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Posted by donegal419

Also, ladies if your FH's Mom is Irish... "My Son" is a popular Irish one for the mother/son dance. Andy Cooney sings it and I think a few others have done it too, so it would be easy to find on a CD somewhere.

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I'm Irish born and raised and got married in October. If you would like to see my Irish touches at my wedding, check out my review.

Our band was Gerry Finlay and the Cara Band who I can HIGHLY recommend. We had Pipers at the Church and our reception. My DH is 100% Irish but raised in NYC and he and his brothers wore kilts in the Irish National tartan. I also had chocolate truffles imported from Ireland for one of my favors.

I hope you all enjoy your wedding as much as we did

ETA: My DH's father and mother have passed away so he danced with his two sisters to "My Old Man" which is a song by the Furey's.

Message edited 4/19/2006 11:20:18 AM.

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Does anyone know if the president of Ireland will send a congratulatory letter like the Pres of the US and the Pope if you send an invite? If so do you know the address?

TIA

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I never heard of such a thing.... that would be very cool! the website for the government of ireland is www.gov.ie

There are links to the president, prime minister, etc. perhaps there is some info. on the site that could help you.

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I am sending out a LOT of invitations to our numerous family members in Ireland. i wanted to put the stamp on their reply card just as we would do here...

there is a link on the Irish post office site where you can order them and they'll send them to you! the post office website is in depth (post offices there handle a lot more than mail, many operate as banks, passport offices, etc.) but i think i was able to find the right info... here is the link:

http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/MainContent/Business+Customers/Our+Business+Services/Stamps+Direct/Stamps+Delivered+Direct+to+your+Door.htm

I didn't look into it too much... it's late but it doesn't look like you do it directly online... print out the form and order. hope this helps! I am going to do this rather than make my aunt or someone lay out over 100 euro on postage for me.

HTH!

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Hi

I am looking for mother/son songs and father/daughter songs does anyone now any good website that has a lot of irish lyric songs.

Does anyone know the song the son sings to his mother - I heard it the other day but didn't get the name. He is thanking her for all she has done?

TIA

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You may be thinking of "My Son" although it goes from the perspective of the mother to the son. Andy Cooney, Pat Roper and Sonny Knowles have done recordings of it. Yesterday, someone posted a thread about it on BHB.

Also, we posted about mother-son songs and father-daughter songs on this thread a page or so back ;)

Also, check out regorecords.com and click on the Irish wedding link to the left and it will give you songs with lyrics and the option to order the CDs on line if your DJ doesn't have it.

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A good Irish father/daughter song that I'm using is "Daughter of Mine" and FH is dancing w/his mother to "My Son".

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Quirk's Irish gifts in West Babylon has Wedding music CD's if you're interested.

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Posted by donegal419

I am sending out a LOT of invitations to our numerous family members in Ireland. i wanted to put the stamp on their reply card just as we would do here...

there is a link on the Irish post office site where you can order them and they'll send them to you! the post office website is in depth (post offices there handle a lot more than mail, many operate as banks, passport offices, etc.) but i think i was able to find the right info... here is the link:

http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/MainContent/Business+Customers/Our+Business+Services/Stamps+Direct/Stamps+Delivered+Direct+to+your+Door.htm

I didn't look into it too much... it's late but it doesn't look like you do it directly online... print out the form and order. hope this helps! I am going to do this rather than make my aunt or someone lay out over 100 euro on postage for me.

HTH!

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I'm nowhere near irish, but wish i was haha. my fi is 90% irish (mom's maiden name being kelly!) and i wanna incorporate some irish tradition in there (although i'm italian, german and greek, i dont care about my heritage honestly) we're definetely having bag pipers.. not sure for anything else besides some irish music at the reception. do you guys think its stupid if we have some irish traditions if im not irish? also, we're not having our ceremony at a church (i know i know, he doesnt want it there)

we're also having an african/safari themed wedding (although we're not african american at all! we love the heritage though) so i wanted to jump the broom, is that dumb? thanks for any info guys xo

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My dad is taking a trip to Ireland in Sept. and he's going to get all my Irish stamps for the reply cards then. You can always send a relative the $ and have them pick them up or do what I'm doing too. What stinks is my sister did the same thing that I'm doing and most of the ppl. didn't even mail back the replys so she wasted the $ on the stamps.

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I went to the Irish Festival in East Durham this week to hear Celtic Cross play and I came across a candle vendor that makes really pretty personalized unity candles - very inexpensive!!

Here's the link to the site:
Celtic Candles

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Here are some celtic wedding bands:

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Posted by chellynyc

I went to the Irish Festival in East Durham this week to hear Celtic Cross play and I came across a candle vendor that makes really pretty personalized unity candles - very inexpensive!!

Here's the link to the site:
Celtic Candles

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Here is a link for prayers in Irish (gaelic)

Irish Prayers

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Hey girls I'm new to this thread but I'm sooooooooo glad one of my BM's clued me in to it!

FH is all Italian but I'm all Irish so we decided on an "Irish Theme Italian Cusine" wedding!

I'd really appreciate any ideas or suggestions!

Oh and any tips on must do's in Ireland are welcome too! (We're honeymooning there! )

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I'm an irish bride, everyone keeps suggesting to us to get Irish bag pipes-but my FH's uncle who was a fire fighter died on 09/11 in th WTC. When we went to his funeral, all we heard was bag pipes-it brings back too many bad memories, but I love all of your other ideas ladies and will surely be using them-if I can think of any I will post them.

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Proud to be an Irish American Princess!

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i'm about half Irish - FH is everything but Irish... go figure!!

I'm having a bagpiper at the church as guests enter and leave the church. When I was in Ireland about 10 years ago I just remember the sound of the pipes made me well up and moved me. From then on I knew I needed a bagpiper at my wedding!!!

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Has anyone heard the following irish song - I don't know the name but here are some of the lyrics

First time i saw you i loved you so well....... on your wedding day....... when you walk down the aisle on your wedding day.....

That is all i know. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

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Okay girls I need some help!

For those of you who are incorporating some of your Irish heritage into your wedding, what are you doing or have done for favors?

I really wanted to do a small piece of irish crystal be it waterford, marquis, galway or shannon, but I can't find anything reasonably priced.

Any ideas? TIA!

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Have you thought of any celtic ornaments. FOr a friends bridal shower we gave out ceramic shamrock ornaments.

As of know we are doing pint glasses - the crystal things tend to be very expensive and not all appreciate it

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I'm Irish too!

We incorporated a lot of traditions -
* We had a bagpiper at the church
* We had the irish wedding blessing on the back of the programs
* We played the Irish Wedding Song at communion
* We presented the Virgin Mary with flowers
* We played "Our Lady of Knock" (mom's favorite song)
* We played A LOT of Irish music (The Siege of Ennis went over really well)
* Irish blessing at dinner
* Six pence in my shoe
* My dad and I danced to "Daughter of Mine" - there wasn't a dry eye in the house
* One song we played that meant a lot was "Black Velvet Band" - my dad use to sing it to me at bed time.
* Claddagh unity candle holder - it was GORGEOUS - I'll try to post a pic.

If I think of anything else, I'll post it!

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