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[CHLOE1]

hi

when booking a church outside our parish (our parish not available) we have discovered the so called booking fee's of upto eur500 in a number of different dublin church's. Is this the norm now or is the day of giving a donation long gone???

[LM0810]

Hi Chole1,

The days of donations are long gone our church 270 another one we were gona go with was 350! Even for my sons christening a few months back we got the envelope for the "donation" which said on it that it had to be a least 40 euro! We were going to give 50 like we did for our daughters but when i seen that we changed our minds!!!!

[MrsEnglish]

Yea they can even go higher than €500

Thats one of the reasons we decided Civil Ceremony was for us!

[Stary Em]

thats madness. Delighted im doin civil after hearin that

[Mrs Brideog]

It's crazy really!I'm getting married in Dublin and as far as I know there's no booking fee. Nothing was said about it to us either!

[MrsEnglish]

thats madness. Delighted im doin civil after hearin that

Then you still have to pay the priest, choir, flowers for church etc
Also, church weddings have more people, transport, so every aspect of your day price is being added on!
We just said enough is enough!!
We are delighted with our choice!!

Apart from the fact we haven't been to church in years (other than funerals)
I personally would feel a hypocrite

[Stary Em]

Mrs English were the exact same my h2b would et fooot inside a church if you paid him. And to be honest im the same.It killed me to pay thr €150 for the notification to the state. Let alone €500. I told the register it was a scam
She was not impressed with me

[MrsEnglish]

It's crazy really!I'm getting married in Dublin and as far as I know there's no booking fee. Nothing was said about it to us either!

Double check that (if getting married in a church)
Last thing you want is to be faced with that on the week of the wedding

[mrsmtobe]

brideog we thought the same with our church and i remember reading the posts on here and thinking we were not going to be affected, then in came a letter 2 weeks ago saying we have to pay 300euro booking fee( i am from this parish) and then 150euro to the priest on the day..as mrsE said double check it hun..i hope your one of the very few lucky ones who dont have to pay it...

[Mrs Brideog]

OMG, you are joking!! Holy cr@p! I thought that'd be something they'd tell you when you meet with the priest the first day. I'm scared now!

[CHLOE1]

hi
Forgot to mention that our wedding is not till 2012 yet to "hold" the church the so called booking fee's have to be paid now 13 months in advance!! Is this just a scam to get as much money as possible for the church or does this go on all the time?? as this fee was not mentioned untill the money had to be returned with the "booking form" note the small writing at the bottom of the forms!!

[girlracer]

i wasn't told automatically, but asked and it was €150 which is fair enough i guess. You would pay that much to rent a building to use for a day! Probably 150 for priest too, but since im not the one who wanted a church wedding i'm not paying for it
was expecting 500 after what i'd read on here

[Mrs Brideog]

Well, I've already booked the church. I'm gonna go mad if they tell me there's a booking fee, sure aren't they getting hundreds of euros worth of flowers from me!? They can feck off! I will be absolutely disgusted if they tell me there's a booking fee now and I can't even change to another church cos I've already ordered the invitations.

[girlracer]

don't ask and maybe they won't

although the priest i asked seemed to pick the number out of his head......

[Mrs Brideog]

That's what I was thinking, if I ask, will he be like...'oh...yeah...thatwillbefivehundredeuroplease...thanks'!