Coronavirus spells death of the big, fat Maltese wedding

The last few marriages that were due to take place this season have now been postponed or cancelled to avoid half measures on the big day, according to events planners.
“The local wedding as we know it will no longer be possible,” said prominent wedding planner Sarah Young as more COVID-19 regulations come into force.
The new rules forbid the traditional setup for stand-up receptions, with food and drink served at the table.
Young is not even attempting to work around them or reinvent the wheel and change the ‘culture’, because her remaining clients for 2020 have postponed or cancelled since the new measures were introduced.
Guests would have to be seated for the marriage ceremony and then go straight on to sitting down to dinner, said the director of the luxury events and weddings company that goes by her name, Sarah Young.

“No dancing, no standing up to socialise, no nothing!”
As things stand, the seasoned wedding planner does not think this could work. And neither do her clients. 
Although destination weddings are normally smaller, sit-down affairs, as opposed to the larger, stand-up receptions of traditional Maltese marriages, Young maintains that “every bride and groom...