Bernard O'Shea: 5 things I learned after watching the Adare Manor wedding go viral on TikTok

When a viral wedding at Adare Manor goes full Netflix, what does it teach us about Irish tradition, falcons, and the glory of goujons?

Ally and Sean on their wedding day at Adare Manor. Picture: Marcy Blum/TikTok.

Let's start with the wedding that had everyone from Enniskerry to Ennis glued to their phones: Ally Rice and Sean Fernando — a New York couple with a taste for grandeur — descended on Adare Manor with 100 of their nearest and dearest and a budget rumoured to have more zeros than your average Lotto win.

What followed was less a wedding and more an immersive experience, complete with a gifting lounge, falconry, topiary chess, a horse-led pub crawl, and, naturally, a petting zoo.