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Don't Tell The Bride irritation

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captainfarrell · 22/10/2015 16:10

Lighthearted thread but still gets right up my nose. Why is it that these brides on this show seem to hate everything the groom chooses, cry, threaten to not go through with it but then tell him it was the best day of her life. Sometimes the groom spends half the money on a stag night, hardly anything on a hen night or organises a really bad one. Am I turning into a miserable old cow? AIBU to want, just once or twice, it to end in the bride jilting the groom?

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noeffingidea · 22/10/2015 17:38

I think it's fairly obvious by now that some of the couples collude on DTTB. It's just too obvious, and good for them. If they can work the producers and get a free wedding that they both want, then why not?
4 weddings is great, if only for the blatant bitchiness and tactical marking.

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captainfarrell · 22/10/2015 17:48

I could never go on 4 weddings. why would you want 3 bitches at your wedding criticising everything? Forget the money, it's just not worth it.

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Zucker · 22/10/2015 17:49

What was the story with the "Bestman" on DTTB I saw earlier this week? The groom had to give him 500 quid to pay for a stag do involving football and beers (which Groom couldn't have been less interested in) and then splashed out 300 for a new suit for Bestman plus shoes. There was a very strange relationship between the two men.

I often wonder how many of the couples are still together. Another that sticks in my mind was the groom that made the bride get dressed, full make up etc etc and then got married under water in the local pool WTF!

CassieBearRawr · 22/10/2015 18:06

It's staged bollocks, I can't be doing with it any more. I reckon they'd get genuinely more interesting telly if they legit just let people get on with it. People are idiots and will create friction all on their own without the producers needing to stick their oar in.

notquitehuman · 22/10/2015 18:13

I've become bored of it lately. It's usually just 'bride wants to be a pwincess and wants the bronze package at a generic stately home. Let's watch the groom fuck up all her dreams!'

I never get the hysteria over the dress either. About 90% of them look the same to me.

Hygge · 22/10/2015 18:15

I have a list of things that particularly annoy me about DTTB.

The main one being when the groom spends a fortune on a big fake wedding but they aren't really married and have to shlep off to a registry office the next day. What is the point of that?

Or when the groom and his mates get a week in Las Vegas "looking for a venue" which they then can't afford because they've spent all the wedding money on a lad's holiday.

When there's an especially bullying or twattish best man who does everything he can to get the groom to spend most of the budget on beer and crap and actively seems to hate the bride.

There was one recently where the groom booked a wedding on Muscle Beach, in some awful concrete gym, because his uncle had died and he wanted to do something to remember him and his uncle liked gyms. Which meant that the bride's step-father, who she wanted to give her away, couldn't afford to go to the wedding and neither could any of her sisters.

That wedding really annoyed me. What's wrong with mentioning the uncle in his speech but having the wedding somewhere where the brides living family were actually able to attend?

And another one where the wedding was in a grotty registry office room and the groom took off the moment the vows were said to go and organise a big fake wedding on a beach in Ibiza. Bride had no idea where he'd gone and spent her wedding night in a bad hotel wondering what was happening. And he'd not even organised a meal for the guests at the wedding.

I'd love to know what happens afterwards. Do they ever look back on their wedding day/fake wedding day and wonder what they hell they were all thinking?

My favourite wedding was Bronte and the Ice Palace Wedding. Just enough annoying bits but still quite nice in the end.

Booyaka · 22/10/2015 18:25

I used to really like it. But now it's so obvious they've made an agreement beforehand so neither will hate it. I've done a few TV shows and they all seem smart to the deal now. What they will do is have a plan even before the audition that they want a wrestling wedding or an alien wedding or whatever. But they'll write the application form and do the audition saying that she wants a traditional white wedding in a church with a horse and carriage and he'll say he wants to get married in a WW2 bunker with an X Files theme.

Then all through the preparations she'll be 'hoping he's not too zany because I'm really conservative'. And she'll be purring over white meringues while he's buying her a black goth death metal inspired dress. She'll be looking at cakes with Angels and roses and he'll be getting one made out of a skull.

But then they she gets there and she loves it all. Because it's what she wanted all the time. And the producers don't care as long as they play along with the pretending.

Booyaka · 22/10/2015 18:26

My favourite was the one in New York where he bought her a hooker dress you could see her minge and almost her entire boobs in. She refused to wear it.

noeffingidea · 22/10/2015 18:32

Yeah, I hated the muscle beach wedding as well. That was like the worst wedding ever, and the poor bride looked genuinely upset.

PeopleLieActionsDont · 22/10/2015 19:02

Muscle beach was awful. It's all very well him remembering his dead uncle but it would have been nice if somewhere along the way, he remembered his bride! The reception looked so sad - about 5 people there and four of them were his family!

Vegas one was heartbreaking. Fucking twat spent all the money on a jolly with his mates and didn't have enough to fly her family over. I hope she divorced that total dick am over invested

Hygge · 22/10/2015 19:16

I remember the New York hooker dress wedding. Shock

Wasn't it all because of her name being Alice and a statue in Central Park?

notquitehuman · 22/10/2015 19:49

Nah the worst one has to be the cruise ship wedding. The groom definitely had some sort of mental disorder and probably shouldn't have been put through the stress of being on a reality show. They got married in an almost empty cruise ship theatre, with the groom making it into his own shitty one man show complete with Frank Spencer impersonations.

And they ended up having to have a registry office wedding anyway. Which looked nice and simple!

LittleLionMansMummy · 22/10/2015 19:58

Stoke City Football Club (I think) had me raging at the telly. These brides expect their selfish fecking men to suddenly start putting them first. Their approach to the wedding is likely to be replicated in all manner of situations throughout the rest of their married lives.

And what's with all the women saying "my wedding is all I've dreamed of ever since I was a little girl". Get some ambition!

ShamelessBreadAddict · 22/10/2015 20:02

I was watching one recently and the mother of the bride cried at just the thought of the groom not picking the right dress for her dd; "I... I would just be DEVASTATED" she choked out through tears. Yes, yes, that's a completely balanced and normal thing to be DEVESTATED over. Ffs.

Sansoora · 22/10/2015 20:07

There's one on now and the bloke just said God, I love her but she's a bitch when she's like this.

Sansoora · 22/10/2015 20:10

Little was that the one where the mum was a very large lady and obviously living life through her daughter? Even when the invites were delivered it was more her than her daughter in evidence on camera?

It was awful.

BlueBananas · 22/10/2015 20:21

I know a couple who were on DTTB a few years ago, they're still together

BlueBananas · 22/10/2015 20:22

Sorry posted too soon, I meant to say I think they should do more 'one year on' kind of shows to give us updates

ShamelessBreadAddict · 22/10/2015 20:27

Do you mean me sansoora? I don't remember the mum being particularly large and don't remember her at all really apart from the crying bit. Was ridiculous.

thenightsky · 22/10/2015 20:32

Cruise ship one was by far one of the worst.

squoosh · 22/10/2015 20:35

Yep. The cruise ship one was definitely the worst. It made Italy look grim and depressing.

Frank Spencer impressions in 2015. What a knob.

ShamelessBreadAddict · 22/10/2015 20:36

The Magaluf one was awful. Think the bride took it so well though.

Turquoisetamborine · 22/10/2015 20:38

The worst one was the one in Lineker's Bar in Magaluf with the food provided by a kebab van over the road. It looked horrendous.

CrapBag · 22/10/2015 20:40

I've read it's all staged and if it's all going well the producers throw something in to mess it up. Also I read that they take the brides to these stately homes and get them to say it's their dream when it isn't at all.

I sued to love DTTB, but it's so samey and predictable I'm quite bored of it. There used to be the odd ones which were nice simple weddings (I think one was a couple whose family were Jehovah's and they all refused to come to the wedding) so it wasn't all 'look how crazy and wacky I'm going to make my wedding'.

It gets on my tits that it's the same format every episode.

Expensive stag do. Check.
Crapola hen do. Check.
Groom agonises over dress and picks exact opposite what bride picked. Check.
Bride actually likes what groom picked. Check (most of the time).
Bride comes across as spoilt brat. Check.
She wants a stately home. Check.
He wants something ridiculous that no one in RL has ever had or wanted. Check.
Bridesmaids hate crappy last minute cheap dresses. Check.
Best man is a knob/mother of the bride is cow. Check (not all the time).
All turns out all right and they loved the wedding (ok not always but a lot of the time). Check.

CrapBag · 22/10/2015 20:41

Worst were definitely

Vegas
Muscle Beach
Cruise
Skydiving and bungee jump when she was afraid of heights.