A Week to my Wedding

Maeve and Brendan (1x1)

: 03, 2015

Maeve O'Hara from Mayo and Brendan Kenny from Tipperary met in Galway in 2011. Maeve was on a girls night out and Brendan was on a stag. Having graduated from NUI, Galway; Maeve was looking for work in the field of Health and Safety. With jobs thin on the ground in Ireland, she was forced to look further a field. Six months after they met, Maeve made the move to London. She had successfully secured an undergraduted position with London Underground. For two years, the young couple lived for weekends; the airport, bus and train stations became their second home. It wasn't easy. Brendan, a primary school teacher moved over in July 2013 having secured a full time teaching job. Now both settled and loving their lives in London, there was never a doubt that they wouldn't come home to Ireland to get married. Many brides would be envious of Brendan! With Brendan on his summer holidays from school, and Maeve choosing to use her holidays for their honeymoon in Thailand, he starts the week to the wedding in Ireland on his own - but he has a long 'to'do' list with final hotel preparations, printing of mass booklets, collecting the right coloured ribbons and checking the cake. The theme of their wedding is based around the Jubilee and Metropolitan Tube line. They both use these tube lines to get to work and the colours worked well together Maeve loves her wedding dress and her antique brooch bouquet so much so that she didn't want to fly home with them; instead she decided to make the 12 hour journey from London home to Mayo - by train, boat and car. Their wedding ceremony will have extra important element, that means a great deal to the couple. Brendan's oldest friend, Fr. Vincent Stapleton, who recently ordained will be their second celebrant. With 225 family and friends gathering to celebrate their marriage, Maeve a grade eight pianist has a surprise up her sleeve for Brendan.