After posting yesterday’s real wedding, I had a look back through my past weddings that I’ve yet to blog about and realised that I actually have an awful lot to catch up on!
So here goes!
Craig and Mairead got married on an absolute scorcher of a day back in September last year. It was a ridiculously good day for September in all honesty. While it was 8 months ago, I can distinctly remember thinking to myself – “wearing a tshirt under my shirt was a bad idea.” Still, it’s not good to complain and how on earth could I?
From the moment I arrived at Mairead’s parents home there was to be no talk of taking photograpghs. Instead all they wanted to know was how many sausages and rashers of bacon I wanted. With the smell, I could have ate whatever they put in front of me.
Mairead was a truly stunning bride – her dress was fabulous. A line of buttons streamed down the back which had her poor sister (and this photographer) busy fiddling with for quite some time. We got there in the end though and didn’t she look fab!
The ceremony was lovely and I loved how instead of the usual walk down the aisle to what is normally quite reserved music, they had the band, The Gospel Project, up the tempo and they did a little jig 
It was one of those youtube moments but alas I was too busy taking photographs to capture any video.
We stopped off at Belvedere House for the family portraits, after which I normally finish with some ‘Bride and Groom time’. I ask the bride and groom to just take a few minutes alone to take a walk alone with each other. The good thing about this method is that I can keep myself busy by trying to get the angles I’m after, they look totally natural as they aren’t being told how to stand and it also gives them that little bit of quite time that I think all couples should get on their day. It’s probably the only moment in the day that they’ll be alone with each other.
Pic-a-mix welcomed the guests – (and me) horray! And you could even put them in your own little “Craig and Mairead” bag, and wipe your mouth with your own little “Craig and Mairead” napkin, and set your drink on your own little “Craig and Mairead” coaster. They really had thought of everything.
The Bloomfield hotel was gorgeous. They had the main room littered in candles. And I mean absolutely covered in them. The tables were beautiful, named after their foreign visits and bags filled with pressies awaited the kids. Lucky little sods.
Normally I eat out in the hotel bar or away from the guests but Craig and Mairead wouldn’t take no for an answer and I was sat next to a great bunch of their friends who kept me highly entertained. Too entertained probably as I recall at one point almost missing the cutting of the cake as I was kept chatting. Don’t worry. I didn’t.
The band by the way, Weightless Astronauts, were top notch and I’ve just added them to my list of recommendations. It didn’t take long for them to have the floor filled and my work was done. If you can call it that.
To Craig and Mairead a massive thank you for allowing me to share your day. Thanks for the bacon, the sausages, toast, tea, sweets, massive feed, lots of coffee and a great, great time.
To see some more pictures from their day click on any one of the images above or click right here to enter the slideshow.
The room was a hive of activity but Caoilfhionn was the queen of calm – happily playing with her iphone while people busied themselves around her.
They had the place lovely with baloons and flowers dotted inside and outside the house.
