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civil ceremony

  • 17-09-2009 10:54am
    #1
    LauraLoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭


    hi

    we are planning a small wedding in the registery office (just immediate family) but i have no idea what a wedding is like there.

    has anyone been to a wedding ceremony there?

    I would love to know about the experience and what the building looks like inside...


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  • #2
    taram
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭taram


    Eh which office? Cork, Dublin, Limerick...?


  • #3
    LauraLoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭LauraLoo


    in dublin

    we want something as small and simple as possible

    am considering either registery office and then on for dinner or else try to find somewhere that can host the civil ceremony (i.e in hotel or restaurant like beaufield mews) and then a small dinner afterward


  • #4
    ebmma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ebmma


    LauraLoo wrote: »
    in dublin

    we want something as small and simple as possible

    am considering either registery office and then on for dinner or else try to find somewhere that can host the civil ceremony (i.e in hotel or restaurant like beaufield mews) and then a small dinner afterward

    I got married in Dublin Registry office.
    It is quite small inside, but nice enough - a medium sized room with soft blue chairs for guests, large table at the front of the room, some paintings on the walls.
    Bride, groom and witnesses stand at the table and the registry person does their talking part and all the standard "I do"s happen and the exchange of the rings.

    There were 7 people at my wedding including myself, husband to be and witnesses. I really liked it :)


  • #5
    chughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    I was at a wedding in the Dublin Registry Office 2 years ago and it's not a bad spot to have a wedding, in fairness. You will find that the ceremony is quite short. Since those days, it's possible to have the ceremony performed in another suitable location. If you are having a reception in a hotel you might consider having the ceremony there so that you incorporate it into the rest of the wedding celebration. That way the ceremony might not seem so short.


  • #6
    scottreynolds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭scottreynolds


    LauraLoo wrote: »
    in dublin

    If you would like to pm me your email address I'll send you some images of the insice and outside of the dublin registery office. (I'm a photographer and did the wedding there earlier this year)


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  • #7
    tatli_lokma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭tatli_lokma


    you can liaise with the registrar and arrange to personalise your ceremony, this will make it longer and much nicer. If you go for an off-site wedding then you can embellish it further as you are not so constrained by time as you are in the registry office.
    We had our wedding off-site in a local castle so we had a bit more flexibility on the time it took - we added readings, music, poems, candle lighting ceremony and some other stuff. It was about 40 mins long in total. Most of the registrars are lovely and very helpful and accommodating so they will be able to advise you well also.


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