To achieve the best results from a workout, a gym is the best place to be. However if it is not convenient for you to access a gym the same programme I have designed can easily be completed at home in your comfort zone!

Our good friends over a Tom Murphy Menswear were the ones who kindly donated the lads suits for the wife carrying competition.  They have a great blog themselves with loads of great advice and tips for Grooms out there – this week I spotted a really handy video, How To Tie A Cravat.  I know that this is quite intimidating for lots of guys out there (as it was for our Ruaidhri!)

You can check out all our suit hire suppliers on our supplier directory.

The epic  journey over – 7 countries in 7 days, we finally reached Finland and managed to pick Ruaidhri up a wife on a night out in Helsinki!!

You have no idea how happy and excited all 4 of us were when we arrived in Sonkajarvi in Finland after travelling across Europe to get there!  Of course the local Finnish were super welcoming as always, special thanks to Anna Huttunen and Laura and Outi our “minders”.

We competed in every race we could, the Sprint on the Friday evening and then the Team Event/Relay on the Saturday morning and were delighted we came in 3rd place!  In the main event, James and I defended our title from last year, taking home “Most Entertaining Couple” again.  Ruaidhri and his Finnish “wife” Annuka did great aswell and we all had a blast.

The video will tell more of the hilarity than I ever could here, so watch on….

Ruaidhri tore up the highway getting us through Sweden in record time to catch our 6am ferry to Finland.  Our body clocks are so messed up this stage, we don’t know if its night or day, breakfast time or dinner!!

A highlight of this journey was crossing the super bridge from Denmark to Malmo in Sweden.  At €78 to cross it in the campervan, it would want to have been good!

The ferry was also gorgeous and the memory of crossing the Baltic sea will stay with all of us for ever.

We had an absolute ball in Copenhagen, what an incredible city!  James loved the architecture and Ruaidhri tried his hand at finding a wife.  We ran amok on the city streets decked out in our wedding dress finery!!

Landed in Hamburg late after stopping to catch the World Cup match, and luckily found a campsite in the city centre.  It was right next to a McDonalds  So, Ruaidhri decided to introduce the first “food challenge” into the trip.

10 Hamburgers each.  The Hamburg Challenge!

Sunday, Day 4 of the epic roadtrip across Europe. Managed to finally get out of Belgium and into Germany just in time to watch the World Cup match and see the celebrations in Germany!  Crazy, fun times!

Well, after our fun on the Cork – Swansea ferry, we crossed Wales and the UK and managed to get a late train through the Eurotunnel into France.  Some crazy traffic jams, Friday evening around London on the M25 but we made it!

At this stage, we are getting used to life in the Campervan and each other!  It may not look it from the vid, but its very VERY hot!!

Day 1 of the Wife Carrying Team marathon trip to Finland involved leaving Cork on the Fastnet Line ferry to Swansea…great fun on board, with a wedding ceremony and all!!

We have been pretty lucky with the number of companies who have rowed in behind the WeddingDates wife carriers and sponsored us and we are delighted to have the guys suits given to us by Tom Murphy Menswear in Cork.  Tom Murphys has a longstanding reputation in Cork City and now they are moving beyond the boundaries of their bricks and mortar shop and have gone online!

On www.tom-murphy.ie you can view their selection of wedding suits, buy suits and accessories online, and keep up to date with their blog.  Check out the WeddingDates “models” (!) as they got kitted out in the shop and hear from the man himself – Tom Murphy:

Remember, you can also check out wedding suit hire on our handy supplier directory.