Couples Names: Liam Quinn & Dorothy Barrett
Proposal Date: January 1984 with official Engagement on Valentine’s Day
Wedding Date: 6th July 1985
Wedding Location: Cathedral, Ballina, Co. Mayo with reception in Bartra House Hotel
On a cold night at the end of January, Liam ever the gentleman; walked me home from the dance we had been to and right there on the doorstep of my mothers house, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! Back then people often went away to get engaged, so a few weeks later we went to Dublin to buy the ring and make it official.
It was Valentines Day and we went to a jewellers on Henry Street where we picked out the ring. We then walked to Stephens Green and sitting down on a bench he put the ring on my finger and we were engaged!
We had about a year and a half engagement and then the wedding was in July the following year.
