<p>Just watched a couple of the “bridesmaid” shows last night…OMG, do people ANYWHERE really act like that!!? </p>
<p>And BTW, the male consultant in Atlanta - he’s got NOTHIN on Randy!!! :)</p>
<p>Still always enjoy this show/series…</p>
<p>The male consultant sounds so much like Valley girl, I wonder if he had to learn to speak that way! Certainly he seems far from the valley.</p>
<p>I’m wondering if any of the on-camera participants even get hair and makeup advice. Some of them look really bad and are sporting clothes I wouldn’t even wear in my backyard to cut the grass.</p>
<p>And no one can top Randy!</p>
<p>Love the show! Especially that there is nothing else to watch. Cake Boss pretty much took over TLC. I used to love Ace of Cake better, it is gone. Oprah took over Discovery Health, and all of her shows are very boring, except if they show some old shows from Discovery Health and now I have discovered that Gipsy show is gone. Somebody knows what happened to that one, I was planning to Google, but maybe somebody knows here? The rnumber of shows on TV that I am interested, is getting down, pretty soon, it would not be worth to even try to find anything to have TV on. I guess, I will save some energy. Very sad. I just want to have it on, while doing something else at home.</p>
<p>IMHO, the people in the Kleinfeld show, especially Randy, seem to be genuinely nice people. They could all be acting, of course, but if so, they act very well.</p>
<p>MiamiDAP,
Was the IrishTraveller/Gypsy show something?!
I saw a couple in a row last week…
This was a group/culture I knew nothing about… so “educational”… yet so sensational!</p>
<p>Yes, “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” is on TLC. Is that the show you’re referring to?</p>
<p>performer,
For me, gypsy was just very entertaining. These gypsies are not like gypsies in other countries, they even do not have the same physical apperance. Well, I understand that Irish Travellers might be blond with blue eyes. But, gypsies came from India originally, they are olive skin, black hair/ black eyes people.<br>
Do you know what happened to the show, maybe they have summer off? I hope that it will resume, I was looking forward to see them. I love everything about this one.
And also “what not to wear” show. I do not like Cake Boss at all, he is on TLC most of the time. Now is just “Say yes to the Dress” and “Toddlers are tiaras” and I also love “American Top Model”, nothing else, except for news.</p>
<p>Miami
Yes, that is the show. I was wondering if the Irish Travellers sprang from the early tribes of Ireland/British Isles. not same gene pool as Romani: Celts with the original life-style , updated!</p>
<p>Here is wiki on Irish Travellers: traditionally nomadic people of ethnic Irish origin, who maintain a separate language and set of traditions.[1][2] They live predominantly in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States of America.</p>
<p>The culture is bizarre: very very traditional male-female roles; girls marry at 16-18; no sex or touching before marriage; girls are super-sexed up from a young age in dress, dance style, attention to grooming; wedding and marriage are the big focus for girls pretty much their whole lives; inter-marriage preferred; live in trailers in parks in groups; not sure if group can vote or pays taxes; still use horses and carriages; not sure what school/education situation is for males, for females. Seem to all have a thick Irish brogue. Apparently, culture very closed till this show… </p>
<p>The weddings are WILD! Super-lavish gaudy dresses for bride and bridesmaids. Sexy Sexy & Heavy make up. (cinderella meets pole dancer) Brawlish behavior not uncommon. Hard for them to find a venue…</p>
<p>I just had no idea!</p>
<p>Thanks! The girls are all so beautiful, though. Some of them, work, not very many though. How about gypsies in the same show? Do you know much about them. I am curious, since gypsies are not that “Romani” as you have mnentioned. They look very different from gypsies in other countries. </p>
<p>Sorry for this detour. But I love Gypsies’s dresses more (minus skirt, of course) than “Say yes to the dress”). I was always wondering how they pay for thier lavish weddings (and hand made unique dresses). One dress had more than one mile in fabric! Unimaginable!!!. They must be poor people, UK is more expensive than USA. Their Dress designer said, she cannot talk about money, it is hash, hash in thier culture, she would loose the business. I miss them!</p>
<p>I suspect that the Romani who immigrate to Britain join up with them due to the similar life-styles.
I also wondered about the expense involved in these dresses and "weddin’ " s!</p>
<p>Maybe you can go to that woman’s shop (is it in Liverpool??) and get a dress just like theirs- why not!</p>
<p>You can google “my big fat gypsy wedding” and “television without pity” to see a discussion of the show. Actually, Television Without Pity has the best TV-related forums on the web, IMHO.</p>
<p>"Maybe you can go to that woman’s shop (is it in Liverpool??) and get a dress just like theirs- why not! "
-I think that it would be in tenths of thousands that no reasonable american would be willing to pay. Ohterwise, she would be swamped by now. She has very small shop. She said that gypsies’ wedding is harder to organize than royal’s.</p>
<p>Going back to the topic, I was watching bridemaids on “say yes” and was surprized that one of brides did not care about thier cost. It was over $500. For one time use of the dress at somebody else’s wedding? How she could ask bridemaids to pay for it?</p>
<p>^^ She was unbelievable! The one that kept saying “you read the email!” - basically a contract that she sent out to each prospective bridesmaid (there were 15) with rules before they accepted the invitation to be one!</p>
<p>^Yes, correct. I thought she was unreasonable. Yep, they were sorority sisters, correct? Or maybe I am mixing 2 together.</p>
<p>I was thinking my wedding dress was either 250 or 500, maybe even 100, back in 1982. I remember it was marked down half price. I liked it. It fit. Done. Over with.</p>
<p>I looked up the bridal store in our area to see what dresses were selling for nowadays. I was delighted to find that most were “only” about 500 bucks. The fancy designer dresses were 1100. Now, my idea of a designer and New York’s idea of a designer is two different things. Let’s just say, I recognized the name of the designer at our local shop, but it wasn’t Panini (purposeful misspelling for someone who needs some humility!).</p>
<p>I was also delighted to see that there were many plus sized gowns and many sleeved, or nonstrapless, gowns. And yes, they even had “royal inspired” bridal gowns, bridesmaid, and flower girl dresses. So they weren’t outdated fashions that you could get on the cheap. </p>
<p>Though I have a son, I am happy to know that my (hopeful) future daughter in law won’t have to pay a fortune for her wedding dress. Recently wed relatives have been lucky enough to be seamstresses or friends of seamstresses and have sewn their own very simple, but equally beautiful, wedding gowns.</p>
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<p>I think her email was actually a good idea…basically signaling that she was going to be a demanding, unreasonable witch…fair notice to run for the hills!</p>
<p>Caught up with Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta and the bridemaid show. I noticed that a couple of the brides were just 19. Wow, can’t imagine any of my kids being ready to marry so young.</p>
<p>I absolutely hate Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta and the bridesmaid shows. Watched both last night, and that will be the last time. Both are too heavy-handed in painting someone as a villian in each wedding party, and the staff is not nearly as likeable as on the New York version. And while I never would have guessed someone could make a successful TV show out of pople shopping for wedding dresses, I now know for a fact that someone cannot make a successful TV show out of people shopping for bridesmaids dresses. Boring and stupid.</p>
<p>I totally applaud the staff for coming down on relatives and friends who ruin the experience for the bride. I so wished someone had done that for me many years ago.</p>