A Colourful Spring Wedding Full of Personal Touches

This modern day love story began when Martina and Hujo met on a dating site! Hujo planned a super romantic proposal which took place on Martina’s birthday during lockdown in 2021. This is the story from her perspective:

“Hujo cooked a lovely meal for me when the kids went to bed. He wrote the most romantic birthday card (as he always does) and gave it to me along with the flowers and chocolates.  He asked me a couple of times during the meal if I liked my birthday card and I said ‘Yes of course, it’s lovely’ and I took it up and read it again and left it back down. Then after our dinner he asked me again about the card and I said something like, ‘Yes it’s great thank you, it’s very romantic’, but he said, ‘You haven’t read all of it yet!’ Then I looked closer and there, at the back of the insert I saw the message written in a big heart ‘Will you marry me? Please say yes!’”

They tied the knot over the Easter weekend with a colourful wedding. Because they got married in Spring, they chose a different Spring flower for each of the tables, with the top table named the Rose table.

Martina wore an ivory tea-length House of Mooshki dress called “Sarah”, made of lace with lots of tulle underskirts and a tie at the back. She got it altered to form a bow at the front and left the back plain (it had a row of buttons up the back already). Her shoes were T-bar shoes with diamante and lace that matched the dress perfectly!

Hujo wore a midnight blue suit with a double-breasted contrasting waist coat in beige/subtle check. He wore an ivory shirt and ivory brocade tie and handkerchief to match. It looked really smart (the ivory shirt was different and looked great against the navy and beige, and complemented Martina’s ivory dress too). To accessorise, he wore brown shoes and brown belt.

Martina’s sister was the matron of honour and she wore a fabulous strong coral coloured two-piece outfit that was a long diagonal tunic with matching trousers. She teamed it up with cream shoes and funky jewellery and it looked fabulous.

The best man and page boy wore matching 3-piece midnight blue suits and waistcoats teamed up with pink/coral ties and handkerchiefs to contrast the groom, and white shirts, brown shoes and the page boy had navy runners. Their boutonniere’s were pink roses and the groom’s was an ivory rose with a small pink contrasting one. The flower girl wore a gorgeous ivory satin dress from Monsoon and they got a dressmaker to change the bow on it from dusky pink to coral and it was perfect. She wore a bolero cardigan in ivory lace, again from Monsoon and an ivory hairband from the first communion range in Dunnes, teamed up with Ted Baker floral shoes. She was perfect and so cute!

Martina and Hujo describe their wedding ceremony as personal, loving and emotional. They took great care to write personal vows that were meaningful to them, and selected beautiful music that gave everyone goosebumps. This is what they said about their ceremony:

“Our readings were chosen carefully – we had three in total, one of which my sister read in dedication to my mother who had passed away recently. We also had 4 prayers of the faithful (even though it was a civil ceremony, but you can choose exactly what you like, which is the beauty of a personalised ceremony) read by our younger cousins, nieces and nephews. Our music would put goose bumps on a stone! Again, it was provided by our family and friends and it was absolutely beautiful. We were so lucky. We chose all our own songs, some not so traditional but sung beautifully by our family/friends.  We chose to have the Rose ceremony at the end of our vows, which symbolises that if we ever have a disagreement, we place a Rose in a dedicated spot in the house to signify that we want to make peace!  It was also the first gift we gave to each other as a married couple.”

The amazingly talented Anthony Kane of AK Photography captured their wedding! He also provided the videographer for the day too. Martina and Hujo say the duo was professional, gentle, polite, unobtrusive and attentive to detail.

To treat their guests, they arranged a sweet cart containing Easter eggs, Easter egg-hunt packs, Lindt sweets and jellies galore for the children (and adults alike!). It went down a real treat with everyone!

Their favourite memory from the day was their ceremony, the music and being able to observe everyone from the top table and watching them interact, chat, laugh and having fun on the day.

 

 

 

 

Here’s some wedding day advice from Martina and Hujo:

Everyone says it, but it’s so true. Your day absolutely flies by. Do not sweat the small things. Do get to spend 20 mins or half an hour just the two of you if you can, in the room to relax and debrief before you are announced into the reception for dinner. Don’t forget to eat – I had only one canape, one, imagine! We were whisked away for photographs and didnt get to mingle that much with our guests at the drinks reception – but that is the way it is and it’s not a problem. So enjoy your meal ’cause you may not get another bite that day! Try to do your table plans well, give it a bit of thought and place people with things in common near each other where possible. We found that really worked for us and there were new friendships formed and numbers exchanged as a result of being at the same table.  And just observe, soak it all in, watch peoples faces, reactions, interactions, enjoy yourselves and dance loads!”

 

 

 

 

Suppliers

Ceremony and reception venue: The K Club | Planner/coordinator: Rachael O’Brien | Photography and videographer: AK Photography | Band: The Bentley Boys | Hair: Vow2Wow Leanne Nolan | Makeup: Sarah Keogh | Couple’s outfits: Frilly Frocks, Drogheda and Dublin Formal Wear, Tallaght | Wedding party outfits: Dublin Formal Wear, Tallaght and Aine’s Boutique, Longford | Cake: Amazing Cakes, Bray | Celebrant/solemniser: Dave Russell | Stationery: Triest Press | Jewellery/rings: Courtville  Matthew Weldon | Flowers: Celine’s Flowers, Tallaght