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wedding blessing....

  • 13-03-2008 11:36am
    #1
    brobref
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    Hi ppls,

    My beauiful girlfriend (my fiancee) and I are getting married this Aug, we're leaving out the whole church thingy and heading down the civil route but we seem to have hit a snag and that is finding someone to carry out a Wedding Blessing. we spoke to a couple of Rev and they want like 500 euro for a ten minute blessing, is this the norm????? anyone with any helpful info out there???

    cheers


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  • #2
    foxy06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    and the churches wonder why they are empty all the time:rolleyes:

    500 Euro is disgraceful....norm or not!


  • #3
    leaves2ooo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭leaves2ooo


    HI ... I am doing the same and getting a blessing in Catholic Church in Wicklow in May. I don't think we have to pay any more than about 50 quid. Can give you more details if you want


  • #4
    eve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭eve


    By a 'Wedding Blessing', do you mean something in a church with family or friends or just the 2 of you and a priest? Are your guests attending both the registry office and the afters?


  • #5
    brobref
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭brobref


    Hi, sorry i should have made myself more clear. We're getting married in the reg office on friday and have a reception on the sunday at which we want to have a blessing in front of all our guests, it is for this that we were quoted 500 euro for a ten minute blessing they said we can have a hour and it will still the same cost........has anyone done something similar, i've heard of ppl get close friends or family to read out a short poem!!!


  • #6
    lisa82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭lisa82


    Hi brobref
    I'm trying to do the same thing in September .. but I can't find a priest available
    can you give me any suggestions ??
    thanks


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  • #7
    brobref
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭brobref


    hi, as i've said before i've spoke to two revs and one wanted 1500 euro and the day at my wedding and drinks and taxis paid for the other guy wanted 500 euro(irishweddingblessings.net), do the blessing and that's it. We're thinking of just have friends read a short piece and leave it at that, the hotel at which we're celabrating said this has been done there on several occasions..........


  • #8
    lisa82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭lisa82


    Thanks So much .. I will Email him now !


  • #9
    eve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭eve


    Brobref:

    Some friends of mine did exactly the same as you. They decided they didn't want to do the 'whole church thing'. So they had a registry office ceremony on the Friday with family and a few very close friends. But they decided not to exchange rings at the ceremony. They then had a simple ceremony at the reception venue where they did exchange rings on the Sunday with nearly 200 guests and had the wedding reception afterwards. The got a friend (not a priest or any religious person) to lead the reception ceremony and they decided what they wanted in it


  • #10
    brobref
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭brobref


    Hi Eve,

    when you say they decided what they what they wanted in it, what did they go for in the end, like i said they only idea we came up with was have a friend read at ours, how did the friend "lead it"??????

    tks


  • #11
    growler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    gives these guys a call http://www.humanism.ie/contact.html#ceremony we had one of their celebrants do our wedding in jan and he was excellent and organised, everyone said the ceremony was great etc etc , and i don' think i paid 300 quid for it either, but whatever it was it was worth every penny


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