Comments on: I Know It’s True, ‘Cause I Saw It On TV

By: Polka Dot Bride

Polka Dot Bride — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:13:03 +0000

Seriously I am going to have to BUY a tape of these shows off someone! The closest we get to wedding TV is repeats of Bridezillas on Pay TV in Australia

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Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:41:30 +0000

[...] Twistie… As I said yesterday, I’ve spent an entire week watching every wedding-related reality show I could pick up on my cable package. [...]

By: amy

amy — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:19:09 +0000

there was one episode that just killed me. the bride was not a “girly girl” and the planner and the bride’s mom conspired to give her a froo-froo wedding that she absolutely didn’t want, criticizing her and the groom’s ideas along the way. this sort of stuff makes me very, very hesitant about hiring a planner. there’s no way one like that would be within my budget and i’m sure they just pick the dramatic ones for tv, but…still. it’s awful. and so, so entertaining.

By: the unfashionista

the unfashionista — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:12:41 +0000

I also really enjoy that episode of Whose Wedding is it Anyway, even though the bride spent, I believe, somewhere in the ballpark of $19,000 on her two dresses???, because she cared sooo much about making her father happy and making him proud and she was more psyched for her father to see the (ceremony) dress then for her fiance!
Also, there is an episode of one of those shows where the wedding gets called off - that was an interesting twist!
I think my favorite show was the one where the groom designed sneakers for a living and he actually designed the entire wedding color scheme and stuff, and he designed the bride’s gown because she had a crisis of confidence about the one she had bought, and she wound up looking absolutely beautiful. Neither of them was high maintenance, she didn’t want the perfect fairy princess wedding but they had been together since high school and were finally getting married like, ten years later, and they really just wanted to be happy and have a great wedding.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:50:14 +0000

I love those shows! I have become addicted — I don’t have a TV at home, but when I visit my boyfriend, it’s watch TV or eat (or both) while he’s at work. No other options. None.

The one important thing I have learned from the wedding shows is that if I ever get married, I am going to elope.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:41:08 +0000

I watch a lot of the bridal goop on Style network and WE (embarrassingly enough, I love Bridezillas. It’s like cheese fries for my brain. I know it’s sick and wrong, but I love it so much!)

You’re absolutely right in your observations - brides are either bitches or dingbats, budgets are meant to be blown and grooms and fathers are just there to be fooled about the amount of money. And it’s all worth it in the end for the fairy princess wedding. In all of that, I’ve never caught that last one that you mention - I hope I do sometime. It sounds like a breath of fresh air.

And a small ramble - one of episodes (I believe it was “Whose Wedding is it Anyway?”) that annoyed me ROYALLY involved a planner dealing with a couple who had left a lot of stuff to the last minute. The groom’s mother was going to make the cake, and the planner got all huffy and responded with “I don’t have Betty Crocker cakes and canned frosting at MY weddings.” I remember shouting at my TV “it’s not YOUR wedding, you nasty little man, SHUT UP.” I clearly need help.