My Wedding Day with Martina Murphy: My mother’s friend made my dress and my boss played music

We planned the whole wedding ourselves, and it all went fine. We used people we knew for all the main elements.

Martina Murphy: "We used people we knew for all the main elements: my sister-in-law had just done a flower arranging course so she did our flowers, our boss was in a band at the time — the Long John Jump Band — so he played at the reception, and my mother’s friend made my wedding dress."

We got married 35 years ago on March 23, 1991. We had the ceremony in the church in Ballinteer in Dublin; that’s where I’m from. We had our reception in the Marine Hotel in Sutton in Dublin 13.

I’d met Colm when we worked together. I remember the first time I saw him thinking, “I’m going to marry that man”. I don’t think he thought the same about me, but I definitely set my cap at him, as they say.