St. Patrick’s weekend 2019 wedding

cant26

Got engaged two weeks ago and trying to get my head around how to plan a wedding!
Still undecided on whether to do a quick registry office affair which we could have done before the end of the year or if we decide on the traditional wedding format we would be looking at next March or April.
Our number one venue has March 16th available which is a Saturday and obviously the day before St. Patrick’s day. It will also be a public holiday the following Monday.
For some reason I’m not sure if that date would work!
One of my concerns is the cost for potential guests traveling from the states and the uk back to Ireland that weekend.
In some ways it sounds ideal being a bank holiday but would love to hear from others who have either had their wedding that day or been a guest at a wedding on that date. I am wondering would there be any interference with suppliers due to the weekend that’s in it. Or is there anything else I should be considering?
I am so green with all of this!
Any ideas or opinions would be most welcome. TIA!

aquinn

Morning,

Congratulationso on your engagement.

Do you have a venue in mind?

Our Wedding planning started by the celebrant telling us when she was free so we worked everything around that, she was fully booked for 2018 except two dates and we emailed her the last week of 2017.

I would suggest working out your numbers and then looking at venues.

That'll then help you decided if you want a big Wedding or something small as it the cost between the both may sway it for you.

Personally I wouldn't like to go to a Wedding on a bank holiday weekend. I have done it in the past but it's everyone's weekend that then you take over.

I wouldn't have thought St Patricks would interfer with a Wedding supplier. If you go to a hotel it shouldn't anyway as most, but not all, have in-house catering.

Flights for the weekend that is in it I would assume that and accomodation costs would be higher.

SarahS2013

Congratulations on your engagement! It's such a special time, soak it up and enjoy it.

If you're going for March 2019, you may find it had to get the suppliers you want with only 9 months notice. A lot of photographers and bands can be booked out well over a year in advance...

Just something to consider.

aquinn

SarahS2013 wrote: »

Congratulations on your engagement! It's such a special time, soak it up and enjoy it.

If you're going for March 2019, you may find it had to get the suppliers you want with only 9 months notice. A lot of photographers and bands can be booked out well over a year in advance...

Just something to consider.

True but not always the case.

Once we had our celebrant date we found everthing else to book no problem. It may help as it is a Friday and not in the peak of Summer.

SarahS2013

Absolutely...

We were the opposite, we are a Saturday in August (this one coming....eek!) and had serious issues with getting the photographers and bands we liked. Maybe we're just picky lol

splinter65

I’m not for weddings on public holiday weekends but apart from that you need to arrange the actual “getting married” bit first and then book a hotel band photographer flowers etc around that.
Don’t get hung up too much on getting “this band” or “that photographer” you’ll just turn yourself into a walking bag of stress.
Book the priest/church/celebrant/registrar, pick a hotel you like, don’t sweat too much over the rest.
Send out your invites, people will come if they can and want to. Don’t go down the road at all of trying to please everyone because you can’t and you won’t.
Arrange what will please you both first and foremost. It is your day after all.
Your wedding is about to become very important to you but it’s just a social/family event for most of your guests and an expensive and grueling one for some of them. Guests will be happy as long as they don’t have to drive all over the place between the ceremony and the party venue and as long as there is reasonably priced accommodation nearby and AS LONG AS THEYRE NOT HUNGRY FOR HOURS ON END!!!
Make a desicion about wether it is adults only or not based on what you the bride and groom want, not who is going to be miffed about it.
Don’t bother mentioning presents on the invite, it gets peoples backs up and imo serves no other purpose. Guests want to put money in a wedding card and give it to you, end of.
Final word, don’t labour too long on this, get the basics right and everything else will fall into place.