Karen Dempsey

Could you pick up something?

I was like...

This is not part of the job.

Yeah, I was like, I'm already on my last minute.

But I laughed and I just stopped on the way down, got the ribbons.

And that's very much a part of it as well.

I'm really, really strong with couples in saying, nothing can go wrong.

And whatever happens is part of the story.

I mean, whether we have ribbons or not is actually irrelevant.

That first wedding ceremony was in 2016 that I held.

We're becoming a lot more comfortable with being invited to a wedding that's not in a church, where people usually would have expected to be going to a church of some faith path in Ireland, generally Catholic.

It's actually becoming unusual to go to a church, really, in my friends and colleagues.

I think couples as well are becoming a lot more comfortable in knowing what it is that they want from their ceremony, too.

They will have all gone to their own friends and colleagues' ceremonies.

They'll have seen things.

And I'll often ask couples that as well.

What do you know for sure that you either do or don't want in your ceremony?

And we can start from there and build because that gives me a good sense of where they're at.

Because some might say, I saw this at my friend's wedding ceremony and hated it.

And it could be something that some couples absolutely love.