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Wedding Place Cards – Unique ideas to impress your guests!

Weddings are a momentous occasion to be cherished for a lifetime. Putting unique touches small or large can help make the most of those memories. One way to personalize your wedding is by creating bespoke place cards that guests can appreciate and take home.  It’s also a great fun task that you can DIY and read more..

Top 10 Must-Read Wedding Blogs

We love writing the wedding blog here on WeddingDates.ie but we also love READING some other great blogs, from Ireland and farther afield.  You can get some really great ideas and inspiration from wedding blogs and often times a good giggle in the process!

Here’s our guide to the top 10 wedding blogs that you really should read more..

Celtic Wedding Blessing

I stumbled across this today on the web and thought while a bit twee, the sentiment is lovely.  Sometimes we are too quick here in Ireland to dismiss things like this as for-the-American tourists, but I can’t imagine any couple soon to be married that wouldn’t appreciate the message in this Irish wedding blessing…

May God read more..

Labour of Love – make your own rings?!

What a fabulous idea to get creative and really have something special and memorable at the end of it!  The Irish Design House is launching its program whereby you can “make your own wedding rings”.  All details are outlined on the below flier.  They are limiting the numbers to one couple per weekend and will read more..

Flair with Favour Boxes

Anything that can do two jobs at a wedding is a cost saver. And whilst wedding favours are still an optional extra in Ireland that a lot of couples skip when they’re looking after the pennies, they can actually be a low-cost way to add flair and style to your reception venue.

Beautifully tied boxes like read more..

Hats Off To You!

I’m always looking for quirky ways to get out there and promote weddingdates.ie and get the brand out there to a larger audience.  So, with the biggest race meeting in Ireland coming up attracting tens of thousands of visitors and fabulously dressed ladies sporting even more fantastic hats, I thought – what the hell, I read more..

Happy Wedding Day!

Yes, I realise that the below is a birthday cake and that most of us do not get married on our birthdays. (Although how much would that rock? It really would be all about you!) I just thought this was a really sweet looking cake and that the toppers were super-fun:

It would be adorable to read more..

FREE Wedding Invitations (No Really!)

You know how everything to do with a wedding is really freakin’, annoyingly expensive? Well, here’s a free template set for beautiful, customised multi-piece wedding invitations:

The set includes invitation, RSVP card and Save the Date card, too. These templates come courtesy of Etsy designer curlygnomes and are available to download for free at Vecteezy.
They come read more..

Flower Power – Take control of your wedding flowers

This week, I came across an innovative new idea from Flowers Made Easy – they are launching their own Flower School, a workshop to teach aspiring amateur florists and brides-to-be how to make their own wedding bouquets.  The next workshop is on Saturday 13th June and they are accepting bookings now.  You can sign up read more..

Do us a Favour, will ya?

In our wedding budget survey last November many of you told us that due to the R-word, you are cutting back on the ‘optional extras’ of the wedding day such as wedding favours.  Now, while I am all in favour of cutting costs and not going over-the-top in terms of your wedding budget, I have read more..

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