My Wedding Day with Louise Cantillon: 'We had a real Limerick wedding in every sense'

Danny O’Reilly, from the Coronas, who was at the wedding anyway, sang our first dance song with my friend Maria. They did a beautiful cover of the Cranberries’ song Linger

We got married on September 8, 2023, in Adare in Co Limerick. We’re both from Limerick. Declan is from Adare parish and I’m from a neighbouring parish, called Kilcornan. We got married in the local church in Adare and had the afters in Adare Manor. We are so lucky to have one of the most incredible hotels in the world on our doorstep.

It was a big wedding. Look, it was local, so it was always going to be big, and then, of course, Declan plays GAA, and with all GAA weddings come big numbers. And we both come from big Irish families, and family is important to us. Because we met so young, we have had the same friend group since school, so it was a really big celebration.