Citydeals wedding package

John Mason

i thought this wedding deal with be of interest to some people

http://www.citydeal.ie/deals/dublin/the-bracken-court/681389

CelineOC

Heres the link; http://www.citydeal.ie/deals/dublin/the-bracken-court/681389?nlp=&CID=IE_CRM_1_0_0_230&a=1220

ive already paid €2,000 just for our dep and still have to pay in or around another €6,000 JUST FOR DINNERS !!!!!!!! I am really thinking of going to view this hotel and canceling my own!

iguana

Threads merged. I'll leave them up until the deal is over.

Monife

Yeah if my wedding wasn't in 10 days, I would definitely have purchased that package. 2 grand for the lot is brilliant.

marion.t

I'm so tempted to buy this but I'm so worried both how other things will add up. I was planning on marrying late 2013 but this deal seams great to good to let go. Can anyone guide me how much a wedding cost approx for 100 guests. I. Know things like cars dresses cakes etc vary I'm just looking for a guideline only to see if it is possible?

CelineOC

marion.t wrote: »

I'm so tempted to buy this but I'm so worried both how other things will add up. I was planning on marrying late 2013 but this deal seams great to good to let go. Can anyone guide me how much a wedding cost approx for 100 guests. I. Know things like cars dresses cakes etc vary I'm just looking for a guideline only to see if it is possible?

Hi.. I think ur meal is the biggest part of ur budget! Even a cheap meal for 100 ppl is still going to cost u in around 4-5k! Our meals alone are costing 8k, then we've to buy wine, pay corkage, dress, cars etc etc etc.. But with this offer we cud prob do the whole thing for the price of our 8k meal!!!!! It's a great offer, if ur planning on a 2013 wedding you will to change it for this offer it's exp dec 2012 but most likey you were thinking 2013 to save up to pay for it, with this offer you whole weddig Inc honeymoon will prob be 10k!!!!

POKERKING

Great deal but have to say if my wedding venue did this after i had booked with them i would go abs beserk. Its prob a saving of at least 5k. You would do an excellent wedding for 10k all in with that deal.

abrr1000

If I wanted to avail of the package I would go straight to the hotel and cut out citydeal - its not fair they take half!!! the hotel that will be doing everything for you will only get 1000 for 100 people - madness!

Great deal all the same.

Monife

abrr1000 wrote: »

If I wanted to avail of the package I would go straight to the hotel and cut out citydeal - its not fair they take half!!! the hotel that will be doing everything for you will only get 1000 for 100 people - madness!

Great deal all the same.

How do you know CityDeal gets half? Surely they would get a small % not half...

abrr1000

They get half - 50% and possibly plus VAT not too sure is the half includes it or not. FACT but that's off topic. Just saying - very good deal but I would go directly to supplier.

thehomeofDob

Going directly to the supplier does nothing. They actually have you purchase the voucher when you sign up, well offer you the chance to by letting you use their computer.
I know this because I signed up. We're working on a very tight budget, this deal literally meant getting this kind of a set up or not getting it at all. The hotel is lovely, staff were very polite and absolutely not pushy. Very glad I was sent this.

marion.t

Monife wrote: »

abrr1000 wrote: »

If I wanted to avail of the package I would go straight to the hotel and cut out citydeal - its not fair they take half!!! the hotel that will be doing everything for you will only get 1000 for 100 people - madness!

Great deal all the same.

How do you know CityDeal gets half? Surely they would get a small % not half...

City deal get 40% of the selling price how can they do a wedding for that price???????

abrr1000

That's my point - if they are happy to do it for a grand, if you go straight to them and offer them 2 why would they refuse this? that's just stupid.

I do think it is a lovely hotel I was there on a boardsdeal before for a b&b and dinner and everything went really well.
Plus you have the ardgillan castle there if you wanted nice pictures.

Moonbeam

Advertising and word of mouth I presume. Also a full hotel at cost is better then an empty hotel and paying staff.

thehomeofDob

One of the members of management that I spoke to said they took a lot of convincing to go ahead with the deal, but in the end they decided that for every wedding at this price, they will get at least another from one of the guests. On top of that, you have the sale of alcohol throughout the entire night, and the cost of any rooms additional to the bridal suite.

We are getting our meal at 29.50, 10.00 for children and corkage at 4.50 and some other bit and bobs were included at that price. The hotel is the Wooden bridge in Wicklow, it is not fancy by any means but it is lovely and in a lovely setting and I have got great reviews from people regarding the hotel, my point is that you can get good deals if you keep at it.

tatli_lokma

I had our reception here. Its a lovely hotel, recently renovated following a fire, so still fresh and clean looking
BUT
I had a bit of trouble with them for things that should have been second nature to their wedding coordinator/banqueting manager.
I was far from a bridezilla, but I really had to remind her for everything.
Examples:
I had trouble actually hooking up with her prior to the event, and even though I made appointments with her I often got someone else meeting with me, so details were not always relayed to her and I always had to follow up with phonecalls.

They did not clear the parking area out front, so when my wedding car arrived to pick me up he had to park up the road and ring me to let me know! when I rang reception I was told they couldn't move the car as it was the bosses car and he wasn't in the hotel at the moment! so I had to hot foot it, big white dress and all up the Square to the courthouse to get into my car. They didn't seem very bothered by this at all, never even apologised.

They played the standard cliff richard 'Congratulations' as we entered the reception (despite me saying I didn't want that) and then never turned the CD off, so we had a greatest hits of Cliff throughout dinner, which in addition to having the ability to induce indigestion the CD included Our Father, and Mistletoe and Wine (in May)!!! I asked yer wan to change the cd - she hadn't even noticed! but she didn't change it. By Congratulations the reprise my sister got up and switched off the CD herself on the PA system!

Each time I needed to point anything out to her I had to get out of my seat and physically go get her. Any other wedding I have been to the hotel head person was most of the time close to the bridal party, and only a nod from the bride/best man or whoever was needed to get their attention. I literally had to get up and go looking for her!

And there were a few other things as well, but I won't go into them here for fear of being told off!

Look, at the end of the day, none of these things 'ruined' my wedding, but it wasn't ideal, and for some brides this would be disasterous and cause an emotional meltdown.
But I think it is something to bear in mind if booking here - forwarned and all that...at least you can make it clear from day one that you have heard some things and should they be repeated on your big day you'll run amok!:D

If I am honest, if I had known in advance that they are a bit disorganised and that the meals would be slow to be served, I would have made a point of being a bit of a dragon from the outset to ensure they upped their game. I still would have booked the hotel, as the food was absolutely phenomenal and despite a bit of a wait, everyone said how amazing it was, and as I said the decor etc are really lovely, and you have the beach, martello tower and ardgillan near by for pics. But I would have been prepared to insist on a level of service deserving of the occasion. I just wanted to warn anyone booking to be prepared from the outset, and if you are not a natural bridezilla then get one of your bridesmaids/mum/MIL to be to be one for you!

paulbok

Also a deal on for photographer

http://news.groupon.ie/c/mv

Sar11

Does anyone know if they will be doing anything like this again? I'm paying 3,000 for just a 3 course very basic wedding there and that's just for the food. I'm raging I missed that!

POKERKING

There was another one on dealrush.ie 3 days ago, appears to be gone now link is

http://www.dealrush.ie/today.php?id=809

Id imagine more and more will appear, on the above you could get away with ringing hotel and asking them will they honour price, they may do

headmaster

Maybe i'm wrong, but i bet you'll find that this is sold out. Anyway, 99% of guests would see through a cheap package, imagine having turkey and ham, or chicken, for your wedding meal. No thank you. Yuck