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In rural Ireland, country music has never been so popular. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
A host of new country stars have tempted a generation | 0:00:07 | 0:00:11 | |
to turn their back on the nightclub, don their Stetsons | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
and jive the night away, from Ballymena to Ballydehob. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:18 | |
This week, we're guests at | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
Ireland's most anticipated country music wedding. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
Yeeha! | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
Dervla from family band Crystal Swing... | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
They're so country and western, I love them. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
..is marrying her childhood sweetheart, farmer Tim. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
I wouldn't be as passionate as the Crystal Swing people are about music. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
Guests, including the glitterati of the country scene, have travelled | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
from all over Ireland for the big event. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
I'm delighted to be here tonight for Dervla and Tim's wedding. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
But will Dervla's mum Mary try to upstage her on the big day? | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
I hope I'm going to turn some heads | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
when I'm walking up that aisle as well. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
-And will there even be a big day? -If I'm looking like this, | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
-I will not be going up the aisle. The wedding's off. -Yeah! | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Welcome to the unexpected world of Irish country music. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
-My name is Mary. -I'm Derek. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
-And I'm Dervla. -And collectively, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
we are known as Crystal Swing. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
BOTH: # He drinks tequila, she talks dirty in Spanish... # | 0:01:24 | 0:01:29 | |
Family band Crystal Swing from County Cork hit the big time in 2010 | 0:01:29 | 0:01:34 | |
when their song He Drinks Tequila went viral on social media. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
# They dance all night to the mariachi... # | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
Such was the success of the song, Dervla, brother Derek and mum Mary | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
appeared on television shows on both sides of the Atlantic, | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
playing to millions of viewers. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
# They dance all night to the mariachi | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
# Till there ain't nobody left standing... # | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
Today, the Burke family are still touring, | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
sometimes five nights a week. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
Tonight they're headlining the Ballygar Festival in County Galway, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
but all thoughts are on the upcoming wedding. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
How did it go with the fake tan? | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
-Uh... Not good. -Not good? | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
-I got an allergic reaction all over my body. -You're joking me. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:23 | |
I did. So I don't know, I've to sort that out. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
The last thing now I want to be is a white ghost on the day. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
But I'll do your tan for you. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:31 | |
No. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
Kids. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:36 | |
Mothers! | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
# When the music is playing, the neighbours are sleeping... # | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
Guided by mother Mary, Derek and Dervla's brother-and-sister act | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
is at the heart of the band's musical success. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
But does Tim realise that he's marrying Derek as well as you? | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
-Because you come as a package deal, don't you? -I come as a package deal, | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
yeah, I definitely do. Myself and Derek are like that. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
'I think, you know, it'll be an emotional day for Derek, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
'seeing his sister walk up the aisle, but...' | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
# He drinks tequila, she talks dirty in Spanish... # | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
As well as their quirky songs, the band have become well-known | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
for Derek's double-jointed dancing. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
# Hey! # | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
'Dervla got the voice and I got the legs in the family.' | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
I'm just naturally, I suppose, able to twist my legs any way. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
I'm double-jointed and I can do whatever I want with them. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
Crystal Swing are at the heart of the country music revival | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
that's sweeping Ireland, North and South. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
# Lost my job, came home mad, got a hug and a kiss... # | 0:03:41 | 0:03:46 | |
When you see, particularly up the North of Ireland, | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
it's all young people, teenagers, people in their 20s, 30s, | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
right up to their 80s, you know, they all love it | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
and people can actually dance properly to it. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
When you compare it to going to a club that you can't do nothing more | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
than just pump your fist, you know, it's just stupid. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
Myself and Dervla would have such a laugh in clubs | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
cos, you know, either the hand is doing this or... | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
-That's all you can do. -Or it's just doing that, you know what I mean? | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
There's nothing more you can really do, do you know, | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
and you see a fella, maybe a girl | 0:04:16 | 0:04:17 | |
and he's here and he's really trying his best, you know, | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
and myself and Dervla would have such a laugh off it, | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
compared to what we see up the North | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
when people can really, really dance, you know. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
# Way up in the North in old Tyrone | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
# There's a pretty little girl I call my own | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
# She's the sweetest rose that Ireland's ever grown... # | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
With the wedding only a matter of weeks away, | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
mother Mary is determined not to be outdone in the glamour stakes. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
# Pretty little girl from Omagh in the County of Tyrone. # | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
Take it away! | 0:04:50 | 0:04:51 | |
Mam has got very vain since she turned 50. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
She's gone so vain on herself, she loves herself so much. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
-I wouldn't say that. -Yes, you do! | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
She spends about five hours in front of the mirror every day. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
Maybe put on five different outfits | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
before she knows what she's going to wear. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
-You are the most vain person in the world. -You're just jealous. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
She's just vain. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
Well, you see, I've assured her husband that | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
this is what she's going to look like when she's 50...plus. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
-So he's quite excited about that. -Yeah? | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
# Take a look at these hard-working hands | 0:05:28 | 0:05:33 | |
# They've been there and back again | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
# And they will go... # | 0:05:38 | 0:05:39 | |
Keep them well fed, keep them in good condition over the summer. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
A world away from the bright lights of Ireland's dance halls, | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
groom-to-be Tim runs his own livestock farm. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
He understands what he's marrying into. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
On the TV screens and on the YouTube videos they might come across as | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
a bit mad, and they can be a bit mad at times, all right, | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
but they're just like a regular family that | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
they just get on very well, like, | 0:06:02 | 0:06:04 | |
and it's probably strange, people might think it's strange, | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
a normal Joe Soap like myself marrying into a famous family | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
like that, but I think it seems to work, anyway. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
Although Dervla has tried to convince him, | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
Tim wouldn't be a country music fan. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
For him, hurling and farming take centre stage. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
I'm a real, real country boy, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
that's kind of ironically ended up with a country singer, | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
but I wouldn't be as passionate as the Crystal Swing people are about music. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
I think when we started going out first, she tried to convert me | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
to listening to some of it | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
but I think she's given up at this stage now because... | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
just wasn't working or it wasn't registering in the brain. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
# Crazy... # | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
Determined to make her big day one to remember, | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
Dervla has employed the services of wedding planner Fiona Forkin. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
She's charged with creating a unique country and western theme, | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
and Dervla is determined to get what she wants. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
-'Hello?' -Hiya, Dervla, it's Fiona. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
Do you know the wagon wheels that you suggested? | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
I'm kind of having a hard time getting hold of them | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
because wagons aren't really that popular in Ireland any more. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
Seems we have proper tractors now, | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
so I'm just wondering if you had maybe any other ideas there | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
that we might able to replace them with if I can't get them. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
'Again, I don't want to be awkward, Fiona, but I love the wagon wheels | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
'and if you could source those and all, I would love that, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
'so do your very best if you can.' | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
-All right, bye. -'Bye, bye-bye.' | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
She laid down the law there | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
and she is very stuck and set on getting the cartwheels. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
I can totally understand that this is her big day | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
and I will do my total utmost best | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
to get her everything that she wants for her dream day. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
# Worry | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
# Why do I let myself worry? # | 0:08:00 | 0:08:05 | |
For a wedding planner based in Dublin, | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
having to think country and western style is a totally new frontier. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
When Dervla rang to ask me to be her wedding planner | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
and we went through what she actually wanted, I kind of thought, | 0:08:15 | 0:08:19 | |
well, this is a bit different, and it's a bit mad and | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
I've never done anything like that before, and this is not just | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
a country and western themed wedding for Mary down the road. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
This is Dervla from Crystal Swing, | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
so I have to make sure the hotel is ready for the guests arriving, | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
and that the tractors can park outside the front of the hotel. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
Cos that's going to be great fun(!) | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
The trimmings and favours aren't the only things country and western | 0:08:43 | 0:08:47 | |
about Dervla's big day. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
Announce the wedding! | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
BELLS JANGLE | 0:08:51 | 0:08:52 | |
They've invited Father Pat Butler to say the wedding mass, | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
who's no stranger to the country music scene himself. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
# Heaven knows you're a rose | 0:09:00 | 0:09:07 | |
# That it's something only me and heaven knows. # | 0:09:07 | 0:09:13 | |
That's all you're getting now. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
It's not really singing that Father Butler is well known for. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
Oh, God, I know lots of people in the wee North. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
Because of the country music, actually, yeah. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
His nifty footwork has graced dance floors throughout Ireland, | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
earning him the nickname of the Jiving Priest. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
Oh, many people would remember me in my priestly life for many years | 0:09:38 | 0:09:43 | |
for being a pretty OK jiver on the floor, | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
yeah, they would, they would. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
This is it. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
As a country music aficionado, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
Father Pat is the perfect priest for Dervla and Tim's wedding. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
Country music, you see, the content of the songs can hit the soul, | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
so I like the ones that make me bounce. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
They're the kind of songs I like. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
# I was born in the state of Louisiana... # | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
In Cork, preparations are well under way | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
for the country music wedding of the year. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
# Voice of my mamma, singing country songs... # | 0:10:23 | 0:10:28 | |
When Derek's not on stage, he's busy indulging his other passion - | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
tractors, or more specifically, his 1970 Ford 4000. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
# A little bit of rock | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
# A little bit of roll... # | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
Look, I love tractors and I love music, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
and I couldn't be doing a better thing in the sense | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
that I have a bit of both. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:49 | |
I could be singing three or four nights a week | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
and I'd be doing this the other. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:53 | |
I suppose I'm just a pure country lad at heart anyway, | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
do you know, that kind of way? | 0:10:57 | 0:10:58 | |
# Music, that's for me, it's kick-ass country... # | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
With the western theme starting to take shape, Derek is making sure | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
the country element is taken care of. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
He's planning to escort his sister to the church with | 0:11:07 | 0:11:11 | |
a cavalcade of a dozen tractors. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
Oh, sure, getting there, with a few problems. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
The diesel tank fell off Val Cotter's tractor, | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
so that's one small problem all right. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
One of the tractors is after breaking down, so | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
we're in a bit of trouble already. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
I always say I love Fords, I love a blue tractor, but of course | 0:11:25 | 0:11:30 | |
it's the green tractor's after breaking down. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
The blue ones never do. And I wouldn't mind - this tractor | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
that's after breaking down isn't an old tractor, it's a new tractor, | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
it's '08, and this girl here is 1970 and it keeps going forever. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
# It's hard to imagine a baby so tiny and small... # | 0:11:41 | 0:11:47 | |
In Rochestown, Dervla and mum Mary are putting the finishing touches | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
to the wedding dress. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
Oh, wow! Oh, my God. I absolutely love it. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
I love it, I'm so excited. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
It's just as I remembered it and I can't wait to try it on. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
I just can't wait to wear it on the big day now. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
And, to top it off, mum Mary has decided to surprise Dervla | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
with the ultimate accessory for any country and western bride. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
Oh, wow! | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
Turn around until I have a look at you. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
The dress is absolutely beautiful, | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
but it's not the dress, it's the girl in the dress. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
But of course you get your good looks from your mammy, don't you? | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
-Yeah, well, you'd like to think so anyway. -You cheeky little divil! | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
What's inside the box? | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
I have brought you a pair of... | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
-cowboy boots! -Oh, my God! | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
-Aren't they cute? -They're really nice. I'm not sure | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
they'll suit me, though, but I'm willing to give them a go. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
-They're different. -How do they fit? -They fit. -They fit? | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
-Oh, they are cool. They are fabulous. -They're so perfect. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
They suit the whole bridal look and they're so country. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
I love them, I love them. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
All you need is a horse on the day now. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
Well, I don't think I'll be getting up on a horse anyway! | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
With the perfect fitting dress, | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
the right veil and now the appropriate footwear, | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
Dervla's wedding is shaping up to be a country music fairytale. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:13 | |
You look like a princess. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
A princess, yeah. I feel like a princess. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
I feel like a country and western princess, if there's such a thing! | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
-If there is such a thing as one, I feel... -Well, there is one now. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
There is one now, yeah. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
It's not every day a wedding planner from Dublin is asked to | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
provide wagon wheels and hay bales for a bride's big day. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
So Fiona has taken to the back roads of Ireland | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
in search of raw materials. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
-These, these are absolutely brilliant. -Oh, they are perfect. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
So they're totally antique and vintage and everything. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
Slightly larger ones. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:51 | |
These would do the job for you. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
Having discovered what she's looking for, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
Fiona is finding country inspiration in all corners of the yard. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
Absolutely perfect, sure, they're vintage as well. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
-They're like little old tractor seats. -Yeah. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
What do you think of that one? | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
-That's fantastic. -Yeah? -Yeah, brilliant. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
That will fit in perfectly. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
After getting the cartwheels, not only just two cartwheels, | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
they got me eight or nine cartwheels, so absolutely amazing, | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
all different sizes, so they're going to work everywhere | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
where I need them to work, | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
and to top it all off, to make my day even better, | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
they got me red tractor seats, | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
which I know are going to go down a treat down in Cork. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
Back in Cork, groom Tim and his best men have arrived at the village hall | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
for a crash course in the joys of country music dancing. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
He thinks the sight of him line dancing at the reception | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
will be the perfect wedding day gift. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
Not really known for the dancing | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
and I suppose as all Dervla's family are good at the dancing, | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
this is my big romantic gesture for Dervla, and I hope she likes it | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
-because I don't think we'll be doing it again in a... -Oh, my God, no! | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
Billy! | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
We're going to put... | 0:15:10 | 0:15:11 | |
This is cowboys. You're a best man. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
Tim has enlisted his future brother-in-law Derek to teach him | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
how to hucklebuck, a dance that has regained popularity, | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
particularly in the North. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
Right, there's three dances to the hucklebuck, right? | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
There's my dance, which everybody knows - | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
the in, the out, the in, the out, in the legs, | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
then you have, of course, the original '60s dance, | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
which is all like the twist and the rock and roll of it, | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
and then there's the new Northern Ireland dance of it, | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
and that's what we're really going to emphasise on today | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
is the Northern Ireland dance, OK? | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
It's probably one of the most popular jiving dances | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
and there isn't even such much things, like, | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
there isn't much even nightclubs up the North any more | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
because everybody on a Saturday night, Sunday night, Monday night, | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
even in midweek, it's all the same, everybody goes dancing. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
There is no such thing as nightclubs, really. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
Everybody goes and does this. OK, one, two, three, go. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
One, two, | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
three, four. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
One, two, three, four. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
But for a man with two left feet, there's safety in numbers. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:11 | |
He's roped in 40 guests for his surprise hucklebuck flashdance. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
# I'm the boy for a girl like you and you can set me free... # | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
There's a few times all right we stood on each other's feet. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
I always knew that him had two left feet but that proves it anyway. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
One, two, three, four... | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
After a day of intense training, | 0:16:29 | 0:16:32 | |
it seems Tim may have cracked the moves, but it hasn't been easy. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:36 | |
Everyone else in perfect lines and we were... | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:16:41 | 0:16:42 | |
18 months of planning have gone into the biggest | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
country and western themed wedding Ireland has ever seen. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
And it's the morning of the big day. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
# You don't like the sound of the truth... # | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
At the hotel in Middleton, Fiona's wagon wheels are in place, | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
the logs are on the table and the menus have a certain rustic charm. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:16 | |
So this is Dervla's bouquet. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
-Oh, smells... -The mint. -It smells like I can eat it. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:24 | |
Yeah, but you can eat it, you see! | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
Every single flower, stalk, petal is edible. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:31 | |
City girl Fiona has pulled off Dervla's unique demands, | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
right down to the very tractor seats. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
It's shaping up to be the perfect country and western themed wedding. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
# Well, swing me... # | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
But perhaps bride-to-be Dervla should have let mum Mary sort her fake tan. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:54 | |
-You should have let mammy do it. -Oh, don't even start. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
Will you be able to sort out Dervla's tan? | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
-We can, of course we can. -Yeah. -We'll fix that up. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
I was feeling awful this morning, as you know, I woke up... | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
-Crying. -I woke up crying like a baby | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
but I just want to look perfect today, you know? | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
It's my wedding day, but, look, we'll sort it out. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
This morning you said you wouldn't walk up the aisle | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
if the tan wasn't right. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:18 | |
Oh, no, I will stand to that. If I'm looking like this, | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
I will not be going up the aisle. The wedding's off. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:18:24 | 0:18:25 | |
And I'm not joking! I am not joking when I say that. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
Who's more important, Tim or the tan? | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
The tan! The tan! | 0:18:30 | 0:18:32 | |
Tim is getting his tan the old-fashioned way. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
It's one more feed for the sheep before he throws on his suit. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:47 | |
So, just tidying up the last few of the jobs. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
This is getting very close now, | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
so just doing the last few bits around the farm before I take | 0:18:56 | 0:19:03 | |
a few days off for the wedding. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:04 | |
The normally laid-back Tim is getting some last-minute nerves, | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
but it's not about saying, "I do." | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
I must admit I'm a small bit more nervous about this hucklebuck dance | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
Derek is after roping me into. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
In fairness, he did give us a lesson all right up in the hall one day, | 0:19:21 | 0:19:26 | |
but I'm after forgetting it all already, | 0:19:26 | 0:19:30 | |
so I'll have to get a crash course just before it, I think. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
Come on, you poser. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
Frank! | 0:19:34 | 0:19:35 | |
Good boy. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
# Her eyes were blue, her hair was auburn | 0:19:39 | 0:19:43 | |
# Her smile was like an angel fair... # | 0:19:44 | 0:19:49 | |
A convoy of whistle-clean tractors will escort Dervla to the chapel, | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
and Derek is sprucing up his 1974 Ford 4000, | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
which will lead his sister's cavalcade. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
I was kind of thinking, what would I do for her? | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
And I knew she would like something like this because, | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
look, everybody, I suppose, | 0:20:06 | 0:20:07 | |
they do the whole maybe having three or four wedding cars | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
sort of thing, but they don't do that, like. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
I'll just get a whole load of tractors to come along on the day | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
and most fellas want to be away cutting corn at this time of year | 0:20:15 | 0:20:19 | |
but no, I get them to go coming to a wedding instead. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
Outside the family home, guests are starting to arrive. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:28 | |
I said I'd be very surprised if there aren't a host of tractors | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
going down that road at Lisgoold to the chapel. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
Nobody like you. And are these all the drivers? | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
They're all drivers now, yes, exactly. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
Have you a tractor for me, lads? | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
I could do with an oul' Massey Ferguson as well! | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
# I picked her up in my pick-up truck | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
# And she broke this heart of mine. # | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
Inside, mother Mary has a confession to make. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
Dervla literally goes ballistic when I say I want to be 21 again, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
so she keeps reminding me that, "You're getting old, Mam!" | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
So today, secretly, I want to outshine my beautiful princess | 0:21:02 | 0:21:08 | |
because I have a wow dress as well | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
and I hope I'm going to turn some heads when I'm walking up that aisle | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
as well. It's crazy! | 0:21:14 | 0:21:19 | |
Ladies, hang on to your husbands! | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
# One night I took a ride... # | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
I'm going to put these over here and then I'm finished. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
# I picked her up in my pick-up truck | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
# And she broke this heart of mine | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
# Her mamma said no, she's my only daughter... # | 0:21:35 | 0:21:40 | |
No, it bends, whatever you do. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
Oh, they look fab! | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
-Yeah. Oh, my God. -I'm ready to have a little dance in these later now, | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
-so let's do this, let's get hitched. -Let's get... | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
# Going to the chapel and we're | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
# Gonna get married... # | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
OK, OK, OK, OK! Enough of that now. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
-Right, let's go. -I must be the craziest mam on earth. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
# Because we're going to the chapel | 0:22:04 | 0:22:09 | |
# And we're going to get married | 0:22:09 | 0:22:14 | |
# Going to the chapel and we're going to get married | 0:22:14 | 0:22:21 | |
# Gee, I really love you... # | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
With her cowboy boots zipped, | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
daughter and mother are ready to wow the assembled guests. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
# Going to the chapel of love. # | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
One more time for the sun! | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
# Because we're going to the chapel and we're... # | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
12 spruced-up tractors escort Dervla to the chapel | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
to marry her childhood sweetheart Tim. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
# Going to the chapel and we're going to get married | 0:22:45 | 0:22:51 | |
# Gee, I really love you and we're going to get married | 0:22:51 | 0:22:58 | |
# Going to the chapel... # | 0:22:58 | 0:23:02 | |
Ireland's finest jiving priest, Father Butler, | 0:23:02 | 0:23:04 | |
is keen to book the first jive with the new bride. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
Dervla, stunning. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
Can I swing with you later? | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
OK, thank you! | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
"I, Tim, take you, Dervla, as my wife." | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
I, Tim, take you, Dervla, as my wife. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
"For better, for worse." | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
For better, for worse. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:25 | |
"For richer, for poorer." | 0:23:25 | 0:23:27 | |
For richer, for poorer. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:28 | |
-"In sickness and in health." -In sickness and in health. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
-"Till death do us part." -Till death do us part. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
Father Pat has some relationship advice for the new couple. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:46 | |
Dervla, how are you going to make your man happy? | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
Love him, feed him, sleep with him, | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
leave him in peace, give him a bit of space, and honour him. | 0:23:56 | 0:24:02 | |
Tim... | 0:24:02 | 0:24:03 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
Be a friend to her, be a companion, | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
be a lover, be a father, | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
be a master chef, be an electrician, | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
be a carpenter, a plumber, | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
a mechanic, a decorator, a stylist... | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
# All I can do, all I can say | 0:24:29 | 0:24:34 | |
# You know, I've got to make you understand... # | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
-Yee-ha! -Yee-ha! | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
Whoo! | 0:24:43 | 0:24:44 | |
Have you got any legs there, Tim? | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
No, I have bad knees. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:50 | |
This particular group of people will live on the dance floor. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
It's going to be a great night of country music. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
HORNS BEEP | 0:24:57 | 0:24:58 | |
# Longed for the day you take my hand | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
# I asked again last night, your love so divine... # | 0:25:01 | 0:25:07 | |
As the bride and groom arrive at the reception, | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
it's the moment of truth for wedding planner Fiona. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:14 | |
-WEARILY: -Yee-ha! | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:25:16 | 0:25:17 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:25:22 | 0:25:23 | |
And the bar staff, they're so cool! | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
-I apologise. -Yes! | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
Oh, my God. It's fab. I don't even know what to say. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
-No, no crying. -No! | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
Once I saw her walking down the aisle and she looked | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
absolutely stunning, I couldn't be happier, then sure, | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
I was more than happy then to do the vows and do everything like that, | 0:25:45 | 0:25:50 | |
so it was all worth it in the end. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
Do you know what, now, we're looking forward to the band starting, | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
getting this veil off, getting out on that floor and just having a dance and enjoying ourselves. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
Now, I want to hear you singing this bit for Dervla, everybody, | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
come on, let's sing with me. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:03 | |
# Cos she's a good-hearted woman in love with her good-timin' man... # | 0:26:03 | 0:26:09 | |
County Antrim's finest, Johnny Brady, is one of Irish country's biggest stars, | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
and tonight he's the man responsible for getting people up to jive. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
# But she don't understand... # | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
I'm delighted to be here tonight for Dervla and Tim's wedding. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
It's a country themed wedding, we're a country band, you know, | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
I know that she's a huge country fan, like myself, | 0:26:26 | 0:26:28 | |
and probably a lot of the guests that are here tonight, | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
so I think it's a great idea, and as I say, it's kind of an original. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
# Cos she's a good-hearted woman in love with her good-timin' man. # | 0:26:34 | 0:26:41 | |
Do you know the words of this one? | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
'I've played a lot of weddings and never had to do so much country | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
'at weddings cos people want to come out, they want to dance, | 0:26:45 | 0:26:48 | |
'there's jiving lessons,' | 0:26:48 | 0:26:49 | |
the list goes on and on but country is alive and well | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
and it's great to be part of it all, you know. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
# He parties all over | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
# She welcomes him back home... # | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
That's one, two, three... | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
While Johnny Brady entertains the guests, Tim is getting | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
some last-minute line dance tips from Derek. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
Two, right leg. Three, four, and a one and a two! | 0:27:08 | 0:27:12 | |
That's it, boys. Hey! | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
All right! Here we go! | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
As the wedding celebrations ramp up, it's time for Tim's surprise, | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
a specially rehearsed hucklebuck flashdance. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:28 | |
# Hey! # | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
Dervla seems to be impressed with her new husband's country moves. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:35 | |
# Do the hucklebuck Do the hucklebuck... # | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
The husband with two left feet certainly didn't have two left feet. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
He's been brilliant. He's been pulling me out on the dance floor | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
dancing all night. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:49 | |
# You got to know when to hold them | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
# Know when to fold them | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
# Know when to walk away, know when to run... # | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
People have been very complimentary, | 0:27:59 | 0:28:00 | |
everybody said they loved my gown tonight | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
but everybody said that Dervla was the star of the day. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
She was stunning, you know, so I let her win today. Had to! | 0:28:07 | 0:28:11 | |
# Know when to fold them... # | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
But the star of the dance floor is the jiving priest, Father Pat. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
Even though my shoes are made for walking, they're finished tonight. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:23 | |
The dancing has really... | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
I'm almost a nervous wreck but a great day, a super, super day. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
Country music is good for your soul. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
# Keep giving all the love you can | 0:28:33 | 0:28:41 | |
# Stand by your man. # | 0:28:41 | 0:28:52 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:28:52 | 0:28:54 |