WEDDING BELLS IN MULLAGHMORE AS COUPLE BUILD THEIR OWN CHAPEL
Wedding bells were ringing in a most unique chapel of love, perched high above the raging Atlantic at Mullaghmore Head on Saturday.
For Alannah O’Donnell, a niece of the well known O’Dowd family in the seaside village and Luke Bride decided to say we will in their very own chapel on the hill.
And, that meant eight hours of frantic work building a white cladded building with a green zinc type roof on land owned by the O’Dowd family.
But, despite the busy preparations the Sligo Champion managed to get an interview with the “Bride”.
This portable piece of paradise is the ultimate one stop shop for any couple wanting to do very their own “church wedding”.
The civil ceremony was conducted in a beautifully finished interior with flowers, tables suitably bedecked a full pig on a spit, oysters and enough drink fit for a Gaelic chieftain and his entire clan!
The chapel was perched on breeze- blocks and a wooden gangplank was erected for the bride to enter her very own chapel.
The unusual church attracted the attention of visitors to the village.
Scores of by bypassers topped to take a pictures as final preparations were made to make this a very special day for Alannah and Luke.
There were electric generators and portaloos at the back of the unique chapel.
As usual, the bride was late and a wedding that was due to take place at 3 pm did not actually get going until slightly after 4.30 pm.
A clearly excited Luke Bride told the Sligo Cham- pion: “Alannah and I live in Melbbourne but most of Alannah’s fafamily have lived ddown around Mullaghmore and Cliffoney.
“She spent all her summers here and just loloves the place.
“We wanted to do it here in IrIreland and we wanted to do it on the cliffs and it is just beautiful”.
Luke added: “We got in touch with Red Barn who do a lot of set designs and they have done a great job. “They put it up real quick and then the weather turned a bit rough.
“We have everything you could wish for inside and my family are running a Taco Bar and we have something for everything.
“We told the gardai we would be going to 1 am in the morning so we will just have to wait and see how it goes, but I am sure it will go very well.” Indeed!