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Top considerations when booking Irish wedding from abroad

  • 02-02-2016 10:24pm
    #1
    huggles85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭


    Hi all

    I am a recently engaged Irish citizen living in the UK for a number of years. My husband to be and I are considering venues at present and we we will likely pick a venue in either Ireland or the UK.

    We have narrowed considered Irish venues down to a reasonable number and plan to rent a car in a few weeks and visit them. Considered UK venues are easy to get too so we will have them seen in person in the near future.

    The thought has crossed my mind however that (venue aside) alot more things need to be considered, e.g. music, catering, 'tasting sessions', celebrant (we are not planning a church wedding) etc etc

    Whilst I am willing to visit venues in person some things I just wont be able to see or do in person if I factor in time, money, work, life etc.

    With this in mind I wanted to ask what people feel we should make the effort to see in person - is venue enough or should there be more??

    We would be willing to make an extra trip or two if needed but obviously I dont want it talking over my life and have to be realistic.

    I should also mention we have no intention of hiring a wedding planner. My family (still in Ireland) can assist in viewing things on my behalf but our tastes sometimes differ so Im not 100% comfortable in leaving everything to them (nor, I suspect, would they want that either!)

    Thoughts on what you consider vital I see in person would be appreciated.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    Its the age of digital communication so if you're happy with doing so you can pretty much cover everything from abroad. I must stress that is if you're happy and confident in doing so.

    The only two parts we have done so in person are the venue and the wedding cake, we booked the band, photographer and celebrant by doing lots of research and talking to them to make sure they suited us, we never went to meet them.

    So if you're confident in making decisions without physically meeting/viewing then it can be done, I know some people would not be happy booking a band for example without viewing them but we were well used to doing research and as such just applied it to our wedding preparation and are confident in doing so.

    We do plan on meeting with the celebrant in future but again this could easily be done via phone or Skype.


  • #3
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭fits


    If you want to have a humanist celebrant I would say book them first before you fix the date. They can be hard to come by.

    Otherwise it depends what is important to you. I would think seeing the venues in person is important. We looked at a few and they could be completely different in reality to what we expected. But when we saw the right one, we didnt need to see anymore. I also had 100% confidence in their food, so we didnt have a proper tasting session, and that was justified on the day.

    Seeing the band in person is important too in my opinion. But we didnt go for a loud wedding band as it didnt suit our day.


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