VOWS:Vivienne Wall and Derek Lawlor were married in Trinity College Chapel by Fr Liam Kelly from Limerick, a friend of the bride's family. Music was provided by the college organ scholar, along with trumpet player and singer.
Fr Liam Kelly from Limerick, a friend of the bride’s family. Music was provided by the college organ scholar, along with trumpet player and singer.
Vivienne is the daughter of retired TCD lecturer Patrick Wall and Dr Patricia O’Connell, a GP in Dundrum. She attended Muckross Park School in Donnybrook before going to Trinity College, where she received a degree in art history and sociology before studying for an MSc in advertising in DIT Aungier Street. She is now an account handler for Irish International Proximity in Dublin.
Derek is the son of Patricia and John Lawlor of Sandycove, Co Dublin. He attended Presentation Brothers Glasthule before studying science at Trinity College, where he received both a BSc and MSc. He then decided to study law, did his exams at Blackhall Place, and is now a solicitor with Matheson Ormsby Prentice.
The couple have known each other for eight years and met as undergraduate students in Trinity where they were both members of the Dublin University Rock Nostalgia Society (despite her father’s best efforts, she laughs, to direct her towards the Hist or the Phil instead . . .). Music remains a passion, and they faithfully attend a number of music festivals every year, including Primavera Sound in Barcelona as well as Electric Picnic and other festivals closer to home. They are both “obsessed” with hiking and cycling, and in 2005 tested their relationship by enduring a few calamities while touring through Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and the US.
Their wedding reception was held at Finnstown House in Lucan, where the ska band Special Brew got the party rolling. Her bridesmaids were friends from her years at Muckross Park, whom she has known since the age of 12 – Deirdre O’Reilly and Caroline Whyte. The groomsmen included a friend from TCD, John O’Donnell, and the groom’s cousin, Greg O’Brien. For their wedding trip, Vivienne and Derek followed the Inca trail in Peru, and also hiked through Chile, Argentina and Uruguay before landing back in their home in Stepaside. But they find the trek from Stepaside to town hard going (“And let’s not mention negative equity . . .” says the bride, rather chirpily), and they hope to move back into town some day soon.