Some amount of effort put into this.
Roping in celebrities to make a contribution to a wedding isn’t exactly a new thing, but one Irishman has raised the bar sky high in that regard.
Darren Byrne was asked to be best man at his good mate Darren Farrell’s wedding to Anna Carey in Portugal last month.
Ten months before the wedding, he began contacting a host of different celebrities on Twitter in an effort to get them to make a video contribution, but surely even he couldn’t believe the amount of famous folk that agreed to help out.
You can see the list in full below, but amongst the celebrities to contribute from home and abroad were Gary Neville, Gary Lineker, Piers Morgan, Rob Kearney and Gordon D’Arcy, whilst Karl Pilkington stole the show with his cameo around the 9:35 mark.
It’s a long watch, but unless you’ve a connection to the happy couple feel free to skip the (fairly soppy) first three minutes or so until the celebrity contributions start...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2e3SujId-w
Celebrity contributors
Gary Barlow
Gordon D'Arcy
Rob Kearney
Graeme McDowell
Sky Sports Soccer Saturday
Match of the Day - Gary Lineker
Gary Neville
Goals On Sunday - Chris Kamara and Ben Shepherd
Laurence Kinlan
Karl Pilkington
Dermot O'Leary
Jenifer Maguire
The Dan Band from Old School/The Hangover
Eamonn Holmes
Celebrity Juice - Holly & Keith
Mario Rosenstock
Piers Morgan
James Corden
Ryan Tubridy
Joe Duffy
Miriam O'Callaghan
Gay Byrne
George Hook
Newstalk Breakfast - Ivan and Chris
Peter Coonan
