Registry Office Limerick

Sopro

Hi all
I am getting married next year in the registry office in Limerick & hotel afterwards etc
I have never been to a registry office wedding so I have no idea about them, so excuse my ignorance in my questions!!
People have told me that you just arrive there, both go in, 10 mins your married & out the door. There is no "grand entrance" for the bride or anything like that.
Here in lies my question...
Is it possible to get my "grand Entrance"? Its probably the only thing I really want in the wedding. I just want that moment of walking to my husband to be, someone giving me away and all of that. Is that only possible if your getting married in a church or having the registrar come to the hotel?
If anyone can tell me what happens that would be great

SecretBride

We actually confirmed ours today in Meath but all would follow the same rules. Yes you can have music coming in and music leaving, you can have readings too if you like or just someone to say a few words, you just need to let the registrar know. You can enter at different times too so hubby to be can wait for you at the 'table/podium/whatever'.....you can make it as personal or sterile as you wish, you just need to let them know in advance. Edited to add, you just can't have religious music or readings 😊

Mimojo

Hi there,

We got married a few weeks ago in the registry office in Limerick. We had immediate family only there, and then had a blessing in the hotel later in the day with all of our guest (80 people), followed by reception.

The registry office ceremony is very short, all your need is yourselves and 2 witnesses. The room in Limerick is pretty small to be honest, it holds max 20 people. I walked in with my dad and my husband was inside. There is no grand entrance as the room is so small, you just walk in the door and there you are! Now my dad and husband shock hands, so there was an entrance per say, it is just not a long walk up an aisle or anything like that.

The ceremony is short, about 10 minutes. The registrar (who is really lovely) asks the questions required, and you repeat after her. At the end you both sign the registry, and you can get pictures taken. I actually have a copy of the ceremony if you want me to PM it to you. We had 2 readings (cant be in any way religious, but anything else is fine), and an entrance and exit song (you need to bring your own method of playing this).

We then had a blessing in the hotel with all our guests, this was just a really nice lady who gave a blessing with all guests present, it was really lovely and romantic, and we tailored it to what we wanted. We had the hotel set up the room with an aisle, so I got my entrance!!! This was in no way religious or anything, or legally binding, just really to have a ceremony with all our guests present.

We did ask a number of priests to do a blessing for us, but they were not willing to do it in a hotel, said it must be a church, so we had to look at alternative options.

You can have the registrar come out to the hotel if you wish, when we booked our wedding there was a long waiting list for this and we couldnt get the registrar to the hotel on the day we wanted, hence why we did it the way we did. You should ring them and check. Obviously Friday's are booked up a lot in advance.

You can only have a registry office wedding/registrar wedding on Monday to Friday by the way.

You could also look into having a humanist ceremony, this can take place on any day of the week, and in the hotel also. We also looked into this option, but there are only a small number of humanists that can legally carry out the marriage (i.e. you would only need one ceremony which would be legally binding) and we found that they didnt have availability for our date and were well booked in advance too.

If you need any other info just holler!

Tefral

Sopro wrote: »

Hi all
I am getting married next year in the registry office in Limerick & hotel afterwards etc
I have never been to a registry office wedding so I have no idea about them, so excuse my ignorance in my questions!!
People have told me that you just arrive there, both go in, 10 mins your married & out the door. There is no "grand entrance" for the bride or anything like that.
Here in lies my question...
Is it possible to get my "grand Entrance"? Its probably the only thing I really want in the wedding. I just want that moment of walking to my husband to be, someone giving me away and all of that. Is that only possible if your getting married in a church or having the registrar come to the hotel?
If anyone can tell me what happens that would be great

We are getting married there. The room holds 21 people including the registrar. Its about 5m x 6m in size and is very small. You can get a walk in but your talking through a small corridor into the right and its about 2m long.

Theres no real grand entrance as all your guests will be seated inside and will only see you pop in the door and then thats where your sitting.

I have attached the ceremony sheet that we got.