Irish Wedding Traditions: Using Your Irish Heritage to Create the Perfect Wedding

Irish Wedding Traditions is filled with long-forgotten historical and contemporary Irish touchesfrom vows and rituals to symbolic flowers, food, spirits, and song. In addition there are chapters on registering for gifts, dressing for the occasion, and designing the perfect Irish wedding invitation, as well as suggestions for tying the knot or honeymooning on the Emerald Isle.

IRISH WEDDING TRADITIONS is Shannon McMahon Lichte's first work of non-fiction and her desire to have an Irish themed wedding was the inspiration for this book. McMahon Lichte is a professional event designer as well as writer. Working with Manhattan-based Brentano Design, she has coordinated numerous weddings, dinner parties and corporate events for the likes of Nike, J. Crew, The Associated Press and most recently presidential candidate Al Gore. She has held numerous positions in the entertainment industry, including writing screenplays, producing films and directing in the theater. She lives in New York and Los Angeles.