(16 Jun 2002)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
1. Ringo Starr’s private plane on the tarmac
2. Ringo on tarmac, turns and walks towards terminal, does a funny dance/walk and goes in
3. Ringo gets in car
4. Wide shot car drives off
5. Wide shot guests queuing to get on bus
6. Zoom in to British musician Jools Holland
7. Chrissie Hynde, of the rock group The Pretenders holds up her passport, smiles and gets on bus
8. Chrissie Hynde in bus talking to fellow passengers
9. Buses drive off across tarmac and a passenger waves
Glaslough, County Monaghan, Ireland
10. Sign wishing Paul and Heather well for their wedding outside castle entrance
11. Wide shot castle entrance with media outside
Aerials
12. Entrance to castle with buses arriving and media and crowds waiting
13. Castle grounds with church and showing specially built pier with floral garlanded boat tied up at pier
14. Close up floral garlanded boat
Aerials
15. Various wedding guests entering church
16. Wide shot church and castle, with lake in background and boat
17. . Close up of boat in lake , decorated for wedding couple
STORYLINE:
Ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney married 34 year old former model Heather Mills on Tuesday in a church on the grounds of Castle Leslie in Ireland.
Earlier, fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr led the coterie of celebrity guests arriving for their marriage.
Starr flew into Belfast airport in a private jet and was whisked off across the Province, over the border and into Castle Leslie at Glaslough.
Other guests, including British musicians Chrissie Hynde of the rock group The Pretenders and Jools Holland, were met by coaches and were driven to the remote wedding venue.
For fans gathered outside the castle, church bells were the clearest indication the couple had indeed married in the Protestant Church of Ireland St. Salvator’s chapel.
There was no official word from within the castle, but journalists and wellwishers outside took the appearance of a rainbow and the ringing of bells at 5:20 p.m (1520 GMT) to mean the couple had wed.
Aerials showed guests walking into the church earlier in the afternoon with the sun shining brightly unlike many days leading up to Ireland’s wedding of the year.
There was no sign of the happy couple but they said on Monday they will release a photo of themselves, with media organisations using it asked to make a donation to a children’s charity.
A floral-garlanded boat was moored at a specially built pier for the newly weds to watch a special fireworks display as part of the festivities.
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