This wedding couldn’t be more Irish if it tried! Pints of Guinness and umbrellas everywhere. Ruth and Francis are complete legends though, and didn’t bat an eyelid at the rain. If anything, it was a good excuse to explore the inside of Castle Leslie itself.
Congratulations to two absolutely beautiful people, inside and out.
Brett in America meets Ray in Ireland - you can check out their love story on youtube at MrMr and Brett the Intern. A few years of long distance dating and visa wrangling, and they're in Virginia Park Lodge in Cavan, throwing the funnest wedding party of all time, with friends and family wiping happy tears from their eyes.
Obviously we need to talk about llamas. And paint bombs. And lip-synched dance routines. And Richard Corrigan's mashed potato (which is the best mashed potato in the history of the universe). But the photos that I love the most from Brett and Ray's day are the two of them together, hanging around the house, helping each other get ready. The sofa, the jackets, the way they look at each other...
Extra helpings of mashed potato for Michelle, planner extraordinaire at Waterlily Weddings.
This one is actually from 2016. Whoops! We're serially slow bloggers. But hopefully fast wedding photo deliverers, which might make you forgive us just a little bit :) More soon. Pinky swear.
The image of Anthea watching her mum sew a little patch into her dress, with their names and the date, on the morning before the ceremony is one of my favourite shots of this wedding. A humble image, in so many ways. But all heart and soul.
Anthea and Matt’s wedding was a blast from start to end. Belle Isle Castle, in the County Fermanagh countryside, feels like a little hidden kingdom. It was a total privilege to be part of their day.