THERE was no church, hotel, bridesmaids, groomsmen, rings or even presents at Ali Daly and Colin McNamara’s wedding. But, if you ask them if they would do the exact same again, they would both say “I do”. Ali, of Shelbourne Park, and Colin, from Raheen, organised their own unique Limerick city wedding celebration.
The ceremony was held in the People’s Museum, Pery Square on Saturday, May 25. Afterwards, the happy couple and their guests stopped off in the Commercial Bar before making their way to the Locke for a meal and then Treaty City Brewery to party the night away. The couple met on a blind date organised by Eva Keyes, a friend of Ali's, on August 14, 2019.
“She texted me, ‘I think I have someone that you might be interested in’ and whatever mood she caught me in that day, I said, 'fine, let's go for it'. We were both single for a while. Our first date was on August 14, 2019.
We went to JJ Bowles pub and we've been together ever since,” said Ali, who works in the family business of Daly’s Hardware on William Street in the city, and is a DJ. Colin, a maintenance engineer in Lufthansa Technik Turbine Shannon, popped the question three years later on top of a mountain overlooking a lake in Whistler, Canada. “It was absolutely beautiful,” said Ali.
There is a cliché about young girls dreaming of the big church wedding in a white dress but this isn’t Ali. “I never thought I was going to get married,” she laughed. “But then I met Colin and it ju.
