
Wedding

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5th October 2018
04:36pm BST

She told the show:
“He said: ‘well you can go up on that alter and do it because I’m not doing this mass. "'We’re calling the whole thing off, it’s not going ahead'."Edel said that they removed all of the decorations, except for the six cherry blossom trees. The bride and groom chairs were also replaced with two chairs from the church. The decision was made to postpone the wedding by an hour while the decorations were taken out of the church - and the 6ft trees were moved outside, forming an aisle going into the church. As the bride was already en route, they phoned her to tell her that there had been a crash on the motorway and she had to turn around. The guests were told to go to a nearby coffee shop while the changes were made.
The bride and groom, Jennifer and Dave, also phoned into Liveline while on their honeymoon to explain what had happened.
Dave recalled:
"I was getting a few photos with family outside when my phone started ringing. "There was a voicemail from the priest and it was just absolute carnage. I said to my two brothers, 'we need to go to the church'. "The first thing I saw [when I got to the church] was Edel in tears, so I said 'don't worry about it'. "The priest made a bee line for me as we walked in the gates. He said, 'c'mere to me you, we need to look at this.' "I said 'what's the issue?' and he said it was totally unacceptable, that this wasn't a big party. "He said, 'I'm not doing this wedding' and left me to sort it."
Meanwhile, Jennifer said that the only restrictions they had been told about "was not to stick anything with Blu-Tac or thumbtacks."
She said:
"He was aware that I had a company coming to do up the church. . "They had suggested a florist and I had declined the florist that they had because I had my own. The only thing we were told about the church was not to stick anything with Blu-Tac or thumbtacks to the pews, which didn't happen."She also said that Edel had dealt with the situation "very well" and that she was only really aware of what happened after the wedding. Ultimately, the newlyweds said that the priest performed a lovely ceremony after the initial disagreement.
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