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Wow, another FANTASTIC Competition for you loved up brides and grooms to be out there!! I’d love to enter half these myself!! Here’s some info I got this week for the competition between Kildare Village and The K Club…

Kildare Village Outlet Shopping has become romantically entwined with The K Club 5* Golf & Spa Resort to seek out the most hopeless romantic and discover how deep is their love for their partner.  Our true lovesick lady or gent will be rewarded with the wedding of their dreams to share with their partner and 100 of their nearest and dearest guests at one of Ireland’s most aspirational wedding venues, The K Club Golf & Spa Resort in Straffan, Co.Kildare.

To win this incredible prize all you need to do is visit www.wedding.kildarevillage.com to enter the ‘How deep is your love?’ online competition and tell us the lengths you would go to show your love for your partner by uploading a picture, a video or simply tell a story. And we don’t want anything in return. Except, perhaps, your undying devotion to Kildare Village for ever and ever…

We want you to show the world what true romance is all about. We’re looking for those gestures - both tiny and grand - that stir our emotions.  If you are the girlfriend who ruined her killer heels watching him pay his beloved sport in a mucky field? Tell us about it. If you sent a teddy bear in a taxi to your girlfriend’s work because she was feeling poorly, we want to know. The tone can be sweet, romantic or dramatic, in text, photo or video format but it has to win the hearts and minds of the public and our judging panel.

You only have till March 14th to compose and upload your entry.  Next comes VOTING WEEK which begins at 9am on Monday 15th March 2010 so you will need to rally all your friends and get as many votes as possible before the closing time on Monday 22nd March 2010.  At the end of the voting week, the ten entries with the most votes will be reviewed by our team of judges who will select their five favourite entries. During Easter Week the five remaining couples will take part in a live final in Kildare Village to decide who will win the luxury wedding.

What are you waiting for? Take the plunge. Log on to www.wedding.kildarevillage.com today.  G’luck!!

This months competition is courtesy of Boo TeeShirts - personalized t-shirts for hen parties.  You can win a custom designed t-shirt for the bride and 9 of her friends simply by telling us how your G2B proposed in the comments! (click on the link above to add a comment)  We will pick a winner and announce it in next months newsletter.  If you haven’t already signed up to get your monthly wedding fix, you can do so in the pink box on the right —–>>

The prizes just keep getting better and better here at WeddingDates.ie!  And boy, oh boy you aren’t gonna want to miss this!!

This month, enter our competition and you could relax and indulge yourself at the prestigious Mount Juliet in Kilkenny with an overnight stay for two people, B&B with a complimentary dinner at one of the estate’s award winning restaurant’s.  But that’s not all!  Your prize also includes an activity of choice from Angling to Equestrian, Golf, Archery, Clay Shooting or for those of you who prefer a more modest pace why not check out the myriad of treatments available at the Spa where trained therapists will be delighted to advise you on all aspects of health and beauty care.  The Mount Juliet Leisure and Health Centre, which is fully equipped with swimming pool,sauna, steam room and gym is complimentary to all guests.

All you have to do to be in with a chance to win this super-fantastic prize is watch the video walkthrough of the Mount Juliet Wedding Venue below and send the answer the simple question to competitions@weddingdates.ie

Question:  What is the name of Mount Juliet’s famous Golf Course?

Send your name, address and answer to competitions@weddingdates.ie!

The winner of our fabulous competition of a weekend break in Whelyn Lodges in Castletownbere is Bronagh Woods.  She clearly put some effort into her entry and it gave us a good chuckle here in the office - a deserving winner I think you’ll agree!

He treks mountains, I lie in the sun
I chat with the girls, he goes for a run
He plays footie while I read a book
He likes to eat but never to cook

He’s placid and calm; I’m up to high dough
I like to relax, he’s get up and go
He’d hunt, shoot and fish, I feed the birds
I talk for Ireland; he’s a man of few words

His hero’s Rambo, mine’s Bridget Jones
I always text but he always phones
I like to party, he likes us two
He’s into curries, mine’s Irish stew!

He lies in bed, I’m up at dawn
He finds Newsline riveting - it’s such a yawn
Do you think as a couple we’re poles apart?
It’s really quite simple - he’s stolen my heart

He lights up my life when he walks through the door
Catches my eye ‘cross a heaving dance floor
He holds my hand when I’m scared or afraid
Saying he loves me, doesn’t need said!

I‘ll love him forever, my No.1 man
He makes me laugh, as only he can
Big wedding or small, I’ll be his wife
I’ll stay with this man to the end of my life.

One of our venues here on weddingdates.ie is the Claregalway Hotel just outside Galway city.  They have just announced a VERY special promotion, so anyone wanting to get married in the Galway area - sit up and listen!

Wedding Venue Ireland - Claregalway Hotel

The Claregalway Hotel are sponsoring the Galway Club Championships and to celebrate are looking for “The Perfect Match” -  the prize is a €20,000 Dream Wedding!!

The Claregalway Hotel, one the most popular Galway wedding venues is now live on WeddingDates.ie and you can check their availability for your chosen wedding date.

To be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize, they are inviting couples, young and old, engaged or betrothed to get involved. All you have to do is fill in an application form on their website. The final 6 couples in the competition at the end of the championship in October will then be invited to attend a live final in the hotel to battle it out for the coveted prize of the wedding of their dreams - courtesy of the Claregalway Hotel!

There are currently over 400,000 people in Ireland registered to Facebook and over a million users of Bebo on this fair isle, so we know there’s plenty of you out there who like poking each other and tagging photos! I have recently come across a brand new site to apply the wonder of social networking to wedding couples. This is already hugely popular in America as it allows brides & grooms-to-be to share all of their plans with the people in their lives.

My Wedding File is an all-Irish company that offers couples a free wedding website when they register. Similar to the likes of Facebook and bebo, it allows you to create your own wedding page with details on how you met, the engagement, google maps to give guests directions, all of your wedding event details (rehearsal dinner etc), introduce the wedding party to the other guests, upload photos yourself, or allow guests to upload photos after the big day, a guestbook and a countdown clock to when you tie the knot!

As a bonus for this month, if you register (it’s free, so why not?) before Friday 13th February, you will be entered into a draw to win a honeymoon! The lucky couple will stay in the luxury 4 star hotel, Caol Ishka, in the beautiful Siracusa, Sicily. Direct flights, transfers and 7 nights luxury accommodation are included in the prize.

All you have to do is visit My Wedding File and register to be included in the draw. The winning couple will be announced on Valentine’s Day Feb 14th, 2009.