‘The Big Day’ Wedding Dress Festival opens this week

Preparations are being finalised for ‘The Big Day’ Wedding Dress Festival, at St Columb’s Cathedral in Derry–Londonderry, which will be officially opened on Thursday evening by Lady Christine Eames. The Cathedral is being transformed for the event, during which around 70 dresses will be on display – including the dress worn by Lady Eames when she married Lord Robin Eames in June 1966.

Among the highlights of the ten–day festival will be wedding re–enactments at 12.30pm on Saturday 23rd and Saturday 30th June, when ‘the bride’ will make her way from the deanery to the Cathedral, preceded by up to 50…


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