Irish Wedding Blog
Wife Carrying 2010 – Irish Heats

The Irish heats for the 2010 Wife Carrying Championships in Finland were held last weekend in Sneem, Co. Kerry as part of the Sneem Family Festival Naturally, the weddingdates.ie team were out in force and James and Ciara managed to improve their time to 1 minute 38 seconds!! Not bad for the couple who came read more…
In the Meeja

I am still reeling from the success of the Wife Carrying in Finland, both as a competitor on the Irish Relay Team, but also as a publicity stunt for the business, we have been featured heavily in both the Irish and International Media this week and I am truely delighted with the coverage we have read more…
Some photos of the Wife Carrying

You can view all of the photos from the trip on our facebook page and why not become a fan while your at it for special news, events and updates! I think James’ swan-dive into the water might have been what helped us to secure the prize for the “Most Entertaining Couple” at the event! 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…
Doing business in the Recession – TV3 Appearance

Well, I am just in the door from Dublin after my appearance on Ireland AM on TV3 this morning! I am still on a high after it, what an amazing experience and a fantastic way to plug weddingdates.ie on National TV. I got the call yesterday afternoon from one of the researchers on the show, read more…
WeddingDates.ie in the Press!

We’ve been lucky enough to get quite a bit of coverage over here in WeddingDates.ie and we are delighted each time we get a piece of media attention! 2 weeks ago we got the WeddingDates.ie plug in twice on the Ray D’arcy show on Today FM, on Monday Conor Pope the consumer watchdog, was asked read more…






