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MAFS' Melinda sheds light on extreme wedding day filming: 'Everyone's really wasted'
The reality star revealed her own wedding took over 14 hours to film.
The Married At First Sight weddings may be wrapped up (at least until it's time for the intruders) but before we get into the first dinner party, a former MAFS star has revealed the behind-the-scenes secrets of filming the weddings.
Melinda Willis was a season 10 bride who had a very memorable wedding to former beau Layton Mills, with the pair marrying on a super yacht.
Melinda spoke to Yahoo Australia's Behind The Edit podcast, revealing what it was like to film the wedding for MAFS, including the extra-long hours the participants are putting in behind the scenes.
'It's a huge day'
"I was up at 6am and then I think I was in hair and makeup by 6:30. I think I was meant to get [to the venue] at 10 but I started later because girls getting ready, it all went pear-shaped. And then I think I got there at like 11, it was raining," Melinda said.
"I don't think we actually did the aisle until maybe 3pm, and apparently Layton had been standing there for 45 minutes before I got there at the altar. But I had to do so many takes in the rain!"
Melinda said things like redoing hair and makeup added time onto the already jam-packed day.
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"My hair was all flat again so the hairdresser had to curl it all. She was really upset because she had to curl it like, three times," she shared. "And by the time we got there, I think we were so behind that they literally just took me into this vacant area and went, ‘Okay, just walk around there’. But I didn't know it was my wedding.
"So when I came around, I'm waiting for this moment - you know how you see the head turn and you see what they look like and if they like you. I walked down and by the time I looked up, two men were standing staring at me - the celebrant and Layton. I didn’t know who was who! So I just missed my moment, I was really upset about that, secretly."
Melinda then said after her 6am wakeup, the wedding went through until the early hours of the next morning.
"[Wedding went] into the early am. It’s a huge day, I would say our wedding was 14 hours and they’re putting together this 20-minute clip," she revealed.
'Everyone's wasted'
When asked how everyone gets through the day, Melinda had this to say.
"Everyone's really wasted at the wedding. You’re really drunk and all your friends and family are even drunker!" she said.
Melinda and Layton stayed together post-MAFS but announced their breakup in October last year, with Melinda recently revealing to Yahoo Lifestyle that she's no longer in contact with Layton.
"I'm not still in contact with Layton and at this stage, I don't see myself getting back together with him," she said.
"I have days where I will miss Layton and miss certain things and I have days where I'm so angry and I can't go back there. I'm much happier now."
Subscribe to Yahoo Lifestyle's podcast Behind The Edit and listen to the full interview with Melinda Willis here.
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