Majella andMark

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Sarah Young Wedding Planner • www.weddingplannermalta.com

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Mark and I met in Cavan town in January 2008,

on a night out with friends. Mark was out with

his friends for a farewell drink, as he was going

to Australia for six months the next day. But

soon realised that he had met the girl of his

dreams and he returned to Ireland within three

weeks. It was love at first sight.

Our first date was dinner in the Nuremore

hotel, Carrickmacross.

Mark proposed on 31st July 2010 at Cabra

Castle, Co. Cavan. We went for a walk around

the beautiful gardens of Cabra Castle and I

turned around to find Mark down on one knee.

It was a wonderful day and amazing surprise,

as I was led to believe we were going for a

family dinner, but realised Mark had other plans

for us. We had dinner there and then broke

the good news to our family and friends that

evening.

We had decided that we wanted a smaller

more intimate wedding day and decided on a

wedding abroad. So we did some research and

looked at all our options regarding different

aspects of weddings abroad - language

barriers, food, and legal side of marriages

abroad etc. This is when we realised that

Malta ticked all the boxes for us. We then

decided to book a holiday to Malta the year

before our wedding date and see the island

before we committed to anything. We loved

everything about Malta - the food, people,

location and weather. Once we decided this

was where we wanted to get married we

contacted Sarah Young, who kindly agreed

to be our wedding planner. We got married

in Lapsi Church; St. Julian’s and had our sit

down reception in Castello Zamitello on the

3rd June 2012 Sunday, followed by a BBQ

the next day. We had 87 guests.

From day one Sarah was amazing. She listened

to everything we wanted and nothing was a

problem. She was so helpful and when we

needed some advice Sarah would give us her

professional opinion on different aspects of our

wedding day, but always reminded us it was

our decision at the end of the day. Sarah is a

perfectionist and every little detail was perfect

on the day. She was very professional and no

matter when I emailed her or her team, they

would get back to me within minutes, she was

contactable 24/7 from day one, right through to

the actual wedding day and the days following

on from our wedding.

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I have one sister and Mark has one brother, so

this was ideal for us to have just one of each.

This was perfect. Brenda and Ronan were both

amazing on the days and weeks leading up to

the wedding and the actual wedding day.

I had such a wonderful time looking for the

dress, I spent months searching for the perfect

dress, we flew over to Edinburgh to actually get

my dress, as I choose a Sassi Holford dress, I

got my dress in Rachel Scott Couture. I just fell

in love with it as soon as I tried it on.

Mark and the men’s suits were hired from

Malta, a local business Sarah had given us this

contact, and the suits were perfect for the day,

as they were made to suit the Maltese weather-

which was very hot! 30 degrees on the day.

Malta was perfect, only 3.5 hours flight from

Ireland. Malta has everything- the weather,

beautiful churches, amazing venues and

suppliers (through Sarah). Our venue was

Castello Zamitello; it was so private and unique.

It’s a small castle that we had all to ourselves

on the big day, I felt like a princess in a castle.

Sarah had taken us to see this venue previously

and explained how everything would look and

flow on the day. Words cannot describe our day,

it was truly amazing, the best day of our lives

and we couldn’t have done it without Sarah-

she is the best. We had the most wonderful day

humanly possible. We will always keep a small

place for Malta in our hearts and will never

forget our magical wedding day.

The wedding day was just perfect; the girls did

a fantastic job on my hair and make up, my

make-up was still fresh at the end of the night.

The florist arrived at our hotel, all flowers were

beautiful. Our photographer came to our hotel

for a few snaps before I went to the church.

The ceremony was very special for us and

everyone loved Fr.Tony, he was very witty and

made our ceremony one we will all remember.

The music in the church was fantastic everyone

was talking about it on the day. Then on to

Castello Zamitello for a champagne reception,

everyone was blown away by this magical and

romantic castle, it was a perfect venue. We

had two Maltese folklore musicians

entertaining our guests during this

stand up reception. Then inside we

had the sit down dinner, following

on from that we had music by

a four piece band, which were

brilliant and played everything

we wanted. The partying really

started here, with almost

everyone out dancing. We

enjoyed every minute of our

day and we wouldn’t have

changed anything about

our wedding day. Without

Sarah we would not have

had our dream wedding.

After athe wedding we

honeymooned in the Filitheyo

resort, Maldives for 10 days!

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