Run by the industry, for the industry.
Wedding professionals founded the IWPA in 2025. It represents Ireland’s wedding experts, puts them in the same room, and raises what the industry expects of itself.
A community built by its craft.
Florists, photographers, planners, venues, musicians and every other hand that shapes the day. Vendors run the association, and none of them draw a wage for it.
The IWPA champions community over competition.
A florist in Waterford and a photographer in Dublin learn in the same room, take each other’s referrals seriously, and answer to the same standard. Workshops, panels, editorial work and plain conversation are how that happens.
- 2025
- The year vendors founded it
- Eight
- Directors, none of
them paid - Non-profit
- How the association is set up
The first place anyone asks about Irish weddings.
Clients, corporates, government, the media and our peers abroad come to the IWPA first when they need to understand the Irish wedding industry.
We raise the professional and ethical standards of the industry in Ireland, and we help every member grow the practice they already have.
- Expertise
- Integrity
- Quality
- Education
- Collaboration
Run by the people it represents.
Eight working wedding professionals, elected by the board and unpaid. They set the standards they are themselves held to. Turn a card to see what each of them does the rest of the week.
Eunice set up her gourmet catering company in 2001 and cooks from scratch, in season, for events across the country. She chairs the association.
- Experience
- Cooking for events since 2001
- Based
- Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
Michelle plans and styles destination weddings from Dublin and Maryland, and has done since 2006. She sits as vice-chair.
- Experience
- Planning weddings since 2006
- Based
- Dublin and Maryland
Aisling plans and curates celebrations from Ireland for clients around the world. She speaks for the association to press, government and its peers abroad.
- Based
- Ireland, working worldwide
Emmylie photographs and films weddings across Ireland and Europe, and has for more than ten years. Membership is hers to look after.
- Experience
- Over a decade behind the camera
- Based
- Dublin
Lamber has run an Irish floral studio for over twenty years, with shops in Waterford and Kilkenny. Events and sponsorship are his to run.
- Experience
- Over twenty years in flowers
- Based
- Waterford and Kilkenny
Deirdre leads D-Strings, the ensemble she started with school friends busking on Grafton Street. Fifteen years of weddings later, she still rearranges the odd request for strings.
- Experience
- Over fifteen years playing weddings
- Based
- Ireland
Lainey builds the things a room needs to become an event: drapes, lighting, rigging, staging. Sustainability is her brief on the board.
- Based
- Dublin, working across Ireland
Jess photographs and films weddings in a classic, editorial register, working so the day is never staged around the camera. She keeps the association’s books.
- Based
- Ireland, available worldwide
There is a category for where you are.
Membership opens to every wedding professional working in Ireland, from a first season to a twentieth.
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