to think if you go on Don't Tell The Bride, you can't BREAK THE RULES OF THE SHOW

[BelleTheBeatnik]

I'm watching a repeat on Watch. The bride didn't like the dress the groom designed for her, so they rang him up and told him to buy another dress.

So basically, she chose her wedding dress anyway. Which isn't the point of the show, really.

To be fair, she does look lovely in the second dress. I bet the other brides were sat there watching it, thinking 'Why didn't I just kick up a fuss too!'

They've done this a few times and it always makes me swear at the TV, though it'd be pretty cruel to make her walk up the aisle crying because she hates her dress so much .

I saw it and thought exactly the same as you

If I was going on that show I would have told DH exactly what I wanted prior to filming and then for a free £12k wedding

I don't see why people don't?!

And I'm fucked if I know why that Las Vegas fella's lass actually married him! The cunt

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What a stupid thing to do anyway...to relinquish all your rights on your big day. Do they get paid to get on the show? I can't think why would anyone go it otherwise.

The Las Vegas one make me rage. The stupid toss pot. Spending all the sodding money lying in bed smoking his head off in a posh hotel with his mate. arghhhhh

She didn't seem like she even really wanted to marry him at the end of the Vegas one. She had the kind of forced smile I've got permanently on my face when MIL comes round .

The Vegas one was awful! I do love this show though, I remember one guy doing a Willy Wonka reception, It was amazing how much effort he put in.

I would trust my DH to organise everything to be honest, he did most of the work for our wedding as I was heavily pregnant and it was a rush job. He did the whole reception off his own back.

I'm sure the brides have left all sorts of instructions. If they haven't then more fool them. My other half would know everything, I'd have tried dresses on and chosen. Agreed on a theme/no theme, sorted guests, location the lot.

I reckon they have and the men throw in extra drama for tv.

I don't get why people go on it either. Is it just cos they get a free £12k wedding? I love the las Vegas one! I always hope for a massive melt down! I'm evil

A friend of mine was on this.

There is an interview process that they use to go through the couples.

If there is any hint that the couple have the same ideas or taste in regards to the wedding then they are not selected.

My friend described the whole thing as a nightmare

I can imagine they must do it for entertainment value obviously like you say VodkaKnockers. It's like the way they always put opposites like the atypical militant feminist and the male chauvinist pig in Come Dine With Me.

The thing that always gets me is the church weddings. Don't you have to have the banns read over three Sundays? They can't possibly organise church weddings in a few weeks then. LIES.

It's all staged.

Aye, a woman I worked with knew a bride off an episode a few series back- apparently she basically made him a mood board with what she wanted! My manager and her now-DH got quite far down the road to actually being on it, until they heard that the production team throw loads of obstacles in the groom's way to make better telly.

Also, OP, wasn't the dress he designed maroon and cream? Not surprised she threw the head up! Don't Tell The Bride is possibly the only wedding show I'd go on. Four Weddings would be awful, having your do piled apart by three strangers! No thanks....

I'm totally addicted - and often think the same as you, Kayano, but then I guess if the researchers thought you might be a bit savvy, you'd never get picked for the show, as Vodka says, they're only going to choose couples likely to have completely divergent tastes and who don't seem the type to think it through beforehand.

I heard it's staged and they're not real weddings, but I don't believe that. The one last week with the really lovely black couple in London was totally legit, I'd bet anything on it.

Oh they are definitely real weddings and I agree with TheCraicDealer with the production staff throwing obstacles in the way and were very guilty of goading my friends now DH into things.

i saw one recently nd the grown up bridesmaid's dress didnt fit she was crying, it was awful, that can't have been done on purpose the florist fixed it in the end phew

The bridesmaids do my head in when they get stroppy and start dictating. It's not your big day, deal with it.

or the mother of the bride looking po

I have heard that they fix it for the wrong dress size to be ordered sometimes. Don't know how true that is.

Asked dh out of interest what sort of dress he would've picked for me if we were on the show, reply was 'fuck knows, probably the 1st one they showed me....'

Don't really understand why you would agree to go on this show unless you really & truly did not give a shit about your wedding day.

"I heard it's staged and they're not real weddings, but I don't believe that. The one last week with the really lovely black couple in London was totally legit, I'd bet anything on it"

It's people likenyou that pay the "reality " TV people's wages!!!!!!!

Adversecamber that was my friend.

She was not impressed about the parachute jump!

I've never seen one where they hate the dress and refuse to wear it. All the ones I see cry and say they hate it, then put it on and cry and say how perfect it is after all. I want to see someone sobbing down the aisle in dress hating misery. Yes I do, just once. Maybe I should watch it more often.

The worst thing I have ever seen on a wedding show is that one where they get a surprise invite to their own wedding in a months time or something. It's kind of a make or break the relationship TV show and they have to decide at the alter if they will get married or not. They get wedding invite delivered and that's how they find out. I've only seen one episode and I can't remember what it was called but it was American.

The Groom's mother hated the bride and spend most of the show crying and threatening him to force him to jilt the bride. He was insisting they were getting married regardless and the mother said she would not go to the wedding. She wasn't there and it looked like he was going to jilt the bride but then the mother arrived (drunk I think, and weeping) so it was all back on. The mother sat with the guests, glaring at everyone, and as the bride came down the aisle the looks could have killed.

She got to the alter, the groom said something like "You look beautiful and I love you...but I'm not going to marry you" and left her sitting on the floor in tears in front of all their guests while his mother smirked and gloated. She was actually shrieking with pain.

I wanted to fly to New York (I think), find him and hit him. That poor girl was destroyed.

I seem to see the same two DTTB's over and over. The one where they get married on that warship in the Thames and the one where they get married in the science museum.