reallife weddings

Excited to get married, Yandell says Pete let her choose and organise what she wanted. “It was a dream team” she laughs. Excited as she was to get married, she didn’t expect however, to have to organise two weddings spanning over almost two years! But as they were planning their dream wedding in Malta, COVID hit! And just like that their dream European wedding was cancelled. They had to start all over again from scratch to plan a wedding closer to home. Pete and Yandell found their new perfect wedding venue in The Valley Estate.

Yandell loved the excitement in the lead up to their wedding, and they both enjoyed the hens and bucks parties organised by their bridal party. “They sure know how to throw a party”, she says. Yandell had two beautiful wedding gowns, a Pronovias gown and a Mila Nova gown. Pete and his groomsmen wore suits from Jack London, and Yandell’s bridesmaids wore dresses from Billy J Boutique. “I loved my bridesmaid’s Billy J dresses” she says, “they were the perfect colour I was looking for to make my bridal party a neutral tone palette.”

Ordering online, she had all her bridesmaids over to try on the dress and then ordered their correct sizes online. “It was a very easy and cost-effective way to do it”, she says. To this day, she still has girls messaging her on social media to ask where she got the bridesmaid’s gorgeous dresses from.