My Wedding Day with Sinead Culbert: 'We left 40 Irish, English and Dutch people in a wine bar in Rome'

We left 40 Irish, English and Dutch people in a wine bar. By the time we got back, let’s just say everyone could speak fluent Dutch, even my 101-year-old grandmother

Sinead Culbert and Rogier Meijer on their wedding day.

We got married in Rome on September 25, 2005. My husband Rogier is Dutch, and because we lived in Ireland at the time I thought the least I could do was get married in Holland. 

In my head, I thought that would be really nice, but he said ‘oh, no. Holland is not romantic, it’s a very practical, functional country’. So we settled on Rome.