Usually we’re in the throes of celebrating our clients’ anniversaries, but in April 2016, Waterlily Weddings celebrated its own special anniversary! Congratulations to Michelle and the team for an amazing 10 years as the leading wedding planners of destination weddings in Ireland! To celebrate, we thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory […]

Many couples who come to Ireland for their dream wedding are looking to incorporate some Irish traditions and elements into their special day. One detail many couples are choosing is hand-fasting.  This post explores quickly the history behind the hand-fasting ceremony and how you can incorporate it into your dream Irish wedding today. We have […]

Most of our posts are about Ireland and tailored for couples who are in the planning process of their own dream destination wedding. But the reality is that the guests who attend also play an integral role. This post is written from their perspective: what they want to know, what they wish they’d known, and […]

Waterlily Weddings is proud to present the destination wedding of Shawna & Mark at Waterford Castle. They met in the summer of 2011 and became engaged in the summer of 2013. This is the second wedding for both, so they wanted to make sure it was special and different. They wanted to make it a trip […]

Photo: copyright Michelle Escobar Your mission: You’ve got five days in Ireland and need to do and see and experience as much as is humanly possible. Where do you eat? What do you see? How do you get there and how long will it take? Don’t worry, Waterlily Weddings is here to help! Behold, your […]

Welcome to March! With St. Patrick’s Day coming up in a few weeks, we at Waterlily Weddings thought it’d be fun to go through some notes and separate the fact from fiction on what’s Irish and what’s not. Many pubs in Ireland (and in America) have what are called “quiz nights” — one night a […]

Many words can describe an Irish wedding, but one word in particular that transcends through the most elegant of castle weddings to a casual courthouse ceremony followed by celebratory pint at the pub, is “fun.” Having endured its fair share of historical hardships, the Irish know probably better than most that when it is a […]

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“Jet lag.” Two words that can invoke fear into the hearts of parents traveling abroad with their pint-sized companions. Traveling to the grocery store down the street with your 3 year old can sometimes require colossal effort; you cannot even fathom it for your trip to Ireland coming up. Have no fear, we here at […]