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Carlow Registry Office

  • 22-05-2020 4:25pm
    #1
    Shelli2
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    Has anyone attended a wedding or civil ceremony in Carlow Registry office? What is it like? Any pictures?
    I've searched online but none to be found.


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  • #2
    splinter65
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    Shelli2 wrote: »
    Has anyone attended a wedding or civil ceremony in Carlow Registry office? What is it like? Any pictures?
    I've searched online but none to be found.

    The actual office you deal with to arrange an appointment is in the old psychiatric hospital St Dympnas. But I don’t know if that’s where you go to meet the marriage registrar on the day. Sorry that’s all I know.


  • #3
    jlm29
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    From what I hear, they’re all a bit bleak tbh. Maybe Dublin is different because they’d have higher numbers, but most of them are rooms in or near to health centres/county clinics etc. But I can’t speak specifically for carlow, just the couple I have been in


  • #4
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    jlm29 wrote: »
    From what I hear, they’re all a bit bleak tbh. Maybe Dublin is different because they’d have higher numbers, but most of them are rooms in or near to health centres/county clinics etc. But I can’t speak specifically for carlow, just the couple I have been in

    It’s not that they’re bleak it’s that it’s an office, a workplace, a place of business. Your marriage is just an official transaction taking place in a public service office. Your wedding is an entirely different occasion, and it’s difficult to incorporate the two.


  • #5
    jlm29
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    splinter65 wrote: »
    It’s not that they’re bleak it’s that it’s an office, a workplace, a place of business. Your marriage is just an official transaction taking place in a public service office. Your wedding is an entirely different occasion, and it’s difficult to incorporate the two.

    The ceremony room is separate to the office, so yes, while it might technically be someone’s work place, it’s not their office. I assume that the OP was asking what the room where their wedding ceremony will happen in looks like. While I can’t answer specifically about the Carlow office, the two I have personal experience of have, in fact, been a bit bleak. I got married in one, I’m not complaining, I’m just as married as the person who got married in a 5 star hotel, or a cathedral. But the room was a bit dismal and dreary. That’s all.


  • #6
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    jlm29 wrote: »
    The ceremony room is separate to the office, so yes, while it might technically be someone’s work place, it’s not their office. I assume that the OP was asking what the room where their wedding ceremony will happen in looks like. While I can’t answer specifically about the Carlow office, the two I have personal experience of have, in fact, been a bit bleak. I got married in one, I’m not complaining, I’m just as married as the person who got married in a 5 star hotel, or a cathedral. But the room was a bit dismal and dreary. That’s all.

    I get you of course. Yes these places are drab. In Ireland when you attend your civil wedding you are doing so in a building in which other people are also attending to register a death, or a birth or apply for an EHIC. That’s why it’s important to be realistic when planning the big day so as not to be disappointed.


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