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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 14:27:00 GMT
By popular demand (well one person) I'm starting a thread. As I said originally I have ZERO desire for my own wedding (nobody is asking, also I am spectacularly shy/introverted, and cheap). Nor am I a girly girl. But that said I am a WHORE for this show. Bring me your ridiculous dresses, your demanding Mother-of- the Bride. Bring me Randy in all his fabulousness. Bring me IRISH SYTTD. Bring me David Emmanuel pretending he gives a sh*t. Also, claim to fame: I know someone who has been on the UK version. And there was DRAMA. Any other fans? or just me and sf
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Post by londonmzfitz on May 16, 2018 14:42:29 GMT
Oh, this is my go-to brain candy floss. I love it and I adore Randy (although the Irish feller seems a tad odd) .... Is it me or is the colour on the UK version too "white" - I've tried adjusting the contrast on my telly but don't have the same problem with the Irish or US versions ....
My sons girlfriend has a friend on the UK version ....
I love how the US version the family usually come in dressed to kill in heels and beads, where the UK version they come in like something that's been killed in lycra and lurex.
I had a small wedding and paid £35 for my dress off the high street, but I adore a bit of tulle on others.
BTW, my bet is Ms Markle (if she rocks up and doesn't run for the hills) will be wearing a trumpet style dress with off the shoulder straps in champagne silk.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 16:58:49 GMT
I'm with you! I am the least girly girl I know, have zero desire to get married and if I did, would not have a wedding and definitely not a wedding dress. If I did want to buy a wedding dress I'd be doing it on my own and I have zero tearful dreams of having my mother see me in a beautiful corsetted fishtail ballgown whatnot. But I can't get enough of SYTTD. Well, the American ones anyway. I don't like the British or other ones. My favourite is the Atlanta one. I love Monty.
My favourites are the ones where the girls are all called ridiculous things like La'Kisha and come with a huge gaggle of girls, especially if they bring voting paddles and all cry. Have you noticed too how they all talk about everything in questions and give their fiance's full name, as though we care? Hi? My name is La Tonya? My fiance's name is Brian Mappletop the third and we're getting married in 2022? in Florida? In a beautiful renaissance castle?
It's insane, I just love it.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 18:12:11 GMT
omg yes the full-name of the groom, and what they do. Honey, we don't care.
I also love the Bridesmaid specials where they naturally can't agree on ANYTHING.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 20:27:07 GMT
I was completely obsessed with this show in the run up to my wedding. I was never going to have a traditional wedding dress, but I loved seeing people who were. I especially loved that one designer, Pnina Something, who made dresses that were essentially illusion netting with spangles, held together with the desire to show off. Glorious.
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Post by dizzieblonde on May 16, 2018 21:02:47 GMT
Totally my guilty pleasure show - it's addictive! Like others, I am amazed at the insanity of some of the dresses, and the (over)reactions of their relatives and friends. You can always tell the early season episodes from the later ones, as the earlier stuff ran like what I imagine was a 'normal' dress appointment - you know, 3-4 dresses, a woman who vaguely understood what she wanted, and who'd brought her mother and a couple of best friends, for moral support.
The later series have insane women, who have the most unachievable demands possible, accompanied by 15 of their 'closest' friends and relatives, all mugging wildly for the cameras (and, yes, the voting paddle thing became de rigueur after a while!!!!)! The 'Bridesmaids' version also introduced me to the slightly bemusing concept that American brides make their bridesmaids pay for their own hideous frocks! Seriously can't understand that one - a woman asks her friends and relatives to be part of the wedding, and then makes them pay for the 'privilege'! And everyone falls out over the dress choice anyway! That's the version of the show with the most obnoxious bridezillas, but the original is insane.
I've also been suckered into the southern one (Atlanta), which seems to be populated with 21 year old girls aiming to please their fundamentalist christian daddies (who you just know have an extensive fire arms collection) whilst they're trying on the lowest cut dresses possible! That one's good for a laugh!
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 22:32:20 GMT
This is absolutely my guilty pleasure - first discovered it while I was in Australia a few years ago and it quickly became an addiction, though I'm not a fan of the British version at all.
I do fantasize about my own dress, but I'm more just very judgmental about the dresses they pick on the show...
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2018 7:03:37 GMT
I actually became obsessed while in NY on holiday one year- it would seem to be one any time I went back to the hotel for a late afternoon change of clothing or to drop things off...I found myself sucked in!!
And yes, as a friend who has been a Bridesmaid in more Southern Weddings than she can count tells me (also from Atlanta) that's one thing that's not exaggerated for camera!
Also not exaggerated was the friend who went on their, bought the first dress she saw...then realised she was getting married in a hot country and had bought a dress with about 10 layers of netting in it...cue panic on the return visit.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2018 17:54:09 GMT
Oh god, I'm watching a Dead Daddy episode. One girl just said "my dad passed away when I was fifteen. One of the first things that I thought was who's going to walk me down the aisle?"
If that's one of your first thoughts when your dad dies then there's something wrong.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2018 18:12:35 GMT
Oh god, I'm watching a Dead Daddy episode. One girl just said "my dad passed away when I was fifteen. One of the first things that I thought was who's going to walk me down the aisle?" If that's one of your first thoughts when your dad dies then there's something wrong. Now while it was far from the first thought when my Dad died, some time later the thought occurred to me 'Well now I don't have to explain why he isn't walking me down the aisle' As to whether that's my staunchly held beliefs that no woman should be 'given away' or the fact that my Dad was a bit of a Tw*t is up for debate, but at 19 when he died I certainly wasn't thinking of my wedding any time soon after.
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Post by haz23 on May 21, 2018 15:31:57 GMT
My favourite guilty-pleasure show. I love the Randy and Kleinfeld episodes but the Atlanta episodes are just brilliant (Lori is like the auntie I never had).
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