We have a beautiful Real Wedding for you today! Ciara and Paul were married in August this year at the stunning Falls Hotel, Co. Clare. The big day was captured by David McNeill Photography.
Here’s what photographer, David McNeill had to say about the special day: “I spend time with all my wedding couples talking about their wedding day photographs and what they envisage. For me its important to know what my couples want and the time spent planning ensures I always deliver the images they dreamed of for their wedding. Ciara & Paul booked me at Citywest and I remember chatting to them at the show as they were both full of vitality. We hit it off immediately and I just knew I was going to have a great wedding day shoot with this couple.
The hotel itself presents photographers with some great options in terms of indoor photographs. The hotel management and staff were excellent. They were friendly and I felt they looked after the bride and groom exceptionally well. This is a big thing for couples booking venues as the personal touch is so so important and I felt this at the Falls Hotel.
So, as weddings go this one was fantastic. The couple, the venue, the location the people all made for a fantastic and fun day!”
We were very lucky to speak to the beautiful couple, Ciara and Paul to find out more about this beautiful celebration!
“We chose the Falls Hotel & Spa for our big day, because we have been to so many weddings there and we found everything about the hotel to be so inviting. The grounds are amazing! The cascades are perfect for wedding photos and the function room is newly renovated.”
“We were engaged for exactly 12 months before the big day! We genuinely enjoyed planning the wedding and tried to make it as personal as possible by making our own invitations and doing our own flowers. We found that one year is plenty time to be engaged- you can get swallowed up by the whole planning of the wedding but if you know what you want and especially what you don’t want, it wont be long coming together. One bit of advice we would give is to set a budget in the early days of your engagement and save month by month so that you have most of the expenses covered before the big day!”
“We loved our menu in the Falls- We chose a 3 course meal with choice of starters Chicken and Mushroom Vol au Vent or Bruschetta with Parma ham and Tomatoes. Our main course was a choice of Roast Rib of Beef or Monkfish. And our dessert was the delicious Chocolate Pear Tart with Ferroro Rocher Ice cream… Mmmmmmm!! We found it so hard to decide on our menu but Michael in the Falls really helped us along.. There was so much choice and he even offered us options that weren’t on the menu. They invited us for a dinner tasting and we brought a few friends so we finally made our decisions and we didn’t regret it.”
“We weren’t initially going to have a theme, but I found as I went along with invitations and other decór that I really had decided on a rustic theme without planning it. Our invitations were handmade cotton cards from Khali Papers, embellished with country twine and burlap ribbon. We hired an old white Volkwagen Convertible Beetle, and our function room decor was all done by Grace Covers. The room looked fabulous!”
“My dress was actually the 3rd dress I had ever tried on! I went window shopping one day with my sisters and 2 hours later I had bought my dress! The designer is Pronovias and I bought it in Belladonna in Galway. It was strapless, chiffon and so comfortable! I didn’t have a clue of what type of dress I wanted but I knew exactly what I didnt want.”
“The grounds in The Falls are amazing!! The weather was very wet on our wedding day but it didn’t stop our photographer David McNeill from getting some gorgeous images! Without a doubt, our favourite is of us standing in front of the cascades with the river flowing furious behind us…. One for the mantelpiece! We got our wedding cake from Marie Cooney owner of Tastebud Creations in Co.Clare. She is very professional and you can tell she genuinely enjoys the work she does because she creates masterpieces””
“We put alot of time into choosing our photographer. These photo’s are ones you will look back on for years and years! So after much research, we fell in love with David’s work! We met him at the Wedding Journal Show in Citywest, he showed us his work and we literally booked him immediately. He has alot of different options to suit different needs and we really like his style, not to mention his bubbly personality! The weather unfortunately was very wet but it really didnt affect our day or our photo’s! David took pictures inside the hotel at the old stairwell at the entrance, and once the rain cleared we took pictures at the cascades.”
“Being surrounded by family and friends will long stay in our memory. The setting and comfort of the Falls greatly helped.”
Thanks a million to Ciara and Paul for sharing their special day with us. Check out David McNeill Photography for more wonderful weddings and The Falls Hotel & Spa, Co. Clare wedding venue for your fairytale big day.
