My Wedding Day with Bríd Ní Chumhaill: 'To keep costs down, our reception was in Dublin Airport'

At the airport for the reception, we had the usual formalities like the speeches. We didn’t do a first dance — it wasn’t really something that was done in those days — we just took to the floor and danced in an ungainly manner and gestured for everyone else to come save us!

Bríd Ní Chumhaill and her husband Martin on their wedding day.

We got married on August 16, 1986; we’re coming up to our 40th wedding anniversary in a few weeks.

We were both living in Dublin at the time, and we got married in the chapel at St Patrick’s Teacher Training College, as it used to be known; it’s part of DCU now.