The planner behind the weddings on Lifetime’s Married at First Sight has opened up about what the method is like behind the scenes.
In a brand new clip, launched solely to Newsweek forward of the season 16 weddings, movie star occasion planner Slomique Hawrylo reveals how she has been tasked with planning 5 weddings over simply three days.
Married at First Sight, also called MAFS, returned to screens at the beginning of the yr for a model new season, with 10 new singletons signing as much as be matched with their new spouses by a panel of consultants.
Regardless of the bizarre setup—MAFS contestants do not truly meet their vital others till they’re on the altar—the {couples} do participate in all the standard wedding ceremony traditions, similar to the massive white gown, good fits and a stunning venue.
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This season’s {couples} are Shaquille and Kirsten, Clint and Gina, Christopher and Nicole, Domynique and Mackinley, and Airris and Jasmine, with all of this yr’s {couples} being primarily based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Within the clip, Hawrylo introduces herself to viewers, earlier than saying: “We’re in Nashville, Tennessee, the place we’re planning 5 weddings in three days.”
All through the video, we see clips of a marriage venue being adorned with flowers and desserts, and helpers may be seen placing the ending touches to make the room look good.
Revealing how placing collectively the MAFS weddings compares to planning extra conventional ceremonies, the place the bride and groom know who they’re marrying, Hawrylo says: “Truly, planning a marriage that is not on tv is loads more durable, [there are] loads of opinions, loads of ideas…I am not in a position to be as artistic.”
Hawrylo continues, revealing how the contestants are concerned within the planning of their huge day—regardless of not realizing who they’re truly marrying.
“Each bride and groom has loads of say on their wedding ceremony, they beautiful a lot inform me [what they want], from cake, to flowers, to design. It is essential that I seize the bride and groom,” she says.
Explaining why it is so essential to inform the bride and grooms’ tales, Hawrylo says that it’s to make sure that “once they stroll down the aisle, [the wedding] is at the least acquainted to them, despite the fact that their partner isn’t.”
“My secret sauce to placing this collectively in two weeks is the locals!” Hawrylo provides, praising the distributors in Nashville for serving to to point out the perfect of what town has to supply within the quick time they must plan the weddings.
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The MAFS Season 16 weddings will air over the January 18 and January 25 episodes. Cameras will then proceed to comply with the contestants as they navigate their new lives collectively as married {couples}.
Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Pastor Calvin Roberson, DeVon Franklin and Dr. Pia Holec are this season’s matchmakers, however solely time will inform whether or not they have made profitable matches.
Married at First Sight, produced by Kinetic Content material, airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Lifetime.
