The Blog for Irish Brides (and Grooms!)

Facebook Competition – MyWeddingFile.com

To celebrate their first birthday and to add to their 2,000 + couples membership, MyWeddingFile.com are having a Facebook competiton and are giving away some super prizes!  You know I don’t like to have any of my readers out of the loop for any free stuff that’s going around, so here’s what you can win:

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Fill the Honey-Pot

I have to hold up my hand and admit I am not a fan of cash in cards for wedding presents.  I know, I know people don’t want ten toasters, and others think the idea of a gift registry/ordering gifts is a bit cheeky and tacky.  But honestly, what is more crude than cash?
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Wedding Mappr

There are a lot of nifty online wedding tools out there that simply do not work in Ireland, mostly because we lack post codes. Happily, Wedding Mapper is not one of them – just type in Cork, Ireland or any other location and you can start mapping your whole wedding.

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Recessionista Wedding

Sarah Traynor, the author behind “How to Have a Champagne Wedding On a Bucks Fizz Budget” and Aisling Mackey the force behind DIYWedding.ie have recently launched BudgetWedding.ie which is packed full of practical tips and articles for the budget-concious bride.  You can read up on DIY-ing your own Flowers, Favours and Stationary; and she also read more…

The Elephant in the Room

We’ve mentioned wedding websites here before, and here is another I came across today that might be of interest to you.  Totally FREE to use, you can create your “event” ie, your wedding, add a guest list and send out email invitations and updates, and allow people to RSVP online.  You can give guests all read more…

Grooming the Guy

While this blog is pretty focused on you brides-to-be, I thought I’d been neglecting the fellas out there who may be searching the net and struggling with the whole marriage thing.  From deciding on WHEN to pop the question to wedding budgets and future plans, the man of the moment is faced with huge life-changing read more…

Bride poking – Ireland’s newest craze?!

Typical wedding page

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 read more…