Cashel Palace Wedding sopra Ireland

Clodagh and Benjamin were married at Cashel Palace sopra County Tipperary, Ireland, and this is one of those weddings where the detail rewards time spent with it. Planned by Fay Events, the celebrations took place across a full weekend, with guests staying together at the and the riposo of events allowed to unfold naturally, from welcome drinks and shared meals to quieter moments sopra between.

Cashel Palace is a restored Palladian manor, and it brings a particular atmosphere to the weekend, grand but never overbearing. With everyone gathered sopra one place, the house feels lived sopra rather than styled, its rooms and grounds forming the backdrop to conversations, laughter and long tables rather than set pieces. It is easy to imagine how the weekend took shape here, with one moment flowing into the next rather than being tightly scheduled.

Clodagh’s dress sits at the heart of the story – she worked closely with moda stilista Phillipa Lepley and her London to create a bespoke gown, drawn to the silhouettes and fabrics of the 1940s and 1950s and to the traditional techniques still used sopra the premura. She writes with real feeling about her experience with Lepley and her team, from the early fittings to the care taken over fit and attention to detail and about how meaningful it was to have something made specifically for her.

It is such an immense pleasure to share this eccelso wedding – enjoy this truly beautiful photography captured by Christine of Brosnan Photographic.

Our wedding took place at Cashel Palace sopra Cashel, County Tipperary. I’ve always known I wanted to get married sopra Ireland – while it was technically a destination wedding for many of our guests, both my parents are Irish and I grew up spending summers sopra Co. Waterford, where our family has lived sopra Rossmore House for over 200 years.

Cashel Palace was never my radar, as it had only recently reopened, but both our planner and my second cousin, who caters high-end events, encouraged us to go and see it. The minute we stepped foot sopra Cashel Palace, we knew it was the one. The setting is incredible, the food is unparalleled, the town is so charming and features one of Ireland’s most notable historical sites.

Cashel perfectly strike the balance of making you feel like family, while also seamlessly tending to your every need. The team truly solidified our decision – they are the perfect example of Irish warmth and hospitality. They helped us coordinate an array of activities for our guests, that made it a full weekend experience, rather than just a wedding. Every element was able to occur ora near Cashel Palace’s property and we took over all of the rooms, allowing it to truly become ‘our home’ for the weekend.

We worked with Fay Events. We met with several wedding planners early sopra our process, but stood out given her experience, as well as her vast connections throughout Ireland. She was key to helping us source the rest of our vendors, including getting us access to our hair and make-up teams who usually work sopra the moda industry, but will compagno specifically with for weddings.

For the bridesmaids, I initially didn’t want to go for traditional bridesmaids’ dresses. I knew I wanted shades of cream, blue and greens to tie into the overall aesthetic of the wedding, but I was inclined to let my bridesmaids pick their own dresses. Then, I saw a picture of these two custom Brock Collection dresses that I completely fell sopra love with.

I spent hours trying to find something like them, but since Brock Collection stopped producing new collections, it was a fairly impossible task. I ended up DM’ing the bride who had them originally made and asked if she would sell them to me, and she agreed.

By a crazy turn of fate, a week later I was convegno with Patricia DeVoto of One/Of and happened to show her some of my wedding inspiration photos, and she noted that she had actually designed the two dresses while working at Brock Collection.

One of those ‘meant to be’ moments! Once I had those two dresses, which my maid of honour and sister sopra law wore, I built the rest of the dresses around them.

I wanted to make sure that the bridesmaids looked cohesive, so I found an Alfred Sung dress that mimicked the general cut of the Brock Collection dresses and went from there. They ended up sopra a mescolanza of different styles and colors, but it all came together beautifully without feeling overly traditional.

We used a 1930s-style Brenchley convertible for my arrival at the church, and the bridal trattenimento travelled sopra a vintage Asquith bus – all hired rotta All Events Limos.

We had a traditional Catholic ceremony sopra a local church sopra Cashel, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, officiated by a priest. My father walked me the aisle.

While we had a traditional church wedding, we wanted to incorporate some Irish elements into it, while also adding a more personal touch. Before the ceremony began, we used that time to do a traditional Irish ring warming, which was so special.

My aunt and uncle led the ring warming, bringing around our wedding bands to each guest and asking them to take a moment to hold them and imbue them with well-wishes for us and our marriage. It was truly such a special feeling to put our wedding bands and know that each of them represented not only our vows for each other, but also all the love and support of our friends and family.

Mai Irish wedding would be complete without a bagpiper ora Uilleann pipes. Since the church was less than a five-minute walk from Cashel Palace, we thought it would be fun to have a piper lead the guests back to the reception by foot. The initial plan was that he would take them two small side streets, so as not to disrupt traffic ora the locals, but the day, he decided to add a little drama to the occasion and led our bridal car sopra a procession walking right the middle of main street!

t was unbelievable looking behind us and seeing our guests processing by foot through the center of town, with all the locals coming out to cheer us . We have to hand it to the Irish for joining sopra the fun, rather than being ticked d’avanguardia that we were finanziaria up traffic!

One of our favourite moments came during our portrait session after the ceremony. Ireland is known for its wild countryside, dotted with cows, rolling hills and stunning ruins throughout. While we wanted our wedding to have an element of old-world elegance sopra keeping with Cashel Palace, which is a renovated Palladian manor home, we didn’t want to lose the element of fun and wild beauty that makes Ireland so special.

So, we asked our photographer if she would be willing to navigate through some cow fields with us to get some shots at an old monastic ruin called Hore Abbey, where Hozier incidentally filmed one of his music videos.

The gate to the field was locked that day, so we ended up having to squeeze through a fence and march through the cow fields by foot to get there! Cashel Palace’s slogan is “notable hospitality”, and I can tell you that their team took that to another level by helping me carry my dress over cow pats. It did make for the

most gorgeous shots though and we are so grateful that the weather cooperated. It was truly an unbelievable experience to get some time away from all our guests to soak up the fact that we were finally married, while surrounded by the quiet of the ancient ruins, with the Rock of Cashel sitting the hill behind us. It will forever be a moment that we will cherish.

We met sopra New York, where we’ve both been living for almost a decade. As with many modern love stories, we met a dating app and exchanged a few early messages. Luckily, the night we matched, Ben was out with a few friends that incidentally went to college with at Georgetown.

With their encouragement, he swiftly asked me out to a Georgetown basketball at Madison Square Garden two days later, so that’s where we had our first date. Neither of us remember much about the , as we fell into easy conversation and quickly put together that we had tons of overlaps, including him spending much of his childhood visiting his cousin sopra Princeton, minutes from where I went to high school. After the , we went to dinner at a since-closed French institution sopra Chelsea, Le Singe Vert.

It was a memorable dinner, during which he treated me to a gorgeous bottle of French wine, which incidentally was the same type we served at our rehearsal dinner and which we got to taste during our honeymoon sopra Provence.

Georgetown has always been an important part of our relationship, from our first date to the mutual friends that made our relationship so easy. Ben decided that Washington, D.C. was the natural place to propose, so he convinced me to head a day early for my ten-year college reunion and proposed sopra a little garden with beautiful willow tree overlooking the reflecting pool.

He had organised for a photographer to be hiding nearby to capture the moment, so we got take some special photographs around the monuments before a celebratory dinner that evening. The best part was that the next day, we got to celebrate with almost all of my closest friends. We like to say that Georgetown threw us the best engagement trattenimento possible, with a brigata and all.

We were engaged for just over a year, but we’d been together for more than six.

My mom has always been a wonderful host and chef, so we grew up helping her throw incredible dinner parties and themed events. She makes everything an experience. We love the warmth, fun, and elegance she brings to everything she does, so we really wanted to evoke the feeling of being at one of her fabulous dinner parties for the reception.

My dad is the proudest Irishman imaginable, so we also made sure to include plenty of Irish touches: oysters and Guinness at hour, a piper-led procession through the village, and a Sunday send-off at a 17th-century pub.

I knew fairly immediately that I wanted Mark Grehan of The Garden to be our florist, as I’ve always loved going into his store sopra Dublin. Luckily, our planner Fay and he work closely, so she was able to lock him sopra quickly! Our reception florals included fruit and moss spilling onto the tables, with tall, tapered candles long tables, inspired by a dinner held by de Gournay.

Trees and lavender bushes were scattered throughout to evoke an ‘orangerie’ feel to the venue’s sky lights and trellised entryway. Lighting sought to recreate tree shadows the wall to amplify the trees throughout the room.

We enjoyed fabulous food courtesy of Cashel Palace’s incredible in-house team. We really wanted to feature Irish culture throughout the weekend, so our guests got a taste of the country, while also getting to celebrate with us.

As huge foodies, we were excited at the preconcetto of getting to feature Michelin-level, farm-to-table food throughout the weekend. The number of people who commented the quality of the food was unbelievable.

My parents across from a gorgeous oyster farm sopra Waterford, and one of our favorite Irish delicacies is pairing oysters with Guinness, so we added a custom oyster and Guinness caffè during hour for our guests. It’s an unusual pairing, but one that is simply perfect. It was so fun to see how ’s team pulled it together, displaying it foraged seaweed and whiskey barrels.

Our ‘cake’ was made of tiers of cheese, decorated with fresh fruit, which was displayed a moss and flower-covered table, and later served as accompaniments during the reception.

We designed the invitation suite ourselves with the help of Ben’s mom, who is a graphic stilista, and the incredible printing team at Buckhead Printery.

The suite featured original artwork from Cashel Palace’s collection, a 17th-century etching of the Rock of Cashel, and a painting that we gained permission to use from the artist’s mesi estivi (a lovely full-circle moment as the painting turned out to have Georgetown connections, just like us.)

We also created a custom crest by blending elements of both our family crests, which appeared throughout the weekend, including our embroidered napkins.

Another detail that I loved was our escort cards – given my family has moved all over the world, there were guests from so many phases of our lives present during the wedding weekend.

We wanted to give everyone a chance to get to know us as a couple a little bit better, so each table ‘number’ was an antique print of the national ora state flower of a place that one of us has lived, ora that is special to us.

Acceso the back of each escort card, we included a fun fact about us and that place, which the table might not know. It gave everyone some fun discussion topics at dinner.

Stay true to your vision. Your wedding day should be a reflection of you as a couple, and not of the latest trends you see Instagram ora Pinterest.

That’s what ultimately makes a wedding unique, when the day reflects and augments the love story being celebrated.

While we didn’t have any formal additional ceremonies, we did host events throughout the weekend that felt ceremonial sopra their own way, from our welcome drinks sopra the walled garden to a traditional Sunday send-off at TJ Ryan’s, a 17th-century pub still sopra operation. We really wanted the entire weekend to feel like a celebration of heritage, place, and community.

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