Wedding bells ring out a different tune: How a pandemic can't stop love

The pandemic put a halt to many wedding traditions, we investigate how the €30k party might now be a thing of the past

Niamh Donnellan and Tom O' Connor actually moved their wedding forward during lockdown. They celebrated with their baby Clodagh and daughter Abbie. Picture: Pedro Teixeira of Love Like Crazy.

The pandemic pretty much blitzed the 2020 wedding scene. Just 3,190 couples married in the first half of 2020 compared with 8,528 for that period in 2019, according to the CSO. 

A new weddingsonline survey, conducted during the pandemic’s third wave, found almost half of couples surveyed postponed their wedding, with 33% of them postponing more than once.