Cathy come home? From France, a wife
Jimmy Fallon joked that it came out in the news that Donald Trump was once a producer of a Broadway show. It was a revival of Les Miserables called The French Are Losers. In truth, the French were winners last weekend when they got to see the wedding dress of the year made by the hands of our own Peter O’Brien and worn by the beautiful bride Cathy Belton.
It all happened when the top Irish actress — who is starring in the new series of Red Rock on BBC and TV3 — married legal eagle Brian Roe in a 14th Century church in a village in rural Languedoc with their respective families from Co Galway and Co Meath in attendance.
Close friend of the bride and groom, designer extraordinaire Peter O’Brien, who designed the pearl-coloured silk mousseline wedding dress, joined the other 160 guests for the wedding beano in a tres magnifique local chateau which went on late into the night. The ceremony was celebrated by Fr Dermod McCarthy and there was music from close friend Kevin Doherty, with Cathy given away by her mother Anna.
“Never in our wildest dreams could we have anticipated the joy and love we experienced on our special day. Truly the happiest day of our lives, with beloved family and friends in a special place we love,” the beautiful bride told me, adding that she and Brian are honeymooning in the Cote d’Azur. Once back, it is all go for Cathy (and I dare say Brian won’t be sitting around scratching his derriere either).
“I head off to the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in August in an amazing new play, written and directed by Mark O’Rowe [writer of Intermission and Howie the Rookie], starring myself, Aisling O’Sullivan and Derbhle Crotty, who were all at our wedding, as was Mark. It was a huge success in Dublin earlier this year.”
Not being a dedicated luvvie myself, despite the huge success I had to ask her the title.
“The Approach, produced by Landmark Productions’ Anne Clarke!” she told me.
We can only hope Cathy and Brian continue in their landmark approach to great weddings and, indeed, great marriages.