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Honeymoon – planning the perfect romantic holiday

honeymoon-planning your romantic holiday

“Our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

The Honeymoon! Loving the thought of going on a month-long romantic holiday. Wouldn’t that be just amazing? After the wedding is done and dusted. You’ll be tired and exhausted. No doubt looking forward to a few days R & R…Let’s explore planning the perfect Honeymoon.

This fantastic blog by the Fathom Voyagers. It’s full of really useful tips from top wedding industry leaders. I really liked the tip about waiting a few days before jetting off on your honeymoon.

Honeymoon - planning the perfect romantic holiday

These tips from Christina Vidal are great! Especially the bit about building in leisure day and putting away the phone. And, one that I wouldn’t have thought of and that’s allowing for extras in your honeymoon budget.

Giving our #irishweddingchat members a plug

O’Leary Travel is one of our most active members.

Suzanne and her team are well known for their fantastic customer care. They take the time to get to know what you like and don’t like. They will even plan your whole itinerary from start to finish.

Susan Ryan is a Travel Counsellor is an expert in customizing long haul holidays.

Let’s take a look at some of the beautiful destinations The Travel Counsellors suggest. I love the look of this…imagine swimming in that crystal blue water with your new husband or wife on your honeymoon.

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Connect and chat with our fabulous members like O’Leary Travel, Susan and others (like me) while we showcase our honeymoon destinations, gifts, bridal and groom wear and so much more. It’s like going to a wedding fair – only it’s from the comfort of your own home.

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Planning your Wedding Feast.

“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
M.F.K. Fisher

Gone are the days when you’d only get Salmon or Beef (well, not entirely – I’ve been to one or two weddings where the wedding meal has been really traditional and unexciting).

Let’s explore the exciting world of food and catering for your wedding feast.

Let’s start by taking a look at the wedding food trends for 2020.

I do like these Ramen lettuce cups easily catering for Vegans and vegetarians in this fab read from the insider.com when they interviewed Jove Meyer at The Knot’s Annual Gala

Food Trends 2020

Decided on who is going to provide the food for your Wedding Feast is probably going to be one of the most stressful and fun aspects of planning your wedding. This is a fantastic read from Andrews Holmes Catering

Top tips for choosing your caterer

Yummy! Am enjoying this week’s topic. Am getting hungry! I found this super useful blog by dpnack.com where Danielle gives some not so obvious questions to ask your caterer.

Not so obvious questions

One of the best weddings I went to was a simple and intimate outdoor DIY, BYOB wedding – it was fabulous! With a BBQ, finger food and snacks that lasted the whole night. The food was superb and all home-cooked.

Tips for a wedding feast on a budget

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The Wonderful World of Wedding Flowers

“Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.”
John Harrigan

You’ve booked the venue for your Ceremony and Reception. One of the next things to figure out is your decor and a big part of this is your flowers. Your flowers will be carrying the theme and colours through from your bridal bouquet to your celebrations.

Finding the perfect floral designer is going to be essential in helping to bring your vision to life. So, in this week’s I’ve found some very useful and informative blogs to share with you.

We’ll start with budgeting for your flowers.

Jan and Dee run Kay’s Flower School in Dublin. They are fabulous! And, are always so helpful and supportive that I headed straight over to their site to see if I could find anything helpful and of course I did.

Kay's Flower School, Dublin
Wedding Flowers

How much will my Wedding Flowers Cost?

Setting a figure for your wedding flowers can be a pretty difficult thing to do. But, Jan and Dee walk you through the process simply.

Why are Wedding Flowers so expensive?

Once you read this you’ll understand the skill and time that it takes to create and deliver your wedding flowers.

Choosing the flowers

Your flowers will be the first thing people see when they arrive at your venue. The colours and blooms you choose will set the theme of your wedding. Floral Art in Wicklow has put together some fabulous tips to walk you through the process.

Scarecrow flowers. Wedding Flowers — photo credit: Scarecrow Flowers – Dublin

Finding the perfect Floral Designer

Before meeting with a floral designer its important to know what questions to ask. The team at The Clare Galway Hotel have compiled eight important questions to ask. From seeing samples to changing your mind.

I hope that you have found this weeks topic interesting and helpful. Before I go, I’m going to give a few of our #irishweddingchat wonderful floral designers a shout out.

Moss and Mushroom. Wedding Flowers — Moss and Mushroom

Earthly Elegance. Wedding Flowers — Earthly Elegance

Forever Flowers, Drogheda,
Wedding Flowers — Forever Flowers, Drogheda

Bumble Bee Flower Farm, Cork.
Wedding Flowers — Bumble Bee Flower Farm, Cork

Photo from Jasmine and Lily Floral Wreaths. Wedding Flowers — Jasmine and Lily Floral Wreaths

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Planning the Music for your Wedding Day

Irish Wedding Chat Topic - Wedding Music

Planning the Music you choose to share on your Wedding Day will probably be the most fun you will have. Being a lover of music myself, I know that if it were me I’d have to make sure that I went along to all the showcases, in fact, I’d go to a couple times. To be sure, that my foot was tapping and I felt like getting up to Dance.

www.thebalancesmb.com/perfectly-plan-your-wedding-music-1223472

I never would have guessed that there was so much involved in planning the music. From choosing the perfect song to walk down the aisle. To ending the night with a party that your guests will remember for years to come. I found this blog to be full of useful information to help you along the way.

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We’ll start with budgeting for your flowers.

Ceremony Music

The Wedding Band

The DJ

Planning the big day

Destination Wedding in Ireland

The Ceremony

The Guests

Help!

Sing a song

Let’s Dance!

The Wedding Speech!

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