The guide to the perfect Celtic wedding

MEGHAN SWEENEY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:28 AM

Updated Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:28 AM

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INVITE: The "strawboys" to your wedding reception. A peculiar Irish wedding tradition was for youths wearing cone-shaped straw hats and masks to arrive at the wedding dance where the leader claimed the right to dance with the bride. They wore straw suits resembling many-layered hula skirts, or white shirts and petticoats decorated with colored ribbons. At the party's end, the strawboys burned their costumes in a huge bonfire. Reenact this scene for a truly traditional Irish wedding.

RECEIVE: traditional Irish gifts. On your registry, be sure to ask for the following: salt and pepper shakers, so your home will never be without food, wine glasses or tall toasting flutes, so your home will never be without plenty to drink and a candlestick holder, so your home will always have light.

Irish wedding traditions from Irish America magazine: Click here

More Irish wedding tips and traditions: Click here

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jackie131 | Jan 18, 2011, 10:45 AM EST

I love the idea of the bells. I haven't seen that done before here in Ireland but I'll remember it for my daughter's wedding when the time comes. It sounds romantic! Harvest Knots were originally made from straw for the Festival of Lughnasa in August and were handed out between loving young couples.

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jacersagain | Jan 17, 2011, 05:39 PM EST

What a huge clanger by the IrishCentral's website's front page editors! - Posting this article's header under another headline describing a murdered bride in her wedding dress???? Sheeeesh!

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mclemens | Jan 17, 2011, 04:59 PM EST

We had a Celtic banner, the wedding gown was made by a seamstress in Ireland, the bride and groom toasted in Irish crystal glasses, but alas, they married in May and divorced after 11 years.

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Taraskryne | Jan 17, 2011, 11:12 AM EST

Hogwash

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Bridgbldr | Jan 17, 2011, 09:46 AM EST

There are links talked about but missing in this article. I'm afraid we got the unedited version :o(

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diannerae | Jan 17, 2011, 09:08 AM EST

We met in May and married two years later in April 36 years ago but I wish we had the bell:)

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Towngate | Jan 17, 2011, 08:12 AM EST

WHAT ABOUT THE LUCKY BOXING GLOVES - for later on...