding being covered if you get jilted at the alter; however in these tough financial times, wedding insurance is nothing to be sniggered at.  We hear stories every day about companies going out of business, or hotels closing down – for what read more…