Annmarie Kelly and Barry McCartney met seven years ago and got engaged in Australia

Ruth Houston and Denis O’Donoghue had a humanist ceremony in sun-drenched Bantry

A perfectly directed wedding

Pastry chefs Rory Gannon and Laura Meade created a feast of food for their guests

Ciara Lewis and Cathal Houlihan married in Kinsale, but planned it all from Sydney

Anne Lynch and Lisa Swenson upgraded from civil partners to married couple

Orla O’Malley and Paul Flanagan got engaged but didn’t tell anyone

Melissa Murphy and Richard Maes met ten years ago as students at CIT

Say bye-bye to convention and deck yourself out with bold, check patterns and tweed

Noelle and Tony met at a rally in Co Laois, and laterdiscovered their paths had crossed 27 years previously

Katherine Bohan and Domhnall O’Neill met while working in Cineworld cinema in 2006

“He eventually told me his surname – my name with an ‘ey’ on the end”

Joe Kirby and Brendan Treacy

Ciara and Seanie were thrilled when their friend Doc read a poem written specially for them

Knots were tied at ceremonies recently in Waterford, Athlone and Galway

Evie Ward and Fabio Magnani met at a friend’s 30th

Maeve Heaney and Frank Sykes married in Norwich in 2015 after first meeting each other in 2007 on a night out

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