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

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

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

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

Broadside: Why, in 2015, are so many women still dropping their own surnames when they get married?

Lucy Close and Jeremy Spong chose to register and celebrate their marriage in the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane, the oldest operating playhouse in the world.

A favourite part of the day for the newlyweds was the bridal party walk across St Stephen’s Green, down Grafton Street and through George’s Arcade to the cocktail reception in the No Name Bar

An outdoor ceremony at a humanist service was the perfect wedding for Greg Ashmore and Róisín Griffin

You want to make a statement and look as if you’ve made an effort, but don’t forget the importance of dressing for comfort. It’s going to be a long day, and night, after all

John Callaghan and Bobby Barber met and married in San Francisco, but hope to restate their vows in Ireland soon

Geraldine and Ger O’Sullivan knew the same people for 20 years before they met

Tamsyn Keye first met her husband Paddy O’Connell while on a cookery course in Cork

Before Lynne Andrews and Tom Lyons got married Lynne took off for a year on a round-the-world trip with one of her four bridesmaids