Synopsis
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"The Irish Wedding is just like being there in a local hotel, and it's brilliant" - Irish Examiner
Celebrating the joys of an Irish Wedding in all its pleasant predictability – the requisite chats about the weather, the haggle over the beef or salmon, the losing of the rings, the ditching of the heels, the intergenerational whirl around the dancefloor. Alex Fegan (Older than Ireland, Abbeyfealegood) captures all that is familiar but also conveys the momentousness of the day from the pre-wedding nerves, to the tenderness of the first kiss, from the affectionate humour of the speeches to the melancholy moments as absent friends are remembered. The Irish Wedding presents a pleasingly diverse community of brides and grooms in this warm-hearted and thoroughly entertaining survey of Irish nuptial activity.
The film premiered at the Irish Film Institute Documentary Film Festival, 2021 followed by making its RTÉ premiere on November, 2021.
Directed by Alex Fegan
Produced by Aileen O'Carroll and Gráinne McAleer
Funded by RTÉ