Outdoor Venue for festival type wedding

Shauna.Henn

I was at a great wedding in Straffan Steam Museum, with the ceremony in the stunning walled gardens

http://steam-museum.com/

They have good outdoor spaces, so maybe they'd let you do the marquee thing.

LUZ

id say it would cost more to do it this way with all the bits and bobs you have to pay for, it all adds up. Have you tried lisvanagh house?? i did a wedding there last year and they have a lovely marquee and loads of grounds so you could use the teepees as well, might be worth finding out a price anyway. good luck with it all!!

amdublin

What about do all the legal stuff and then do the outdoor ceremony nice and slow and relaxes not even having to think about the legal stuff.

username123

amdublin wrote: »

What about do all the legal stuff and then do the outdoor ceremony nice and slow and relaxes not even having to think about the legal stuff.

Is the issue not that the words comprise some of the legal part and the documents another but that the order must be that the words are spoken then the documents signed?

It's such a heap of nonsense. It could all be made far simpler if the HSE wanted but they have these silly rules and that's that.

IrelandsMedium

The Civil Registrations Act 2004 governs how marriages carried out in the state are notified, performed and registered. Up September 2013 the Spiritualist Union of Ireland (SUI) have performed legally binding outdoor wedding ceremonies in line with the legislation and also in line with the MRF forms issued by the HSE in particular for outdoor venues including venues like the Cliffs of Moher. The legislation has not changed. The General Registrars office has issued a letter to all registered solemnisers stating thatin the General Registrars “view” the venue for a ceremony has to be a building. Section 52 of the Civil Registrations Act 2004 is very clear:
52.—(1) Notwithstanding any statutory provision that conflicts with this subsection, a marriage may be solemnised only at a place and time chosen by the parties to the marriage with the agreement of the registered solemniser concerned
It does not state that the venue has to be a buildingn or that the ceremony has to be indoors. The legislation does provide:
51.—(2) (c) the place where the solemnisation takes place is open to the public.
The place must be easily identifiable by address so on a beach or the middle of the mountains would not be suitable venues, neither is a private house.
We have asked the General Registrars office where in the legislation does it allow him to express a “view” on the location of a marriage ceremony. Many couples have also asked this question, it is one which he has refused to answer to anyone, simplybecause he cant as it is not contained in the legislation.
The connection to the outdoors and “Mother Earth” forms part of our religious beliefs and plays a part in the Rites and Ceremonies of the Spiritualist Union of Ireland. In accordance with the legislation listed above the SUI has informed the General Registrars Office through our solicitors of our intention to continue to carry out outdoor ceremonies in line with the legislation and our religious beliefs. Couples may seek their own legal advice on this matter should they wish to have a legally binding outdoor wedding ceremony.

A "Private" house is not open or accessible to the publicso therefore a legally binding ceremony cannot take place there

Tibbery

Were having our wedding in Knockree youth hostel Enniskerry. See if you can fit a teepee out there? Can't see why not.

snickerpuss

Glebe Gardens in Baltimore, Co. Cork do marquee weddings in their lovely gardens.

megan2013

Maybe try the Station House Hotel in Kilmessan. They have lovely grounds and the venue is quite unique. Maybe they let you use their grounds.

stinkle

pooch90 wrote: »

Do you mind me asking how long ago you got married outdoors?
We had ours booked with the Humanists for this summer, they are now back-tracking and saying that doing it outdoors could leave us open to someone questioning the legality and validity of it.

Their bright idea now is that we do a mini indoor ceremony beforehand and then do the outdoor ceremony. So I would have no walking down the aisle being the first time OH sees me.

That's really annoying. Can they not have the indoor bit afterwards, like how at a church wedding the b&g disappear off somewhere with best man and BM to sign the register? Ours is an indoor humanist ceremony but since they have been advertising outdoor ones I figured that's how they got around HSE rules.

Milly33

Just came out of the reg office today getting all the details sorted and was told that all must be indoors or under some kind of roof now.