Wedding Guide
- Pre-marriage courses
- Speech Time for Mam & Dad
- Bridal Favours
- Have your cake and eat it!
- Changing your name
- Invitations & Stationery
- Bride's Speech
- Old Ways Are Best
- Duties of the Bride
- Meanings of Flowers
- Irish Wedding Traditions
- Wedding Music
- Weddings in Prague
- Who does what on the day!
- Grooms Speech
- The Perfect Photographer
- Duties of Mam & Dad
- Wedding Vows..As Gaielge
- Anniversary Symbols
- How to choose a Top DJ
- Church weddings
- Choosing Your Wedding Reception
- Sample Marriage Vows
- The Role of the Grooms Parents
- Best Man Speech
- Fr. Dara Molloy ( Blessings )
- Irish Wedding Blessings
- Wine Basics
- Church Flowers
- New Testament Readings
- Banquet Settings
- Love Quotes
- Wedding Tips
- Your Wedding Videographer
- Wording for Invitations
- Church Music Guide
- Old Testament Readings
- Bridemaids Speech
- Wedding Countdown
- Rules for Marriage in Ireland
- Etiquette for the big day
- Wedding sentiments
- Wedding Quotes
- The story of the Claddagh
- Transports of delight
- Duties of The Groom
- Order of Church Service
- Fashion Sense
- Who Pays for What
The meaning of gemstones:
- Constancy Garnet (January):
- Sincerity Amethyst (February):
- Courage Bloodstone (March):
- Purity Diamond (April):
- Success Emerald (May):
- Health Pearl (June):
- Passion Ruby (July):
- Happiness Sardonyx (August):
- Wisdom Sapphire (September):
- Hope Opal (October):
- Fidelity Topaz (November):
- Harmony Turquoise (December):
The meaning of flowers in the bridal bouquet:
- Lily: purity
- Rose: true love
- Carnation: honest love
- Violet: truthfulness Forget-me-not: sincerity
- Orchid: beauty
- Ivy: friendship
- Daisy: trust
- Woodbine (honeysuckle): faithfulness
- Orange blossom: Giving
Orange blossom was always the traditional bridal bouquet flower in these isles and an 18th century English custom was to present the happy couple with orange blossom, myrtle and rose water to bring them luck and happiness. There are many superstitions and old wives’ tales revolving around weddings.
Here is a selection:
Marry in Lent, live to repent. Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for
losses, Friday for crosses, Saturday no luck at all! If you change
the name and not the letter, You marry for worse and not for better.Marry
in white, you’ve chosen right, Marry in blue, your love will be true,
Marry in yellow, ashamed of the fellow, Marry in red, you’ll wish
yourself dead, Marry in black, you’ll wish yourself back, Marry
in grey, travel away, Marry in pink, your spirits will sink, Marry
in green, ashamed to be seen.
wedding sentiments