The great venue search....

sillymoo

I'm looking for help with venue ideas. We are looking for a venue in cork beside the sea, 100-150 people. We were at a wedding at ballybeg in co Wicklow recently and it was lovely - we would love that venue if it was beside the sea! It felt very intimate and personal and we loved the gardens and the house to relax in during the drinks reception. Anyone have any ideas? All I can come up with inis beg. Thoughts?

Faith

There's a fair bit of choice in Cork! Off the top of my head:

Garryvoe Hotel
Inchydoney Hotel
The Carlton Kinsale
Dunmore House Hotel
It's in Ardmore, but close to Cork: The Cliff House Hotel

If you're willing to be close, but not within visual distance of the sea, the options grow again.

Obviously, places by the sea tend to be a little more expensive too, so it does depend on your budget.

westernlass

Blairscove is probably perfect.
Liss ard estate is another.
Innishannon house is on the river not the sea

sillymoo

Thanks for the ideas. Has anyone had a wedding or been to wedding at any of these places? It's very overwhelming even trying to start planning isn't it!

callhomedear

You could try Bantry House in Cork. I emailed them recently, and the prices weren't as expensive as I thought they would be for such a magnificent mansion. I also liked Tinakilly House, but it is in Wicklow and has views of the sea, and was highly recommended by a friend Renvyle House Hotel, which has an amazing location on the beach in Connemara ... the prices are much cheaper for that one.

westernlass

sillymoo wrote: »

Thanks for the ideas. Has anyone had a wedding or been to wedding at any of these places? It's very overwhelming even trying to start planning isn't it!

I've been at weddings in Innishannon and Blairscove. Highly recommend

Milly33

All ill say is watch Innishannon with the hidden prices, they charge extra for the ceremony there and for the bar extension and a few others..

I went to weddings at both Garryvoe and Inch..
Don't like Inch to be honest it is such a let down, the staff downstairs are fairly cronic. Upstairs the place smells very damp and it is more like a mans bar more than anything I wouldn't say it is pretty... Garryvoe I don't know I don't get the place myself. Went to two weddings and while the bigger wedding was better it was still missing something...

Innishannon would be to me the nicer of them but again watch the prices

Balmed Out

been to all of them except Blairs cove. Married in Dunmore myself. All lovely to be fair. Also look at the rectory in glandore (if still going), ecles in glengariff,

Milly33

think the rectory is gone such a shame we were at a wedding there and they said they were closing up soon after.

sillymoo

Pity the rectory is gone, had a look at the website there and it looked lovely. I think what I liked about ballybeg was that the ceremony and reception was in the same place. Would most hotels have places where you could have the ceremony too?

Milly33

Yep most of the hotels you can have both in, they charge extra most of the time. We were quoted anything between €250 - €300 for it... Bit off I think as a lot of the time they say the venue is exclusively yours for the day, then when you say about the ceremony that they will have to charge extra for that, so really it isn't exclusive..

There is another house down by Clon but you would have to rent a marquee I would think for that amount of people.. take a look at blackwater castle also, not by the sea but a river.. The Mills Inn in Ballyvourney had some loverly deals also but you would be missing the water

pwurple

Garryvoe is lovely. or ballinacurra in Kinsale is on the sea.

Milly33

Ballincurra though watch with the rooms