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RTÉ One’s Today Show Announces €20,000 Wedding Competition
The Today show on RTÉ One, today (9th February), launched a competition to win a wedding reception worth €20,000 at The Station House Hotel in Kilmessan, Co. Meath. The fantastic prize includes a five course meal and wine for 100 guests along with a champagne reception, flowers, wedding cars and much more. For further information on how to enter visit www.facebook.com/rtetoday
Presenters Dáithí Ó’Sé and Maura Derrane, announced details of how to enter the competition on today’s show.
“Maura and I are like a work Mr & Mrs! We end up spending almost as much time with each other as we do with our better halves” explains Dáithí. “Thankfully, we’re already spoken for, and to be honest, our significant others don’t take much notice any more.”
If you’ve found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with and plan to take that trip down the aisle then the Today show wedding competition is for you.
To be in with the chance to win this amazing prize couples should submit a one minute creative video to todaywedding@rte.ie explaining why they deserve to win. Along with the video couples are also asked to describe themselves in 500 words or less. Closing date for entries is Friday 27th February 2015.
“This will be the Today show wedding,” explains Maura Derrane. “You must to be available to get married at the end of April and of course, you’ll have to have a valid wedding licence. We’ll film the wedding for the Today show and you never know Dáithí and I could turn up!”
All details on how to enter are on www.facebook.com/rtetoday
Ends
Date: Monday, 9th February 2015
For more information please contact: Sarah Neville, RTÉ TV Press & Publicity, (01) 208 2872, sarah.neville@rte.ie
*Viewers to Today on RTÉ One were advised to apply for a wedding license in advance of the announcement of details of how to enter the competition.
Notes to the Editor:
Applicants need to have a valid wedding license to enter that allows you to marry in April 2015.
The wedding will be filmed for television for RTÉ’s Today show.
To enter, all you need to do is email us to todaywedding@rte.ie telling us – in no more than 500-words – why you deserve this amazing prize, send us your photos, or make a creative video – no longer than 1 minute in length – explaining why you deserve to win the wedding. All details on how to enter are on www.facebook.com/rtetoday
By submitting an entry to this competition you are agreeing to the following terms and competition: http://www.rte.ie/tv/today/weddingcomp.html
The prize of a wedding in The Station House Hotel in Kilmessan, Co. Meath includes the following:
- dinner for 100 guests
- photographer
- flowers by the 2014 Chelsea flower show winner
- wedding cake
- chauffeur driven vintage car
- chauffeur driven Rolls Royce
- chauffeur driven Mercedes
- Uptown Band with Laura Leigh, & DJ afterwards
- Champagne reception on arrival
- Tea/Coffee, scones & canapés on arrival
- Five course gourmet meal
- Wine – half bottle per person
- Evening supper, consisting of finger food / canapés
- Bridal Suite for the bride & groom
- Up-lighting and back drop by We’ve got it covered
- Late Bar
- Candy Cart
Today show airs at 4.30pm weekdays on RTÉ One.