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Bridal Blogger: Fallon finds 'the one' to walk her down the aisle!

Thursday 16 August 2022 - Fallon's Blog, Advice - Tags: whos-walking-you-up-the-aisle, fallons-blog

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Like a lot of brides-to-be out there who don’t have a father to give them away for whatever reason, I’ve had to ponder the question, who will give me away? I count myself very lucky to have grown up surrounded by fantastic male figures between uncles and cousins, so my predicament isn’t trying to find someone but picking the right person.

When I got engaged first, I asked an uncle to give me away but over the past few weeks he has backed out, with no hard feelings on my part at all. It’s not an easy task and my uncle just didn’t feel that he would be comfortable on the day having to speak to a room full of people, which I can understand completely. I certainly couldn’t do it! I want him to look forward to my wedding and enjoy the day, not dread the thoughts of it.

For me, the person has to be someone I’ve known all my life, who’s been around and taken part in all the major milestones and, most importantly, someone who I feel on the day will make me feel at ease. I think about that last moment when I’m waiting to walk up the aisle, bridesmaids are gone and it’s just you and this other person. I want someone who I can look at and think - ‘I’m glad you are the one who is here with me.’

I know a lot of you will think why not have your mam give you away? I also think this is a lovely idea and my friend Leanne, who was in my last blog post, did that at her wedding, but it’s just not for me or my mam.

I think unless you’re in the position where you have to ask someone to give you away you don’t realise how emotional it can be, or is that just me? It’s a declaration of sorts, like standing up and saying this person is important to me. So, over the past week or so I’ve sat and thought about it and made my decision, which to be honest really wasn’t a hard one. All I need to do now is pick up the phone and ask the question. I’ll keep you posted on what the response is...

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Fallon's Blog: Who'll Give Her Away?

Thursday 25 September 2022 - Fallon's Blog, Advice - Tags: fallons-blog, fallon-wasser, real-bridal-blogger

Fallon Wasser, WOL's very own, fabulous bridal blogger is marrying Darren Dunne on December 7th, 2012 (lucky guy!). Fallon is taking us on her wedding planning journey, and this week she reveals who she has asked to give her away, she also gets her wedding invites ready for sending and tries on her wedding dress again!

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I really don’t know where the time has gone these past few weeks, there’s been so much happening but before I get into that let me give you an update on the ‘giving me away’ situation that I wrote about in my last blog post (click to have a little look-see). Like I said, there wasn’t really a lot of thinking to do on my part. My cousin Nick is a year-and-a-bit younger than me. We grew up together along with his sister Emma who is my chief bridesmaid. We spent every Saturday together in my Nan’s and we spent our summers for about 16 years in my auntie’s mobile home in Wexford. They are the closest thing I have to a brother and sister and I couldn’t imagine what my life would be like without them. Of course, when I called him I was nervous but I shouldn’t have been. He was shocked but delighted, and accepted the task of walking me - or maybe even strutting with me - down the aisle. He’s already working on the speech!

Hectic

With that part done and dusted, the last couple of weeks have been hectic on the wedding planning front. I collected my navy invites from Daintree Paper, they are just how I wanted them! My two soon to be sister-in-laws and one of my bezzie mates, Shel helped me put them together - well to be honest, they did all the hard grafting and I just made the tea. We just had to glue the inserts and tie a little bit of ribbon on. I still have a little bit to do on them but I hope to get them all off in the post this week. Then it will definitely be official that we are getting married! Woop!

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I also went back to try my dress on - swoon! Goodness, gracious I still really love it. It felt great trying it on, I had my shoes and jewellery with me so I could see the whole look. I decided on my head dress, which I’m going to keep under wraps for the moment and had a make-up trial, which I was really pleased about. It’s all coming together!

Afters

I also attended the afters of a wedding last weekend of a close friend’s sister, Niamh O'Sullivan who was getting married to Paul Ledwith.  It’s mad that as soon as you’re getting married yourself you pay so much more attention to other weddings. The bride was so beautiful, she looked flawless and we had a great night. Makes me look forward to mine even more - 11 weeks and counting!

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