Irish Wedding Blog

Irish Team Victorious in Wife Carrying World Championships!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 July, 2010 CONTACT: Ciara Crossan WeddingDates.ie T: 021-4928993 M: 087-9577733 Email: ciara@weddingdates.ie Irish Team return champions after World Wife Carrying in Finland A group from Ireland have been touring through Europe for the past week to get to Finland for the Wife Carrying World Championships and are returning home this week read more…

Getting Carried Away in Finland!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 June, 2010 CONTACT: Ciara Crossan WeddingDates.ie T: 021-4928993 M: 087-9577733 Email: ciara@weddingdates.ie GETTING CARRIED AWAY IN FINLAND! Irish Team travels to Wife Carrying World Championships Cork, Ireland –  Teams from around the world are travelling to Finland next week to represent their countries in one of the most unusual competitions in read more…

2010 Engagement Survey

We ran this survey from January 2010 till now and the results are in!  We had 260 respondants to our survey, so thank you so much to you all for taking part! What did we come up with?! 40% of couples now getting married within 12 months of getting engaged. July is still the most read more…

NO APRIL FOOLS FOR THESE DRAGONS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31 March 2010 CONTACT: Ciara Crossan WeddingDates.ie T: 021-4928993 M: 087-9577733 Email: ciara@weddingdates.ie NO APRIL FOOLS FOR THESE DRAGONS Cork entrepreneur faces into the Dragons Den on April 1st CORK, Ireland – After just over 1 year in business local entrepreneur Ciara Crossan decided to take the next step and pitch to read more…

World Wife Carrying Champions!

Well, we’re back in one piece today after the craziness of Finland and happy to report, loaded down with prizes!!  James and I scooped “Most Entertaining Couple” in the main race despite coming 35th out of 35 with a time of 2:22.  We also made up half of the Team who are now ranked #3 read more…

WIFE’S ON MY BACK AGAIN

Normal blogging will resume next week but today we are out of the office in Finland.  Flying the flag for Ireland in the World Wife Carrying Championships!  If you want a bit of the action today, follow @WeddingDates on twitter for live tweeting of the event, hashtag #wifecarrying.  Hopefully will be getting some radio/press coverage read more…

Lucky for some! Friday 13th special Valentine’s Wedding

Special guests Jenny the "bride" and Triona the Rose of Roscommon

PRESS RELEASE Lucky for some! Friday 13th special Valentine’s Wedding WeddingDates.ie is unveiled as the Brides #1 choice Cork, Ireland – Friday the 13th was the auspicious date that Ciara Crossan chose to launch her new business weddingdates.ie by re-creating a very special Valentine’s wedding in the Cork Vision Centre on North Main Street. The read more…

WeddingDates.ie 2008 Wedding Budget Survey Results

The results are in! Thank you so much to all the Irish brides (and grooms) who helped us with data for this survey. Over 100 of you let us peer into your wedding finances, and we really appreciate it. It would be lovely to have 100 romantic getaways to give out but sadly we only read more…