Where and Why

Whispered

So where have you booked (or are thinking of booking) for your wedding and why?

barbiegirl

Villa Baroncino, for the beautiful Italian weather, food and wine. Excellent organisation has made it all very easy :-)

kayos

West Cork....

Why? Such a lovely area of the country. Plenty of old, nice, smaller churchs. Plenty of photo locations. Some lovely hotels. And its not as bloody pricey as Galway!

sillysocks

Hotel Vinuela in Vinuela, Spain..... fell in love with it when we went to see it - set on a lake at the foot of mountains. A gorgeous hotel with beautiful gardens! Just love it!

galah

Gluecksburg castle in Germany
(http://www.schloss-gluecksburg.de/schloss.html)

...because I've been dreaming about having my wedding there since I was 5....(and it's so much cheaper and a lot more classy than any of the hotels in Ireland)

kizzyr

galah wrote: »

Gluecksburg castle in Germany
(http://www.schloss-gluecksburg.de/schloss.html)

...because I've been dreaming about having my wedding there since I was 5....(and it's so much cheaper and a lot more classy than any of the hotels in Ireland)

Its beautiful. Did you have your entire day there, marriage ceremony and food? Did you have many people at your wedding?

galah

wedding's next year - we booked the chapel and the restaurant, for about 80 people...ceremony will start around 4 pm, and then the party will go all night (plus there's an open bar - so none of this 'guests have to pay for their own drink' nonsense...all included in the per person price (and let's say that the price for food and drink is about half of what you'd pay in ireland) ;-)

kizzyr

galah wrote: »

wedding's next year - we booked the chapel and the restaurant, for about 80 people...ceremony will start around 4 pm, and then the party will go all night (plus there's an open bar - so none of this 'guests have to pay for their own drink' nonsense...all included in the per person price (and let's say that the price for food and drink is about half of what you'd pay in ireland) ;-)

It sounds great. Myself and my OH have after a brief courtship of 9 years(:D) finally gotten around to thinking about getting married. There are no official announcements as of yet and there won't be until everything is booked and organised. He will be the first one in his entire family (extended as well as immediate) to get married and it would become a circus. I'll be the third one in my family but my mum being my mum would get carried away in competition with his mum..........both of us are allergic to the thoughts of this and the idea of a whole big wedding complete with relations we didn't even know we had.
We've both agreed that our wedding will be a small affair with immediate family only and we will have it abroad. We had thought of Italy as we both love it but having seen where you're getting married I have to say Germany would be on my list now. Did you organise everything yourself or get a planner to do it for you?

galah

Organising it all myself (with the help of my parents and friends in Germany) ;-)
Not much to organise as such - I want a simple affair in a nice setting - so all I really need to get sorted are some decorations, the band/DJ, the cake, the actual menu, the dress, and that's it...

And then just hope that it's a nice day and everyone turns up. ;-)

MJOR

We are headed to vegas www.luxor.com in two years it's ab fab!!!! Cannot wait! We decided to head abroad and do our honeymoon in the Grand Canyon! Can't wait... Around 50 people coming too

kayos

MJOR wrote: »

We are headed to vegas www.luxor.com in two years it's ab fab!!!! Cannot wait! We decided to head abroad and do our honeymoon in the Grand Canyon! Can't wait... Around 50 people coming too

Ya stayed in the Luxor on one of my visits to Vegas and its damn nice. If your staying in the main building (most of the rooms are in two standard high rises out the back) you will never find an elevator.... its an inclinator and boy is it fun at 6am after 12hours of black jack and jack and coke .

gandalf

Got engaged last week (well we announced it then )

Getting married next July in Normandy, currently finalising a date based on town hall, church and chateau availability. The prices are a fraction of the cost of a wedding here and we are more than likely going to honeymoon travelling around France.

Will post up more details when they are finalised

MJOR

kayos wrote: »

Ya stayed in the Luxor on one of my visits to Vegas and its damn nice. If your staying in the main building (most of the rooms are in two standard high rises out the back) you will never find an elevator.... its an inclinator and boy is it fun at 6am after 12hours of black jack and jack and coke .

I know! It's so funny we loved it there so much! We were there last year

Flat2dmat

We would love to get married abroad on a beach, but does that put too much pressure on people to pay out large sums of money?
We would only be having a small wedding, whether it's here in rainy Meath or abroad, but I still would be concerned about how my family would react to big travel expenses. When others have their wedding abroad, do they pay for their family?
My ideal location would be the Maldives, but Trim may have to do...

kizzyr

Flat2dmat wrote: »

We would love to get married abroad on a beach, but does that put too much pressure on people to pay out large sums of money?
We would only be having a small wedding, whether it's here in rainy Meath or abroad, but I still would be concerned about how my family would react to big travel expenses. When others have their wedding abroad, do they pay for their family?
My ideal location would be the Maldives, but Trim may have to do...

Personally I would pay for my immediate family to come. Actually they would be the only ones invited. I think it would work out ok to pay for their flights and accommodation for 3 nights when you compare the monster that the wedding would be here at home with tons of relatives creeping out of the woodwork looking for an invite.

Flat2dmat

kizzyr wrote: »

Personally I would pay for my immediate family to come. Actually they would be the only ones invited. I think it would work out ok to pay for their flights and accommodation for 3 nights when you compare the monster that the wedding would be here at home with tons of relatives creeping out of the woodwork looking for an invite.

Thanks for that idea Kizzyr - I'm going to look into this now and see what it would cost. I was originally a little scared of being harassed on honeymoon by all the family, but liking the idea of paying for accommodation for just three nights!That would let them know that I don't want them hanging around!!

Wile E. Coyote

We've booked Brooklodge in Wicklow for next October. It's close to home (well for us it is not the guests) and it's such a nice hotel with really helpful staff.