Planning & Advice

If you’re struggling to choose between the music you want and the music you think you should have for your wedding, then this post is for you. Guest blogger, professional vocalist Faye Potts, offers her advice for choosing and placing your ceremonial music.

It’s no secret that us Irish are an awful superstitious bunch altogether. The turning point for me was watching Darby O’Gill and The Little People when I was eight and the nightmares that followed. But why, as grown-ups, are we

Ok, so you might not be running away to Vegas to get married, but what if you were? How would you go about it? Read on for a bit of Sunday morning escapism.

Ask any newlywed and they’ll tell you – one of the top frustrations while planning a wedding is trying to get people to RSVP! No, you say, that’s a simple enough task; we send an invite, they say yay or nay. Simple right? Not so. In fact, there are a couple of things you MUST think through before sending your invites to be sure you have the right numbers by the time you sit down to the dinner. We’ve asked our stationery experts – Lantz Weddings, Impack Designs and Clifford Designs what tricks you can use to get people to RSVP to your invitations!

The ‘wedding speeches before or after the meal’ debate is one that comes up over and over again. Generally, couples will opt to have their speeches after the meal, so that guests are fed and watered and can relax and enjoy all the well wishes. However, for many people public speaking brings with it a rucksack of nerves. So do you put the nervous bridal party before the guests, or is there an alternative? We asked four expert wedding coordinators their opinions.