I had eight bridesmaids, which may be very American

I’m obsessive about a designer referred to as Galia Lahav; she’s designed attire for Beyonce, and one in every of her attire that I noticed on-line I liked. Browns within the UK had been having a trunk present, they usually had the gown. I knew it was the one the minute I put it on. I truly acquired it in 2020 they usually did all of the changes. And then, clearly, we moved the marriage, and I acquired pregnant. Luckily, the gown nonetheless match me.

I had eight bridesmaids, which may be very American. Because I lived everywhere in the world, I needed bridesmaids to signify every chapter of my journey. There had been 4 types of attire, however they had been all designed by Jenny Yoo, and had been all in the identical blush pink color. Our color scheme for the marriage was traditional: White, silver, and that pretty blush color.

Our daughter, Lily-Mae, was solely six months on the time of our marriage ceremony. She was our little flower lady. My sister walked down the aisle together with her after which we had her in her buggy on the altar with us, and he or she was good; she simply sat and seemed round at everybody. My two nephews, who had been 4 and 5, had been our web page boys, they usually had been dressed up like a little bit safety element. They had been so cute. 

Seven months earlier than our marriage ceremony, our good pal Tom Parker, from The Wanted, had handed away. He would have been one in every of Ollie’s groomsmen. We needed to rejoice Tom, so we had a chair and we put his title on it, and that was Tom’s Chair for the day. His spouse, Kelsey, was one in every of my bridesmaids.

We had a humanist ceremony with a celebrant in Clonwilliam House. We additionally had the Dublin Gospel Choir performing on the ceremony, they usually sang a model of my track The Vow, and it was lovely. The venue mentioned they’d had so many brides strolling down the aisle to my track through the years, they usually liked having the unique singer at their venue.

It was an out of doors ceremony, so I used to be a little bit anxious in regards to the climate. It was all proper within the morning, after which the clouds got here, and it lashed about half an hour earlier than our ceremony. Everything was already arrange and able to go, so we had been panicking a bit. But then the solar simply flicked on and the skies cleared, and the climate was unbelievable.

Both myself and Ollie are songwriters and singers, so music was an enormous a part of our day. We had a jazz trio throughout the drinks reception, after which we had The Event Band, they usually simply had the social gathering going. It was wonderful. I additionally acquired up on stage and carried out a medley of hits that I’d written and that went down a storm. Everyone was singing alongside. And then Ollie, my husband, carried out a track he’d written for me. For our first dance, we’ve Never Too Much, by Luther Vandross; it’s our favorite track collectively.

The social gathering went on ’til about 3.30am. It wasn’t too late. We had an enormous day two deliberate, and that went on ’til about one within the morning. We had deliberate a type of music pageant, the place we had completely different bands performing, associates of ours getting up and singing.

At the tip of the day, when everybody was chilling, we put Bridesmaids, the film, on an enormous projector display, and had popcorn and sweets. And that was nice. Afterwards, we had an enormous sing-along in one of many little rooms within the venue, an enormous Irish sing-along.

Looking again on the day, it was so fantastic seeing everyone dancing on the dance ground and having enjoyable, as a result of everybody had been locked away throughout covid, so that they had been actually going for it on the dance ground. I bear in mind trying over and seeing my dad, and he simply seemed so glad. I liked seeing everybody so glad.

• RuthAnne Cunningham’s new album, The Moment, was launched on October 10. Ruthanne has additionally launched her debut guide, It’s Not Just a Song, which options recommendation on the way to navigate the music trade from Ruthanne and different songwriters.