Irish Theme

You could:

Say something in Gaelic in your vows/have Gaelic written in your ceremony programs
When giving a toast, instead of saying 'Cheers!' say 'Slainte!'
I would steer away from anything dealing with Leprauchans or Pots of Gold--they were made up by the British to poke fun at the Irish
Have a bagpiper at your ceremony, Try to find a Ueleanpiper because that's more irish (bagpipes are scottish)
Have some part of your dress with lace


Can you tell that me and FH are irish??? lol



If you want more info you can check out theknot.com and search for irish themes and ideas on there for other info

:)

My FH and I were considering an Irish theme if we booked our wedding for March, but we wound up with April and dropped it.

Anyway, we wanted bagpipers and were going to use celtic knots as much as we could - for a border around the invitations, necklaces for the bridesmaids, cufflinks for the groomsmen...

Then we were going to have the DJ play some fun Irish music at the reception too. Oh - and have the Irish Blessing as one of the readings at our ceremony...

Maybe I should have stuck with that since I moved the date to April and now have NO ideas for colors or themes!!

Have you ever seen the votive table cards?

you can use these

and you can name your tables after places in Ireland

have bagpipes at the wedding

dress the bridal party in green..

I am doing a irish themed wedding. It is more of a green/clover theme with a splash of irish.

Disclaimer: I know not every irish person drinks but Fh and I are beer people we go to beef fests and tastings. We are beer snobs.. anyway..

For our favors we are doing monogramed pint classes (our monogram has clovers in it), we have two coasters (one of ireland and one of a irish brew), a cd of all traditional irish music but contemporary and old time favorites bands and singers, clover shaped chocolates.

For flowers: we are incorporating green flowers and individual shamrock plants as place card holders.

For our table numbers and the back of our invitations we have purchased old st. patricks day postcards which I have scanned in to reproduce. So Each table gets a specific postcard image (harp, lady, st. patrick, castle, etc) as the table number. ST. Patrick postcard will be on the back of the inviation as a keepsake if someone wishes to use it for st. pats decoration in a frame.

We have irish music playing at cocktail hour and a song in the reception.

Guinness will be served (i tried to have smithwicks and murphys also but it would of cost us a arm and a leg)

Cornbeef (although not really irish but german-be too hard to serve my fav. dish of bangers and mash w/ peas) and irish soda bread to be served at cocktial hour.

We are using irish linens for the favor table, ceremony table, sign in table (all hand made irish lace with clovers in it)

We tried to hire a irish band or traditional fiddle and pipe player/tin whistle but no one panned out.

Ummm bp is in black and clover green (black is a unlucky color in irish culture from what i have been told by relatives and would be a sin to use black in a wedding but i am doing it anyway)

I would stay away from st. pats stuff as stated. I was going that direction until I saw how cheesy it was going.

I have some stuff in my album if you wish to look.

I'm having the Irish wedding song sung at my wedding. Its a beautiful song here are the lyrics:
The Irish Wedding Song

Here they stand hand in hand
they've exchanged wedding bands
Today is the day of their dreams and their plans,
and all we who love them just wanted to say.
May God bless this couple who married today
In good times and bad times in sickness and health
may they know that riches are not needed for wealth
and help them face problems they'll meet on their way
Oh god bless this couple who married today
May they find peace of mind comes to all who are kind
May the rough times ahead become triumphs in time
May their children be happy each day
Oh God bless this family who started today
As they go may they know every love that was shown
And as life it gets shorter may their feelings grow
Wherever they travel wherever they stay
May God bless this couple who married today
*substitute first names of bride and groom in the last line of song
as in god bless...and ....