{"id":578051,"date":"2026-08-01T00:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578051\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:52:19","slug":"venue-nightmare-for-aoife-walsh-weeks-before-her-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578051\/","title":{"rendered":"Venue nightmare for Aoife Walsh weeks before her wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aoife Walsh had a nightmare of a week, as uncertainty loomed over the fate of her French wedding.<\/p>\n

The former Miss Ireland and her husband, Ben<\/a>, tied the knot in a fairytale legal ceremony<\/a> earlier this month, before packing their bags and heading to France for their destination wedding in August.<\/p>\n

Scarily, the wildfires<\/a> that are raging in Europe looked as though they were going to affect Aoife and Ben’s French wedding venue.<\/p>\n

\"AoifeAoife Walsh’s legal wedding ceremony. Pic: Ivana’s Photography<\/p>\n

On Friday, Aoife shared that she’s been up the walls with stress and worry over the last couple of days, wondering if she and Ben would need a plan B in place.<\/p>\n

But thankfully, the French firefighters put in Trojan work, and now all is back to ‘complete normality’, days before their ceremony.<\/p>\n

During a Q&A on her Instagram Stories, one of Aoife’s followers asked: ‘Are you far from the fires in France? Hopefully they won’t affect you, have fun!’<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Pic: Aoife Walsh\/Instagram<\/p>\n

‘We actually had a very tough week last week,’ Aoife admitted. ‘It was affected by the fires. Both the town and our venue [were affected], with lots of wildfires extremely close, evacuations, services down, etc.<\/p>\n

‘It was squeaky bum time. I wasn’t really on here at all last week as I was so stressed and worried. We genuinely didn’t know if we’d have a wedding or if we’d need to find a plan B.<\/p>\n

‘Didn’t want a pity party as reality is some people lost their homes.’<\/p>\n

\"AoifeAoife Walsh with her husband, Ben. Pic: Aoife Walsh\/Instagram<\/p>\n

‘Thankfully, all is back to complete normality this week,’ Aoife continued. ‘Sooooo lucky, honestly. The French firefighters are amazing. And back being excited and ready for the road tomorrow.’<\/p>\n

Ben and Aoife got engaged<\/a>\u00a0during a romantic trip to Lisbon in September 2025. Aoife previously told\u00a0EVOKE: ‘I definitely wasn’t expecting it at all, but when I look back now, all the signs were there.’<\/p>\n

The former Miss Ireland explained that Ben helped her pick her outfits for each night, suggesting she hold off wearing a white dress until another night, and convinced her to wear heels but bring runners when her feet were sore that day.<\/p>\n

\"AoifeAoife Walsh with her fianc\u00e9, Ben. Pic: Instagram<\/p>\n

Ben organised a photographer to capture the moment, who approached Aoife and Ben with a ruse that the couple she had been due to photograph were no-shows, asking if she could photograph Aoife instead.<\/p>\n

While Aoife was posing up a storm, Ben was out of her direct eyeline and pulled the engagement ring out of his backpack.<\/p>\n

‘I think he played it really well, to be honest; I was really, really shocked. I actually was just gobsmacked,’ she said.<\/p>\n

\"Pic:Aoife Walsh and Ben after getting engaged. Pic: Aoife Walsh\/Instagram <\/p>\n

Aoife and Ben celebrated their nuptials with a lavish outdoor set-up at Raheen House Hotel in Co Tipperary at the beginning of July.<\/p>\n

The couple is now packing up their things and heading to France with their nearest and dearest in tow for a fun second celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoife Walsh had a nightmare of a week, as uncertainty loomed over the fate of her French wedding.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-578051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}