Wedding at royal hospital kilmainham

Scuba squad

Hi

I was just wondering has anybody had or been to a wedding at the royal hospital kilmainham??

I would like to get a bit of info about it please

MaryAntoinette

You will have to pay for parking.

Raminahobbin

MaryAntoinette wrote: »

You will have to pay for parking.

It says on the wedding section of the website that there's complimentary parking for up to 400 cars.

jamesbondings

Went to a wedding there a couple of weeks ago.

Parking is "free".... I say" free" because even though the bride and groom told everyone it was free there was nothing around the car park to say this. Everyone I spoke to had paid because "it's not worth getting clamped". And you can't very well verify it with a bride or groom on their wedding day!

The place is absolutely stunning. However it is an open museum so there will be other people there (not at your wedding obviously) but pottering about. Like in the forecourt and toilets etc....

Food was sublime.... No idea what I ate as I didn't like it on paper but ate it to be polite and was more that pleasantly surprised.

A very important one now..... THE BAR DOES NOT TAKE CARD.
This was a nightmare. If you have already had a few drinks you cannot drive and there is nowhere close by to get cash. I had to open the card for the bride and groom and get a taxi at the end of the night to go to a banklink.

Honestly if I could afford to get married here, I would... I would clear up the above with whoever you may deal with though.

As an aside if you are having the ceremony there too. Just keep in mind there is nowhere close by to eat. Canapés are tiny and do not even come close to fending off the hunger.... I had a lovely day though as did everyone I spoke to. Hope this helps some

Scuba squad

jamesbondings wrote: »

Went to a wedding there a couple of weeks ago.

Parking is "free".... I say" free" because even though the bride and groom told everyone it was free there was nothing around the car park to say this. Everyone I spoke to had paid because "it's not worth getting clamped". And you can't very well verify it with a bride or groom on their wedding day!

The place is absolutely stunning. However it is an open museum so there will be other people there (not at your wedding obviously) but pottering about. Like in the forecourt and toilets etc....

Food was sublime.... No idea what I ate as I didn't like it on paper but ate it to be polite and was more that pleasantly surprised.

A very important one now..... THE BAR DOES NOT TAKE CARD.
This was a nightmare. If you have already had a few drinks you cannot drive and there is nowhere close by to get cash. I had to open the card for the bride and groom and get a taxi at the end of the night to go to a banklink.

Honestly if I could afford to get married here, I would... I would clear up the above with whoever you may deal with though.

As an aside if you are having the ceremony there too. Just keep in mind there is nowhere close by to eat. Canapés are tiny and do not even come close to fending off the hunger.... I had a lovely day though as did everyone I spoke to. Hope this helps some

Yes I know about the parking situation, we are only having 80 ppl so I will inform them by text about that, I will have to inform them about having cash with them now aswell.. thx for that info

By the time you replied to my post the venue has been booked so full steam ahead with it all

Just wondering were the band playing in the "great hall" or the chapel when you were there? We have the option of having the band and dj in the chapel and I think it's a pretty cool idea but my fiance thinks it's a bad idea..she thinks it will ppl will just get separated and all and it will kill the whole thing

sweetie

Scuba squad wrote:

Just wondering were the band playing in the "great hall" or the chapel when you were there? We have the option of having the band and dj in the chapel and I think it's a pretty cool idea but my fiance thinks it's a bad idea..she thinks it will ppl will just get separated and all and it will kill the whole thing

I played after a band in the main hall, sound is tricky to get right due to the hard surfaces but it was a great space to play in.

Penny Dreadful

I was at a wedding there this summer and it was just gorgeous. The wedding was a smaller one too than average and it worked brilliantly in the chapel (which is beautiful). The weather that day happened to be lovely and so the drinks and canapes outside after the ceremony were a big hit.
The food was delicious. I'm usually very much of the "meh" to wedding food given that its prepared for large numbers and doing that its difficult to get it perfect. I was delighted to be proven wrong on this occasion.

Good luck with your planning and enjoy your day.

Richard Roma

Got married there. Spectacular looking venue, especially on a sunny day when you get the use of the gardens.

The staff were absolutely terrible. We had everything documented with them in advance, but they didn’t bother completing many duties. Here is a short list of some of the problems we had:

They didn’t clean the venue following the previous day’s wedding.

They didn’t set up our things outside for the reception.

They lost some of our property.

They were extremely rude all day.

They didn’t set-up a microphone for the speeches.

They backtracked on their agreement to open the Kilmainham gate for guests over the night.

The main problem seemed to be that the manager had no control over the staff (many of whom were close to retirement and had been transferred from other HSE roles).

The lost property particularly annoyed us. The manager used myriad synonyms in her mail to say that my wife was lying- apparently we had never given them that property. They found it two weeks later and handed it back.

We escalated our complaint but it was ignored.

We’ve heard other bad stories about the place since.

My best man is in a senior role with an IFSC company. He recently advised his company not to proceed with a planned event there, as he had witnessed much of the above.

If you’re planning on getting married there; you’ll want to appoint one or more of the wedding party to micro-manage the staff. There’s also one particular member of staff who you’ll need to ensure is away on day.

splinter65

Civil service employees will be a different ball game totally to privately employed catering staff.