Before the wedding
MALTESE BRIDES: What’s The Worst Wedding Advice You’ve Ever Received?
When you’re planning a wedding, there will inevitably be lots of people trying to help out with tips and guidance. Unfortunately, some of the advice you hear as a bride is less than helpful! We asked a group of brides and brides-to-be from Facebook group Wedding Talk - Malta what the worst wedding advice they had ever heard was. Here are some of the best (or worst!) replies:
- “’Have a church wedding or people will talk.’ Lol. Thankfully the person who said that thinks differently now. I also HATE when people say ‘ma jmurx’ (it doesn’t suit the occasion). What do you mean ma jmurx?! It's our wedding day. What we say goes.”
- “Wear a tiara, otherwise nobody will be able to tell that you’re the bride.”
- “’It-tieg mhux ghalik, imma ghan-nies’ (the wedding isn’t for you, it’s for your guests). We had our wedding our way – I wore blue shoes and had blue beads in my dress, we rented a bus instead of a limousine with a brass band inside and our dress code was smart casual. My bridesmaids wore short dresses with different coloured shoes. Everyone had a blast.”
- “They told me ‘the veil is supposed to be covering your face.’ They kept insisting on it until the last moment before I went into the church – I wouldn’t give in and in fact, I was caught on my wedding video arguing about it!”
- “My wedding theme raised some eyebrows, since the colours were royal blue and orange. My shoes were royal blue too. Since I had birds of paradise in my floral arrangement, everyone kept telling me that my guests would think I had raided the Maltese roundabouts for them! I regret nothing.”
- “The most stupid comment I remember is ‘You cannot have a small budget for a wedding, you have to spend thousands!’ I proved the person wrong - I had a classy morning wedding on a budget. I always emphasise that's not the price of an item that makes it classy, but your own good taste.”
- "’You don't need more than a few chairs or your wedding will look like an old people's gathering!’ Women wear high heels to weddings, and of course, they’re very tiring, so you can't have just a few chairs or you'll end up with people sitting on every wall or step there is! Thank God we had a backup!”
- “’Don’t spend a lot of money on your wedding, it’s all a waste’ – thank God I didn’t listen to them – it was the best day of my life."