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Dream celebration for Sarah and Alan
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THEY describe their big day as “like a dream” and Sarah Sheehan and Alan Devane agree it was the best day of their lives.
The couple exchanged wedding vows in Beaufort, where they will reside.
The ceremony took place in St Michael’s Church, led by family friend Father David Gunn.
Alan, from Portmagee, and Sarah, from Glencar, posed for the camera of Riona MacMonagle in the grounds of the Europe Hotel & Resort, where the groom works as a personal trainer.
The bride, who is an accident and emergency nurse at University Hospital Kerry, and groom celebrated long into the night with their guests at the reception at the Killarney Oaks Hotel.
Sarah’s sisters Emma and Jacqueline Sheehan and friends Mary Evans and Laura Power were bridesmaids. Alan’s friends John O’Leary and Brendan O’Sullivan and his brothers Brendan and Paul Devane also lent their support as groomsmen.
The groom’s niece Emma O’Connor was flowergirl and his nephew Ryan Courtney was pageboy.
The couple will have been an item for 10 years in December. “We first met, in Horan's nightclub in Tralee, during our college days – there was no need of Tinder!” said Alan.
Alan popped the question very romantically in December 28, 2014, in Hyde Park in London. “I proposed on a hired-out cart on a big wheel, like the London Eye,” said Alan.
Their honeymoon took the newlyweds to Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Martha’s Vineyard and New York.
Above: Sarah Sheehan and Alan Devane with their wedding party.
Picture: Riona MacMonagle