'Unforgettable day': The wedding with almost 100 bridesmaids

There are accepted weddings and past determination are radical who similar to adhd their ain twist to their large day.

Jack McGowan, primitively from Aberdeen successful Scotland, and his woman Kathryn from Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, decided 2 oregon 3 bridesmaids would not conscionable the people for the peculiar occasion.

The newly-wed mates who tied the knot past week with 95 bridesmaids said it was "an perfectly unforgettable day".

The mean fig of bridesmaids for a wedding successful the UK is astir 3 to five.

Ms McGowan said arsenic soon arsenic the mates got engaged they were debating however galore bridesmaids was excessively many.

"I was reasoning and reasoning astir however it was going to enactment and I thought successful my head, what's the biggest fig of bridesmaids I could have?"

She said the mates discussed having 7 oregon eight, which past raised to 9 oregon 10, but they yet landed connected 95.

The wedding took spot successful Larchfield property adjacent Annahilt, County Down, successful Northern Ireland.

They had astir 250 guests altogether, meaning 38% of the guests donned a bridesmaid dress.

The women and girls shared much than a colour strategy - with galore being pupils of Kathryn's creation school.

"All my dancers and my friends that person been successful my beingness for a agelong time, they're inactive precise overmuch a monolithic portion of my life.

"It was conscionable a very, precise casual determination successful the end," she said.

Their ages ranged from six to 40 years of age.

Jack McGowan said helium was "weirdly not shocked" by the numbers.

He said helium helps retired with the organisation of immoderate creation events and was acquainted with each the girls.

"I'm utilized to these large events with tons and tons of our dancers, truthful I strangely expected, thing less," helium said.

Women dominated the time arsenic Jack had lone 8 groomsmen.

Traditionally, the groomsmen volition stock a creation with the bridesmaids.

Speaking connected BBC Radio Ulster's, The Nolan Show programme, Jack said, "the champion antheral is inactive dancing today."

The mates said the time ran smoothly contempt the ample numbers.

"The girls each cognize however to get successful enactment and organise themselves precise quickly," Kathryn said.

She said the girls separated into 2 lines on the aisle.

"They had it each organised earlier I got there, truthful I didn't person to bash precise much.

"I decidedly made the close decision," she said.

"It was truly bully erstwhile we were getting the photos, the older girls organised the younger ones and they were each lasting perfectly arranged acceptable for maine to bounce into the middle."

Kathryn said the bridesmaids chose their ain dresses erstwhile she planned a colour scheme.

"It was truly absorbing to spot each their antithetic styles and personalities showing through."

The brace said they were precise blessed with however the time went.

"It was perfectly brilliant," Jack added.

"It was amended than we ever imagined, determination was dancing and piping each time long."