Embracing the beauty of being a redhead.

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Keen to fall in love with a fellow redhead, Eimear was set up by a friend with tall and dashing redhead Seán. From the moment they laid eyes on each other they knew it was a forever kind of love and Seán proposed just two years later. Embracing their mutual redhead genes Eimear and Seán developed a wedding theme of Ginger Love for their Ballymagarvey wedding, which was documented beautifully by Art Wedding Photography. As an office with two redheads (myself included) we are extra excited to share this beauty with you today...

Beautiful Ballymagarvey Village wedding by Art Wedding Photography // onefabday.com

Eimear tells us their love story... "We were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend of ours, Paula Ward. I worked with her and she knew Seán through basketball. I’ve always said I would love to find a tall red headed man and have beautiful ginger babies with. I am 5ft 11 myself. And our friend Paula said she knew the perfect guy for me. 6ft 5inches Seán O’Sullivan originally from Kerry living and working in Dublin. Once Seán heard I was a red head too he was immediately intrigued. Eventually, a date was made and it was going to happen. We arranged to meet outside the Porterhouse pub in temple bar on 20 April 2013. A night we will never forget..."

Eimear continues... "I remember walking around the corner and I saw this tall handsome red headed man looking up at the moon. I was saying to myself wishing please let this be him please let this be him. Our eyes locked and we both instantly smiled, we knew we were each other’s date. Seán still remembers me walking towards him with the wind in my long red hair smiling from ear to ear. The entire night flew by we got on so well talking and laughing. We both knew during our first date we had met the partner we were going to marry. People say when you know, you know. We knew."

Two years later Seán proposed to his picture perfect redhead. Eimear remembers... "We were both thinking about where to go on holiday and the one thing we both always wanted to do was to see the northern lights. So we arranged to go to Reykjavik, Iceland In April 2015. The first night 09 April 2015 we arrived our tour took us out to the middle of nowhere to see the northern lights and luckily enough we saw them. They were amazing. We were standing in the snow in a million layers of clothing. It was freezing. I had my arms around Seán and I could feel him shaking. I thought he was freezing so I said we should get back onto the bus. But he wasn’t cold. He was nervous."

Eimear continues... "He dropped down on one knee in the snow under the northern lights and shooting stars in Iceland and proposed. I was in complete shock. Of course, I said yes immediately I was SO happy. The best feeling in the world is when the person you love wants to share the rest of his life with you. It was so dark I didn’t even see the ring when I put it on. When we got back onto the bus I found out Seán had proposed with a family ring on his side which meant the world to me. The next day we celebrated in the beautiful waters of the Iceland’s famous Blue Lagoon. It was the most amazing romantic proposal. Sean is all about romance."

Embracing all things to do with redheads Eimear and Seán chose the adorable theme of ginger love. Eimear tells us... "The theme of our wedding was, of course, Ginger Love. We are both two proud red heads and wanted a relaxed vibe to our wedding day. Nothing typical or uniform. Elegant Rustic/Boho wedding with wild flowers. Colours to complement our red hair. Seán chose tweed to represent him being a proud Kerry man. I wanted a soft crochet/lace boho wedding dress with flowers & leaves in my red hair. We also wanted the bridesmaids and groomsmen to wear different colours to stand apart from each other as the beautiful individual people they are."

The unique theme was further brought to life by Eimear's talented twin sister Aoife. Eimear gushes... "I would have been lost without her. She is most creative, thoughtful, organised and truly gifted unique individual. She gave so much of her time and talents to help make our wedding day everything we dreamed of. She took our save the date photos and created our very own save the dates. She came up with our theme Ginger Love. She designed, created and made our ceremony programmes, table menu plan & display, wedding menus, table names and displays, children's games, baskets for the ladies and gentlemen toilet. She also helped Seán chose and get his accessories for his wedding suit so it would be a surprise for me on the day. We would both see each other on the aisle for the first time in my dress and sean in his suit. My favourite idea of hers was to name our tables with nicknames for red heads i.e. Big Red, Ginga Ninjas, Fanta Pants, Sunny Delight, Strawberry Blonde, Freckles etc.."

The venue for this celebration of all things ginger was the stunning Ballymagarvey Village, which Eimear and Seán fell in love with while attending a cousin's wedding there. They detail... "The staff are all extremely friendly, helpful and made us feel so at ease, important and special. The food is exquisite. The beautiful grounds and setting, perfect for photos and children running around. We loved the idea the venue was exclusively ours for the day and we weren’t sharing our big day with strangers. We have never seen a more beautiful banquet hall where we had our meal and dancing. It is without a doubt the best wedding venue in Ireland. It completely suited our style of wedding."

Talk about an impressive cake table! All baked by Brown Hound and wonderfully captured, along with each and every other detail, by the talented Sebastian at Art Wedding Photography.

To complete the evening Eimear and Seán's family entertained with speeches, followed by lots of dancing to the tunes of Pink Champagne wedding band.

For their honeymoon, Eimear and Seán visited Italy for the first time. They recommend... "We both had never been to Italy. So for our honeymoon, we went a week after our wedding to Sorrento for 4 nights, Rome for 3 nights and then up to Lake Garda for another 4 nights. We loved Italy. We ate and drank our body weight. Italy is so beautiful, friendly and romantic. Perfect destination or honeymooners."

Huge congratulations to you both and thank you so much for sharing your wedding day with us all. A big thank you also goes to Art Wedding Photography for sharing his work with us. To see more from Art Wedding Photography visit www.artweddingphotography.eu