My Wedding Day with Andrea Mara: We did the Dirty Dancing lift — it could have gone so wrong
We didn’t plan it or anything, I think I got carried away on the emotion of the day and I had had a glass of wine, I just ran up to Damien and he picked me up, and he didn't drop me
Andrea Mara: "We got married on October 14, 2004 in Foxrock in Dublin, quite close to where I grew up. Then we went on the Cabra Castle in Cavan for the reception afterwards." Pictures: Paul Kelly
We got married on October 14, 2004 in Foxrock in Dublin, close to where I grew up. Then, we went on to Cabra Castle, in Cavan, for the reception. We wanted somewhere that made us go ‘wow’ when we saw it and Cabra Castle did that — and it was close enough to Dublin if people wanted to go home after the celebrations.
We knew, when we booked the date, that it was, you know, it was October, so we weren’t gambling on the weather. I remember waking up that morning — I had stayed in my dad’s house the night before — and looking out the window and seeing rain and thinking, ‘OK, well, actually, that’s good, because now I know’, and it was genuinely a feeling of contentment. There was no more wondering about what the weather was going to be like — it was raining and I could just get on with my day.
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