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Seeing as there is hardly any activity in here, I thought that I would share that Mark and I have been invited to a wedding! We won't be going, but I am very excited nevertheless! There is the small matter of three children being left at home on their own, it being in Dublin, it being in an incredibly expensive hotel and the church being a long way from the hotel and it being less than two months away. Otherwise I would have loved to have gone.
I have just looked at the hotel website, and I really want to go now. I needn't worry about how expensive it is, as they are fully booked anyway. I shall work my way down the other suggested hotels and see how much they are.
It is at St John the Baptist in C lontarf, and then at the Radisson St H elens Hotel in S tillorgan Road. Are they a long way apart? It looks it on the tiny map I have. The hotel is beautiful....
That hotel is about 5 mins from where I work! Its a STUNNING hotel that was once an old stately home! Oh Nic its such a pity you cant go. Your friends must have plenty of cash to be having the reception there!
The church is pretty far from the hotel actually. Would take about an hour to get there I'd reckon.
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Jenny xx
Married my soulmate 1st October 2005
Remember that the things around you are never as important as whose arms are around you.
That hotel is about 5 mins from where I work! Its a STUNNING hotel that was once an old stately home! Oh Nic its such a pity you cant go. Your friends must have plenty of cash to be having the reception there!
The church is pretty far from the hotel actually. Would take about an hour to get there I'd reckon.
I've obviously misinformed the AA route map then...
I was surprised to have been invited (it is Mark's cousin) as it is the bride's mother who has decided that they must have the reception there, but leaving it to the couple to pay for everything. Therefore I thought they were compromising by only inviting the closest relatives (being pretty big families), though having it on a Friday when a lot of Mark's family are teachers, will presumably thin out the crowds!
Yep Clontarf is pretty far traffic wise from the Stillorgan Hotel, But that hotel is fab.
Have they not said anything about transport. Majority of Irish weddings lay on a bus from the church to the hotel. And you have to have a grushy before the bus can leave!!
A grushy! We had one of those before the bus left! I missed it as we were in the pub next to the church having our photo taken! We met while working there so thought it'd be nice to have a photo taken there too!
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Jenny xx
Married my soulmate 1st October 2005
Remember that the things around you are never as important as whose arms are around you.
What's a grushy? Am I missing something that I ought to make an effort to attend?
Nicola
A grushy is what you do after a wedding. All the local kids will stand outside the bus waiting for the guests on it to throw all their spare change out the window. When the change is thrown out, all the kids shout "grushy" and kill each other to get the money! All in good fun of course.
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