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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….

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…

Set by the International Wife Carrying Competition Rules Commitee, here are the Rules of Wife Carrying.  My favourite is #5 – all participants must have fun! The Rules of Wife Carrying The length of the official track is 253.5 meters, and the surface of the track is partially sand, partially grass and partially gravel. The read more…

Straight from the official Wife Carrying Website, here are the expert tips on how wife carrying is good for your relationship!  You’ll find the wife carrying enthusiasts all over the world –  They are strong men and tenacious women.  Most of these easy-going people seem to be characterised by placidity and happiness.  Of course, with read more…

People, we have lift off!! As you know, were have been trying to raise sponsorship to help take us to the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland next week.  Well, the good news is, we have managed to secure sponsorship and are 100% definitely going!! The Carlton Hotel Group, have come on board as our read more…

YES!! It’s true!  Ireland will be competing in the World Cup this summer!  Well, not exactly.  The World Cup in South Africa won’t be seeing any Irish team, but  the World Wife Carrying Championships in Finland sure will!! We participated last year and won 3rd place in the relay race and “Most Entertaining Couple” in read more…

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…

I don’t really think the photos do justice to the hilarity that was the wife-carrying championships in Finland, so we have put together a little YouTube Vid to try to capture the atmosphere.

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…

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…