The Wedding of your Dreams

"Would you like to hang your washing next to mine?"

You needn’t be surprised if in a fine Shrove Tuesday – the day before Ash Wednesday – your infatuated valentine approaches with these apparently idiosyncratic words! Its simply that he desires to incorporate an Irish flair in his proposal to transmute you as his life-long inamorata. So why not succumb to this beautiful Irish Wedding Theme and make that auspicious day, an overwhelming psychedelic experience.

Elysium on earth

Ireland is often considered a realm of romance as when its alpine mountains courteously bows down to the sea, while like the shimmering tear drops of the Greek goddess Demeter waiting in hope for the arrival Persephone, the water gently touching the shores of the farmlands bordered imbues the spectator with nostalgia.

Heirloom Tradition

The church, and in fine seasoned airs the meadows with rolling green hills, always serve as wonderful settings.

The Bride in her white laced gown can adorn herself with a kaleidoscopic tiara or an emerald necklace with a blending of wildflowers and shamrocks fastened in the hair. While the Groom will perfectly stand out in his traditional white tux and Irish kilt.

Customs

Luck money

The custom of the Groom presenting his Bride with a coin is said to date back to the time when the Groom paid luck money to the family of the Bride for a blessed life ahead. After the exchange of wedding rings, the coin is presented to the Bride as a symbol of worldly goods. There is a contemporary custom where the Bride and Groom exchange coins, and it is said that, if the coins clink as they are exchanged, the couple will receive the happiness of fertility. After the wedding, this is often preserved as a memorabilia for the generations to come.

Marry in May and Rue the Day

This outlandish notion interspersed in Irish customs provoke many Brides to avoid the conjugal ceremony in May and embrace the month of April instead for as the Irish believe Marry in April if you can, joy for maiden and for man.

“The goose is cooked”

All those familiar with this expression will be surprised to know that this also bequeathed from an old Irish custom. The day before the marriage, the Groom is invited to the Bride’s house where a goose is simmered in honor of the son-in-law to be!

The Wedding

The quintessence of the joyful day however resides in the preparation of the perfect Irish cake, the feast and hosting of the ceremony with Irish music.

The heavenly gratifying traditional Irish cake would be savory fruitcake iced in white. The top-tier is that of an Irish-whiskey cake, while its myriad of layers are baked in the mould of a shamrock.

For real Irish flavour corned beef, cabbage, or Irish stew and soda bread, washed in mead are traditionally favoured for potluck.

While an Irish fiddler or uillean piper or an entire band playing the chords in a metal-stringed Celtic harp will produce an authentic tune.

A beautiful Irish wedding in the heavenly realms of Emerald isle with the most mouth-watering delicatessen, what could one want more?