Armed with our AA route planner we hit the road for for Kilronan Castle, Co. Roscommon. So…Market Street…in Tuam? We couldn’t be lost already…why can’t they just say ‘The Square’?! Continue forward onto Bishop Street? Ah that’s easy…and we’re off.

We can report that many’s the sat nav got befuddled along the twisting turning winding roads of Galway and…Roscommon, passing through little towns like Cloonfad and Garranlahan…and less familiar ones like Lisserdrea and Knockvicar (Le trou du cou du monde quoi or what). We only took a small detour through Ballaghadereen. Not too bad (for headless chickens).

So, we left a little early to check out possible locations for Caroline and Barry’s wedding photos. We stopped just before the castle at the edge of the lake and hopped  out of the car for a sconce. Lovely little pier. Castle in the distance. Tall reeds, swans, not so much as a ripple on the water and even some blue sky. We could practically see the canvas on Caroline and Barry’s wall out in Marley. Beautiful.

Best laid plans of Mice and Men…and Women.

Yes yes. It was going to be fabulous. Time for breakfast. We do love our fry on the morning of a wedding…tis a long day as the man says. Now. Time to go see how the girls are getting on.

Ooooo. Bridal suite complete with four poster and all  kinds of loveliness. Great. Jennifer Carney on make-up duty, even better. Go Jenn! Perfect. What could possibly go wrong?! Well! Out of the corner of our eye…surely that was somebody power-hosing the windows?! Nope. That was actually DRIVING rain pelting against the panes. U-oh. Honest-to-God, the weather couldn’t possibly have been any worse.

How and ever! If we do say so ourselves, you can’t tell from these photos what was going on with the wind and the rain outside the walls of the castle. Everyone had a fabulous day and Caroline & Barry fit in quite perfectly to the sumptuous setting. We are so looking forward to seeing the album. It’s going to be gorgggge.