AS comedy star Karen Dunbar stepped from the taxi it was perfectly apposite that the sun chose that moment to shine and chase the deluge of Glasgow rain away.
After all, she was about to attend a wedding - her own.
Resplendent in an all-white outfit, including a white leather jacket, she had chosen to keep her big day in the city's West End a closely-guarded secret.
But she told the Sunday Herald: “This is an incredible day for me. I’m sure you understand just how much it means to me.
"I want to enjoy every minute of it.”
The actress, who has starred in BBC comedy shows including Chewin' The Fat and The Karen Dunbar Show, and partner Linda chose to have her wedding ceremony, carried out under the incredibly colourful portraits painted by iconic Glasgow artist Alasdair Gray in the multi-million pound church conversion of Glasgow's Oran Mor.
In a celebration distinctly absent of showbiz luminaries, she confided that she preferred to keep the day a low key, almost private affair, saying: "I just want to think about this day, with my friends and family.
Dunbar announced at the beginning of the year she would marry her long-term partner who she has spoken in the past about as being "the love of her life".
She said: "Linda is my rock. I can't imagine life without her. She is without a shadow of a doubt te person that keeps me most grounded and most safe, in that I always know where I am with her. I am over the moon."
Dunbar speaks about her coming out and the trauma she faced growing up in the town of Ayr in today's Sunday Herald Life magazine.
She added: "I'm really proud of Scotland and how much we've changed and how much we've put into place to show that change. Especially compared to when I came out when I was 19."
In our magazine, she speaks expansively about her teenage life pretending to be straight and her time on the Glasgow gay scene before she met mother-of-two Linda. Dunbar, who won the Role Model of the Year gong at last year's LGNTI Awards, also reveals what she feels about Scotland's progress in sexual equality.
Friday however, it was all about enjoying her wedding day and honeymoon before she takes off to London to star at the Donmar Theatre in an all female cast for a trilogy of Shakespeare plays.
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