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Three years ago Pat had the idea of making a play about a traveller's wedding. He had in mind to it A Coat of Paint but settled on  A Wedding in the Making.  The reference to the colour was the colour of the horse and the difference the paint made to it.  I converted the cottage at the back of my own house says Pat, in order to facilitate the making of the play.  I own a horse and carriage, a barrel top, the traditional mode of transport of the travellers in olden times.  Tomas Burke was called in to direct and Gerry Geraghty was behind the camera.

Part proceeds were handed over to Mentally Handicapped Kiltullagh Branch.  This was my intention from the begining

The tale itself concerns the wedding of the traveller’s daughters.  The unaccepted status of the two girls, by the prospective grooms' mother by being of the travelling tradition was painfully obvious.  The story goes how the two bachelors were duked into believing the two maidens were of a different and higher social status.  The play  ends with a question as to whether they married of not.  This leaves open the opportunity for a further development of the storyline in the next edition.