Some weddings are in the diary for a year or two. Aoife and Tierney’s arrived the day before. Their original photographer became unwell and could no longer cover the wedding, so I was asked if I could step in at very short notice. Aoife and Tierney are both from County Waterford, but they had chosen Kinsale for their wedding, with the ceremony at St Catherine’s Cultural Centre and the reception at Blacks Brewery. I had not met them, their families or the wedding party. There was no long...

Some weddings connect naturally with stories I have photographed before, and Síona and James’s Dublin wedding was one of those. Two years earlier, Síona had stood beside her childhood friend Joey as his groomswoman when he married Molly in Trinity College Chapel. James had an important job that day too, driving the lads to the ceremony in his father’s 1987 Opel Kadett. It was the same car that had brought James’s mother to hospital when she was about to have him, so it carried a lot more...

There was something particularly lovely about photographing Brian and Suzy’s Mount Juliet wedding photography story because I had already been there for one of the biggest moments in their story. Mount Juliet Wedding Photography A Christmas Proposal at Mount Juliet Back in December 2024, Jimmy from Mount Juliet contacted me about photographing his client’s proposal to Suzy at Mount Juliet. The plan was to do it beside the Christmas tree at The Manor. I worked with Brian and Jimmy beforehand...