Dublin or Spain ...... Pls HELP ;)

CelineOC

Hi

this may sound like im asking you guys to make up my mind for me (which i prob am) but i need help! i need peoples comments / views!

Long story short; we've already paid a 2k depoist on our wedding for a Dublin Venue for next year! the venue is perfect and so beautiful.... our family is quite big so i think we are looking at a guest list of maybe 130-150 @ 54 per head for meal only no wine etc! I do like the idea of "our big day" but this is not the reason i am getting married! i am getting married because i believe in it and love my partner and our baby.... Im not looking to splash out on anything and everything but in looking it seems even with cutting back on things i dont see how we will get this wedding for anything less than around 20k ! i know i can cut numbers etc but this not a road im looking to go down! then i was online last wk and came across this Spanish website with prices / beautiful venues for weddings and it go me thinking !!

i had always wanted to be married on a sunny beach but had pushed this idea aside for many reasons (mostly because i know allot of ppl wont travel) and then i think to myself if these ppl wont travel but will come to a wedding in ireland cos it "suits" should i really be putting my dreams aside and shelling out ALLOT more money for other ppl?

At a wedding recently and it was beautiful every detail covered (a bit like mine would be) but at the dinner not one person at my table understood the time / effort and money this bride had put into it they all made comments like "this hotel have it set up lovely etc" and when i sat back adn though about it the whole table covers favors etc etc etc $$$$$ was all just for that moment everyone walked into the room................... then you had dinner and the room was turned into the eve party so all the fine detail was forgotton about and taken apart !!

so even doh we will be losing our 2k depoist i think we will prob be still up money by having our wedding away?

going off point here i guess im looking for pros and cons for Dublin vrs Spain??? all comments / advice / suggestions WELCOMED PLEASE

Regards
The confused bride to be!!

neris

There was a programme on rte few years back bout an irish family who moved to costa del sol and the wife was a wedding planner thing the company was called spanish dream weddings. might be worth a try with them and see if they can recommend a venue etc. Also do you really know all of the 150 people you invited or are you just inviting numbers for the sake of it? If you go to spain and invite 150 people you,ll know the people you matter to because they,ll make the effort to get there. Also if you do go to spain consider renting a large villa with gardens for the service/meal and get your planner if you use 1 to arrange food tables chairs flowers etc which might make it more intimate then a hotel

sillysocks

We got married in Spain and while we loved it and were delighted we had chosen to get married over there it wasn't as cheap as people think. The main saving is that you'll probably have less people than you will here.
I think our meal ended up at around 90 euro a head (now that did include a lot more than the price per head would here such as wine with the meal, drinks reception with food, chair covers etc).
Remember things like your dress, wedding rings, honeymoon, suits etc will all be the same price regardless of where you get married.

We loved that the people who were there were only the people who really wanted to be there as anyone who didnt had an easy excuse with it being away. We (and I think all the guests) had a ball.

We made sure we had it somewhere that people could fly in and out of every day so that if they only wanted to come for 2 days it was no problem, or if they wanted a weeks holidays that was fine too, and also somewhere that had a wide range of accomodation for every price range.