Gillian and David applied the personal touch to their special day, designing lots of wedding accessories themselves. It was a real team effort by a couple who work together every day. A workplace romance turned into a lifelong commitment when Gillian Armstrong and David Kelly tied the knot in Gillian’s hometown of Castlecaulfield on April…
A proposal via a seemingly abandoned message in a bottle led to Aoife and Ryan saying I do and celebrating their marriage with more than 80 friends and family at Ballydugan Mill. Aoife Martin, a 27-year-old specialist community public health nurse from Aughnacloy, met 33-year-old Ryan Doyle, a plumbing and heating engineer from Newcastle, on…
We can safely say that gin has played a major role in Carol Hamilton and Adam Stuart’s relationship to date, as they had a gin-themed wedding for 100 family and friends! Social worker Carol, aged 32, a social worker from Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, met 30-year-old Adam, the owner of a car body repair shop, who…
As proposals go, they don’t get more romantic than the night Seán Trainor, a BIM design engineer, popped the question to chartered accountant Ciara Hadden! Although they spent three months back in 2014 searching for the ‘perfect ring,’ and found it in Jack Murphy’s Jewellers in their home town of Newry, Ciara was not expecting…
It was a case of ‘All Aboard’ at the wedding of Claire O’Neill, an ICT Technician from Drumduff, and Lisnaskea builder and lorry driver Barry Maguire. The couple have a love of all things vintage, and this included a Double Decker London Bus, which ferried the wedding party from the chapel to the reception. Claire,…
They met in Donaghmore when they were just 16, and moved their lives down under. But when it came to getting married, Eilish Rafferty and Louie Somerville came home to tie the knot. Not every groom can say his proposal made him and his bride-to-be an internet sensation, but Louie Somerville has the Facebook hits…
Solicitor Andrew Dixon relied on man’s best friend to pop the question to Lucy Parkinson, writing his proposal on a tag on Waffle the dog’s collar! What he hadn’t banked on was that Lucy, a 27-year-old QA manager, would fail to see the point of this tail until well into a four mile walk! Lucy…
Lisa Thompson had the surprise of her life when her boyfriend of six years, Graeme Stitt, produced an engagement ring from under a rock during a tour of the Grand Canyon! The 36-year-old mortgage manager from Lurgan said a resounding ‘yes’ to Graeme, 37, an aircraft fitter from Dundonald. The couple had their first date…
Lisa Daly, a 30-year-old nursing auxiliary from Newry, and Kevin Cosgrave, 33, an agricultural contractor from Katesbridge, met when they were teenagers working in the Bank Bar in Newry, and returned many years later to hold their wedding reception! The couple were friends for a number of years, but got together in 2012. “We quickly…
Family was the key to a perfect wedding day for Sharlene O’Hara and Gary Houston when they said their vows at The Red Door Country House, Fahan, Co Donegal. From helping the bride choose a wedding dress, to supplying the perfect vintage vehicles on the day, and even joining the Irish dance troupe at the…
