Archive for the ‘Guests’ Category

Children at Weddings

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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Having children at your wedding is similar to marmite, you either hate it or love it.  So whichever camp you are in, you and your other half should discuss it early on.  Once you have made your decision, stick to it.  A lot of couples get put under pressure by relatives not happy that their beloved babies aren’t invited.  Although having children at your wedding can be great, and for us personally we’d have to our little niece and nephew there.

Many couples themselves have children before getting married, so with that in mind, you might have your own children there, so what can you do to keep them entertained during the day?

Child Entertainment – Great when there is a large group of children, not so good for smaller groups.

Activity Bags – You spend lots of time getting your favours etc ready, so why not put together a bag, containing colouring books, sweets and various other little pound (euro) shop delights.

Child Minders – A company springs to mind on this Little Wedding Crechers.  They can offer you packages starting from the ceremony, right up to the full day package.  Not alone do they have uber qualifications, they will have been to many weddings and have the experience of knowing what children want, and at the end of the day you want to be safe in the knowledge the kids are just as happy as the grown-up’s on the day.

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Call: 085 705 4096

Thank you notes – A little help?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

We came across this tool, some might find it handy. We had a little giggle at the result of ours, once we filled in the necessary boxes.  You enter in some details on who gave you a gift and it generates the note for you.

26th August 2009

Dear Aunt Cat,

Thank you so very much for the wonderful toaster that you gave us in honor of our wedding. We are estatic by your kindness. We plan to have toast every morning

Thank you for such generosity

Lots of Love,

Fiona and Tony

Try your own thank you note here.

Best Man Speeches

Monday, August 17th, 2009
Best Man Speeches

Best Man Speeches

We were sent this handy website:  The Best Man Speech. The best man can choose from the grooms personality, appearance and even career to get a kick start on writing the all important speech.

  • Opening lines
  • Wedding observations
  • Happy couple’s romance
  • Heart warming tribute

Check it out http://www.thebestmanspeech.com/

Invitations – Stuck for words?

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Creative Invites - www.creativeinvites.ie

Creative Invites - www.creativeinvites.ie

This might come in useful for some.  The software takes your details, such as wedding type, venue type etc and out pops some suitable wording for your invites!

http://www.optimalprint.co.uk/wedding-text-wizard

Let your guests hook up before the wedding.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

We think this is one of the best things we’ve seen yet.  Have you ever attended a wedding where you didn’t really know anyone?  Have you ever had trouble doing a table plan, because you don’t know who’ll get on?

http://weddingpreparty.onewed.com

http://weddingpreparty.onewed.com

All your problems can be sorted thanks to a genius idea by OneWed.com.  The guest hook up is kind of marketed at the single guests, i.e. match-making, but having the majority of your guests registered will just allow them to put faces to names, and get to know each other a little.

http://weddingpreparty.onewed.com

http://weddingpreparty.onewed.com

http://weddingpreparty.onewed.com

http://weddingpreparty.onewed.com

The system uses Facebook connect to manage all the registrations, but everything stays private between the people you invite.

http://weddingpreparty.onewed.com

http://weddingpreparty.onewed.com

We’re ridiculously excited about this, and we’ve already sent the links on our friends getting married this year!  Let us know if you have signed up and how it is working.