Jude Marguerite & Ben's blog: Denis and Eadaoin's wedding

Marguerite and Jude recently traveled home to attend the happy occasion of the wedding of their friends Denis and Eadaoin.

Here is Eadaoin being led down the aisle by her proud father.

Eadoin and Denis shared a giggle or two when exchanging rings. 'Eh.......I think that's the wrong finger dearest', said Denis. 'Never you mind Denis, just get that thing on there', replied Eadaoin. Wha?

Congratulations Denis and Eadaoin, the new Mr and Mrs Crawford.

The wedding party were looking very cool indeed, I say they scrubbed up well like. Spot Jude's mates on the outside there, Gary on the left and JB on the right.

Denis and Eadaoin leave the chapel. This was Eadoin's local parish in Carrickmore County Tyrone and it was Denis' uncle, Fr Brendan performed the marriage ceremony.

'Congratulations mate, I wish you all the happiness in the world.' Jude and Denis catch up again at the back of the chapel.........

...............as do Marguerite and Eadaoin.

'Ok....where's the dancefloor', asks Natalie. 'Calm yer jets, we haven't even had dinner yet', replied Geraldine. Folk might remember Geraldine from a previous blog post in August 2009 when she came over to Boston for a visit when she got lost in the Museum of Fine Arts and watched the Red Sox beat the Yankees 14-1!!!!!!

Marguerite and Jude relax in between the wedding ceremony and the main reception.

Natalie, Geraldine and Marguerite settle into the hotel reception.

Jude's cousin Liam is the brother of Eoin who was out in Boston in April 2010 (Gabriel's stag doo). Anyway, Liam and Jude graced the hurling field together in Ballygalget for a good few years. Here's Liam catching up with Marguerite.

The pressure is on as the bridal party take their seats for diner and the speeches.

Denis was as smooth as silk as he smootchy chatted up his new bride. Eadaoin found it all very amusing!!!!

Now Denis is in full flow and he did a great job too, but JB's panicking as he is up next with the microphone, so he downs some Dutch courage to get the auld pipes loosened up.

JB needn't have worried because he pulled of a cracker of a speech. It was a long but utterly brilliant poem about Denis and everything in his life, including detail about the long-running joke about the time of day Denis gets up out of bed and then about the night Jude and Marguerite introduced them to each other in Belfast all those years ago. Some say JB's good wife Denise had a hand in the drafting of the speech but I say JB deserves the credit. Well done JB.

Natalie and Geraldine get tucked in.

Eyes down.........Denis and Eadaoin are joined for the cutting of the cake by their nephew Jack. Jack is the son of Jude's friend and Denis' brother, Adrian.

........eyes up!!!

The craic at the diner table was ninety, as they say. Was this because everyone was in such good form, was it because it was a great mix of people, or was it because some folk were chucking the wine into them goodo like it was going out of fashion tomorrow?

Here Jude's friend Paddy chats to Marguerite.

After diner it's time for the 'first dance'. A search party had to go looking for Denis as he did one of his super fantastic disappearing acts. However he was eventually found........

.....and before long he was in full flow as he smootched his way around thon dancing floor like.....something out of strictly come dancing... .........

.......or like John Travolta and Olivia Newton John in Grease perhaps.

Next it was the turn of the full bridal party to hit the floor and as you can see from this pic they'll not be applying for next season's 'Strictly'.

Denis catches up with his cousin James.

Now that all the formalities were over it was time for everyone to let loose and enjoy themselves. Here Marguerite and Eadaoin have a laugh on the dancefloor........

.......and again.

Eadaoin is all smiles on her wedding day.

The band were called 'The Big Kahuna' and they were sure rocking good tonight.

Marguerite and Natalie have been dancing sooooo much that they take a quick break but have to lean up against each other to avoid falling over!!!

'Thank God me speech is over love, I've been getting sooo many compliments about it, it really makes me feel sooo good, everyone's saying I'm just brilliant', JB tells Denise. 'You're a gag you are JB, sure I wrote it for ye..........nahh, I'm glad you're getting the credit JB, because you're just brilliant you are, and you're a cool dancer too', replied Denise.

Natalie, Marguerite and Geraldine having fun........nice outfits, I say nice outfits.

'Hey Mr Tamborine man, play a tune for me.......'. Bunty could possibly be the best, eh.....hold on a cotton pickin minute did I say the best, I meant the funniest dancer in Ballygalget. Here he is chucking it down on the dancefloor with a tamborine he's borrowed from the stage.

'Yeeee haaaa partner, yeee haaa', Denis' sister Brenda is great craic. Here she is dancing with her new best mucker Marguerite.......

'Vaaaaallllerie, oh Valerie........'. Eadaoin's back on the floor as Marguerite and her continue their dance off, this time to the cool beat of Amy Winehouse's great hit. Are they making up for lost dancing time since Marguerite has been in America? Or are they just loving the craic? Both perhaps!!!

Eh..............what are ye doing up there like? Marguerite and Geraldine seize their moment and hit the stage. This was their one and only shot at stardom and as you can see here.......well they nailed it didn't they? Of course they did, sure look at them, they're magic, the best backing singers ever!!!! Wha?