{"id":595548,"date":"2026-08-17T01:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:50:12","slug":"john-and-tara-mcareavey-enjoy-pals-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595548\/","title":{"rendered":"John and Tara McAreavey enjoy pal&#8217;s wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John McAreavey and his pregnant wife Tara enjoyed a glamorous night out together as they stepped out to celebrate a close pal\u2019s wedding ahead of welcoming their third child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John and Tara are already busy parents to two children, James, 6 and two-year-old daughter, Lily. John announced earlier this year with a series of pictures that they are expecting their third child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the weekend, the couple looked in great spirits as they celebrated a friend&#8217;s wedding.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/John1.jpg\" alt=\"John and Tara McAreavey. Pic: Instagram\/John McAreavey\" class=\"wp-image-2185611\"  \/>John and Tara McAreavey. Pic: Instagram\/John McAreavey<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharing some pictures on social media, John wrote: &#8216;The best day \u2764\ufe0f&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tara looked glowing in a green off the shoulder maxi dress, while John looked dapper in a tuxedo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/04\/20\/entertainment\/tara-and-john-mcareavey-40th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tara<\/a>\u00a0met in 2012 at an event in memory of his late wife Michaela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John tragically lost his first wife Michaela Harte in 2011 after she was murdered on their honeymoon in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2019\/01\/21\/entertainment\/celebrity\/una-healy-holiday-envy\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mauritius<\/a>. Michaela, a daughter of Gaelic football boss Mickey Harte, was only 27 at the time of her death.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/John4.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Instagram\/John McAreavey\" class=\"wp-image-2185612\"  \/>Pic: Instagram\/John McAreavey<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John and Tara became acquainted in 2012, following a \u2018Match for Michaela\u2019 event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former sportsman told\u00a0The Irish Catholic newspaper\u00a0that there was a spark from the very moment he spoke with Tara on Saturday, November 10, 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Tara was the first girl that I had spoken to since Michaela,\u2019 he told the publication. \u2018There was just something there, there was a spark there, it was completely innocent on both sides.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They got on very well instantly he said and they decided to exchange phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/John2.jpg\" alt=\"John and Tara McAreavey at a friends wedding. Pic: Instagram\/John McAreavey\" class=\"wp-image-2185610\"  \/>John and Tara McAreavey at a friends wedding. Pic: Instagram\/John McAreavey<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But John previously also recounted the hurdles the couple faced at the beginning of their relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018No girl dreams about getting married to a young man who has been married before and whose wife has been tragically murdered,\u2019 he lamented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking recently to Pat Kenny, about becoming a first-time dad John said in 2020: \u2018I was able to find Tara and we\u2019ve had a beautiful relationship and now we\u2019re about to have an addition to our family and it\u2019s just something that I feel so grateful for and I\u2019m just so excited by that.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John McAreavey and his pregnant wife Tara enjoyed a glamorous night out together as they stepped out to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-595548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595548","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=595548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}