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Take me to the Wilds of Connemara! Win a 2 night break

Ciara Crossan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:59:59 +0000

This months competition comes from one of the friendliest and nicest venues in Connemara – Renvyle House Hotel. Renvyle has been host to many well known guests throughout Irish history including Yeats, Oliver St John Gogharty, Churchill and Lady Gregory. And now, they want to welcome you through their doors!

They are offering exclusively to WeddingDates readers a

2 night Break including 2 nights B&B and Gourmet Dinner on one evening of your choice.

To enter this fantastic competition, get yerself over to our Facebook Page (and answer an easy peasy question!)

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Expert Seminars in 5 Star Cork Resort – Fota Island

Ciara Crossan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:25 +0000

Cork Brides – a date for your diary: Sunday, 16th October
Time: 12.00 noon – 5.00 p.m.
Venue: Fota Island Resort

Fota Island Resort is an idyllic wedding location, nestled at the heart of a beautiful, peaceful island. At Fota Island Resort, you can choose from a variety of wedding styles, either in the Fota Island Hotel & Spa or the traditionally styled Clubhouse, to suit every need on your special day.

Fota always hosts a wedding showcase with a difference, and this year their are doing something which plenty of couples will be interested in….

Their exclusive Showcase will include a variety of Expert Seminars offering brides-to-be some invaluable advice on a wide variety of topics that will help you in the planning of your big day.

The seminars will cover the following areas of interest when planning your big day:

Hair & Make-Up Advice
Menu Planning
Photography
Wedding Planning
Travel – Honeymoon Destinations

To book your complimentary Expert Seminar place or Showcase attendance please contact the resort on + 353 (0)21-488 3700 or you can sign up using the handy online application form.

To celebrate their Showcase this month, Fota have offered us a fantastic prize for our readers….

Win an amazing two nights Bed & Breakfast at the luxurious Fota Island Resort including one evening meal for two people in the Fota Restaurant.

To enter this great competition, hop on over to our Facebook page and answer the question, drop us your email address and voilá……you could be the lucky winner!

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Competition Time! Stay in a Castle in the sunny South East!

Ciara Crossan — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:48:17 +0000

This month one of our favourite castles in the country, Waterford Castle Hotel has given us a fantastic prize fit for a princess!

They are offering one lucky WeddingDates reader a 2 night stay for two with Champagne and Chocolates in the room on arrival, dinner for 2 in the ‘Award Winning’ Munster Room Restaurant, a rose petal turndown and breakfast the following morning! Thank you very much!!

All you have to do to be in with a chance to win is hop on over to our Facebook page and answer the SIMPLEST of questions to be entered into our draw. Will will pick a winner at the end of August, right in time to you to take your own “staycation” down in the Sunny South East (if this heat-wave that we were promised ever shows up!)

Enter competition now >>

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Win! 2 Night Break in 4 Star Bridge House Hotel

Ciara Crossan — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:45:48 +0000

This months fantastic competition is ANOTHER 2 night break in the 4 star Bridge House Hotel in Offaly. The Bridge House just launched their new “Secret Garden” which is perfect for wedding photos and they are dying to show it off!

According to the hotel, you can “enjoy your very own wedding garden for those all important wedding photos which you will cherish forever. Let your own wedding fairytale come to life as you step inside the secret garden especially for weddings! wedding flowers, the love seat, water features and more await you, which all add to make your wedding day a memorable one.”

Sounds nice, eh?! Well, you and your partner could be off to this great hotel to check out the Secret Garden for yourselves and spend a 2 night midweek break B&B with complimentary access to their Sanctuary Spa. Swit swoo!!

Interested?! Then head on over to answer an easy peasy question over on our Facebook Competition App >>

**UPDATE: 26th July 2011**

Today we asked our Twitter followers to pick a number between 2 and 110 and @ClaireBurge chose number 6 which means the luck winner is……. Andrew Doyle!! Congrats Andrew, enjoy your break away in The Bridge House Hotel.

The competition is now closed.

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Sligo Wedding Fair & Competition: Markree Castle

Outi — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:30:43 +0000

Markree Castle is hosting a wedding showcase event on July 2nd 2011 from 12 – 4pm. See this castle wedding venue as it would be on your wedding day, enjoy Irish castle hospitality and chat to one of Markree’s wedding co-ordinators.

A special 10% discount on all packages will be offered to all couples who book and confirm on the day.

Wedding Competition- From Roses to Orchids:

In tandem with this event Markree is happy to announce a unique competition prospect with an amazing prize to be won by one of their 2012 couples. The lucky winners are to be win an upgrade from the Rose package to the Orchid package – this includes prosecco and strawberry reception, lavish five course menu with wine and prosecco toast, evening buffet & complimentary chair covers. Entries will close on July 30th and the contest is open all couples with a confirmed 2012 wedding booking at Markree.

How to enter:

Couples are asked to email a photo and 50 words about themselves to competitions@markreecastle.ie.

An online vote will go live on August 10th, so couples will need to rally support of their friends, family and co-workers and ask them to get voting!

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Wineport Escape – Win!

Ciara Crossan — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:30:49 +0000

A stunning waterside wedding venue in the Midlands, the Wineport Lodge have just announced a 10% discount offer on selected wedding dates in 2011. The offer applies to new wedding bookings for dates to the end of 2011. Considering getting married in 2011?! Check availability for this stunning venue here

To celebrate their new offer, they are giving you lucky WeddingDates readers a chance to win an overnight VIP stay in this fantastic location!!!

To enter, simply answer this easy question:

Q: Wineport Lodge sits on the banks of a lake in Glasson, Co. Westmeath. Name that lake. [hint]

Answers to competitions@weddingdates.ie plz and we’ll pick a winner next month!

**UPDATE: 29th June – WINNER ANNOUNCED**

Aline & Ciaran, answered our question correctly and was picked using the number generator at random.org. Congrats guys! Enjoy your break!

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Win a Winter Wonderland Wedding

Outi — Thu, 19 May 2011 11:25:15 +0000

Now you have a great opportunity to win your Winter Wedding at the Station House Hotel, Kilmessan, Co. Meath. One lucky couple will win a winter wedding package for 100 guests.

This amazing competition will take place at Station House Hotels Wedding Showcase on Saturday 11th June from 2-6pm.

How to enter:

Simply send your name, address, contact telephone number to this email address.

To reclaim the prize, entrants must be present at Wedding Open Day on Saturday June 11th.

Winter Wedding Package is available from October 2011 to March 2012 with minimum of 100 guests. Find more details about the Winter Wedding competition!

Find more info about this wedding venue in Meath, check availability and make an enquiry!

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Dublin’s Most Fashionable Wedding Venue – WIN!

Ciara Crossan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:54:18 +0000

The Radisson Blu St. Helen’s Hotel - ”The Most Fashionable wedding venue in dublin” have partnered up with us for this Months competition and its none other than a Wedding Photo Competition.

We wanna see all your wedding glamour – and we aren’t just restricting this to the brides! Wedding season is upon us (I have been to THREE in the last month alone!) and the digital cameras are filling up with snaps of you and your beau in all your finery. Think you have what it takes to win? Then, show us your most stylish Wedding outfit! Easy!

The Prize: Stay and Shop Five Star Style !
We all need a little luxury now and again and Radisson Blu St Helen’s Hotel, Dublin offers the very best in accommodation surrounded by magnificent formal gardens and close proximity to all the major city attractions.

One lucky person and a friend can win two nights five star accommodation in one of the luxurious balcony suites overlooking the private gardens at Radisson Blu St Helen’s Hotel, Dublin, a Super Buffet Breakfast each morning and a delicious evening meal on the night of choice in the award-winning authentic Italian restaurant, talavera, plus a enjoy a shopping trip to Dundrum Town Center with a €100 shopping voucher.

Now if that’s not worth putting a bit of effort in, I don’t know what is!!

Radisson Blu St Helen’s Hotel, Dublin is the perfect escape from the daily grind. Enjoy a Traditional Afternoon Tea in the grand Orangerie Bar & Lounge overlooking the four acres of formal gardens, have an intimate dinner in talavera, or sip cocktails and listen to live music in the Ballroom Lounge before retiring to your comfortable room for a great night’s sleep.

For more information call +353 (0)1 218 6000 or visit www.radissonblu.ie/sthelenshotel-dublin.

How to Enter :

Go to Facebook.com/RadissonBluStHelensDublin
Like our page
Post your image on our wall
Encourage your friends to vote to like your photo

The top 5 photos with the most likes will be judged by a Fashion Style Judge , to be announced Mid May who will pick the winner for this stylish prize.

Competition closes June 2nd 2011 .

T&Cs Apply

One Like per person only
Prize is non-transferable to any other Radisson Property
Prize is Subject to Availability
Judges Decision is Final
Competition entries to be received during April 27th – June 2nd 2011 , entries received after this time will be deemed invalid

***UPDATE***

Competition extended till June 13th with winner announced on June 14th. Judging by Lisa Cannon from TV’s Expose

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Winner of Johannes Photography Competition!

Ciara Crossan — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:53:08 +0000

Myself and Johannes from Johannes Photography, spent the morning reviewing all of the entries to this amazing competition and boy was there some pretty great stories in there!

It was so tough to pick a winner, but I think you’ll agree with the effort that she put into it…..Susan Burns is a deserving winner of this fantastic prize! Congrats to Susan and Ray and we’ll look forward with interest to see what incredible photos Johannes gets with this couple. Read her proposal story entry, which comprised of a full rhyming poem!

You said “What about it”

I said “What about what”

“Marriage and all that”

I didn’t look up in case you weren’t sincere

Because you are everything I hold dear

“Well” you said

I lifted my head

We looked at each other

Our smiles you couldn’t smother

I don’t think either of us actually ever did propose

Things just happened I suppose

It was just decided there and then

Now we’ve chose the place and when

Being a recession

We just had a session

The ring has to wait

More important that we get our date

Deposits are paid on music and venue

Were still deciding on the menu

I know a surprise you’ll spring

When I do get that ring

We’re both over forty

And oh so flirty

Wouldn’t it be such a laugh

To not have to pay for a photograph

Just a reminder for anyone who’s lonely

He or she is out there looking for you only

We’ve found love, we fit like a glove

So remember it’s never to late to meet your soul mate

Ray loads of hugs ‘n kisses

Can’t wait to be your missus

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Getaway to Killarney – take a survey to win!

Ciara Crossan — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:15:33 +0000

The wedding industry in Ireland, is a small place and we all get to know each other pretty quickly! I’m always happy to give a plug or support to other great Irish businesses in the industry (especially if there is something in it for the WeddingDates readers!)

One of my favourite wedding planners and blogger extrodinaire Annie from Aislinn Events has partnered with the fab wedding site & forum Mrs2Be.ie to take the temperature of the Irish Wedding Industry with real wedding couples out there by getting them to take their wedding survey.

Hey, you’re doing your census on Sunday April 10th, so why not do the “wedding census” here and be in with a chance to win a 2 night stay for 2 people at a top Kerry wedding venue, the Killarney Park Hotel. Not only that, but the prize also includes a 30 minute spa treatment for each person courtesy of the Killarney Park Hotel. Niiice! :)

G’wan, go and take 5 mins to do the survey >>

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