I try not to play favourites when it comes to real weddings, but I can already tell that Martina, the gorgeous bride at the centre of this colourful, vintage-inspired celebration in Cork, is getting my vote when it comes time to do our end-of-year style round-ups! Her yellow wedding dress and gold headpiece is a perfect example of how to do vintage style with a modern edge, which appears to be the unnofficial theme of this wedding! Martina and Antionio's beautiful big day started with a ceremony at Aula Maxima, the Great Hall in University College Cork, and ended with a rollicking party at Cork County Cricket Club. McMahon Studios were kind enough to share the photographs with us, so you can swoon over every last detail!

I just had to start this feature with a full-length photograph of Martina, so you could see her yellow wedding dress in all its sunny glory! We'll be breaking down her bridal look, and that of her gorgeous bridesmaids, further down the post, so keep scrolling!

Martina makes such a beautiful bride! And I love that her Dad matched his look to hers! #familygoals

Tipperary native Martina and Welshman Antonio have a delightfully old school how-we-met story! "We were both regular swing dancers in London and met at a dance," Martina tells us. "After a few months, I asked Antonio out and the rest is history. He maintains that I beat him to it!"

Antonio describes his proposal as "a total disaster! I planned to propose during a romantic, barefoot walk along on an Italian beach that has become quite special to us. It was out of season, so the sand was freezing, the beach was covered with big piles of muck and it was so dark we couldn’t see where we were going! I finally found a little bit of light coming out of a closed bar on the beach and he popped the question there. Luckily, she said yes, and we went for a lovely dinner with friends straight afterwards."

Martina sourced her vintage 1940s, sunflower yellow wedding dress and vintage-style headpiece from Etsy, and finished the look with vintage-style, T-bar heels and a bold red lip!

Antonio chose a 1940s-style double-breasted suit from Chester Cordite for the big day, which he styled with an incredibly cool abstract-print tie.

We wrote about the dried flower trend earlier this year, so we're obviously huge fans of Martina's bridal and bridesmaid bouquets!

Martina tells us that the couple's aim for their wedding was throwing a really great party! "We wanted it to be as fun as possible for everyone and to try to make it a bit different to the usual. We had a vegetarian buffet dinner rather than a long sit-down meal, lots of fun activities for the kids and lots of music and dancing going on all day."

Martina's bridesmaids wore new and vintage dresses, accessorising with vintage-style, floral headpieces and brooches from Etsy. I think these guys need to give me Etsy lessons!

The couple loved the cricket club from their first visit! "It was a really pretty venue with lots of charm, but also felt really relaxed and informal," Martina says. "It was perfect for drinking and dancing! It had a lovely outdoor area too, next to the cricket pitch. We had dinner quite early, and people really loved the pizza and ice cream vans that came in the evening for a top up. The ice cream van actually got stuck in the mud on its way out and lots of the guests had to go outside to push it back out!"

Martina's advice for engaged couples is, "don’t try to make things perfect. All you’ll care about in the end is being amongst the people that love you. Don’t be afraid to do things that you want to, even if they’re not the norm - most people have been to a lot of weddings and really appreciate something different."

OK, I'm officially ready to go dancing! But before I do, I've got to say a huge thank you to Martina and Antonio for giving us a closer look at their big day, and, of course, to McMahon Studios for sharing the photographs.