Humanist Ceremony Venue

craicdood

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could help us with recommendations on a ceremony location in Dublin city centre?
We have decided on Fallon & Byrne for the dinner etc but we don't have a location for the ceremony itself. We know F&B can accommodate us but ideally we'd love to have the ceremony in a different location.
We have tried City Hall, Smock Alley, the Georgian Society building but with no luck.
If we could find something with HSE approval it would probably push us to go for it.

Any suggestions would be great! And thanks in advance too

gracemarie

Hi I play at weddings a lot and here are a few ceremony suggestions:

Law Society, Blackhall Place
National Gallery of Ireland
Hibernian Club, Stephens Green
Dublin Zoo
Royal College of Physicians
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Royal College of Surgeons

Hope that helps!!

gracemarie

Btw, if it's a humanist ceremony, the venue doesn't need to have HSE approval.

craicdood

gracemarie wrote: »

Hi I play at weddings a lot and here are a few ceremony suggestions:

Law Society, Blackhall Place
National Gallery of Ireland
Hibernian Club, Stephens Green
Dublin Zoo
Royal College of Physicians
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Royal College of Surgeons

Hope that helps!!

Wow, brilliant thanks so much. It can be difficult to figure these places out, there isn't much online. Thanks again

Faith

gracemarie wrote: »

Btw, if it's a humanist ceremony, the venue doesn't need to have HSE approval.

Do you have a source for that? I'm not sure that's true.

gracemarie

Yeah, it's definitely true. When I got married the venue didn't have HSE approval but as it was conducted by an accredited Humanist celebrant, it was completely legal. You just have to make sure the venue is open to the public.

Toots

I thought if you wanted the ceremony to be legally binding then the place had to have HSE approval. There are certain criteria to be fulfilled for it to be legal - the venue has to be accessible to the public for example AFAIK.

Faith

It does seem that, in the case of a secular or religious ceremony, the venue must be open to the public but it doesn't have to be HSE approved http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Getting_Married.aspx. But doesn't that contravene the fuss a few years ago about not being able to get married outside?

westernlass

Powerscourt Theatre is another option.  Some photos in this wedding.  I remembered it so well when I read it as her dress was so cool http://onefabday.com/dublin-city-centre-wedding/

GingerLily

Faith wrote: »

It does seem that, in the case of a secular or religious ceremony, the venue must be open to the public but it doesn't have to be HSE approved http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Getting_Married.aspx. But doesn't that contravene the fuss a few years ago about not being able to get married outside?

You just sign the papers indoors! That's what we're doing

lazygal

Faith wrote: »

It does seem that, in the case of a secular or religious ceremony, the venue must be open to the public but it doesn't have to be HSE approved http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Getting_Married.aspx. But doesn't that contravene the fuss a few years ago about not being able to get married outside?

All you do is have the legal bit inside, take five minutes.

I have been to ceremonies where the venues were not accessible to the public and there didn't seem to be a problem-eg a private house that the couple had hired and wouldn't have allowed any uninvited guests to that were fine. One was humanist, another was a spiritualist wedding.

Peregrinus

Faith wrote: »

It does seem that, in the case of a secular or religious ceremony, the venue must be open to the public but it doesn't have to be HSE approved http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Getting_Married.aspx. But doesn't that contravene the fuss a few years ago about not being able to get married outside?

They changed the law so that you can now get married outside, provided "outside" is a garden, courtyard etc that is near to, and usually enjoyed with, a public building. So you can't get married on a beach, say, or in a wilderness location.

Inside or outside, the place where you get married does have to be "open to the public". But that seems to be interpreted to mean, not "open to the public at the moment the marriage is celebrated", but "generally open to the public, even if access is restricted to invited guests for the wedding itself".

As others have said, as long as it meets the "open to the public" requirement your venue doesn't need specific HSE approval. unless your solemniser is a HSE registrar.

And, as others have pointed out, it's only the actual marriage itself that needs to be solemnised in a particular place; the other parts of the day can happen anywhere. But - common misconception here - the "actual marriage itself" is not, legally speaking, the signing of the papers; it's the mutual declarations of acceptance made in the presence of witnesses. You can deal with the paperwork anywhere you like (and indeed on a different day if you want, though that won't often be convenient).