DIY wedding

HI

We are having a budget d.i.y. wedding this year and looking for a venue. We will be married in registry office in Dublin and have people coming from Dublin and North West so would like somewhere accessible for everyone.

If anyone can recommend a small country hotel with a good atmosphere or any other venue for food and a shin dig in maybe Meath or Dublin would appreciate if you could let me know.

If anyone has done a d.i.y. wedding would appreciate any tips.

thanks

Re: d.i.y. wedding

www.weddingsonline.ie

I thought all weddings were DIY

March

Marie beat me to it! was about to mention the Weddingsonline site.



"all weddings are d.i.y."

When booking a venue try to say Party instead of wedding. As soon as most places hear wedding they up the costs.

Hi march

I got married may 03 and had the reception in the Glenside hotel in Julianstown. Absolutely nothing fancy or glamourous about the place but it was considerably cheaper than anywhere else we looked and I wanted budget, not posh. We got out wine in o'briens on a 3 for 2 and then got a discount for bulk buying (worked out about €5 each for Torres vina sol and sangre de toro). Having bottles of wine on the table also kept the toast bill down. All in all we paid not much over €2000 to the hotel - all food, toast, corkage, balloons, tea/coffee reception etc... for 70 people. I know it's nearly 4 years ago and things may have changed but it was way cheaper than other hotels and the food was really good, better than a lot of classier hotels. Oh and cos it's not in Dublin the bar was open until about 2 and then there was the residents bar.

A work colleague also did a cheapie last year, married with close family only, nice dinner for 20 in a fancy restaurant and big party for everyone else in Chief O'Neills in Smithfield.

Trish

Thanks for the tips, good web site.

Trish that is great value even if it was four years ago, I did wonder if we could bring in our own wine as some places charge average 20 euro a bottle, Cahir thanks for the tip on mentioning party instead of wedding. I do feel the prices go up and as we are paying for it ourselves we want to make our money go as far as we can.

Hi

Does anyone know the etiquette in inviting children to weddings? do you have to invite the children of your cousins, friends etc

march said:

Hi

Does anyone know the etiquette in inviting children to weddings? do you have to invite the children of your cousins, friends etc

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You pick who you want. I would avoid going down the route of picking people due to etiquette or family or business ties. That makes it impersonal IMO. If you want to naturally restrict numbers, put the wedding on a awkward day, a school day and pick a place thats tight on numbers.

I agree. All this talk of etiquette when it comes to weddings is ridiculous. Do what suits you best. If it doesn't suit some people then tough.

I would invite the children of my siblings only. That is, if there weren't too many. Otherwise no children. As a parent when our children were younger, it was nice to have a day out without having to look after the kids all the time. Never bothered me if they weren't invited.

Couldn't recommend this place enough....it's stuck in a time warp but in the nicest possible way. It's 1hr 15 from dublin and about 3 hours from Letterkenny, if thats the direction people are coming from. the dining room caters for 70people max.

Defo check it out.

http://www.parkhotelvirginia.com/

Trish2006 said:

A work colleague also did a cheapie last year, married with close family only, nice dinner for 20 in a fancy restaurant and big party for everyone else in Chief O'Neills in Smithfield.

Trish

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thats exacly what I did - only it was three years ago, only we had the dinner in Chief O'Neills, just family. I think we got the meal, room hire (dj etc), and penthouse suite for the night for about €1500 - €1600. A great day all round, very relaxed and zero stress.

best of luck

Hi,

I work for Gill & Macmillan, book publishers. We are bringing out a book called 'How to Have a Champagne wedding on a Buck's Fizz Budget' which might be helpful.

I hope I'm not breaching any guidelines by posting this.

Thanks very much for the info everyone, I'm sure I'll be posting with some other question soon!!

BTW we are having registry office wedding and the earliest available Friday was October (that was 3 wks ago as well) we asked for a cancellation and they told us that generally people just don't show up if they are not going ahead with the marraige. They don't ring to cancel which means people looking for Fridays miss their chance and have to opt for other day in the week.

So to anyone thinking of cancelling their Friday wedding please just pick up the phone, it would make a big difference to someone else to get your Friday slot!

thanks again....