{"id":2901,"date":"2011-05-04T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2011-05-04T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:18:56","slug":"switch-how-you-hitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/05\/switch-how-you-hitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch How You Hitch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/QUIRKY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2902\" title=\"QUIRKY\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/QUIRKY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019re married or organising a wedding you\u2019ve probably been to a wedding fair to help with the planning process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to encourage people to be a little more daring on their wedding day!\u201d says Saima Akram, Co-Founder of Quirky Weddings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people feel there\u2019s a check list of things they \u2018have\u2019 to have but it\u2019s just not true. We feel it\u2019s time for NI people to feel brave enough to inject their own personality into the day and many brides don\u2019t fit the whole \u2018blushing bride\u2019 image projected by a lot of the wedding industry\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe like to get out and about to find NI\u2019s most unusual wedding suppliers to write about in our blog and advertise on our listing site. We also want to change how people plan their weddings too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quirky Weddings next event, the \u2018Pop-Crawl\u2019 on from 1pm til 5pm on Sunday May 15, is like a pub crawl and wedding fair rolled into one (alcohol optional of course!).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a number of city centre venues that can cater for weddings and asked them to have an \u2018open day\u2019 so couples can call in and see what\u2019s on offer. Participating venues include La Boca Argentinean Restaurant, Love and Death Inc, Made in Belfast, Harlem, The Penthouse at the Europa, The Barge and Printers Wine Bar. Most venues will host other wedding suppliers like photographers, entertainers, florists or outside caterers.\u201d adds Saima. \u201cMany companies involved are offering discounts on the day too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe response to this idea has been amazing. New exhibitors are coming on board everyday. Couples should keep checking our website for more information. On the day, the first port of call is La Boca Argentinean Restaurant in Fountain Street, after that couples can choose which venues to visit at their leisure.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re married or organising a wedding you\u2019ve probably been to a wedding fair to help with the planning process. \u201cWe want to encourage people to be a little more daring on their wedding day!\u201d says Saima Akram, Co-Founder of Quirky Weddings. \u201cMany people feel there\u2019s a check list of things they \u2018have\u2019 to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/05\/switch-how-you-hitch\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}