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Post by Formerly SK on Jun 20, 2013 17:06:31 GMT -5
I'm sick today so I spent some time watching TV and finally saw this show for the first time. The couple spent 500K on their wedding, with each expenditure more outlandish and gaudy than the previous one. But what took the cake? The bride picked out (ugly) bridesmaids dresses that were $400 each and made the bridesmaids pay for them themselves. The bride had THREE wedding dresses for her day (24K, 26K, 13K) but she made her friends pay for their own dresses. Anyway, I hauled my sick butt to the computer to post this because I just can't believe she did that.
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Post by Angel! on Jun 20, 2013 17:19:34 GMT -5
Why does a bride need 3 dresses? One for the wedding..one for the reception...one for ?? Seriously?
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 20, 2013 17:20:57 GMT -5
I choose to believe that SYTTD is fiction. I think Kleinfelds has a vested interest in making everyone in America think that spending $23,000 for a wedding dress is normal. And it really is just a 30 minute infomercial bought and paid for by the wedding dress mafia.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jun 20, 2013 17:22:40 GMT -5
A Jewish ceremony, a Hindu ceremony, and then the reception. The canopy they got married under for the Jewish ceremony was 25K.
Yeah, normally I'd say bridesmaids pay for their dresses. But when you are spending that much money on a wedding, I think you could be a little generous with your friends and pick up the tab.
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Post by movingforward on Jun 20, 2013 17:34:51 GMT -5
A Jewish ceremony, a Hindu ceremony, and then the reception. The canopy they got married under for the Jewish ceremony was 25K. Yeah, normally I'd say bridesmaids pay for their dresses. But when you are spending that much money on a wedding, I think you could be a little generous with your friends and pick up the tab. I completely agree but I wonder if her bridesmaids also have money to burn so maybe $400 isn't that much for them. I have never seen this show. I am just assuming that anyone who can spend 500K on a wedding is extremely wealthy. Just guessing those in the bridal party might be as well...
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 20, 2013 17:35:55 GMT -5
If you want to see tacky/gaudy women wearing tacky/gaudy wedding dresses you need to watch the Gypsy Wedding show.. holey tacky!
Spending 500K on a wedding is stupid... normally bridesmaids do buy their own dresses but agree she shold not have picked out $400 dresses.. and if she is spending that kind of money on a wedding she could certainly afford to buy the dresses for her bridesmaids. And the family fist fights at the gypsy weddings and receptions (if both sides show up that is) are great.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 20, 2013 17:37:19 GMT -5
I know "back in the day" there used to be the "getaway dress" which is what they would change into when they left after the reception. The "getaway dress" was usually something a little more "daily" but pretty. Something they could travel in, and would wear again. My mother's was a little suit. She wore it to church every Sunday for two years (according to her.) I can't imagine that would be equal to something you would buy in a bridal shop for $13,000.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Jun 20, 2013 17:51:23 GMT -5
My going away dress was a white 3 pc. Suit. The jacket was trimmed with white satin. Goodness, I hadn't thought about that in years. Thanks for letting me relive that memory.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jun 20, 2013 18:12:56 GMT -5
If you want to see tacky/gaudy women wearing tacky/gaudy wedding dresses you need to watch the Gypsy Wedding show.. holey tacky!
Spending 500K on a wedding is stupid... normally bridesmaids do buy their own dresses but agree she shold not have picked out $400 dresses.. and if she is spending that kind of money on a wedding she could certainly afford to buy the dresses for her bridesmaids. I want to know how a dressmaker in Boston became the go to designer for them. They have to be paying a fortune for those dresses. One girl was bruised by her dress because she might have weighed 90 pounds and the dress was heavy!
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Jun 20, 2013 18:27:27 GMT -5
The deisgners on that show are also somehow linked to Playboy or some other slutbag production. Seriously, what happened to dresses bestowing the idea of being virginal? These chicks look like they belong on a street corner or something. Why would you want to look like this in front of your Uncle Buck and GreatAunt Ruth? Seriously, thanks Pnina Tornai! PS sorry if anyone had one of her see through dresses... I don't mean to be offensive... but I guess I am.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 20, 2013 18:30:23 GMT -5
I was hoping that the see-thru bodice on wedding dresses passes before my daughter gets married. My parents were very accommodating during my wedding and I hope to be the same. But I just might tell my daughter that there is a basic level of decency that is required in our extended family, and this type of dress does not comply.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jun 20, 2013 19:30:43 GMT -5
I was hoping that the see-thru bodice on wedding dresses passes before my daughter gets married. My parents were very accommodating during my wedding and I hope to be the same. But I just might tell my daughter that there is a basic level of decency that is required in our extended family, and this type of dress does not comply. I would never pick a dress like that. I think there's a line between looking attractive and a trashy looking dress. There's a place for a top like that and a wedding isn't it.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 20, 2013 19:59:05 GMT -5
My daughter got married this last Saturday. She very well may have been the most conservative person at the wedding! None of that see through 'crap' for her! She wasn't wearing full length sleeves or anything, just in very good taste! Of course I am biased, but I was very proud of how beautiful she looked. (Because DD paid for her own wedding, for the most part, bridesmaids paid for their own dresses @ about $150.00 each.)
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jun 20, 2013 20:27:08 GMT -5
My daughter got married this last Saturday. She very well may have been the most conservative person at the wedding! None of that see through 'crap' for her! She wasn't wearing full length sleeves or anything, just in very good taste! OMFG! I went to a wedding where one of the guests wore lucite heels, tight pants, and tube top (complete with bra straps!) to a Catholic ceremony. Gah!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2013 20:29:28 GMT -5
Some of those chicks have huge knockers. It is awesome.
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 20, 2013 20:34:36 GMT -5
My daughter got married this last Saturday. She very well may have been the most conservative person at the wedding! None of that see through 'crap' for her! She wasn't wearing full length sleeves or anything, just in very good taste! OMFG! I went to a wedding where one of the guests wore lucite heels, tight pants, and tube top (complete with bra straps!) to a Catholic ceremony. Gah! you were in Revere and didn't call the rest of us Massholes?
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Post by toomuchreality on Jun 20, 2013 20:42:25 GMT -5
My daughter got married this last Saturday. She very well may have been the most conservative person at the wedding! None of that see through 'crap' for her! She wasn't wearing full length sleeves or anything, just in very good taste! OMFG! I went to a wedding where one of the guests wore lucite heels, tight pants, and tube top (complete with bra straps!) to a Catholic ceremony. Gah! ATTRACTIVE!!! Just not very! At the wedding I attended, the father of the groom changed in to his levi's and a t-shirt (complete with skulls or some other graphic printed on it) almost immediately after the ceremony. Most people were less than impressed.
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Post by lynnerself on Jun 20, 2013 22:53:35 GMT -5
This is even worse. I've been home sick for 2 days and have been watching "Who's wedding is it anyway" episodes. Just amazed at the number of $60,000 to $100000 weddings. At least they are all amazing. An awfully large percent of the really high end ones seem to be jewish. Maybe just because they are in New York City?
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 24, 2013 15:15:06 GMT -5
I briefly watched one of those Say Yes to the Dress things - this one had a woman who insisted everything about 'her' day had to be designer. I think she said the bridesmaid dresses she picked out where $1200 each, and the shoes another several hundred.
She said she had several bridesmaids who had dropped out because they just couldn't afford it, but the bride insisted that this was her day, and it was important that everything look a certain way, so if that meant she could only have half the bridesmaids she wanted, she was fine with that.
I seriously hope this is all fake, because i would hate to think someone out there believes having designer gowns at your wedding trumps having your friends and family participate in the wedding.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Jun 24, 2013 15:30:32 GMT -5
Why does a bride need 3 dresses? One for the wedding..one for the reception...one for ?? Seriously? I see this all over the place on these shows these days. It seems trendy now to have at least 2 different dresses, one for the ceremony and one for the reception. Of course, that's the wedding industry for you!
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jun 24, 2013 15:42:25 GMT -5
I love watching say yes to the dress, but some of it is just crazy insanenesss. I did go to the wedding where the bride had 2 dresses. It was a bit ridiculous. The second dress was for the "after party" in the bar after the reception. The reception was awful. There was no dancing besides the dollar dance (tacky). The bride (DH's cousin) sat DH, myself and DS at a table with family friends of the groom (whom we never met). The venue didn't have any high chairs (DS was 1.5 at the time). The waiters got pissed off that we moved and squeezed in the table with DH's mom, Aunt (MOB), sis, brother, and nieces (since they were basically the only people DH knew and definitely the only people I knew). The after party was only drinking. I figured someone would be dancing and my nieces would not do it with me. And my older niece (who was 20 at the time) threw up after drinking one glass of wine. Yeah, that was special. The drinks were also crazy expensive. We also drove 13 hours one way to get there.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 24, 2013 16:55:36 GMT -5
I remember 20 years ago there was a trend to have the bride change into a cocktail dress for the second half of the reception. I had one friend do it. Granted, I think her style is a little weird, and her cocktail dress looked very cheap. It was black and short, and somewhat plain - in addition to seeming to be a bad fit and cheap fabric. I just didn't think it was very special, or heck, even dignified. But, her reason was that she didn't like her wedding dress, because she bought the one she did because it didn't need alterations, not because she wanted to look like that.
There was no way in hell I would change out of my wedding dress. That thing was awesome. I paid more for it than all the clothing I had bought in the last 2 years put together, and I got it altered to fit my body perfectly. Why on god's green earth would I take that off? I put it on the next day and just walked around the house in it. We watched TV - like on Friends.
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