Wedding bells are ringin’ out across the TQ… a report on the BBC today (link here) to announce that Titanic Belfast (the beautiful new star-shaped visitor centre) has started taking bookings for weddings in the 1000-seater banqueting hall on the 5th and 6th floors. The hall will be a replica of the 1st-class facilities on board Titanic, complete with a faithful reproduction of the Grand Staircase (where Kate and Leo are reunited in their dreams at the end of the movie. Sob!)

The walking tours have been hugely busy again this week, and everyone – and I mean everyone – seems to love the bold, dramatic architecture of Titanic Belfast.  Now that the exterior cladding is nearly finished, the sunlight bounces off the panels like waves on the sea, and standing underneath one of the huge jutting ‘prows’ of the building at the head of the slipways really does give a sense of what it must have been like to stand under the shadow of Titanic itself.  What a fantastic, iconic building for the new Belfast – and I’ll eat my hat if it isn’t bunged full of happy brides and dazed-looking grooms as soon as the doors open next year!

And I think I posted this video a few months ago, but just in case you missed it: check out this animated walk-through of the new visitor centre – it’s awesome!