A writer creates six new rules to follow based on some interesting wedding trends set by celebs including Solange Knowles and Game of Throne’s Joffery Baratheon. The Guardian writer, Stuart Heritage, shares his views in a humorous review of this year’s wedding ceremonies.

Read a summary of his six rules below. Would you follow any of these rules in your wedding?

1. Find some kooky transport

Solange Knowles and Alan Ferguson rocked up on matching white bicycles. That isn’t just adorable, it’s a complete paradigm shift for the wedding industry, and the rest of us now need to follow suit. Ditch the car and turn up to your wedding on a skateboard, roller skates or a diamante-covered Segway.


2. Wear a dress made of blankets or whatever

It’s a classic wedding conundrum: what if you have a child? How do you make sure they feel involved? Angelina Jolie created the perfect alternative: she had her children’s drawings printed on to her Versace gown. Now, you might not be able to afford a custom-made designer dress for your own wedding, but why not just pin their drawings to your outfit instead? Or, why not make your dress out of loads of stitched-together baby blankets?


3. Get 50 cases of tequila for the reception

Copy George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin’s example and make sure there are 50 cases of tequila at your wedding reception. Exactly 50. Big fancy wedding with hundreds of guests? Fifty cases. Small shindig in a pub? Fifty cases.

4. Obsess about the photos for days

If Kim and Kanye’s wedding can teach you anything, it’s that you should expect nothing less than total perfection. And if it means spending four days of your honeymoon tweaking a single wedding photograph, then so be it. That’s what Kanye West and Kim Kardashian did before they posted their official wedding photo to Instagram, and they were rewarded with more than 2m likes. How many likes will your wedding photos get, huh? Twenty? Not good enough.

5. Get Elton John in there

You’re nobody if you don’t have a famous person at your wedding, though obviously Elton John is a very busy man and can’t attend every wedding in the world, so you might have to look elsewhere. (Perhaps, D'Banj instead! cheesy). Just don’t be the most famous person at your own wedding, because that will literally ruin everything.

6. Get poisoned and die

Ever the romantic game-changer, Games of Thrones’ Joffrey Baratheon took nuptials to the next level this year by getting poisoned and dying in front of his assembled guests (GOD FORBID shocked). It really is a masterstroke – what better way to ensure that your loved ones will speak of your wedding for years to come. Someone needs to make this day memorable, after all.



Some of these “rules” clearly are questionable to say the least! But would you ride a bicycle to your wedding, for example? Let us know which rules work for you.

Source: http://www.madeinikoyi.com/six-rules-getting-married/

Wouldn't work here in Naija. Sorry!