Brown Wedding Dresses

Gone are the days where brides are expected to wear dresses of white when they marry. If you’re having a fall wedding, consider a wedding dress in brown, such as a chocolate shade. You’ll certainly look dazzling and elegant in a stand out dress at your fall wedding.

Brown Themed Wedding – Bouquets

Wedding Cakes for your reception with hint of brown

Bridesmaids & Groomsmen in Brown

How to incorporate brown into your reception

There are so many different ways to incorporate brown into your wedding reception theme. You can include various shades of flower throughout the wedding reception. Coordinate the linens, table …napkins and chair covers to finish off the brown theme. Cover the tables in chocolate-colored linens and coordinate the table napkins. Cover the banquet chairs with chocolate chair covers. To finish the tables off, place boxes of chocolate truffles on each table as guest favors. A table setting should leave a lasting impression on your guests.

Red Wedding Dresses are very famous in America and Asian Countries.

In China, red is the most popular color for bridal wear, it symbolizes happiness, auspiciousness and luck, similar to India, who wear the red wedding saris.

The Wedding Bouquet

 Flowers are by definition romantic, so every bride wants the perfect myriad of colors to accent her dress and brighten the event center hosting the reception.

While roses are the classic, roses in February are extremely expensive. Other red flowers to consider include tulips, gerbera, cala lilies and freesia.

Red and white are the perfect solution for the couple that would like to make a sophisticated and glamorous impression upon their guests.

The Wedding Dress

On Valentine’s Day, an old-fashioned look is always romantic to achieve this consider wearing a classic style dress and tuxedo for the groom. For inspiration look to old movies, including Funny Face and legendary weddings including Grace Kelly’s and Jackie Kennedy’s.

A second option is to go for a white dress with red accents. Wear your hair pulled back with red roses pinned into your chignon. Wrap a vibrant red shawl around your arms, and carry an overflowing bouquet of more red roses. Have your bridesmaids wear the same dress in varying shades of red, and have groomsmen wear red ties with different red boutonnières.

The third option is to wear a red dress. If your dress is too bright, you can tone it down with softer colors like ivory and cream as off white shades always look fantastic with red. Adding bright white accents may be too much contrast as you’ll want to shine, but not blast everyone with shocking colors .

Wedding Cake

Wedding cakes today have marzipan icing that can be colored to your exact specifications. But you don’t have to stop there. Red velvet cake tastes divine and looks beautiful on plates. A popular new style of wedding desserts is having a candy table or cupcakes. With either a candy table or cupcakes you can have color duos, trios or an entire theme of spicy, red chili pepper candies and sweets. 

Bridesmaids Dresses

If the bride is wearing a red dress or with red accents the bridesmaids have lots of dress color accents including the Pippa Middleton white dress. On the other hand, if the bride is wearing a white dress different shades of red will make the bridesmaids stand out from one another.

How to incorporate red in your table setting…

Situated in the heartlands of the Shannon region the Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort is steeped in exotic history and surrounded by medieval ruins. Set amid 840 acres of formal gardens and rolling parkland, the Adare Manor offers world class facilities which include a variety of accommodations to suit your needs, a magnificent Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed championship golf course, luxurious treatment rooms several fine restaurants and entertaining bars. The Adare Manor Hotel and Golf resort is located in the picture perfect Adare Village with thatched cottages and Tudor style homes and ivy-clad churches.

Bon Voyage!

After breakfast fit for a king the depart Dromoland for Limerick city.

 Activities in Limerick: visit to King John’s Castle and introduction to the city finest shops.

King John’s Castle is a 13th century Castle on ‘King’s Island’ in the heart of medieval Limerick City.  The Castle overlooks the majestic River Shannon offering wonderful views of Limerick City.  Discover history at its best, magnificent views and life in Norman times.

The morning finished off with an Irish coffee from Paddy’s Bar.

Irish Coffee is internationally famous and a favourite after dinner drink throughout the world. It is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and brown sugar, stirred, and topped with thick cream. It was invented at Foynes, a small town in the West of Ireland.

After having strolled around Ireland’s prettiest village of Adare, experienced the quaint shops, wonderful boutiques, and thatched cottages they are now at Pat Collin’s bar for a pint of Guinness.

 First stop this morning the wedding castle at Knappogue a possible venue for some of the planners clients from the USA.

Knappogue Castle is located in a truly picturesque setting, the castle offers one of the most romantic and unique wedding venues in the country.  Initially built in 1467, Knappogue Castle is rich in history with charming grounds and a magical ambience to provide the perfect setting for your special day. Surrounded by the tranquil landscape and rolling hills of County Clare, Knappogue Castle is located on beautiful gardens where you can relax or enjoy a peaceful stroll.

Next stop the village of Bunratty where they will visit the castle and Folk park

 The Castle is the most complete and authentic medieval fortress in Ireland.  Built in 1425 it was restored in 1954 to its former medieval splendour and now contains mainly 15th and 16th century furnishings, tapestries, and works of art which capture the mood of those times.

Within the grounds of Bunratty Castle is Bunratty Folk Park where 19th century life is vividly recreated. Set on 26 acres, the impressive park features over 30 buildings in a ‘living’ village and rural setting. Enjoy the tastes, scents, sights and sounds of this enchanting place as you stroll from house to house or around the charming village complete with school, post office, doctors house, hardware shop, printers and of course the pub! They will have lunch in the Golden Vale cottage.

At the end of an other jampacked day they will retire to Dromoland castle for some luxury pampering.