Irish Daily Mail

The one where Courtney and Johnny decide on a date and a place to wed!

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COURTNEY Cox and Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid will be tying the knot in the North. The pair got engaged in 2014, and now reports say a date and location have finally been confirmed for the couple’s big day.

It is believed that the ceremony will be a local affair, taking place near McDaid’s childhood home in Derry. The planned date of June 15 will also fall on Cox’s 54th birthday.

The couple, pictured, were initially planning a very different style of wedding, intending to have a beach wedding near Courtney’s home in Malibu.

However, following a change of plan, they will now say ‘I do’ in the North, followed by celebratio­ns in California.

A source told Closer magazine: ‘They’ve decided to have a small ceremony in Ireland at the local church near Johnny’s childhood home followed by a big party back in LA at Courtney’s Malibu home on the beach.’

The ceremony is sure to be a starstudde­d affair, likely to be attended by some of Cox’s former Friends costars, including Jennifer Aniston.

McDaid’s bandmates will also be expected to make an appearance.

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran may also attend their big day, having introduced the pair in 2013.

McDaid – who is 41 years old – and Cox split briefly in 2016 due to reported disagreeme­nts over where they should live.

It was claimed at the time that McDaid wanted to remain residing in the North while Cox was based in Malibu, California.

However, the pair appeared to have come to something of a compromise, visiting properties in Derry this month and indicating that they will settle down in Ireland.

This will be Cox’s second marriage, after she split with ex-husband David Arquette in 2011.

It is expected that the actress’s 13year-old daughter Coco will be bridesmaid on the big day.

Cox – who played Monica Geller in the long-running sitcom Friends – is no stranger to Ireland, and is often spotted on these shores with McDaid.

She jetted into Dublin to support McDaid last month when he was honoured with the Outstandin­g Contributi­on to Songwritin­g Award by the Irish Music Rights Organisati­on.

Collecting the music award, McDaid told Cox: ‘Darling, I think you know you are in the DNA of everything I do, everything I write, everything I am.

‘You’ve taught me more than anybody how to face my s*** and how to be and how to love, and love harder and stronger and better than I ever could have imagined possible.’

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